Video Splitter
Cut one video into several files: equal parts, or a new file every minute.
- Free
- No sign-up
- No watermark
- Runs in your browser
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How many parts will you get?
Both ways of dividing a video answer with arithmetic. Ask for a number of parts and each one runs the whole length divided by that number. Ask for a part length and you get one file per full stretch of it, plus a shorter last one for the remainder. Here is how that works out for the splits people ask for most.
| Video length | Divided | Files you get | How long each runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00 | Every 1:00 | 5 | 1:00 each, nothing left over |
| 7:30 | Every 1:00 | 8 | Seven of 1:00, then one of 0:30 |
| 3:20 | Every 0:15 | 14 | Thirteen of 0:15, then one of 0:05 |
| 45:00 | Every 10:00 | 5 | Four of 10:00, then one of 5:00 |
| 12:00 | 4 equal parts | 4 | 3:00 each |
| 1:04:00 | 8 equal parts | 8 | 8:00 each |
The arithmetic, if you want to run it on your own file: by length, the number of files is the video's length divided by the part length and rounded up, and the last file holds whatever is left; by count, every file runs the length divided by the count. Two rules of this tool round the edges. A leftover shorter than half a second is not written as a file of its own, it stays on the part before it, because six frames in a container is not a video. And one pass writes at most sixty files, which is an hour cut into minutes; the equal-parts slider stops at twenty, because past that nobody is choosing a number, they are choosing a length. Those numbers hold exactly in Exact mode. In Fast mode the cuts can only fall on key frames, so the tool measures your file and prints the parts it will really write before you press anything.
How it works
Open the video. Drop it on the box above or choose it from your device. Its length, size and codecs are read on the spot, on your machine: no upload, no queue, no account, and nothing about the file is sent anywhere.
Say how to divide it. Pick a part length — 0:15, 0:30 and 1:00 are one click, or type any other — or switch to equal parts and drag the slider. The list underneath fills with every file the split will produce, each with its start, its end and its own length, so you read the whole thing before it runs.
Split, check, download. Press Split and watch it work through the parts one at a time; Cancel stops it. Each finished part gets a Play button, so you can hear where a cut fell before you keep it, and its own Download button.
What you get
- You see the cuts before they happen
- A lossless cut cannot fall just anywhere: it has to begin on a key frame, one of the complete pictures a compressed video stores every so often. Rather than hide that, this tool looks the key frames up in your file and rewrites the plan with them, so the list you approve is the list of files you get. When a part ends up longer than the length you asked for, it says so in that many seconds.
- Nothing is re-encoded unless you ask
- Fast copies the original packets into the new files without decoding a single frame: the picture, the sound and the bitrate of every part are the ones you brought, not a second generation of them. Exact is there for when the cut has to land on an exact frame, and it re-encodes only what it must.
- Whole files, not samples
- The parts come out at the resolution, frame rate and quality of the source, with no stamp in the corner and no cap on how long the video may be or how many minutes you may export in a day. There is nothing to sign up for, because there is no account behind any of it.
- Numbered, so they stay in order
- Each part takes your file's own name with its number added: part-01, part-02, on to part-12. The number is padded to two digits on purpose, so a file manager, a phone gallery and an upload queue all sort part 2 before part 10 instead of after it.
Questions people ask
How do I split a video into multiple files?
Open the video here, choose either a part length or a number of equal parts, and press Split. The parts are written one after another inside this page and appear as separate downloads, numbered in the order they play. Nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded: the work happens in the browser tab you are reading this in.
How do I split a video for a WhatsApp Status or an Instagram Story?
Divide it by length and set the part length to what the app plays in one go, which is usually a minute. Two things to watch. The cap belongs to the app and the apps move it, so check yours before you cut a long recording into fifty pieces. And a Fast split can run a part slightly past the length you set, because the cut begins on the key frame before it, so if the pieces have to be under the cap to the second, use Exact or set the length a couple of seconds short.
Can I split a video without losing quality?
Yes, that is what Fast does. It writes the original compressed data into new containers without decoding it, so each part is made of the same bytes the source held: no generation loss, no encoder settings to get wrong, and no change in file size beyond the few kilobytes a container costs. The trade is that the cuts land on key frames rather than exactly where you pointed.
Why does a part start earlier than where I set the cut?
Because a video stores a full picture only at its key frames and describes the frames in between as changes from the one before, so a part that began between them would have nothing to build its first frames from. A copy therefore starts at the key frame at or before your cut. How far back that is depends entirely on the file: a ten-second clip from a phone, measured with this same engine, held only two key frames, at 0.00 s and 5.30 s, while a screen recording often has one a second. Exact re-encodes and cuts wherever you like.
Can I download all the parts at once, or as a zip?
One at a time, from the button next to each part. A zip would mean loading a compression library into every visitor's browser to bundle files that are already compressed, which would slow the page down for everyone to turn one download per part into a single download for some. Your browser may ask once whether this site can download several files; allowing it makes the rest go through without a prompt.
How long a video can this split?
There is no limit written into the tool: the ceiling is your device's memory, since each finished part is held in the page until you download it. That is also why one pass writes at most sixty files. A long recording on a phone is the case to be careful with; on a desktop, splitting an hour into minutes is ordinary work.
Is my video uploaded anywhere to be split?
No. This page reads the file from your disk, writes the parts in the tab's own memory and hands them to you as downloads from the same tab. The only thing it may fetch while you work is its own code. That is also why it is free and why there is no watermark: there is no server doing the cutting, so there is nothing to pay for and nothing to recover from you.
Cuts that follow the content, not the clock
This splitter divides where you tell it to: every minute, or into four. GPT-Video reads what is actually said in a long video, finds the moments that stand on their own, and turns those into vertical clips with captions burned in and the speaker kept in frame.
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Your file is processed on your device and never uploaded.