Ch. 02·Compress to 60 MB
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60 MB H.264 vertical is TikTok's quality sweet spot. High enough that TikTok's encoder doesn't murder your file, low enough to upload fast on cellular. Cloud-rendered H.265 or AV1 hits your exact size target, no watermark, no install. Pair with the AI video upscaler or browse the free scene packs.
Examples · Real reductions
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You set the size. The encoder finds the highest-quality H.265 or AV1 settings that hit it exactly, no bitrates to guess at.
Step 01
Drag any MP4, MOV, WebM, AVI, or MKV, up to 20 GB on Pro.
Step 02
Select the TikTok preset (or type your exact size).
Step 03
Cloud-encoded MP4 hits your dashboard in under 2 minutes, ready for TikTok uploads.
Platform guide · TikTok
TikTok transcodes everything you post into its own streaming formats. The upload caps, the vertical frame, and the codec you export in all change what comes out the other side.
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TikTok's mobile app caps uploads at roughly 287 MB; web uploads allow more, but most creators post from the app. A long 1080p export blows past that ceiling fast. Compressing to around 60 MB clears it with room to spare, uploads fast on cellular, and still leaves the transcode enough bitrate to work with.
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The For You feed is full-screen vertical, and 9:16 at 1080 x 1920 is the frame TikTok is built around. Horizontal or square video gets letterboxed, which reads as low effort in the feed, and TikTok downscales for delivery anyway, so a 4K upload is just a bigger file for the same result. Export at 1080 x 1920, then compress.
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TikTok now accepts uploads past 10 minutes, and file size scales with duration: a 10-minute clip is roughly ten times the size of a 1-minute clip at the same quality. That's how long-form video slams into the mobile cap even at modest settings. Size-targeted compression matters most here, since the encoder finds the best quality that fits your target instead of you guessing at bitrates.
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TikTok's UI covers the bottom and right edges with caption, sound, and buttons, so keep text and key action centered. H.265 sources can fail to upload or look degraded after TikTok's re-encode, since the pipeline is tuned for H.264. YouPro compresses to either codec, but for TikTok, export H.264: it's the input the transcode handles most predictably.
Other size targets
Questions
Specifics on hitting 60 MB for TikTok, quality, runtime, and what survives the squeeze.
The mobile app caps uploads at roughly 287 MB, while web uploads allow far larger files. Since most creators post from the app, the mobile cap is the practical limit. Compressing to around 60 MB clears it comfortably and uploads fast on cellular.
Yes, every upload is transcoded into TikTok's own streaming formats and there is no way to skip it. Starting from a clean, efficiently compressed H.264 source produces a noticeably better final result than uploading a huge raw export that TikTok has to gut in one pass.
9:16 vertical at 1080 x 1920, H.264 video with AAC audio in an MP4 container, at 30 or 60 fps to match your source. Compress to around 60 MB before posting so TikTok's transcode has quality to preserve rather than a bloated file to crush.
H.264. H.265 sources can fail to upload or come out of TikTok's re-encode looking oddly degraded, since the pipeline is tuned for H.264 input. YouPro can compress to either codec, but for TikTok uploads specifically, export H.264.
9:16 vertical is the native frame; anything else gets letterboxed in the For You feed. The compressor preserves your input aspect ratio, so crop or pad to 9:16 before compressing.
File size scales linearly with duration, so a 10-minute clip is roughly ten times the size of a 1-minute clip at the same quality. That is how long-form uploads slam into the mobile cap. Size-targeted compression finds the best quality that still fits under your target.
TikTok's UI covers the edges of the frame: the caption and sound info sit along the bottom, and the like, comment, and share buttons run down the right side. Keep text and key action centered so the chrome cannot hide it.
Only if you downloaded the source from TikTok with a watermark burned in. Most uploads start from raw camera footage with no watermark. If you need to remove a TikTok watermark first, use the dedicated TikTok-to-MP4 saver.