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compress-mov.sh
for f in $@
do
echo "Compressing: $f"
mdate=$(GetFileInfo -m "$f")
avconvert --preset PresetAppleM4V1080pHD -s $f -o "compressed_$f"
SetFile -m "$mdate" -d "$mdate" "compressed_$f"
# Uncomment the following line to overwrite original file with new compressed version
# mv "compressed_$f" "$f"
done
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Do you use a Canon DSLR to take 1080p video and use OS X?

The size of the produced video files are huge (around 350MB/min)!

Run this script to compress all those videos up to 4.5x smaller in size without any visible quality loss!
For example, a video of length 8:27 is 2.98GB. After compression the file is 655MB!

Requires OSX

bash compress-mov.sh *.MOV

Also requires Xcode in order to preserve created/modified dates.
If you don't want to install Xcode, comment out lines 4 and 6. However, your videos will be dated today.

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