I made video screen captures from Snipping Tool in Windows 11 (I'm sort of new to it), and recently noticed the file sizes are huge... like 2-6GB for videos that are like 25-65 minutes long, on an FHD screen. That's about 50-60MB per minute.
Reading online (I'm no video expert), I see that FHD records about 120MB/minute @ 30FPS, and ~200MB/min @ 60FPS. So, Snipping Tool may be doing a good job with that, but... my laptop's hard drive is relatively small (~250GB), and it's been filling up fast recently(lots of other things going on), and I need to keep these videos for maybe another month or so. I know I can offload them to an external drive but I'm randomly needing to reference these videos on different work locations.
Anyway, since I already have OBS installed (though I haven't used it much), and have converted videos with it before using remux, though it seems to not be meant for file size reduction, I figured maybe there's some other feature that can re-compress or convert the videos to a smaller file size without too much video quality loss. I'm just not finding the solution though I admit I'm not great at video editing terminology.
Reading online (I'm no video expert), I see that FHD records about 120MB/minute @ 30FPS, and ~200MB/min @ 60FPS. So, Snipping Tool may be doing a good job with that, but... my laptop's hard drive is relatively small (~250GB), and it's been filling up fast recently(lots of other things going on), and I need to keep these videos for maybe another month or so. I know I can offload them to an external drive but I'm randomly needing to reference these videos on different work locations.
Anyway, since I already have OBS installed (though I haven't used it much), and have converted videos with it before using remux, though it seems to not be meant for file size reduction, I figured maybe there's some other feature that can re-compress or convert the videos to a smaller file size without too much video quality loss. I'm just not finding the solution though I admit I'm not great at video editing terminology.