Trim video online & record voice — free browser studio

Trim and cut a video online with no watermark

Cutting the dead air off the start and end of a clip is the most common video job there is, and it should not cost you a watermark or an account. In the Video Editor, it takes four steps: open the tool, drop your video onto the page (or tap to pick one), drag the start and end handles until the preview shows exactly the clip you want, then press export and save the file.

Trim mode copies the video and audio streams straight through without re-encoding, so the export is fast and the result keeps the original quality and format — an MP4 stays an MP4, a WebM stays a WebM. What you get back is your clip, nothing more: no watermark stamped on the corner, no resolution downgrade, no "upgrade to remove limits" screen.

Compress a video for WhatsApp or email

Phone cameras record beautiful, enormous files — a minute of 4K can easily blow past an email attachment limit or make WhatsApp choke. Switch the Video Editor to Compress mode and it re-encodes your video to 720p H.264 with AAC audio, a combination that plays everywhere and typically shrinks a raw phone clip to a fraction of its size.

The steps are the same as trimming: drop the file, optionally drag the handles to keep only the part worth sending, choose Compress and export. That trim-then-compress combo is the real size killer — sending thirty seconds instead of three minutes saves far more than any codec setting. The result is a smaller MP4 that looks good on a phone screen and goes through chat apps and inboxes without complaints.

Convert a video to GIF

A GIF autoplays and loops in places a video will not — chats, docs, pull requests, forum posts. The To GIF mode in the Video Editor turns your selected range into an animated GIF at 12 frames per second and 480 pixels wide, looping forever. That recipe keeps the file small enough to actually paste places while staying smooth for reactions, screen snippets and short demos.

Keep the range tight: GIF is an old, chunky format, and every extra second grows the file quickly. Two to five seconds is the sweet spot. If your source is a set of photos rather than a video, the GIF Maker builds an animated GIF from images instead — the GIF maker guide covers that workflow, frame delays and loops in detail.

Extract the audio from any video

Sometimes the video is just packaging — the lecture, the interview answer, the song idea you hummed into your camera. The Extract audio mode in the Video Editor drops the video track and saves the sound as an MP3, the format that plays on effectively everything.

It respects your trim handles too, so you can pull exactly the two minutes you need from an hour-long recording instead of carrying the whole file. Drop the video, drag the handles around the part you want, choose Extract audio and export — the result is a clean MP3 of just that section. It is the quickest way to turn a recorded meeting into an audio note, lift a quote for a podcast edit, or keep the audio of a talk without the gigabytes of slides footage.

Record voice memos from the mic and download them

For sound that does not exist yet, the Voice Recorder records straight from your microphone — no download, no account. Press record and allow microphone access when the browser asks (the permission goes to your browser, not to a server); a live level meter and timer confirm it is picking you up. Press stop, play the take back, and download it with one tap — the file is named with the date and time, ready to file or share.

Voice is the most privacy-sensitive media there is, and this recorder never sends it anywhere: the recording is captured and saved entirely on your device. Recorded a narration? The Clip Maker can lay it over your photos and render a shareable video — also without uploading anything.

Nothing uploads — big files stay fast and private

Every tool on this page runs on the same principle: the work happens in your browser, not on a server. The video tools use ffmpeg compiled to WebAssembly — the first export downloads the engine once, and from then on trimming, compressing and converting are local operations. Your video is never uploaded, which matters twice over.

First, speed: cloud editors make you upload a multi-hundred-megabyte file before work even starts, then download the result. Skipping both transfers is often faster than the processing itself. Second, privacy: family clips, work recordings and voice memos never sit on someone else's server under a retention policy you never read. And because no server is doing the work, there is nothing to meter — no sign-up, no watermark, no daily export cap.

• No upload — video and audio are processed on your device and never leave it.
• No watermark, no sign-up, no daily export limits.
• Works in any modern browser — desktop, tablet or phone.

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