Crop Video Online

Crop video online for free: cut away the edges with the Crop effect, reframe with Scale and Position, and export — in your browser with no upload.

Open the tool — free

Cut away unwanted edges — a black border, a distracting object, or the sides of a landscape shot. Reelsmith crops in your browser and exports a clean MP4 with no upload.

How to crop a video

1. Click Open the tool above and import your video.
2. Drag it onto the timeline.
3. Drag Crop from Effects ▸ Video Effects onto the clip.
4. In Effect Controls ▸ Crop, raise Left, Right, Top and Bottom until only the part you want remains.
5. Click Export.

Crop and fill the frame

The Crop effect hides the edges, which leaves empty space. To fill the frame again, raise Scale in Effect Controls ▸ Motion and drag the picture in the Program monitor to frame your subject.

Change the shape instead

To turn a landscape video into a vertical or square one, change the frame itself: choose Sequence ▸ Sequence Settings… and pick Vertical 9:16 or a square preset, then scale the clip to fill it. See how to resize a video.

Questions

Can I crop only part of the video?

Yes. Split the clip with ⌘K (Ctrl+K) and apply Crop to one piece. You can also keyframe the crop values in Effect Controls.

Will cropping lower the quality?

Scaling a cropped picture up makes it softer. Export at the sequence size with Match Source for the best result.

More: Crop, Transform, Drop Shadow and other video effects.