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Google mail won't let me send a relatively small video file

PostSat Jan 14, 2023 12:35 am

Google mail won't let me send a relatively small video file of 210 MB. What are some good alternatives?
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Re: Google mail won't let me send a relatively small video f

PostSat Jan 14, 2023 1:23 am

gmail has a send limit of 25MB and receive 50MB

you can use google drive or wetransfer for larger files
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PostSat Jan 14, 2023 1:43 am

dn9909 wrote:Google mail won't let me send a relatively small video file of 210 MB. What are some good alternatives?

"Relatively small" for video files is "absolutely freakin huge" for emails. Another alternative is to upload it to YouTube and send a link to it via email.

Edit - but, as aptly pointed out below, not if it's important to retain the original quality.
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PostSat Jan 14, 2023 4:11 am

Transferring with YouTube will loose quite a bit of quality. It reencodes every file you send up to its streaming format which is quite lossy. Downloading that file downloads the lower quality file locks you into that quality for any further processing. You will never get back to the quality of the original footage. WeTransfer and others that don’t re-encode video files are much better choices.
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PostSat Jan 14, 2023 4:16 am

There are so many alternatives without recompression, even free up to a decent amount of some samples.
Dropbox, Google Drive, WeTransfer, SwissTransfer etc.
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PostSat Jan 14, 2023 4:52 pm

DavidVogt wrote:Transferring with YouTube will loose quite a bit of quality. It reencodes every file you send up to its streaming format which is quite lossy. Downloading that file downloads the lower quality file locks you into that quality for any further processing. You will never get back to the quality of the original footage. WeTransfer and others that don’t re-encode video files are much better choices.

Yes, quite true. You'd only want to use YouTube if you're delivering the video for end viewing and the need for quality isn't critical.
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PostSat Jan 14, 2023 10:08 pm

The free WeTransfer has a 15 GB file size limit unless you have one of the paid for choices, as I discovered yesterday.
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