{"id":505,"date":"2021-01-27T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contly.com\/resources\/?p=505"},"modified":"2023-04-23T09:15:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T09:15:19","slug":"effective-ways-to-smaller-videos-and-images-without-quality-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contly.com\/resources\/effective-ways-to-smaller-videos-and-images-without-quality-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Effective Ways To Smaller Videos and Images Without Quality Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Working with large files all the time can be a big problem, especially in the long run. Whereas on desktop you can have terabytes of space and you can always buy a new storage. The online world limits you a lot in terms of cloud storage, even more, if you want to send your data over the internet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is why you should always keep your final output as small as possible. Nonetheless, video and image file compression brings a new problem, the quality loss problem.<\/strong> You do not want to send low-quality videos and images to your co-workers or, worse, to clients. So, what can be done?

Fortunately, there are compression apps that can help you to reduce the size of your graphic files.<\/strong> However, do not expect miracles because high resolutions videos and images always take storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Basics of Data Compression<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    First of all, keep your projects’ source data<\/strong> because you never know if anything will have to change in the future. So, store properly all the .ai, .psd, .veg, .prproj for Illustrator, Photoshop, Sony Vegas, Premiere Pro, etc. 

    In a nutshell, data compression takes the original file and cuts all the redundant data. For example, if you have an image of a tree, compression will shrink similar color values to itself, creating more superficial information, which means smaller files.<\/strong> Compression is divided into two main categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Lossy compression<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Both compressions can be derived from the title. Lossy<\/strong> compression will irreversibly cut out some of the data files.<\/strong> However, it is much more effective<\/strong> than lossless compression. Lossy compression is mainly used for video and sound<\/strong> compression because human beings can not notice the insignificant quality loss in these two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Lossless compression<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    This compression is brought to us by intelligent algorithms that permit accurate reconstruction of compressed data. It only rearranges data to the space-effective form.<\/strong> Lossless compression is primarily used by text files, where a loss of a single character can destroy the whole meaning. Image formats like PNG or GIF<\/strong> also use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Your video and image file format is related to compression, just as tin is related to bronze. The format has to be appropriately chosen because it is the first compression you do.<\/strong> The most famous image formats are JPG, TIFF, PNG, and GIF.<\/strong> First, two have lossy compression. Nonetheless, JPG saves a lot of space. PNG, GIF is lossless and are used mainly on websites.

    As I said above, video formats use mostly lossy compression.<\/strong> The most famous ones are AVI, MPEG, WebM, and MP4,<\/strong> of which only the MP4 is a fully lossless format that keeps all the data. However, the WebM is undoubtedly the winner<\/strong> when it comes to balancing between video size and quality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Not an app. However, a file format that can make your videos and images<\/strong> smaller for sending and storing <\/strong>across all platforms and devices. <\/strong>Zip is a great universal too<\/strong>l that can merge videos, text files, photos, and other data into one space-saving file. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Subsequently, you can unzip these files, thus inflating them to their original size, and work with them as nothing happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Now we know the basics about lossy and lossless compression and how formats influence videos’ size and quality. So, we can<\/strong> finally jump into today’s main topic<\/strong> of how to make smaller video files without losing quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Here are the best video compression apps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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