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Cutting (also called trimming) extracts a portion of a video without altering the rest. The most common reason: the source has more material than you need, and you only want to keep a specific segment. Common use cases:
| Property | Default settings | Custom settings |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | Proportional to clip length | Proportional to clip length |
| Quality | Re-encoded at the visually-lossless preset (CRF 18 H.264 / CRF 17 HEVC) | Whatever quality/CRF you choose |
| Output format | Same as input | Any supported format |
| Cut accuracy | Frame-accurate | Frame-accurate |
| Output size | Similar proportion to duration kept | Variable by codec / quality settings |
| Best for | Quick extraction at source-matching quality | Format change, smaller file, different resolution |
Either way the cut is frame-accurate: because the kept segment is re-encoded, the clip starts exactly at the time you enter — there is no snapping to the nearest keyframe. Leave the defaults to keep the same format at visually-lossless quality, or change the settings when you also want a different format, resolution, or file size.
| Category | Formats |
|---|---|
| Modern web/mobile | MP4, MOV, WebM, M4V, MKV |
| Camera / camcorder | AVCHD, MTS, M2TS, MXF, DV, AVI |
| Screen / streaming | FLV, F4V, ASF, TS, M2V |
| Legacy | WMV, 3GP, 3G2, RM, RMVB, VOB, MPG, MPEG, MPEG2 |
| Codec-specific | HEVC, AV1, DivX, Xvid |
Not visibly. XConvert re-encodes the kept segment at the visually-lossless default preset (CRF 18 for H.264 / CRF 17 for HEVC), so the clip is not bit-identical to the source but is visually indistinguishable from it. The upside of re-encoding is precision: the cut is frame-accurate — the clip starts exactly at the time you specify instead of snapping to the nearest keyframe.
There's no fixed cap. Cutting runs on our servers, so the practical limit is upload size and connection speed and your patience for the upload. Multi-GB camera files and hours-long screen recordings work fine. Processing time scales with the length of the segment you keep, not the full source duration.
Yes. Add multiple trim segments using the trim section — each pair of start time + duration produces a separate output clip. Useful for extracting a highlight reel from a long recording, splitting a lecture into chapters, or pulling all the relevant scenes out of a long stream.
Yes — choose "no audio" in the audio settings to remove the soundtrack from the output. Useful when you need a silent clip for over-dubbing or background loops.
Same thing in practice. Some apps reserve "trimming" for removing material from the start and end while keeping the middle, and "cutting" for extracting a middle portion or splitting at a point. XConvert's video cutter handles all three patterns — set the start time to your desired in-point and the duration to how much you want to keep. See also Video Trimmer for the same workflow framed slightly differently.
Yes — drop in multiple files and the same start time + duration applies to each. Useful for extracting the same segment from several camera angles of one event, or trimming the same intro length off a batch of recordings. Per-file overrides are also supported.
Yes. By default the cut keeps the same container format and the video is re-encoded with that format's standard codec — if the original was an H.264 MP4 that played on your phone, the cut clip comes out as an H.264 MP4 and plays in the same apps. You can also pick a different codec or container, which plays just as broadly when you target H.264/MP4.
Cutting is a separate operation. To rotate, see Rotate Video. To crop, see Crop Video. To do all three in sequence, run the cut first (smaller file = faster subsequent steps), then the next operation.