Video Trimmer
Cut a start and end point and export just that segment as MP4.
Drop a video here or click to browse
MP4, MOV or WebM - up to 100 MB, processed in memory.
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Cut a clip down to just the part you need.
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A video trimmer cuts a clip down to a shorter segment by discarding everything outside a chosen start and end point. This one shows your video inline with a dual-handle slider bound to its real duration, so the selection is made visually rather than by typing timestamps. Trimming runs server-side with ffmpeg entirely in memory: the upload is never written to disk and nothing is left after the response is sent.
What a Video Trimmer Actually Does
Trimming is subtraction, not editing. The tool reads your clip, keeps the range between the two points you set, and writes that segment out as a new file. Nothing is added, rearranged or re-timed - the kept portion plays exactly as it did in the original, at the same speed and resolution.
What makes a trimmer usable is knowing where to cut. Typing "start 3.2, end 11.7" into a pair of boxes means guessing at a video you cannot see, which is why the selection here sits on top of a live preview. Drag a handle and the preview seeks to that moment; the readout shows the start, the end, and the resulting length as you go.
Why Trim a Video
- Cutting dead air: screen recordings almost always start with a few seconds of fumbling before the useful part begins, and end after the point has been made.
- Getting under an upload limit: length drives file size directly. Trimming to the section that matters is usually the quickest way to bring a clip under a platform's cap - including the 100 MB limit on the other tools here.
- Pulling out one moment: a single reaction, a specific step in a demo, or the one part of a long recording worth sharing.
- Before converting to GIF: GIF has no compression between frames, so duration and file size rise together fast. Trimming first is what keeps a video-to-GIF conversion from producing an unusable file.
- Social clips: most platforms have a length cap, and a tighter cut usually holds attention better than the full take.
How This Video Trimmer Works
Drop a single video onto the upload card or click to browse. The clip appears in a preview player, and once the browser has read its duration the trim slider unlocks with the full length selected by default.
Drag the two handles to set your range. The readout above the slider updates live in minutes and seconds, showing both endpoints and the length of the selection. Whichever handle you move, the preview seeks to that exact moment so you can see the frame you are cutting on. "Play selection" plays only the chosen range and stops automatically at the end point, which is the fastest way to confirm the cut before committing to it.
An optional "Remove audio from the clip" checkbox strips the soundtrack in the same pass, so trimming and muting happen in one operation rather than two uploads. Click "Trim video" and a progress bar tracks the job; the trimmed clip plays inline with a download button when it finishes.
Limits and Output
- Input formats: MP4, MOV and WebM, up to 100 MB per file, one at a time.
- Output: always MP4 with H.264 video and AAC audio, regardless of the input container - the most widely playable combination.
- Precision: the start and end points are sent as exact numbers rather than approximations, so the cut lands where the slider says it does.
Trimming, Cutting and Splitting
These words get used interchangeably but describe different operations. Trimming keeps one continuous range and discards the rest, which is what this tool does. Cutting usually means removing a section from the middle and joining the two remaining pieces, which requires re-timing the result. Splitting means dividing one file into several separate ones. For a middle section, running the trimmer twice - once for each side - gives you the two pieces, though joining them needs a video editor.
Other video tools that pair with trimming: converting the result to another format, resizing to a smaller resolution, extracting the audio track, and removing the sound from a clip you are not otherwise cutting.
FAQ
The trimmed clip is re-encoded as H.264, so there is a small generation loss, but at these settings it is not visible at normal viewing size. Resolution, frame rate and aspect ratio are all preserved exactly. Re-encoding is what allows the cut to land precisely where you set it rather than snapping to the nearest keyframe, which is the trade-off a stream-copy trimmer makes in the other direction. Trim once from the best source you have rather than repeatedly.
Yes, that is what this tool is for. The video is uploaded, trimmed on the server with ffmpeg and returned to your browser - no installation, no account and no watermark on the result. It works the same in any modern browser on desktop or mobile, so you can cut a clip on a phone without an app.
MP4, MOV and WebM are accepted as input, which covers phone recordings, screen captures and video downloaded from the web. The output is always MP4 with H.264 video and AAC audio, regardless of what you started with. That means trimming a MOV or WebM also converts it to the most widely playable format in the same pass.
Yes. Tick "Remove audio from the clip" before starting and the soundtrack is stripped in the same operation, so you do not have to run the file through two tools. If the video is already the right length and you only want to silence it, the dedicated mute video tool copies the video stream without re-encoding it, which is faster and completely lossless.
Not in one pass. This tool keeps one continuous range and discards everything outside it, which is trimming rather than cutting. To remove a middle section you would run the trimmer twice - once for the part before and once for the part after - which gives you two clips. Joining them back together needs a video editor, since that requires re-timing the result.
100 MB per file, one at a time. There is no fixed limit on duration, but length and file size are directly related, so a long recording will usually hit the size cap first. Larger uploads are rejected before any processing starts, so no time is spent on a job that cannot complete.
The slider writes exact numeric start and end values, sent to the server with sub-second precision rather than rounded. Because the clip is re-encoded rather than stream-copied, the cut lands at the point you chose instead of snapping backwards to the nearest keyframe, which is what causes the extra second or two some trimmers leave at the start.
No. The file is sent to the server because trimming needs ffmpeg, but it is never written to disk. It is held in memory for the duration of the job, the trimmed clip is returned to your browser, and the buffer is released as soon as the request completes. Nothing is stored, logged or cached. The preview you see before trimming is your own local file and is not uploaded until you press the button.