A single minute of 4K footage can top 300MB. A finished edit runs into gigabytes. Email won't touch it, and messaging apps re-compress video into a blurry mess. Here is how to deliver video to clients at full quality.
WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, and Slack all re-encode video to save bandwidth. Your crisp 4K export arrives as a soft, artifact-ridden 480p clip. For anything client-facing, that's unacceptable. You need a transfer method that moves the exact bytes you uploaded.
Upload the file once, send a link. fff files uploads directly to storage and hands you a download URL — the file is never re-compressed or altered. Drag, drop, copy link, send. Files up to 250MB, no account for you or the client.
For short deliverables — a 30-second ad cut, a screen recording, a revision clip — this is the fastest path. The client clicks and downloads the original file.
If your export is multiple gigabytes, compress before sending. Export at a delivery-appropriate bitrate (H.264/H.265), or zip a folder of assets. See our guide to compressing files before sharing. A well-encoded H.265 file at 1080p can look identical to the source at a fraction of the size.
Google Drive and Dropbox work, but they force the client through a login wall or a "request access" dance, and the file sits in your storage quota indefinitely. A temporary link avoids account friction and cleans itself up automatically.