Split video into parts

How it works

1. 1

   Add your video

   Drop in the long recording you need cut up.

2. 2

   Set the cuts

   Pause the preview where you want a cut and add it, or split into 2–5 equal parts with one tap.

3. 3

   Download the parts

   Each segment is its own file, grab them one by one or all at once.

Where the cuts should land when you split a long video

Most splits are forced by someone else's limit. Story formats cap a clip at a fixed number of seconds, messaging apps cap the file size, and a long recording has to become a sequence of parts before any of them will take it. That means the job is usually not one cut in an interesting place, it is many cuts at regular intervals, and doing that by hand is tedious and easy to get wrong.

Splitting into fixed-length parts solves the arithmetic for you: give the tool a chunk length and it works out how many parts a recording becomes and where each boundary falls. The last part is whatever is left over, which is worth glancing at, because a two second final fragment is usually better folded into the part before it than posted on its own.

The boundaries still deserve a moment of attention. An automatic cut does not know that it landed in the middle of a word, and a viewer moving between parts feels that far more than they feel a chunk being a second shorter than its neighbors. Nudging a boundary into a pause costs nothing and is the difference between a sequence that reads as deliberate and one that reads as chopped.

Split video into parts on your device, with no upload

Every part is produced on your own machine and downloaded from it. There is no upload, no ceiling on the length or size of the source, and no watermark on any of the pieces, which matters when a single recording turns into eight files and a free tier would have wanted payment for each one.

The parts are encoded in one pass rather than by running the same source through a trimmer over and over, so a long recording splits in the time it takes to read it once.

If you are splitting to satisfy a specific platform, the dedicated splitters already know the limits: there are versions tuned for Instagram Stories, WhatsApp Status, Snapchat, and Facebook Story that pick the chunk length for you. To cut a single passage out rather than divide the whole thing, use the trimmer.

Why nothing uploads

Other tools send your video to their servers, which costs them money per file, so they add watermarks, cap file sizes, and make you sign up. This tool does the work right here in your browser using your own device. Your file is never uploaded, so there is no wait, no watermark, no size limit, and no account.

Questions

How do I split a long video for WhatsApp or Instagram stories?

Use the equal-parts buttons (say, 4 parts) or place cuts by hand, then download all. Each part is a normal standalone video.

Does splitting lose quality?

Not in fast-copy mode: the parts are bit-for-bit slices of the original, done in seconds. Precise mode re-encodes for frame-exact boundaries.

Why did my cut move slightly?

Fast copy snaps each boundary to the nearest keyframe. If you need the exact frame, switch to Precise.

How do I get all the parts?

Every part has its own download button, and "Download all" saves each in turn, no ZIP to unpack.

Does my video get uploaded?

No. Splitting happens in your browser; your file never leaves your device.

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