Lemon/Video
Compress a video on Mac
A two-minute screen recording can be hundreds of megabytes, well over what email, Slack or an upload form will take. Lemon re-encodes it as a much smaller H.264 video right from Finder and leaves the original alone.
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9:41⌥ Option+ click any file
Two ways to do it on a Mac.
With Lemon
One click in Finder.
- 1Hold Option and click the video in Finder.
- 2Flick it onto Compress on the lemon that appears.
- 3A smaller copy lands beside the original.
Select several files first and they are all converted together. Nothing is uploaded: Lemon works with Wi-Fi off.
Built into macOS
Using QuickTime Player.
- 1Open the video in QuickTime Player.
- 2Choose File, then Export As.
- 3Pick a lower resolution such as 1080p, 720p or 480p, and save.
It only shrinks by lowering the resolution. You can't keep the resolution and lower the file size.
Questions.
It depends on the video. Screen recordings and phone footage often shrink to a fraction of the original. If the result wouldn't be smaller, Lemon keeps the original instead of saving a bigger file.
Every file, one flick.
Lemon converts images, video, audio, PDFs and documents from Finder. $4.99 once, no subscription.