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Trim and compress a video you already have

Cut a clip to an exact in and out point, or shrink a large file. Both are free and run on our own servers, so neither costs credits.

Updated 2026-09-12 Video Studio videoeditingtrimcompressfreeffmpeg

Trim and compress a video you already have

Both tools live on the Video Editing page and work on any video you bring: one from your gallery, a file you upload, or a public URL.

Both are free. They run on our own servers rather than an outside AI provider, so they cost no credits no matter how many times you use them.

Trim

Cut a clip down to the part you actually want.

  1. Load your video.
  2. Choose Trim.
  3. Set a start point and an end point, in seconds.
  4. Press Process.

Setting the points by scrubbing

You usually find a cut by watching, not by doing arithmetic. Scrub the preview to the frame you want, then press Set from playhead next to Start or End. That copies the player's exact position into the field.

A live summary under the fields tells you what you are keeping, for example "Keeping 4.20s of 12.00s (removing 7.80s)", so you can sanity-check before you run it.

The cut lands exactly where you put it

Trim is frame-accurate. Some tools only cut on "keyframes", which can move your cut by several seconds and leave a frozen or black opening frame. This one re-encodes the section you asked for, so the clip starts and ends on the frames you chose.

That means a trim takes a few seconds rather than being instant. On the short clips this page is built for, that is the right trade.

Good to know

Compress

Make a large file smaller, which is what you want before emailing it, posting it somewhere with a size cap, or uploading it over a slow connection.

Pick a quality preset (Balanced is the usual choice), optionally drop the resolution, and choose MP4 or WebM. The result reports how much smaller it got.

A lower preset means a smaller file and slightly softer picture. If you are unsure, try Balanced first and only go lower if the file is still too big.

Which one do I want?