Video Cropper
Crop a video to a smaller rectangle, centred, by percentage of the original frame.
Fill in the form and press “Crop video” to see the result here.
How to use it
- 1Choose your file, or drag it onto the upload area.
- 2Set the options. Every setting is a fixed choice, which is what keeps the conversion safe to run.
- 3Press the button. The job is queued and the page shows it move through waiting, processing and ready.
- 4Download the result. Both your upload and the result are deleted once you have it.
About the Video Cropper
The crop is centred, which covers the common cases: removing black bars and tightening a shot.
Cropping reduces the pixel count, so a heavily cropped clip will look softer when it is played back at the original size.
Questions people ask
What actually does the work?
FFmpeg, the same open-source toolchain most video software is built on. It runs as a separate process with a fixed argument list, a time limit and no network access. Nothing from your filename or your settings is ever passed to a shell.
Why does this one take longer than the other tools?
Media work is genuinely expensive: a re-encode reads and writes every frame. The job is queued so that a busy moment slows things down rather than taking the site out, and the page shows where your job is in that queue.
What happens to the file I upload?
It is stored under a random name that is not guessable, processed by an isolated worker, and deleted as soon as you download the result - and in any case automatically after 60 minutes. Uploads are never indexed, shared or used for anything besides producing your result.
Is it free, and do I need an account?
Yes, it is free, and there is no account, no sign-up and no watermark on the result. The project is funded by optional donations.