Split Video Online Free - Video Splitter

Split video into parts online free in your browser - no upload, no signup, no watermark. Drop a cut wherever you want it, split the video in half, or divide a long recording into equal parts or fixed-length segments that fit an upload limit. Fast mode uses stream copy, so a large file is split in seconds with no quality loss at all, and every part downloads separately. Your files never leave your device.

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Free Online Video Splitter - Split Video Into Parts in Your Browser

VidShift is a free online video splitter that runs entirely in your web browser. Drop in a long recording, choose how many parts you want or how long each part should be, and every piece is written out as its own file. There is nothing to install, nothing to upload, and no watermark on any of the parts - just a faster, more private way to split video online.

How to Cut a Video Into Parts

To cut a video into parts, load the file, choose how the cuts should fall, and click Split Video. There are only two decisions: whether you want a set number of pieces or pieces of a set length, and whether to copy the original streams (fast, lossless) or re-encode them. Everything else - numbering the files, keeping the audio in sync, making each part a complete playable video - happens on its own.

Splitting a Video Is Not the Same as Trimming One

Both let you say where the cut goes. The difference is what happens to the rest: a video trimmer keeps one section and throws everything else away, while a video splitter keeps the lot and hands you every piece as its own file. If you want a single clip out of a two-hour recording, the video cutter is the right tool. If you want that recording turned into the twelve files it is really made of, this is the page for it. Nothing is discarded here - the parts add up to the original.

Three Ways to Choose Where the Cuts Fall

Choose points is the default and the one most people want. Click the strip wherever you want a cut and a marker drops there, with the preview jumping to that moment so you can see the frame it lands on. Drag a marker to move a cut - the preview follows as you drag - press the × beneath it to remove one, or nudge it a second at a time with the arrow keys, five at a time with Shift held. If you would rather find the moment by playing the video, scrub with the player and press "Split at playhead" instead. A file opens with a single marker already at the midpoint, because splitting a video in half is the commonest ask of all, so the tool is ready to do it the moment your video loads.

Split by equal parts when you know how many pieces you want - two halves, three chapters, six sections to share across a week of posts. The tool divides the duration evenly and every part comes out the same length.

Split by part length when the constraint is on the pieces rather than their number - a platform that takes sixty-second clips, an upload limit measured in minutes, a messaging app that rejects anything longer. Set the length and the tool cuts every time it reaches it, with whatever is left over becoming a shorter final part. A leftover under a second is folded into the part before it, so you never get a fragment nobody asked for.

Whichever you pick, the strip above the settings shows the cuts against the real duration of your file before anything is written, so you can see that your markers, "6 parts" or "10 minutes each" give you what you expected.

Supported Video Formats

Most people arrive here to split MP4 files, and that is the case the tool is tuned for - but VidShift's video splitter accepts every major container in use today. Drop in any of the following and start cutting right away:

MP4 - the most common format for phones, cameras, and online video. Works with H.264, H.265 (HEVC), and AV1 codecs.
WebM - the open web standard used by YouTube and many browsers, with VP8 and VP9 video.
MKV - the Matroska container often used for high-quality recordings, screen captures, and downloads.
MOV - QuickTime files recorded by iPhones, Macs, and many professional cameras, including Apple ProRes.
M4V, MPEG-TS, OGV - additional containers commonly produced by editors, broadcast tools, and older devices.

Fast mode writes MP4 parts and uses stream copy where the source codecs allow, so splitting a multi-gigabyte recording takes seconds rather than the hour a re-encode would cost. Compatible mode re-encodes each part and lets you choose MP4, WebM, or MKV.

How Browser-Based Splitting Keeps Your Files Private

Most online video splitter tools require you to upload your file to a remote server, where it is processed, queued, and stored - sometimes for hours, sometimes indefinitely. That is a particularly poor trade for splitting, because the files people split are the long ones: whole lectures, full meetings, complete camera cards. VidShift takes a different approach: every byte stays on your device. The splitter runs as WebAssembly code inside your browser tab, using your own CPU to read the file and write each part. There is no upload progress bar because there is no upload, and a three-gigabyte recording costs you no bandwidth at all.

This matters when you are splitting sensitive footage - medical recordings, confidential meetings, family videos, security camera clips, or unreleased work. Your file never touches a server you do not control, so there is no risk of it being indexed, leaked, or retained by a third party. The tool also works offline after your first visit.

