Cut your video to the exact section you need. Works instantly in your browser — no upload, no account needed.
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Choose Video FileMP4, WebM, MOV · Max 100MB
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This tool cuts a video down to a specific section — set a start and end point, preview your selection, and download just that portion as a new video file. Everything outside your selected range is removed.
Processing happens entirely in your browser using a built-in video processing engine — your video is never uploaded to a server. The first time you use any of our video tools, there's a one-time download of this processing engine (around 30MB), cached afterward for instant use.
This tool cuts the video at your chosen start and end points without re-encoding the video content — the relevant section is copied directly. This makes trimming relatively fast, though for some videos the exact cut point may align to the nearest keyframe rather than an exact frame, which can occasionally shift the start point by a fraction of a second.
Video files don't store every frame as a complete image — most video compression works by storing full "keyframes" at intervals, and then storing only the differences between subsequent frames until the next keyframe. This is what makes video files dramatically smaller than a sequence of individual images would be. The trade-off is that cutting a video at an arbitrary point — say, exactly 12.347 seconds — without re-encoding means the cut has to happen at or near the nearest keyframe, because the frames between keyframes can't be displayed independently.
For most videos, keyframes occur every few seconds, so the difference between your requested cut point and the actual keyframe-aligned cut is usually well under a second — often imperceptible. If you need frame-accurate trimming for a specific reason (such as syncing to music beats), you may notice this small offset; in that case, trimming slightly wider than needed and then fine-tuning afterward in dedicated video editing software would give more precision, though for the vast majority of trimming tasks — removing a long unwanted intro, cutting a clip down to a highlight — the keyframe-aligned result is perfectly usable.
Trimming is often the very first step before other edits, and doing it first can make later steps faster and easier. If you plan to compress a video afterward, trimming first means there's less footage to re-encode, directly reducing processing time. If you're converting to GIF, trimming down to roughly the right section first makes it much easier to fine-tune the exact start point when you switch to the GIF tool, since you're working with a shorter file. And if your final goal is a vertical video for social media, trimming to the right length before resizing or cropping means you're not cropping footage you're going to discard anyway.
When looking for the exact moment to start or end a clip, it often helps to look slightly before the moment you think you want — starting a clip exactly on the first word of a sentence, or exactly on an action, can feel abrupt. A fraction of a second of lead-in before the "main" moment usually feels more natural. Similarly, ending a clip right as something finishes (rather than immediately cutting away) gives the viewer a moment to register what happened. These small adjustments — typically half a second to a second on either end — are easy to make using the preview and sliders, and make a noticeable difference to how polished a trimmed clip feels.
Once trimmed, you can convert the clip to GIF with our Video to GIF tool, reduce its file size further with Video Compressor, or extract just the audio with Extract Audio.
No, the selected section is copied without re-encoding, so quality remains the same as the original.
Because the cut isn't re-encoded, it may align to the nearest keyframe in the video, which can shift the exact start point slightly. This trade-off keeps processing fast.
Common formats including MP4, WebM and MOV are supported as input.
Files up to 100MB are supported. Larger files take longer to process since everything runs in your browser.
No, processing happens entirely within your browser.