Crop video files

Upload a video file, drag the rectangle over the area you want to keep, and crop. Cropping re-encodes the video, so longer files take a while.

Reframing after the fact

Select the rectangle you want to keep and the tool re-encodes only that region into a new video. Everything outside the crop disappears, and the output resolution becomes the crop size.

What cropping fixes

Black bars baked into downloads, a neighbor wandering into frame, sensitive screen regions in recordings, letterboxed phone footage, and reframing wide shots for square or vertical destinations.

Frequently asked questions

Does cropping reduce quality?

The kept region is re-encoded at high quality; visually it holds up well. Pixels outside the crop are removed, not compressed away.

Crop or resize, which do I want?

Crop removes area; resize scales the whole frame. To kill black bars, crop. To shrink a file while keeping the full picture, resize.

Is the video uploaded?

No, cropping runs locally in your browser.