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Free Online Video Cropper, Cut the Edges Off and Keep the Middle

Cut the edges off a video for free without uploading it anywhere. A box sits on the real first frame, so you drag it where you want rather than guessing at coordinates, and the darkened area is exactly what gets thrown away. Square, portrait and widescreen shapes are one press each.

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Free Online Video Cropper, Cut the Edges Off and Keep the Middle

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Crop a video Drag your video here to cut away the edges and keep only the part that matters. Your browser opens it directly, so nothing is sent anywhere. Select a Video MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, AVI and more • best under 300 MB • nothing is uploaded

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The part you want to keep

Shape of the cut

A shape keeps the box locked to it while you drag. Free lets you type anything.

Width

Height

From left

From top

Put the box

Output

Format

Quality

Sound

Frame rate Dropping frames makes a smaller file. It cannot add frames that were never recorded.

Encoder effort

Sound quality

Encoder

File name

.mp4

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How to Crop a Video

Drop it, drag the box, download the part you kept.

Drop your video in The first frame appears with a box over it. The box starts as the whole picture, so nothing is cropped until you move it.

Pick a shape, or stay free Square for a profile post, 9:16 for a phone screen, 4:5 for a feed. Free lets the box be any shape you like.

Drag the box where you want it Drag the middle to move it and the corner dot to resize it. The four number boxes follow along, and you can type in them instead if you know the exact pixels.

Use the nine squares for a quick position They snap the box to a corner, an edge or the middle without any dragging, which is faster when you already know the box size you want.

Crop and download The line above the button tells you the new size and how much of the picture survives. Press it, wait, and the file appears below.

What to Know Before You Crop

Including the things this tool cannot do.

What you crop away is gone from the result. There is no border to drag back afterwards, because those pixels are not in the new file at all. Your original is untouched on your disk, so keep it until you are happy with the crop.

Cropping always rebuilds the picture. Unlike trimming, there is no quick copy that can do this, so a long video takes real time and the result is encoded again. Use the quality setting rather than accepting whatever comes out.

Widths and heights land on even numbers. The usual colour format in an MP4 stores colour at half resolution, so an odd number has nothing to round to and the encoder stops. A single pixel is adjusted quietly rather than failing in front of you.

A locked shape moves both sides together. Picking 9:16 and dragging the corner changes width and height at once, which is what you want for a phone crop and a surprise if you were expecting a free box. Free is one press away.

The work happens on your own machine. Your video is opened by this page, not sent anywhere. That is why there is no upload bar, no queue and no waiting for a server. It is also why a big file leans on your own processor: nothing is being done for you somewhere else.

There is a real size ceiling, and it is your device, not us. The whole video has to fit in the browser's memory while it is being worked on, so roughly three hundred megabytes is comfortable on a laptop and far less on a phone. This page tells you where you stand the moment you pick a file.

The first run downloads the engine, later runs do not. Video work needs a real encoder, and that is a thirty megabyte download the first time you press the button. Your browser keeps it, so the second video starts straight away.

Leave the tab open. All of the work is in this page, so closing it or navigating away stops the job halfway. On a phone, switching apps can do the same thing, because the system is allowed to pause a background tab.

Key Features & Capabilities

What this tool does, and what it deliberately does not.

Drag it, or type it A box you can drag and resize over the real first frame, and four number boxes for when you already know the pixels.

Nine positions in one press Snap the box to any corner, any edge or the middle without hunting for it with the mouse.

Shapes that social feeds ask for Square, 4:5, 9:16, 16:9 and 4:3, each locked so the box cannot drift off the shape while you drag.

You see the crop, not a guess The darkened area is exactly what gets thrown away, drawn over the actual frame rather than a diagram of one.

The file never leaves your device Everything happens in your browser. There is no upload, no queue and no copy of your video on a server.

It cannot uncrop Nothing here can bring back an edge that somebody else cropped off before you got the file. Those pixels were never in it.

About the Video Cropper

Cropping a video is the one edit that people describe most confidently and get wrong most often. The request is almost always remove the edges rather than make it smaller, and those two are different operations with different results. This page does the first one: you pick a rectangle, and everything outside it is gone from the file that comes out.

The box sits on top of the real first frame of your video, not on a diagram of it. What is darkened is exactly what will be thrown away. You can drag it with a mouse or a finger, pull the corner to resize it, snap it to one of nine positions, or type the four numbers directly if somebody has given you exact pixel coordinates.

Because cropping changes the picture itself, the video has to be encoded again. That is unavoidable and it is why this tool takes longer than trimming, which can often copy the original data untouched. The quality setting is there so you decide how much that second encode costs you rather than getting whatever default a tool felt like.

Everything runs inside your browser using WebAssembly. Your video is opened from your own disk, worked on in memory and handed back as a download. It is never uploaded, so there is no queue, no account and no copy of your footage sitting on somebody else's server waiting to be deleted.

Frequently Asked Questions

Cutting the edges off a video, and what it costs.

Usually yes, because there is less picture to store, but it is not a compression tool and the saving depends on what you cut. Cropping away a still background saves less than you would expect, since a still area costs a video almost nothing in the first place.

Yes. Press 1:1, drag the box over the part you want, and the result comes out square. If you would rather keep the whole picture and add bars around it, the resizer does that instead.

Video colour is usually stored at half resolution, so widths and heights have to be even numbers. A single odd pixel is rounded quietly rather than letting the encoder stop with an error nobody can read.

Not here. One box applies to the whole video. Cutting the video into pieces first and cropping each piece separately is the way to do it, and the splitter can make those pieces.

The limit is your own device rather than a rule we set. The whole video has to fit in the browser memory while it is worked on, so a few hundred megabytes is comfortable on a laptop and much less on a phone. The page tells you where you stand as soon as you pick a file.

Yes, and the box is made to be dragged with a finger. Phones have far less memory to spare, so keep the clip short and expect it to take longer than the same job on a laptop.