Use FFmpeg and Apple Script to compress videos

Build an application you can drag-and-drop videos onto to compress them significantely:

Make sure you have ffmpeg installed (brew install ffmpeg).

Create a new Apple Script app: AppleScript on open filelist repeat with i in filelist tell application "Terminal" do script "ffmpeg -i " & POSIX path of i & " -vcodec h264 -acodec mp2 " & POSIX path of i & "_compressed.mp4" end tell end repeat end open