How to Send Large Video Files via Email

To send a large video by email, check its file size first. If it is under your email provider's limit, attach it. If it is over, upload the video and send a download link in the email instead. Most email accounts stop at 20 MB to 25 MB, and many videos are larger than that.

This guide covers the email side: what each email app does when a video is too big, and what to do about it. For the other ways to send a video, such as compressing it, see how to send large video files. For limits across every email provider, see how to send large files via email.

Check the size before you attach

Find the video in your file manager and read its size. Then compare it with the limit for the account you send from. Email limits count the whole message, so leave some room. Microsoft says its limit includes the size of the attachment and the size of the email.

• Under your provider's limit: attach it. This is the simplest option and the recipient gets the video in their inbox.
• Over the limit: send a link. Pick one of the options below.
• Someone needs to edit the footage: send the original by link. Shrinking the video to fit an attachment throws away quality you cannot recover.

What your email app does with a big video

Third-party details below come from each vendor's own help page and were last checked on October 16, 2026. Vendors change how this works, so confirm on the linked page if it matters.

How to send a large video by email, step by step

1. Check the video's file size and compare it with the limit above.
2. Choose how to send a link. If your email app offers its own (Drive for Gmail, OneDrive for Outlook, Mail Drop for Apple Mail) and the video fits in your storage, use it. Otherwise use a transfer service.
3. Upload the video. Keep the tab open until the upload finishes. Large videos take as long as your internet upload speed allows.
4. Copy the link and paste it into your email. Add a short note saying what the video is, roughly how big it is, and how long the link works if it has a time limit.
5. Check that the recipient can open it. With Drive or OneDrive links, look at the sharing setting. With a password-protected link, send the password in a separate message.

Send a large video by email with Roceet

Roceet sends large files by link, so it works with any email app. Drop your video below, add an optional title and message, enter your email, and confirm the 8-digit code we send you. You get a share link to paste into your email. The person you send it to opens the link and downloads the video. They do not need an account.

What you should know before you send:

• Free: up to 2 GB per transfer. You choose when your link expires, up to 2 days. Free has no monthly cap on how many transfers you send, but it does have a 2 GB storage balance, and space is returned when the files are deleted.
• Ultimate: $16.99 per user per month, up to 200 GB per transfer, with links that last up to 30 days. Choose this if your video is larger than 2 GB.
• Controls: you can protect a transfer with a password and limit how many times it can be downloaded. You choose when the link expires, up to your plan's lifetime, and can extend it any time. Expired links can be restored for 2 days on Free and 7 days on Ultimate.

If the video is under your email limit, attach it. If you send from an iPhone, iPad or Mac and the video is under 5 GB, Mail Drop is already built in. A Roceet link is useful when you send from a different email app, when the video is bigger than your free cloud space, or when you want the link to stop working on its own.