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I’ve seen many videos produced by phones that are at least 10x larger than they need to be. I think they’re trying for some kind of cinematic quality, or maybe expect people to recompress them after the event (or in the worst case are conveniently choosing settings that use up more local and cloud storage so people need to pay to upgrade).

Other low cost video devices (like dashcams) can use higher bitrates and lower compression modes simply because they don’t have the CPU power to use the most optimal settings while also being able to record real-time streams.

You can save a lot of space by re-encoding these types of files on a real computer.