Guide: How to Send a Video through Email – 3 Methods to Share Any Video Files

Though advanced communication methods, such as mobile phones and online social networking tools, make it exceptionally convenient to contact with others, many people still like to share messages, videos and other files via e-mail. Waking up in the morning, many people are used to having a cup of coffee and then open the mailbox. Generally, email still plays an important role in daily life and work. In some cases, people have to deal with large video files but don’t know how to send a large video with emails. Typically, you may find your videos beyond the maximum size limit and can’t be emailed whatsoever. Then, the following tutorial will show you how to send a video through email fast and smoothly, even for large videos. Let’s go deeply into the details.

Step1: Log into your account here: https://mail.google.com/

Step2: Click on “Compose” and a new window will pop up. Enter the recipient's e-mail address, subject, and message body.

Step3: Click on the paper clip icon in the lower-left corner as the picture shows.

Step4: Click on “Send” to start sending.

Step1: Visit Outlook and enter your account: https://outlook.live.com

Step2: Click on “New” and type the information on recipients, subject and message body into the right places.

Step3: Select the paper clip icon next to “Discard”, go “Computer”, and then choose the videos you want to send. At last, select “Attach as a copy” to embed video in outlook email.

Step4: Click on “Send” to finish the process.

With Outlook, you can only send file attachments within 20MB.

Step1: In the same way, visit the official site and sign in: https://mail.yahoo.com

Step2: Click on “Compose” , create and edit the email address of the receiver, the subject and message body.

Step3: Select the paper clip icon next to “Send” and choose the videos from your computer.

Step4: Once the upload finishes, click on “Send”.

If your file attachments are beyond 25MB, you will see a message showing “The file exceeds the 25MB attachment limit. Large attachment support coming soon”.

From the above, we can see that Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, or other email services limit the video size for sending. As a piece of additional information, this part shares 3 ways to help you send a large video through email.. Read on to check them out!

Compressing a video can efficiently reduce the file size of the video for smoothly sending through email. WonderFox HD Video Converter Factory Pro is a handy video compressor that can compress your videos to a small size by cutting, splitting, lower resolution, bitrate, etc. It can also fix the unsupported video formats issue by conversion with its 500+ output format presets.

Besides sending the video file directly, you can also upload the video to YouTube or other platforms to generate a video URL. Then you can embed the YouTube video in the email to avoid the file size limit.

Here are the simple steps.

Step 1. Find the video and upload it to YouTube.

Step 2. Click the share icon to copy the Video URL.

Step 3. Write the email and click the attachment button to insert the copied URL. Once you attach the link, the video appears at the bottom of your email.

Step 4. Send the email.

Cloud storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. allow you to upload large videos for saving in the cloud. They can also generate shareable links for you to send the video via email.

Moreover, Gmail supports directly attaching video files from Google Drive, while Outlook offers the option "Upload and share as a OneDrive link" when you encounter the exceeded file size issue.

Anyway, the general steps about sharing video through email with cloud drive are:

Step 1. Upload the video to Dropbox, Google Drive or other cloud storage services.

Step 2. To make the recipient access the video, you need to adjust the sharing settings to "Public".

Step 3. Copy the generated link and paste it in the body of the email.

Step 4. Click "Send" to send the video link through email.