Organizations record hundreds of meetings per month. Zoom and Teams recordings pile up fast — 1 GB per hour of video adds up to terabytes per year. Reclaim that storage without losing a single meeting.
Download Free TrialRemote and hybrid work means more meetings are recorded than ever. Zoom stores local recordings as high-bitrate MP4 files. Microsoft Teams generates large MP4 exports. Google Meet recordings consume cloud storage quotas.
The result is predictable:
Meeting recordings are ideal candidates for compression because the video content is mostly static:
Our 11 test clips at the default setting (H.265, quality 23), measured in September 2026 on a Ryzen 9 3900X and an RTX 3080. Savings run from nothing, where the source was already efficient and the original was kept, to 96 % on an old DV tape. Yours depend on your footage.
| Clip | CPU (Ryzen 9 3900X) | GPU (RTX 3080) |
|---|---|---|
| Timelapse, 1440p | −3 % | original kept |
| Drone, 1440p | −47 % | −48 % |
| GoPro, 1080p | original kept | −31 % |
| Lecture recording, 1440p | −55 % | −36 % |
| Travel video, 1080p | −21 % | −5 % |
| Wedding camera, 1080p | −49 % | −40 % |
| DivX film | −14 % | −35 % |
| DV tape (PAL) | −93 % | −96 % |
| Phone video, 720p | −60 % | −65 % |
| SD TV episode | −13 % | original kept |
| Web video, 720p | −23 % | −8 % |
| All 11 clips | 254.9 → 138.1 MB (−46 %) | 254.9 → 128.4 MB (−50 %) |
None of these clips is 4K. For 4K footage, run Test Encode (10s) on one of your own files before the whole folder.
Point a watch folder at your Zoom or Teams recording directory. New recordings are compressed automatically — no manual intervention needed:
Compress meeting recordings automatically before archiving. Free trial with no time limit: your first 10 files convert with no watermark; after that files get a watermark and a 10-minute cap. Buying removes both.
Download Free TrialPublished by ContentaSoft, Umea, Sweden — developer of VideoRecompress Studio.
VideoRecompress Studio is a desktop application for Windows that batch compresses and re-encodes videos using modern codecs (H.265, AV1, VP9) with hardware acceleration.
This software contains no adware, spyware, toolbars, or bundled third-party programs. The installer installs only VideoRecompress Studio and FFmpeg (open-source video engine).
All videos are processed locally on your computer. No files are uploaded to any server. The software does not collect personal data.
Free trial with no time limit: your first 10 files convert with no watermark; after that files get a watermark and a 10-minute cap. Buying removes both. Lifetime license: $79 (one-time payment, no subscription).
Download size: ~2 MB (web installer). Additional components including FFmpeg are downloaded during installation.
How to Uninstall
Open Windows Settings > Apps > Installed apps, find "VideoRecompress Studio" in the list, and click Uninstall. You can also run the uninstaller from the installation folder or use Control Panel > Programs and Features.