Trim Video

Trim and cut video to the perfect length with Kapwing

Trim a video in just a few clicks

Trimming videos is the most fundamental building block of video editing. Creators need to trim longer clips to highlight the most important parts of their stories. When multiple clips are trimmed to the right places, they can be appended together to create a touching and memorable video.

When it comes to footage, often times less is more. The online video trimmer from Kapwing is the fastest way to cut a video to your desired duration. You can trim by dragging or by splitting your clip in the perfect sections. Cut video into sections, split clips and rearrange, and get the perfect section of your video exported in just a few clicks.

How to Trim a Video Online

Upload your video
Upload a video directly to Kapwing using our easy UI. You can even paste a link to a video from Youtube, TikTok, or other video source.
Choose start and end times
Cut and trim your video to the desired length using sliders. Use arrow keys to make sure the trimming times are perfect!
Download and share
Just hit Export, and your final output video will be produced. It's completely free to use and requires no downloading!

Trim a Video Online For Free

With the flexible Kapwing timeline, you can trim and cut clips whichever way is most intuitive for you. You can shorten the ends of the clip, or play to a desired section and cut the clip at that exact point. The Kapwing video trimmer supports all of these workflows, and much more.

Start by uploading your video file or pasting a link to the YouTube video. Then, use the sliders or the timeline to change the start and end time, make cuts, or shorten your video. You can split a layer into parts and remove the middle section from the video, or duplicate parts of the video to create a loop.

Once you Export the trimmed video, Kapwing will process the trims and give you a saveable MP4 version of the video clip. Preview the final video by pressing play and make any other edits you like (add a watermark, text, or subtitles for example). Then, download the MP4 file directly or share the URL with friends to send the trimmed part to someone else. You can also “Edit” the trim if you need to make timing adjustments.

This free, online tool is also the best way to cut Youtube videos. Paste the YouTube URL to import the full video into Kapwing, then use the sliders to cut the video to the new timestamp. Kapwing supports MP4, MOV, MP3, FLV, AVI, WEBM, and website links. Upload any file to trim or crop it inline.

Kapwing's Video Trimmer works for free! Use it to trim on Windows, Mac, tablets, Chromebooks, iPhones, or Android phones. It's a free, simple alternative to ytCropper or a Photos app. Our goal is to give creators fast, accessible tools that make their lives easier. Hope that it helps you trim your videos with ease.

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

Which video cutter is the best?

Kapwing is voted the internet's #1 free video editor where you can edit, trim, and cut your videos easily on any web browser all in one place without having to pay or install any software. Kapwing’s intuitive interface makes it easy to create video trims with its precise timeline slider and keyboard shortcuts unlike other editing software.

What is the easiest way to trim a video?

The easiest way to trim a video is by using a video trimming tool. By using a video trimming tool, you’ll be able to shorten and cut out unnecessary parts of a video or reduce the video file size. There is a wide variety of tools you can use to trim a video, but usually you’d have to take extra steps to learn how to use the trimmer. Kapwing's video trimmer makes it easy to split, trim, and cut a video in seconds with its intuitive interface made by creators for creators.

How do I cut out a part of a video for free?

You can cut out a part of a video for free using Kapwing, an online video editor where you can use different video-editing tools like the video trimmer without having to pay. Kapwing is a trusted, browser-based solution to repurposing parts of a video out for free without having to install any software.

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

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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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