How to Split a Video Online for Free

Select your video
Drag and drop a file onto the page, or click "Select Video" to browse your device. MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, and other common formats are supported.
Choose where to cut
A marker starts at the midpoint, ready to split the video in half. Click the strip to add more cuts, drag a marker to move one, or remove it with the × beneath it. You can instead pick "Equal parts" for a set number of pieces, or "Part length" to cut every so many seconds.
Choose a processing mode
Fast mode copies the original streams without re-encoding, so even a very large file is split in seconds with no quality loss. Compatible mode re-encodes each part, which is slower but bakes every cut into the frames themselves.
Split your video
Click the "Split Video" button. Each part is written in turn and appears in the list as it finishes. Processing runs entirely in your browser - your file is never uploaded to a server.
Download the parts
Save each part individually with its own Download button, or click "Download All Parts" to save the whole set at once. Files are numbered in order, so they stay in sequence on your device.

Splitting Long Recordings Into Manageable Pieces

Lectures, webinars, church services, conference talks, and full match recordings are often hours long and awkward to share or watch. Splitting them into chapter-sized parts makes them easier to upload, easier to send, and easier for other people to work through at their own pace.

Getting Under an Upload or Attachment Limit

Plenty of services cap what you can send: email attachments, messaging apps, forum uploads, and course platforms all have ceilings. Splitting by part length is the direct way to get under a duration cap. If the cap is on file size instead, divide your file size by the size you are allowed and round up - a 480 MB recording for a 25 MB attachment limit is 20 parts - then use that number in "Equal parts". Because video is variable bitrate the parts land near that size rather than exactly on it, so aim a little under the limit and check the sizes listed when the split finishes. Anything still over can go through the video compressor.

Cutting a Video Into Social Media Clips

A single long video can supply a week of posts. Split a recording into sixty-second or ninety-second parts and you have a series ready for Reels, Shorts, or TikTok without opening an editor. Use the part length mode and set it to the platform's limit.

Breaking Up Screen Recordings and Tutorials

A forty-minute screen recording covering six topics is more useful as six files than as one. Split it into equal parts to get a rough division fast, or set a part length that matches the pace of the material.

Split Without Re-encoding - Fast Mode vs Compatible Mode

Fast mode copies the original video and audio streams into each part without re-encoding. That is what makes splitting a large file practical in a browser: the work is reading and re-packaging rather than decoding and re-compressing, so a two-gigabyte recording splits in seconds and every part is bit-for-bit identical to the source. Each part begins at the keyframe before its cut point, with the exact offset written into the MP4 edit list, so players open each part on the frame it was meant to start on. The brief lead-in stays in the file rather than being shown, which makes the parts add up to slightly more than the original.

Compatible mode re-encodes every part, which is considerably slower but bakes each cut into the frames themselves, so nothing depends on the player reading an edit list. Use it when you need that guarantee - for a device or player that ignores edit lists - or when you want WebM or MKV parts instead of MP4.

Tips for Splitting Video Cleanly

Splitting is a simpler operation than editing, but a few habits make the difference between a set of parts you can use straight away and a set you end up redoing.

Use the Playhead, Not the Numbers, for Cuts That Matter

When the cut has to land on something - the end of a sentence, a scene change, the moment before a slide advances - place it by hand rather than reaching for the interval modes. Click the strip to get roughly there, watch the frame the preview jumps to, then nudge the marker with the arrow keys a second at a time (five seconds with Shift) until it is exactly right. If the moment is easier to find by playing the video than by looking at the strip, scrub with the player and use "Split at playhead" instead. The interval modes are for when the cut position genuinely does not matter and the count or the length does.

Check the Strip Before You Split

The segment strip is drawn from the real duration of the file you loaded, so it is the quickest way to catch a setting that does not mean what you thought. A part length longer than the whole video produces nothing to split, and the tool says so rather than writing a single file that is just a copy of your input.

Prefer Fast Mode Unless You Have a Reason Not To

Fast mode is the default because it is both quicker and lossless - there is no quality trade-off to weigh, only a compatibility one, and it only matters for players that ignore MP4 edit lists. Splitting is the tool where this matters most: a re-encode of a long recording has to decode and re-compress every frame of every part, which on a phone is the difference between seconds and an afternoon.

