What's the best open source GUI to compress videos on linux?

federino@programming.dev to Open Source@lemmy.ml – 31 points –

I'd like to compress my videos without using the terminal, what is the best GUI today that can do this?

Is this kind of program popular on linux? I know that ffmpeg is very popular on the terminal

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How is your experience with exporting GIFs in terms of file size? They tend to run larger than, say, mp4 files, right?

I use Shotcut btw.

GIFs exported in the original file resolution are usually pretty damn big, but I don't like giant GIFs myself, so I've found the 480x270 to be a good size to keep most of them below 25 megabytes.

I recommend using WebM container with VP9 codec instead of GIF if you are exporting it for web. It even supports alpha.