How long a video can realistically fit in 8MB?

With acceptable quality: roughly 1-2 minutes. Beyond ~4 minutes the bitrate gets too low for watchable video, and the tool will tell you to trim first rather than produce garbage.

Isn't Discord's limit bigger than 8MB now?

Yes. Discord's free limit has been 20 MB since August 2026 (8 MB until 2023, then 25 MB, then 10 MB from 2024), so for Discord use the 20MB target. The 8MB target remains for the many forms and apps that still enforce it.

Will the audio still be included at 8 MB?

Yes. Part of the budget is reserved for audio before the video bitrate is calculated, so the sound is kept. On very long clips that reservation is a noticeable share of the 8 MB, which is one more reason to trim.

What resolution will my 8 MB video be?

It depends on length. A clip under 30 seconds can often keep 720p; longer ones are stepped down to 480p or below, because at a fixed size fewer pixels per frame means less blockiness. The tool decides from the computed bitrate.

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Eight megabytes is 64 megabits, and that conversion explains this page. Spread over a 30-second clip it allows just over 2 megabits per second, which is comfortable 720p. Over one minute it is about 1 megabit per second, good for 480p and passable at 720p when there is little motion. Over three minutes it drops to roughly 350 kilobits per second, where only a low resolution with little motion looks acceptable, and past five minutes trimming the clip is the only honest answer. Rather than guessing at a quality slider, this tool reads your clip's length, does that division, reserves part of the budget for audio and the container, and encodes to the resulting bitrate.

The 8 MB figure persists in places that set their limits years ago and never revisited them: forum attachments, support ticket systems, course platforms, contact forms with a video field, and internal tools. If the first encode comes out slightly over, the tool measures by how much and runs a corrected second pass, so the result lands under the number. At this size the resolution is often reduced automatically, because a clean lower resolution looks better than a smeared high one at the same bitrate. The encoding runs on your device with no upload; a longer clip simply takes longer to process.

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Frequently asked questions

How long a video can realistically fit in 8MB?: With acceptable quality: roughly 1-2 minutes. Beyond ~4 minutes the bitrate gets too low for watchable video, and the tool will tell you to trim first rather than produce garbage.
Isn't Discord's limit bigger than 8MB now?: Yes. Discord's free limit has been 20 MB since August 2026 (8 MB until 2023, then 25 MB, then 10 MB from 2024), so for Discord use the 20MB target. The 8MB target remains for the many forms and apps that still enforce it.
Will the audio still be included at 8 MB?: Yes. Part of the budget is reserved for audio before the video bitrate is calculated, so the sound is kept. On very long clips that reservation is a noticeable share of the 8 MB, which is one more reason to trim.
What resolution will my 8 MB video be?: It depends on length. A clip under 30 seconds can often keep 720p; longer ones are stepped down to 480p or below, because at a fixed size fewer pixels per frame means less blockiness. The tool decides from the computed bitrate.

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