Compress a video to under 20 MB
20 MB is a limit many places share, Discord’s 20 MiB among them. See how much video fits, and make yours fit without uploading it.
Drop your video here
Choose your videoMP4, MOV, WebM or MKV. It opens right here, on your device.
- Nothing uploaded
- No sign-up
- No watermark
Who asks for 20 MB
- Discord
- 20 MiB: All users; more with Nitro or a boosted server.
What fits in 20 MB
| Picture | At full quality | Longest that fits |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | 26 s | 58 s |
| 720p | 58 s | 2 min 4 s |
| 540p | 1 min 40 s | 3 min 24 s |
| 480p | 2 min 4 s | 4 min 21 s |
| 360p | 3 min 24 s | 6 min 52 s |
Shycut’s own sums for a 16:9 video at 30 frames a second with sound, at Balanced quality. “Full quality” keeps the bitrate Balanced would use anyway; past “longest that fits”, Shycut makes the picture smaller instead of letting it break up. An upright video fits the same.
Your video, by length
| Length | Comes out as |
|---|---|
| 30 s | 1080p, 4,992 kbps for the picture |
| 1 min | 720p, 2,432 kbps for the picture |
| 3 min | 540p, 725 kbps for the picture |
| 10 min | Too long: up to 6 min 52 s fits |
For a 1080p video at 30 frames a second with sound. The save window does the same sum for your own video before anything is made.
Who stops at 20 MB
The limits listed above sit at this size, each read from its owner’s help page on the date shown. A file aimed at 20 MB with a little room spare goes under them.
If you are sending to one place in particular, its own page here says exactly how its limit is counted and what happens with a bigger file.
How it works
Open your video
Press the button and drop the file, or pick it from your files. It opens in this browser tab; nothing is uploaded, so the original can be as large as you like.
20 MB is already set
The save window opens set to an MP4 under that size. Shycut works out the bitrate from your video’s length and shows what it will do before you save.
Save
If the video can’t fit at its own size, the picture steps down (1080p, 720p…) and the window says so. If nothing fits, it tells you how long a clip does, so you can trim first.
Where these facts come from
Questions
Is Discord’s 20 MiB the same as 20 MB?
Slightly more: a MiB is 1,048,576 bytes. A file made for 20 MB fits it with room to spare.
How long a video fits in 20 MB?
At full HD, about as long as the first table says; at smaller sizes, much longer. The save window works it out for your own video.
Does compressing to 20 MB remove anything else?
Like every Shycut export, the file is written from scratch, so the original’s metadata, including its location, doesn’t come along.
Your video stays with you.
Open Shycut, drop the video in and export. Free, with no account, and your video never leaves your device.
Choose your video