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Cutting (also called trimming) extracts a portion of a video without altering the rest. The most common reason: the source has more material than you need, and you only want to keep a specific segment. Common use cases:
Cutting isn't a byte-for-byte copy — each segment you keep is decoded and re-encoded, and if you kept more than one, they're joined back together afterward.
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| Each kept segment | Decoded and re-encoded at a high, size-preserving quality target — there's no CRF or quality slider to set |
| Multiple kept segments | Re-encoded individually, then joined with a lossless stream copy — the join itself adds no further quality loss |
| Cut accuracy | Frame-accurate — because the segment is re-encoded, it starts exactly at the time you set, with no snapping to the nearest keyframe |
| Output container | Same as the source by default; change it in Output Setting (MP4, MKV, MOV, WebM, MTS, or AVI) |
| Codec / resolution | Fixed automatically — there's no codec or resolution picker on this page |
There's no quality slider, CRF field, or resolution dropdown here — the cutter always targets high quality automatically. If you need finer control over bitrate, codec, or resolution, run the cut clip through Video Converter or Video Compressor afterward.
| Category | Formats |
|---|---|
| Modern web/mobile | MP4, MOV, WebM, M4V, MKV |
| Camera / camcorder | AVCHD, MTS, M2TS, MXF, DV, AVI |
| Screen / streaming | FLV, F4V, ASF, TS, M2V |
| Legacy | WMV, 3GP, 3G2, RM, RMVB, VOB, MPG, MPEG, MPEG2 |
| Codec-specific | HEVC, AV1, DivX, Xvid |
Barely, and it's unavoidable. XConvert decodes and re-encodes every kept segment at a high, size-preserving quality target — there's no CRF or quality slider to set, the cutter always aims for a result that looks the same as the source. If you keep more than one segment, they're then joined with a lossless stream copy, so the join itself adds no further loss. The upside of re-encoding the segments is precision: the cut is frame-accurate — the clip starts exactly at the time you specify instead of snapping to the nearest keyframe.
There's no fixed cap. Cutting runs on our servers, so the practical limit is upload size and connection speed and your patience for the upload. Multi-GB camera files and hours-long screen recordings work fine. Processing time scales with the length of the segment you keep, not the full source duration.
Yes. Click the ✂️ scissors icon to split the timeline at the playhead, then mark each resulting piece Keep or Remove. Every segment marked Keep is joined into a single output video, in timeline order — this isn't a way to export several separate clips in one pass. Useful for stitching a highlight reel out of a long recording or dropping a mid-roll ad break out of the middle of a clip. To export several separate clips, cut once per clip and download each result.
No, not on this page — there's no audio toggle in the cutter, so the soundtrack is always kept and re-encoded along with the video. To produce a silent clip, cut the video first, then mute or strip the audio track in a separate step.
Same thing in practice. Some apps reserve "trimming" for removing material from the start and end while keeping the middle, and "cutting" for extracting a middle portion or splitting at a point. XConvert's video cutter handles all three patterns — split the timeline and mark the parts you want to keep. See also Video Trimmer for the same workflow framed slightly differently.
No — the cutter takes one video at a time; dropping several files only stages the first one. Each video usually needs its own cut points anyway, since a "same time range" rarely lines up across different source clips. To process several videos, repeat the upload-cut-download steps for each one.
Yes. By default (Same As Input) the cut keeps the source's container and re-encodes with that format's standard codec — if the original was an H.264 MP4 that played on your phone, the cut clip comes out as an H.264 MP4 and plays in the same apps. You can also pick a different container from Output Setting (MP4, MKV, MOV, WebM, MTS, AVI), which plays just as broadly when you target MP4. There's no separate codec picker — the codec follows whichever container you choose.
Cutting is the only operation here — rotating and cropping video aren't offered. If you need them too, run the cut first (smaller file = faster subsequent steps), then rotate or crop the clip in a video editor.