Crop any video online free — custom visual crop rectangle without watermarks
Follow these 3 quick steps to process your media privately in your browser.
Select any MP4, MOV, MKV, or WebM video of any size (up to 5GB+) from your device.
Drag the handles to select the exact visual area, choose an aspect ratio preset, or cut out unwanted logos/watermarks.
Click 'Crop & Export MP4' and download your clean, cropped high-definition video in seconds.
Zero server uploads, infinite privacy, and native WebAssembly hardware acceleration.
Resize and position the crop box directly over your video with 8-point handles, rule-of-thirds grid, and live dimension readouts.
Instant presets for 9:16 (TikTok/Shorts/Reels), 1:1 (Instagram), 16:9 (YouTube), 4:5 (IG Feed), and Watermark Remover.
Toggle real-time cropped preview to watch your video playing inside the exact crop coordinates before exporting.
No subscription fees, no file size caps, and zero watermarks. Transcodes directly in your browser memory via WebAssembly.
One-click optimized presets for specific social media and communication platforms.
Reduce large smartphone videos under WhatsApp's 16MB limit without blurry compression
Reduce gaming clips and memes for Discord with instant inline web embed playback
Shrink gigabyte videos down to email-friendly attachments in seconds without third-party links
Reduce massive 4K file sizes by up to 75% while keeping crystal-clear 1080p sharpness
Optimize vertical 9:16 videos for Instagram Reels and Stories to stop Instagram's blurry upload compression
Optimize vertical TikTok clips for maximum algorithm clarity and fast viral playback
Fine-tune vertical videos for YouTube Shorts with optimal bitrate and fast VP9/AV1 YouTube transcoding
Shrink screen recordings and bug demos for Slack workspace channels with instant inline player playback
Compress and format videos for Twitter / X feeds to maximize engagement with instant muted autoplay
Reduce video size inside Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to stop slide freezing and prevent file bloat
Shrink multi-hour Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet video recordings by up to 90% for easy sharing and archiving
Shrink any video down to exactly under 10MB for strict job portals, government forms, and email systems
Reduce video files under 25MB for universal compatibility across Gmail, Discord, Outlook, and web forms
Reduce large videos under 50MB for social media uploads, LMS submissions, and web portals
Compress student video assignments, university presentations, and course modules under 100MB
Reduce heavy iPhone 4K ProRes and HEVC MOV video sizes by up to 85% for effortless sharing with Android and PC
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Everything you need to know about Interactive Video Cropper & Area Cutter and local WebAssembly processing.
Upload your video to VideoReduce's Interactive Video Cropper, drag the visual box over the area you want to keep, and click 'Crop & Export MP4'. The WebAssembly engine renders the cropped video entirely inside your browser memory with zero watermarks and no server uploads.
Select the 'Cut Watermark' preset or manually drag the bottom-right or top-left edge handle inward to exclude the watermark logo from the crop box. Your exported video will only contain the clean footage without the watermark.
Yes! Click the '9:16' preset button. The crop box automatically locks to vertical mobile dimensions (9:16). You can drag the box horizontally to frame your subject perfectly in the center.
VideoReduce preserves maximum perceptual quality by using high-efficiency H.264 CRF encoding with ultra-fast SIMD processing. Audio is preserved with stream copy for zero loss in sound fidelity.
Yes! VideoReduce runs directly in any modern mobile or desktop web browser (Safari, Chrome, Edge, Firefox). You can drag handles with your touchscreen fingers on phone or with mouse on computer without installing software.
Trimming cuts the duration or length of a video (start and end timestamps), while cropping cuts the physical screen area (width and height dimensions) to focus on a subject or remove unwanted edges.
Never. Unlike CloudConvert, Kapwing, or Clideo that upload your videos to remote cloud servers, VideoReduce processes 100% of video decoding, cropping, and encoding inside your client browser RAM.