Trim MP4 video by setting start time and duration. Remove unwanted sections from recordings, create social media clips, and extract highlights.
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Set exact start and end points with frame accuracy
Maintain original quality with smart re-encoding
Trimming removes unwanted portions from the beginning, end, or middle of a video:
Extract the best 15-60 seconds from longer videos for Instagram Reels (90s max), TikTok (10 min max), YouTube Shorts (60s max), or Twitter/X (2:20 max).
Cut silence, countdowns, or "are we recording?" moments from the start of meeting recordings and presentations.
A 1-hour recording trimmed to the relevant 5 minutes is 92% smaller — no compression needed, just removing unused footage.
Extract specific topics from long educational recordings for focused study or sharing individual lessons.
Competitors like aconvert.com "directly cuts the selected part without decoding, encoding, or converting, so it runs very fast." floik.com allows "exact timestamps for precision editing." podcastle.ai positions it as "creating social media clips, removing unwanted footage, or customizing video length." XConvert offers trimming with optional re-encoding, codec selection, compression, and resolution control.
"Trim" and "cut" are often used interchangeably. On XConvert, both set a start time and duration to extract a segment. See also Cut MP4.
Without re-encoding, trimming copies the original stream — zero quality loss. If you change codec or compression settings, re-encoding occurs with minimal quality reduction at default settings.
Yes. Completely free with no watermarks, no sign-up required, and no file count limits.
Yes. Enter times in seconds or HH:MM:SS.sss format for millisecond precision.
Yes. Upload multiple MP4 files and trim them all with the same settings.
Yes. Works in any modern browser on all devices — no app installation required.