Crop Video

The simple tool to crop video online

Crop a video easily with Kapwing

Some videos are the wrong shape, the wrong size, or aren't focused on the right section - what they need is a crop! Upload any video file from your computer, tablet, or phone to Kapwing's Crop tool, or paste a link to a video on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and almost any location on the web.

After you're done cropping the perfect subsection of your video, you'll be able to do much more with Kapwing. Resize, trim, compress, and much more to get your video to the perfect size and dimensions that you need. Kapwing supports all of the above in a single, easy to use editor.

How to Crop a Video Online

Upload your video
Upload a video, image, or GIF directly to Kapwing. You can also paste a link to a video from Youtube, TikTok, or other video source. This is the original video that will be cropped by this process.
Crop your video
Click on your video layer and select “Crop” in the “Edit” sidebar. You can crop your video by clicking and dragging the dotted outline or use the presets for formats like profile pictures, TikToks, Instagram stories, and many more.
Download and share
Just hit Export, and your final output video will be produced in just a few minutes. Take your newly cropped video and enjoy more engagement on social media.

Crop a Video Smaller for Free Online

Cropping a video is an important task for many creators. Some may want to draw emphasis to a more important section of the video. Others might want to crop in order to hide sensitive information. And many just want to crop a video to remove a watermark in the corner or an ugly border that may have showed up at some point in their editing process.

Whatever the task at hand, Kapwing has the tools to support your workflow easily, completely online, and for free! This online video cropper will allow you to crop, resize, cut sections out, and so much more all in one place.

Choose from the preset dimensions for social media, or keep your crop unconstrained and drag the crop buttons to cut out the exact portion of the video you want to use. When you're done cropping your video, you can use the Kapwing Studio to add text, music, animations, and any other edits your resized video needs.

If you want to resize your video to exact dimensions, you can use the Studio to input exact pixels for your video's aspect ratio, so it can fit perfectly wherever you want to use it. Place your resized videos in any location from IGTV to TikTok without cutting off important parts, leaving bars on the sides, or having distracting watermarks interfere.

Discover even more features on Kapwing

Add Subtitles

Generate and customizable captions that automatically sync to your video. Use our AI-powered tool to create a transcript of your video, and then customize your auto-synced subtitles to make them perfect for your content creation needs. Resize, swap out fonts, or add in professional animations and transitions - all your edits will instantly be applied to the entire video.

Subtitle Video

Smart Cut

Smart Cut automates your video editing process by detecting and removing silences from your video in a matter of seconds. You'll be saving hours of editing time and completing your rough cut faster than ever for talking head videos, recorded presentations, tutorials, vlogs, and more. Editing has never been so seamless.

Remove Silences

Resizer

Repurpose videos faster and make them look more professional with our Resize Canvas feature! In just a few clicks, you can take a single video and adjust it to be the right size for every other platform, whether it's for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, or somewhere else.

Resize Video

Background Remover

With Kapwing's smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Upload your content, select the Remove Background tool, and use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you.

Remove Background

Clean Audio

Enhance your project’s audio in seconds with Kapwing. In one click, Clean Audio automatically removes background noise, corrects loudness, and helps reduce popping sounds in your audio and videos. To use it, simply upload a video or audio file, then select Clean Audio on the right side.

Remove Audio Background

Collaborative editing

Work with your team directly in Kapwing. Create and edit content, then send it to share and collaborate with your teammates. Make team workspaces, comment in the editor, and work on videos together in real time or asynchronously.

Start Editing

Trimmer

Edit the length of your video clip by dragging the timeline handles or by using the Split tool. It’s never been easier to cut out silences, rearrange clips, or adjust the length of your audio to fit your video.

Trim Video

Waveforms

Kapwing's customizable waveforms let you bring your audio or podcast content to life. Our Waveform tool creates an automatically-generated, animated graph showing the frequency and amplitude of your audio over time. Choose between a classic waveform style and a stacked “bars” style to bring your own touch to your project.

Add a Waveform

Unlimited Overlays

Make your content pop with image overlays, emojis, progress bars, and audio waveforms. Then simply resize and position them to customize your project. With unlimited overlays, the possibilities are endless.

Add an Overlay

Stock Assets

Browse hundreds of royalty-free images, GIFs, videos, sound effects, and music clips directly in our editor. Curate assets that will bring your project to life, then edit them the way you want to all in one place.

Try Plugins

Templates

Get inspired by hundreds of trendy video templates made to unleash your creativity. Select the template that best suits your project, and then make it your own with custom videos, images, or text. Making professionally designed videos or memes has never been faster.

See All Templates

Frequently Asked Questions

Can we crop a video online?

Yes! You can crop a video online by using an online video cropper or an online video editor. I recommend using Kapwing, since they are an online video editor with so many tools such as a video cropper. You can use Kapwing directly from your web browser on any device: computer, tablet, phone, etc. They also have a plugin for Google Photos for easy access to your photo and video library.

How do I crop a video part?

To crop a video part, you need a video editing software, like Kapwing, that allows you to crop only a part of your video. Depending on the video editor you’re using, you can adjust the outline of the crop selection box to crop the part of a video you want. In Kapwing, you have full freedom in adjusting how you want your video cropped or using one of their presets for TikTok videos, Instagram videos, Linkedin landscape images, and many more.

What is the best free video cutter?

The internet’s best free video cutter is Kapwing, an all-in-one video editor that streamlines your entire creative workflow. Kapwing offers over 100 tools, including a free video cutter that lets you crop, cut, split, or trim your video. They also have AI-powered features like the automatic video editor, text-to-speech, pinning, and many more.

What's different about Kapwing?

Easy

Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.

Free

Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.

Accessible

Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.

Online

Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.

No spam or ads

We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.

Powerful

Kapwing works hard to help make the content you want, when you want it. Get started on your project today.

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