Video Tools

Before you open an editor

Right before posting, a video usually needs one thing: trimming the ends, removing the sound, turning it vertical, or pulling one frame for a thumbnail. Installing and learning an editing program for that is a chore, and online editors often ask you to sign up or put a watermark on the result. The tools here do one job per page: choose a file, press one button, done.

Your file stays on your device

Typical online editors upload your video to a server, process it there and make you download it again. Video files are large, so the transfer alone takes minutes, and unpublished footage or family and work videos end up on someone else's server. Every tool on this site runs inside your browser. Trim, remove audio and extract audio download a small editing engine once (an open-source video library, FFmpeg, built for the browser) and run on your device; the frame, GIF, resize and speed tools use only what the browser already has. A slow connection does not slow the work down, and because nothing is uploaded there is no reason to limit how often or how much you use it.

How the tools differ

• Trim, remove audio and extract audio do not compress the video again. Quality matches the original and it takes seconds.
• Resize and change speed must redraw every frame, so they play the video and record it again. That takes as long as the video, and the tab has to stay open.
• GIF maker and save a frame turn the scene you choose in the preview straight into a picture.
• The YouTube money calculator needs no file, only numbers, and shows its formula and assumptions.

What these tools do not do

Joining several clips, adding captions, music or effects, and color correction are jobs for an editing program. This site covers the small fixes before and after. Trim the part you need, make it vertical and pull a thumbnail frame, and a Short or Reel is ready to post.