
First Step…Įxport your video from Adobe Premiere (or whatever program you use to edit videos) at a nice high-quality. But it’s not going to work for self-hosted web banners. This is fine when you want to upload to YouTube, or use it for broadcast. Generally these programs export videos ranging from 10MB to 10,000MB. Typical videos exported from Adobe Premiere (or other video editing software) look awful if you try to compress them too small. The example video at the top of this page is 334kb and still looks good.
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HandBrake is a free video compression program and it’s amazing. Okay, Fair… but how can I make my video 1MB without it looking terrible? But that 30MB file will take 10-45 seconds for first-time visitors on an average broadband connection.īy then, most of your visitors will have already scrolled down the page, or clicked away, never noticing your amazing video.

The reality is the video has been cached on your computer, so it appears to load instantly. Novice developers will see their video load instantly on their own computer and assume everything’s right as rain. Everybody has broadband now and my 30MB file loads instantly for me.”

I can hear some of you saying “It’s 2021. If you can’t keep it under 1MB at least shoot for less than 2MB. Whenever possible, try to keep your video under 1 Megabyte. Keep your videos tiny or many visitors will just see a black box… How Small Should It Be?
