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Why do shortened video become much larger in file size?

chesseric

Lurker
Is this a problem that can be fixed?

Scenario:

I make a recording that ends up a certain size (e.g. 423 MB). I used the in-app editor to shorten the video with perhaps 10 percent at the edges. The resulting shortened video file ends up being closer to twice the size (695 MB).

It seems so unecessary since the you can't improve the quality of the original recording. It would seem reasonable that shortened videos become smaller in file size when using no compression or the same level of compression as the original. I thought this would be the standard behaviour of a shortening function.
 
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