This is a common issue when e-mailing or uploading video files.

One note is that you should make the filesize you choose below about 20% smaller than you need.  For example I took a 219MB video and told it to be 20M.  The resulting file was still about 21.9M but it was OK when I said 18M and was barely below the 20M size.

ffmpeg is our friend here, just use this command:

1. Change the -fs 100M to the size you want eg. 20M, 500M
2. Change the -i TheLargeVideo.mp4 to the name of your video
3. Change the TheLargeVideo-resize.mp4

ffmpeg -i TheLargeVideo.mp4 -fs 100M TheLargeVideo-resize.mp4

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