I'm a marketer with some video editing experience, trying to compress a series of short video clips for a website. A web developer told me that each video must be under 5 KB, which seems outrageous to me. I've tried compressing them using Adobe Media Encoder but the smallest I could hit is around 1 MB, which is way over the limit. I'm not sure if I'm just lacking in skills or if this task is genuinely impossible. I'm looking for any insights or advice from people who might have more technical knowledge than I do since I want to maintain video quality but need to meet their upload requirements. Is it feasible to get a video down to that size, or have I been given an impossible task?
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Honestly, 5 KB for a video is not feasible at all. For example, even a minimal MP4 container is usually 3-6 KB just by itself! A real video would need way more space than that.
If they seriously meant 5 KB, they should probably rethink their career in web development. For context, even the community icon for web development can be around 3.9 KB. That says a lot about the misunderstanding here!
This sounds like a miscommunication! Videos typically need at least a few hundred KB, if not MB, to hold any quality. Maybe ask the developer for clearer guidelines or examples of what's acceptable?
Your best bet may be to have a chat with the developer. Share your concerns and see if there's any flexibility in the requirements. But as it stands, hitting a video under 5 KB is pretty much impossible!
Are you sure the web developer meant 5 KB? That size seems impossible for a video. It might be that they actually intended to say 5 MB instead, which is a lot more realistic. Just to put it in perspective, 5 KB is almost nothing in terms of video length!
Yeah, I wondered if there was a mistake too. It's hard to imagine what usable video could even fit that small limit.
Right? I'm feeling like I really got a tall order here.