Just wanted to ask, does a video lose quality when you send it. I'm a video editor and that's because I send my videos and my client thinks it is less quality than when I have it on my laptop, but I don't see any difference. Are my eyes bad or really nothing going on? We have the same laptop (Macbook pro 13 2019). I sent it via Whatsapp, MS Teams and other chat platforms, but he said he doesn't take it because, as I said, the video allegedly loses quality.
Whatsapp compresses the videos very heavily. The same applies to MS teams. Using something like that for (apparently) professional services is questionable. Would recommend uploading the file somewhere, then passing the link on. Via Google Drive, for example.
Whatsapp definitely compresses it heavily. If I spend money on it, I wouldn't accept it either, it's very unprofessional. I can't tell you anything about the other platforms, but usually Is that always the case with social media or messengers.
Try via a cloud or on a storage medium.
As the others pointed out, these services compress videos, pictures etc. I would rent a cloud and then upload it there and share it for download. If the files are not larger than 15gb, the free Google Drive Cloud is sufficient.
As a professional "video editor", however, you usually don't send the end product to your customers via Whatsapp & Co. I know that Facebook Messenger compresses videos heavily, I can't tell you how it looks with Whatsapp because I don't use it.
A proper cloud (e.g. HiDrive) or Wetransfer (for files up to 2GB free of charge, above this subject to a charge) is very suitable for such purposes.
That depends on the shipping route. Ask him what file size in bytes he is displaying. If the number is smaller than that of your file, then compression was probably used. And that's already the case with Whatsapp.
Take Nextcloud or send a USB stick if you're messing around. Or you can use a free FTP server. Or he connects to Anydesk on your computer and downloads the file from himself. Or, or, or… There are several options for free broadcasts. You just have to deal with it.
