Video Cutter
Copies the piece you asked for into a new file without re-encoding it, so the picture is exactly what it was and the cut takes about a second whatever the file size. If the start has to land on a precise second, there is a slower mode that re-encodes.
- No upload
- No account
- No watermark
- No file limit
Your files
Nothing chosen yet.
Where your file goes
Nowhere. This page downloads a small program into your browser, and that program reads the file straight from your disk. The program comes from this site like any image or stylesheet — but your file only ever travels from your disk into your own browser tab.
Why this one
What you get that the big converters cannot offer.
Fast because nothing is re-encoded
The video is copied across as-is. Trimming a 525 MB file took 0.13 seconds in our own test — the size of the file barely comes into it.
Honest about where the cut lands
A copied cut can only begin on a keyframe, so it may start a second or two before the time you typed. Most tools do this quietly and hand you a clip that does not match what you asked for. This one says so, and offers an exact mode.
No size cap
Cutters that work by upload cap the file size because they pay for the transfer and the storage. Neither applies here.
No generation loss
In fast mode the output holds the same video data as the input. Nothing is decoded and re-compressed, so cutting the same file twice costs nothing in quality.
How to use it
Choose a video file.
Enter the start and end time in seconds. Leave the end at 0 to run to the end of the video.
Choose fast or exact, then press Start.
When people use it
Sending one moment out of a long recording
The other person needs thirty seconds, not the forty minutes around them.
Cutting the dead air off the front
Screen recordings and phone videos usually start with a few seconds of nothing.
Getting under an upload limit
Mail and chat apps refuse large files. A shorter clip is often the whole fix.
Questions
Why did my clip start earlier than I asked?
Fast mode copies the video without re-encoding it, and a copy can only start at a keyframe. The nearest one before your start time is used. Exact mode re-encodes and starts exactly where you said.
Does cutting reduce the quality?
Not in fast mode — the video data is copied, not re-compressed. Exact mode re-encodes the clip, which costs a little quality and a lot of time: in our test a four-second clip took under a second in fast mode and 15 seconds in exact mode.
How big a file can it take?
Fast mode copies the piece straight out of an MP4 and never holds the file in memory, so several gigabytes is fine. Exact mode re-encodes and has to load the whole file, and a browser cannot read more than about 2 GB in one piece — you get a plain message saying so.
Is the video uploaded?
No. Everything happens inside your browser.
Why is there a download the first time?
The video engine is about 10 MB compressed and is fetched once, then cached by your browser.
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