Crop a video
Trim the edges off the picture, with the kept region drawn over a real frame.
Drop a clip to start
Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Screen recordings come with a browser chrome nobody wants in them. Phone footage shot in landscape needs to become a square for one platform and a tall rectangle for another. A camera left running catches a corner of the room that should not be in the shot. All three are crops, and all three are guesswork without something to look at.
So the poster frame is shown with the kept region outlined and the rest dimmed. The edges are percentages rather than pixels, which is what makes one setting work across a batch of clips shot at different resolutions — and the pixel dimensions of the result are printed underneath, because that is the number the destination usually cares about.
Unlike a PDF crop, this one is real: the pixels outside the box are not in the output file at all. That also means the picture has to be re-encoded, so a crop costs a pass where a trim does not.
Step by step
- 1Drop in the video.
- 2Pull each edge in until the outline sits where you want it.
- 3Press Crop, check it, then download.
Questions
Is the cropped-off part really gone?
Yes. Unlike a PDF crop, which hides content, this writes a smaller picture — what you cut is not in the file.
Can I crop to a square for social media?
Yes. Pull the left and right edges in until the size readout is square. The exact pixel dimensions are shown as you drag.
Does cropping reduce the quality?
The picture is re-encoded, so there is one lossy pass — the same as compressing. The part you keep is not scaled, though, so it stays as sharp as it was.