How do I send a video that’s too big for email?

1. Compress to 25 MB. Drop the video on Compress Video to 25 MB. It calculates the bitrate your clip length allows and produces an MP4 that lands safely under the cap — no account, no upload, no watermark.
2. Trim first if quality matters. A 25 MB budget spread over ten minutes looks rough; the same budget over one minute looks great. Cut the video to the part that matters with the video trimmer, then compress.
3. Attach and send. Attach the compressed MP4 like any file. MP4 with H.264 plays everywhere — phones, Outlook previews, old laptops — so the recipient needs nothing special.

A phone video of a few minutes typically compresses to emailable size in under a minute of processing, at quality that is fine for viewing on any screen.

When is a link better than an attachment?

For long or high-quality footage — a full event recording, raw drone video — even perfect compression cannot make 25 MB look good. Upload to Drive, Dropbox or WeTransfer and email the link instead. The tradeoffs: recipients need to click through, links expire, and the file sits on a third-party server, which is exactly what compressing locally avoids for sensitive footage.

What are the actual size limits per provider?

Gmail and Outlook.com: 25 MB per message including encoding overhead, so treat 22-23 MB as the practical ceiling. Yahoo Mail: 25 MB. Corporate Exchange servers: commonly 10 MB, sometimes less — when mailing a company address, 10 MB is the safer target and the same tool offers it.