Cut and trim MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WebM and any video format. The kept clips are re-encoded near the source quality; join several clips in one pass. Free, no watermarks.
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Segments re-encode at high quality; joining multiple clips is lossless
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:
Cutting isn't a byte-for-byte copy — each segment you keep is decoded and re-encoded, and if you kept more than one, they're joined back together afterward.
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| Each kept segment | Decoded and re-encoded at a high, size-preserving quality target — there's no CRF or quality slider to set |
| Multiple kept segments | Re-encoded individually, then joined with a lossless stream copy — the join itself adds no further quality loss |
| Cut accuracy | Frame-accurate — because the segment is re-encoded, it starts exactly at the time you set, with no snapping to the nearest keyframe |
| Output container | Same as the source by default; change it in Output Setting (MP4, MKV, MOV, WebM, MTS, or AVI) |
| Codec / resolution | Fixed automatically — there's no codec or resolution picker on this page |
There's no quality slider, CRF field, or resolution dropdown here — the cutter always targets high quality automatically. If you need finer control over bitrate, codec, or resolution, run the cut clip through Video Converter or Video Compressor afterward.
| 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 |
Barely, and it's unavoidable. XConvert decodes and re-encodes every kept segment at a high, size-preserving quality target — there's no CRF or quality slider to set, the cutter always aims for a result that looks the same as the source. If you keep more than one segment, they're then joined with a lossless stream copy, so the join itself adds no further loss. The upside of re-encoding the segments is precision: the cut is frame-accurate — the clip starts exactly at the time you specify instead of snapping to the nearest keyframe.
Free uploads are limited to 400 MB per file and 5 jobs at a time; Basic raises the video cap to 1 GB and Pro to 4 GB. Multi-GB camera files and hours-long screen recordings therefore need a paid plan or a split first. Processing time scales with the length of the segment you keep, not the full source duration.
Yes. Click the ✂️ scissors icon to split the timeline at the playhead, then mark each resulting piece Keep or Remove. Every segment marked Keep is joined into a single output video, in timeline order — this isn't a way to export several separate clips in one pass. Useful for stitching a highlight reel out of a long recording or dropping a mid-roll ad break out of the middle of a clip. To export several separate clips, cut once per clip and download each result.
No, not on this page — there's no audio toggle in the cutter, so the soundtrack is always kept and re-encoded along with the video. To produce a silent clip, cut the video first, then mute or strip the audio track in a separate step.
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 — split the timeline and mark the parts you want to keep. See also Video Trimmer for the same workflow framed slightly differently.
No — the cutter takes one video at a time; dropping several files only stages the first one. Each video usually needs its own cut points anyway, since a "same time range" rarely lines up across different source clips. To process several videos, repeat the upload-cut-download steps for each one.
Yes. By default (Same As Input) the cut keeps the source's container and re-encodes 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 container from Output Setting (MP4, MKV, MOV, WebM, MTS, AVI), which plays just as broadly when you target MP4. There's no separate codec picker — the codec follows whichever container you choose.
Cutting is the only operation here — rotating and cropping video aren't offered. If you need them too, run the cut first (smaller file = faster subsequent steps), then rotate or crop the clip in a video editor.