Crop a Video
Drag a rectangle over a real frame from your video and keep only that region. The crop is baked into a fresh re-encode — nothing is uploaded.
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This crop video tool keeps only the region you draw over a real frame from your video — the rest is cut away and the result is re-encoded. Useful for focusing a screen recording, removing browser chrome, or cropping out a face.
The crop is previewed on an actual frame from your video, then applied to every frame of the re-encode. Everything runs in your browser.
Why Use This Crop Video Tool?
- Real-frame preview — drag the crop over a frame your video actually shows
- Pixel-exact crop with numeric refinement
- The crop is applied to the whole video automatically
- Private — cropped and re-encoded in your browser
- Free, no signup
How to Crop a Video — 3 Steps
- Drop your video into the box above and wait for a frame preview to appear.
- Drag a rectangle over the region you want to keep (or type exact pixel values).
- Press the blue Crop Video button and download the result when the bar completes.
Cropping Video for Focus and Privacy
The most common video crop is the screen-recording cleanup: cut the browser tabs, bookmarks bar and taskbar out of a tutorial so only the relevant window remains; remove the sidebar from a captured call; trim a wide desktop capture down to the application being demonstrated. The second family is privacy: crop a bystander out of the frame, or tighten a shot so an on-screen name plate is excluded. Both jobs need the crop decided once and applied uniformly — which is exactly what this tool does: you draw the region on a real frame, and the same rectangle is applied to every frame of the video.
The preview frame is decoded from your actual video, not a placeholder — so what you align on screen is what the crop contains. After the region is chosen, the video is re-encoded at the cropped dimensions: pixels outside the rectangle never enter the output, which is also why cropping reduces the encode workload proportionally to the area removed.
Aspect ratio: the output keeps your crop's own shape. A 1920×1080 video cropped to a 1200×900 region produces a 1200×900 video — players handle mixed aspect ratios fine, and platforms letterbox where needed. If the destination demands a specific ratio, include that in your crop rectangle.
The re-encode runs locally with your device's video encoders and real progress on the bar. Nothing is uploaded — the tool is safe for unreleased product footage and internal captures.
Frequently Asked Questions
No — the crop applies to the whole video uniformly. Changing crops mid-video needs editing software.
The kept region is re-encoded once at the selected quality. The crop itself does not soften the kept pixels.
Usually yes — fewer pixels per frame means less data to encode, proportionally to the area removed.
Yes — any rectangle works. The output keeps the cropped region's own aspect ratio.
The crop is one decision applied to every frame, so the preview shows a real, representative frame from your video to align against.
No — the preview, crop and re-encode all run in your browser.