Compress Video to 8 MB

Give us any video and a 8 MB budget (Discord's classic free-tier limit) and we'll do the bitrate math for you.

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BIG 8 MB

Drop your video here

We'll land it under 8 MB, with no settings to fiddle with.
  • Free, no signup
  • No watermark, ever
  • Files auto-delete in 1 hour
  • Nothing to install

How to compress a video to 8 MB

  1. 1

    Drop in the video that is over the limit.

  2. 2

    There is nothing to configure: Flippy measures the clip's length and computes the exact bitrate that fits 8 MB, with a reserve for audio and container overhead.

  3. 3

    Download an MP4 that lands under the 8 MB bar, ready to send.

Why compress to 8 MB here

Exact-size math, no guessing

Flippy measures your clip's duration and computes the one bitrate that fills 8 MB: no compress-check-repeat loop, no preset roulette.

A real safety margin

The encode targets about 6% under the cap and reserves 96 kbps for audio and container overhead, so a file aimed at 8 MB actually clears a 8 MB limit.

A sensible resolution cap

Output tops out at 720p, because spreading a 8 MB budget across 4K pixels makes every one of them equally bad. Fewer, better pixels win at this size.

No watermark, no signup

Free for everyday use, MP4 out, and both files delete themselves from our servers within an hour.

The bitrate math behind the 8 MB button

File size is bitrate times duration: there is no other lever. Flippy converts your 8 MB budget into kilobits, takes 6% off the top for container overhead, hands 96 kbps to the audio, and gives the video stream every kilobit that remains.

An 8 MB budget buys roughly one minute of decent-looking 720p video. A 30-second clip at 8 MB looks genuinely good; past three minutes the math forces visible blockiness, and no tool can dodge it.

The fix for a long clip is length, not settings: trim to the part that matters, then compress. Sixty good-looking seconds beat five minutes of mush every time.

Questions people ask

How does Flippy hit exactly 8 MB?

Discord's free tier caps uploads at 8 MB, and this page exists for exactly that moment. We divide your size budget by the clip's duration to get the precise bitrate, reserve a slice for audio and container overhead, and encode once to fit.

What happens to quality at 8 MB?

It depends entirely on length: a 30-second clip at 8 MB looks great, a 10-minute one won't; that's physics, not the tool. For long videos, trim first, then compress.

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