2Enter the start and end time of the part you want to keep.
3Preview the selection and run the cut — the part you keep is copied through untouched wherever the format allows it.
4Download the trimmed MP4 file.
MP4 Cutter FAQ
Anything specific to MP4 when trimming?
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Yes — MP4 keeps its index in a moov atom, so a stream-copy edit is near-instant and the result still seeks properly in a browser. It explains most of the "the cut is a fraction of a second off" surprises.
Is the part I keep re-encoded?
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Not if the format allows a stream copy — the data you keep is bit-identical to the source and the job finishes in about the time the upload took. Only a frame-exact cut on a format that cannot do it cheaply needs a re-encode.
How does MP4 Cutter cut the file?
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Concretely, the cut is made at the nearest keyframe and the streams are copied through, which makes it near-instant; frame-exact cuts need the picture re-encoded, so the tool tells you which one you are getting rather than quietly picking. You set the start and end points on the waveform or the timeline and keep what is between them.
Does MP4 Cutter cost anything?
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No. MP4 Cutter is free without an account, and the output has no watermark, corner logo or intro card. The upload and the result are deleted automatically about 24 hours after the job, which leaves time to download the result.
What can I upload to MP4 Cutter?
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MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, WMV, FLV, 3GP, M4V, MPEG and MPG. The container and codec are probed before anything runs, so a mixed batch is handled correctly per file rather than assumed to be uniform.
Is there a file size limit on MP4 Cutter?
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Yes: free accounts process video up to 40 MB per file, by far the most generous cap on the site; ffmpeg with x264, x265 and libvpx does the work, which is the same toolchain behind most desktop video software. Video is the one family where the cap is high enough that upload time, not the limit, is what you will actually notice.
Why does a MP3 site host MP4 Cutter?
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MP3.to is built around the format that made portable audio ordinary: universally playable, small enough to ignore, and lossy in a way that only matters if you keep re-encoding it. Audio jobs cluster: the same person who needs a format changed usually needs the file cut, levelled or made smaller in the same sitting. Putting MP4 Cutter behind the same upload, the same caps and the same account is what turns three tabs into one.
What should I do with the result once MP4 Cutter is finished?
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The converter on this site moves audio between MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, OGG and Opus, so the output format is a decision you can leave until the end rather than commit to at the start. Doing that after MP4 Cutter rather than before means the encode happens once, on the file you actually settled on, instead of twice.
Is MP4 Cutter here the same tool the sibling sites run?
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The engines are shared — the same ffmpeg build, the same workers, the same limits. What a MP3 site adds is a point of view about bitrates, about what survives an encode and about when a lossless intermediate is worth the upload time. It also starts from one fact about the format this site is named after: MP3 frames are fixed-size blocks, so a cut lands on a frame boundary and gapless playback markers do not survive a re-encode.
Do I need an account, and does anything get kept?
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No account is needed. Uploads and results are kept for about 24 hours, which leaves time to download the result, and are then deleted automatically; nobody reads, lists or indexes them. Several files in one job need a paid plan.
