Your Screen Recording Is 2 GB. It Doesn't Have to Be.
Screen recordings are huge — high resolution, high frame rate, massive files. Compress them without losing text clarity.
Why are screen recordings so large?
A 5-minute screen recording can easily be 500 MB to 2 GB. macOS records at Retina resolution (3024 × 1964 on a 14" MacBook Pro) at 60 fps, and Windows screen capture tools are similarly generous with quality. You don't need any of that for a demo video, a bug report, or a Slack message. But manually figuring out the right settings to downscale while keeping text readable? That's a whole afternoon.
What are the requirements?
How do I fix this?
Drop your screen recording into Squash and select the Screen Recording destination. Squash downscales from Retina to 1080p, drops to 15 fps (screen content doesn't need 60), and uses text-optimized encoding. A 2 GB recording becomes 50-100 MB with perfectly readable text.
Screen Recording optimization is free in Squash. Pro ($29) removes the 60-second limit and end card.
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