Trim Video to a Time Range
Cut the section you need from any video. Set the start and end times with a preview player, then download — all in your browser.
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This trim video tool cuts a clip to the section you need — set the start and end times with a preview player, download the cut. The trimming happens in your browser.
The kept section is re-encoded into a fresh file, so a short cut out of a long video finishes much faster than converting the whole thing.
Why Use This Trim Video Tool?
- Preview player — find the exact boundaries before cutting
- Second-precision start and end inputs
- Faster than full conversion — only the kept range is processed
- Private — the video is processed in your browser
- Free, no signup
How to Trim a Video — 3 Steps
- Drop your video into the box above and wait for the preview player to appear.
- Enter the start and end times in seconds — play the video to find the exact spots.
- Press the blue Trim Video button and download the cut when the bar completes.
The Cuts Worth Making
Video trims are overwhelmingly practical: cut the 30 seconds of a screen recording that shows the bug, remove the setup and wind-down from a camera clip, isolate the moment worth sending from a long capture, or trim dead air off a lecture recording. The preview player is the core of the workflow — numbers alone make video trimming guesswork, so play the clip, note the times, type them in, and play again around the boundaries to refine by fractions of a second.
Trimming re-encodes the kept range. That has two consequences worth knowing. First, the output is a clean new file with exactly the frames you kept — nothing before or after. Second, because only that range is processed, a 20-second cut from a 20-minute video is dramatically faster than converting the whole video; the tool simply skips the rest.
Quality follows the same rules as any re-encode: the output is fresh H.264 at the selected quality level, visually indistinguishable from the source at normal settings. The output format follows the feature-detected list — MP4 for universality, WebM where the browser supports it.
The whole job — decode, cut, encode — runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded, which matters when the clip is an internal screen recording or something unpublished.
Frequently Asked Questions
Use the preview player — play the video, note where your section begins and ends, then type the values. Adjust by fractions of a second if the cut clips a word.
The kept range is re-encoded once at the selected quality — at the default settings the result is visually identical to the source.
Only the kept range is decoded and re-encoded. A short cut from a long video skips most of the work.
One range per pass. Trim the first section, download, then run the original through again for the next.
Input: MP4, WebM, MOV and MKV. Output: MP4 or WebM, depending on what your browser can encode — the page lists your real options.
No — trimming runs entirely in your browser.