u/tino-latino

I made a simple video compressor and screen recording app for mac, linux and windows.

it's very easy to use, just set the hotkeys to start recording and to finish recording. I made it without AI in my free time, and so much peopel is using it already, so I wanted to share it here compress.mov

As the title says, creating and sharing short videos on macOS or Windows has never been a smooth flow for me.

I used to screen cap with QuickTime or the NVIDIA. The result were huge .mov or .mp4 file. Then I either need to upload a 600 MB file to an online compressor, open Handbrake, or use ffmpeg from the command line.

Ffmpeg is great, but for quick everyday use, but I found myself loosing the text file where I keep the most useful commands to adjust parameters, and it's anying when there are silly error because I forgot a parameter. And if I wanted to trim the video, I usually had to open a separate video editor that take time to open and are sort of overkill for a simple trimming.

So I built Compress.mov.

The basic flow is simple: drag and drop a video, choose whether you want to trim it, compress it, or both, and get the result automatically saved in your computer.

Over time I added more features: audio removal, video rotation, codec selection, video rescaling, multiple languages (german, farsi, japanese...), and a small counter that shows how many lifetime megabytes you’ve saved by using the Compress app.

The latest feature I’m testing is video recording, so I don’t have to use QuickTime anymore!

This started as a side project on my spare time, and I built it without an AI assistant, so it’s fully handmade 😃

You can try it at compress.mov for FREE and if you become a fun please purchase it at the windows store or App Store to help me stay motivated.

As the title says, creating and sharing videos on macOS or Windows has never had a nice flow for me.

I was recording with QuickTime or the NVIDIA screen capture app, which would output a huge .mov or .mp4 file. The file was usually too large to send, so I had to use online compression tools, upload a 600 MB video file, use HandBrake that I don’t really like the UI or use FFmpeg that is extremelly powerful, but it becomes a bit impractical to keep all the different commands in a notepad, plus the usual errors when something is wrong somewhere in the CLI.

Additionally, if you want to trim the video, you need to open a video editor. Which takes times.

Because of that, I created compress.mov, where you can drag and drop a video file, decide if you want to trim it or only compress it, and that’s it. It opens super fast.

I’ve also added many other useful features, like multiple languages (japanese, russian, farsi, german), audio removal, video rotation, codec selection, video rescaling, and more. It also tells you how many lifelong megabytes you’ve saved by using Compress.mov

Our last big feature was video recording, so I don’t have to use QuickTime or Nvidia thingy in windows anymore.

The app is free at compress.mov, or you can get it in the Windows/macOS store or donate to support development.

It’s also available for Linux.

Finally, since this is a side project I started some time ago, I built it without an AI assistant, so it’s fully handmade.

I hope you enjoy it. Let me know if you have any comments or feature requests.

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