Video Cutter Online

A free video cutter that runs in your browser

VidHaul’s video cutter lets you trim any clip down to the part that matters, right in your browser. Phone recordings often start with a few seconds of fumbling and end with a shot of the floor; screen recordings include the moment you clicked Record; long videos hide one great scene in the middle. With this online video cutter you set a start and an end point and download only that section as an MP4, with no app to install, no account and no watermark.

Your file is not uploaded. The trimming happens on your own computer or phone, so it is quick even on a slow connection, and private videos stay private.

How to trim a video online

1. Open your video. Click the button or drag a file onto the page. MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV and most other videos your browser can play are supported.
2. Mark the part to keep. Type the Start and End times in seconds, or play the preview, pause where the clip should begin and press “Set start here”, then do the same with “Set end here”.
3. Cut and download. Press Start. A progress bar appears, and a moment later you can download the trimmed file as a clearly named MP4. Use “Convert another file” to trim the next one.

Why this video trimmer is so fast

Most video editors decode and re-encode the whole clip when you trim it. That takes time and adds a little quality loss every time. VidHaul’s video trimmer copies the original video data directly when it can, without re-encoding. The result has exactly the same quality as your source, and even long videos are cut in seconds rather than minutes.

About key frames

Compressed video stores a full picture only every so often, on so-called key frames; the frames in between just describe what changed. A copy-based cut must begin on a key frame, so the cutter snaps your start point to the nearest one. In practice the trimmed clip may begin a fraction of a second earlier than you chose. If you need a tight start, set it a little later than the exact moment and check the preview.

Common ways to use the online video cutter

• Clean up phone videos. Remove the shaky first seconds and the accidental ending before sharing with family.
• Share a highlight. Keep only the goal, the joke or the key moment from a long recording.
• Prepare clips for presentations. Cut a short example out of a tutorial or a screen recording.
• Make files easier to send. A shorter video is a smaller video. If it’s still too big, run it through the Video Compressor to hit a WhatsApp, Discord or email size limit.
• Get ready for vertical posts. After trimming, use the Video Cropper to reframe the clip to 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5.

How to remove a part from the middle

The cutter keeps one continuous segment per run. To take out a section in the middle, cut twice: first from the beginning to just before the unwanted part, then from just after it to the end. You will have two clips. Joining clips into one file is not available yet, so this works best when you need separate parts or only one side of the cut.

Trim video on iPhone, Android and PC

The video cutter works in up-to-date Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox on Windows, Mac and Linux, and in Chrome or Safari on phones. On an iPhone, open this page in Safari and choose a clip from Photos; on Android, use Chrome and pick a video from your gallery or files. Because nothing is uploaded, speed depends on your device: computers are faster than phones, and files over about 1.5 GB may be slow or fail on a phone because the work happens in its memory.

Video cutter app or online video cutter?

A desktop editor or a video cutter app is useful when you edit every day, but for a quick trim it means a download, an install and often a watermark or a sign-up screen. A free online video cutter like this one opens instantly in any modern browser, does the same basic job and leaves nothing behind on your device. Because the trimming runs locally instead of on a server, you also skip the upload and download wait that most web-based trimmers need, and you can use it on a work computer where installing software isn’t allowed.

Tips for a clean cut

• Use the preview to find the exact moment, then fine-tune the seconds by typing.
• Leave a short buffer before speech starts so the first word isn’t lost to key-frame snapping.
• Want just a GIF of the moment? Video to GIF lets you pick start and end in the same way.
• Only need the sound of the clip? Trim the audio with the MP3 Cutter or extract it with Video to MP3.

Only cut and share videos that you own or have the right to use.