Cut Out the Part You Need
Your Zoom call recorded for 58 minutes. The good part, the product demo, was three minutes starting at minute 22. Nobody wants to scrub through an hour of video to find it, and you definitely don’t want to send someone a 58-minute recording for three minutes of content.
Set the start time to 00:22:00, end time to 00:25:00, click trim. You get a 3-minute MP4 that’s easy to share and actually gets watched.
What Happens Technically
The server runs FFmpeg with stream copy mode when possible, which means it doesn’t re-encode your video, it just cuts at the specified timestamps and hands you back the segment. Original quality preserved. When stream copy isn’t feasible (usually due to keyframe positioning), FFmpeg re-encodes at high quality settings. Either way, the output looks great.
How To
- Upload your video.
- Enter the start time in HH:MM:SS format (e.g.,
00:01:30). - Enter the end time (e.g.,
00:03:45). - Click Trim Video.
- Download the clip.
You can get sub-second precision by adding decimals: 00:01:30.500 cuts at exactly 1 minute, 30.5 seconds.
Where This Saves You Time
Pulling highlights from meetings. “Here’s the relevant 2 minutes from today’s standup” beats “watch the full recording and skip to 14:22.” Your coworkers will thank you.
Social media clips. You shot a 10-minute video and need a 30-second segment for Instagram Reels or TikTok. Trim it here, no need to fire up Premiere Pro for something this simple.
Cleaning up screen recordings. Every screen recording starts with the awkward “okay, let me share my screen… hold on… can you see it?” and ends with “alright, I think that’s it, let me stop the recording.” Trim both ends off.
Lecture and tutorial excerpts. You’re building a training library and need to chop a 2-hour workshop recording into individual topic segments. Run the trimmer once per topic.
Reducing file size the smart way. Sometimes the best compression is deletion. A 2-minute clip from a 30-minute video is going to be roughly 1/15th the file size. Trim first, compress second if you still need to.
Want to turn the trimmed clip into a GIF? The Video to GIF converter does that. Need to compress the clip further? Use the Video Compressor.
FAQ
What formats does it support? MP4, WebM, MOV, AVI, MKV, basically everything. FFmpeg’s format support is massive.
Does it hurt the quality? When FFmpeg can stream-copy (most of the time), quality is identical to the original. When it has to re-encode, it uses high-quality settings that are hard to distinguish from the source.
Can I cut multiple sections? One trim per run. If you need three clips from the same video, run the tool three times with different start and end times.
What’s the time format? HH:MM:SS. 00:00:00 is the beginning, 00:01:30 is 1 minute 30 seconds, 01:00:00 is 1 hour. Decimals work for precision.
Any length limit? No hard cap. Long videos take longer to upload, but the actual trim operation is fast regardless of source length.