Video Splitter

How to use 4 steps
  1. Choose your video under Video file.
  2. Set the Clip length and, if needed, From and To.
  3. Pick the Shape, Audio and an optional Logo or watermark.
  4. Press Make Clips, then download the clips as a ZIP.

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MP4, WebM and MOV. Nothing is uploaded — the file is decoded and re-encoded by your own device.

Clips
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How this tool works

One long recording goes in and a folder of short clips comes out, ready to post. Choose a length, a shape and optionally a logo, and every clip is reshaped and watermarked as it is encoded. The set arrives as a single ZIP. Nothing is uploaded — the work happens on your own device.

Clips are encoded one after another, and each finished clip is held in memory until the ZIP is written. That, rather than the length of the source, is what limits a run: a twenty-minute video at sixty seconds a clip is comfortable, while the same video cut into fifteen-second pieces is not. The number of clips and the estimated size are shown before anything starts, and a run that would be too much is refused with the settings that would fix it.

Getting clips worth posting

  • Blurred fill keeps the whole picture: turning a widescreen recording into a vertical clip throws away most of the width if you fill and crop. Blurred fill scales the frame to fit and puts a blurred copy of it behind, so nothing is lost and no black bars appear.
  • The logo is drawn onto every frame: it is part of the picture rather than an overlay, so it survives being reposted. Its size is a share of the frame width, which means the same setting looks right whether the clip is 720 or 1080 wide.
  • A short remainder is dropped: splitting rarely divides evenly, and a two-second tail at the end is a mistake rather than a clip. Anything under two seconds is discarded rather than handed to you.
  • Stopping keeps what is finished: the clips already encoded are packed into a ZIP as normal, so a setting you got wrong costs the waiting rather than the work.

Full guide

3 min read

What actually limits how many clips Video Splitter can make

It is the total output held in memory before the ZIP is written, not the length of the source video. Fill-and-crop versus blurred fill for turning widescreen into vertical, why a two-second remainder gets dropped, and how to pick a clip length.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Specific to the Video Splitter. Broader questions about this category are answered on the category page.

Around sixty, and less if they are long or large. Every clip is held in memory until the ZIP is written, so the limit is the total output rather than the length of the source. The estimate says before you start whether a run will fit.
Sixty seconds suits Shorts, Reels and TikTok. Thirty is better where attention is short. Fifteen produces a great many clips from a long video, which is usually more than anyone will post.
Fill and crop was chosen, and going from widescreen to vertical discards most of the width from both sides. Blurred fill crops nothing at all and is the better default for a recording you did not frame vertically.
Not individually — this cuts at a fixed length from a start point you choose. For specific sections picked by hand, the trimmer keeps one range and the merger joins several.
MP4 needs the AAC codec, which Firefox cannot encode on any platform and no browser can encode on desktop Linux. The page says so before you start. Chrome, Edge or Safari keeps the sound.

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