Split First, Then Do Everything Else

If you are going to compress, add a watermark, or convert the parts, split them first. Each operation then runs on a smaller file, which is faster and much less likely to exhaust memory on a phone or tablet than doing the same work on the whole recording.

The Privacy Advantage of Local Processing

Because nothing is uploaded, you can split files you would not feel comfortable sending to a server you do not control - confidential meetings, medical recordings, internal training material, NDA-protected footage, raw camera files from a paid shoot. The splitter runs in a sandboxed browser tab using WebAssembly and WebCodecs, so the only things leaving your device are the parts you choose to save. No account, no email address, and no upload queue.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I split a video online for free?

Drop or select your video file on this page. Choose either a number of equal parts or a length for each part, then click Split Video. Every part appears in a list as it is written, and you can download them one at a time or all at once. Everything runs in your browser - no upload, no signup, no cost.

Will splitting reduce the video quality?

In Fast mode (the default), no. The original video and audio streams are copied into each part without re-encoding, so every part is bit-for-bit identical to the matching section of the source. Compatible mode re-encodes each part, which may cause a slight quality difference but guarantees the cut is baked into the frames themselves.

What is the difference between splitting into equal parts and splitting by length?

Equal parts divides the video by a number you choose, so four parts of a twenty-minute video are five minutes each. Splitting by length cuts every time it reaches a duration you set, so a twenty-minute video in six-minute parts gives you three six-minute parts and a two-minute one. Use equal parts when you care how many pieces you get, and part length when you care how long each piece is - for example when a platform has a time limit.

How many parts can I split a video into?

Up to 60 in a single run. Every part is a full conversion with its own output file, so the cap keeps a mistyped setting - ten-second parts on a two-hour recording, say - from starting hundreds of conversions. If your settings would produce more than 60, the page tells you the number before anything is written so you can choose longer parts or fewer of them.

How do I split a video by size, into 25 MB parts for email?

There is no size mode, but the arithmetic is one step: divide your file size by the size you want and round up, then use "Equal parts" with that number. A 480 MB recording into 25 MB parts is 480 ÷ 25 = 19.2, so choose 20 parts. The one thing to watch is that video is variable bitrate - a busy, fast-moving stretch carries more data per second than a static one, so the parts come out near the target rather than exactly on it, and one or two can run over while others run under. Leave yourself some headroom by aiming a little under the real limit, and check the finished sizes: every part is listed with its own size when the split completes. If one still overshoots, split again with an extra part or two, or run that part through the video compressor.

Do the parts play back seamlessly one after another?

Yes. Each part starts where the previous one ended. In Fast mode, a part physically begins at the keyframe before its cut point and the exact start is recorded in the MP4 edit list, so a player opens it on the right frame and the parts join without a visible gap or repeat. On a player that ignores edit lists you may see a second or two of overlap at the start of each part; Compatible mode removes that possibility by re-encoding.

Why do the parts add up to slightly more than the original file?

Two reasons, both small. In Fast mode each part carries a short lead-in from the keyframe before its cut point, which is hidden on playback but still occupies bytes. And every part is a complete video file with its own container headers. Together these add a little to the total, which is the price of getting parts that are individually playable and lossless.

Can I download all the parts at once?

Yes. "Download All Parts" saves every part in turn, and each also has its own Download button if you only want some of them. Your browser may ask once for permission to save multiple files. The parts are not bundled into a ZIP on purpose: video is already compressed, so a ZIP would save no space while needing enough memory to hold the whole archive at once - which is exactly the wrong thing to ask for on the large files people split.

What are the parts named?

Each part takes your original filename with a part number added - "lecture-part1.mp4", "lecture-part2.mp4" and so on. Once there are ten or more parts the numbers are zero-padded ("part01") so your file manager keeps them in the order they were cut rather than putting part 10 before part 2.

Is there a maximum video length or file size?

There is no hard limit. The practical limit depends on your device's available memory, and splitting is one of the kinder operations: in Fast mode nothing is decoded, and each part is written one at a time rather than all at once. Very large files are handled by streaming each part to temporary storage rather than holding it in memory. Compatible mode is far more demanding, so prefer Fast mode on a phone or tablet.

How do I cut a video into parts without software?

Open this page in any modern browser - Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari, on desktop or mobile. Drag your file onto the upload area, choose a number of parts or a part length, and click Split Video. Each part is written in your browser and saved straight to your device. There is no installer, no app, no signup, and no upload, so cutting a video into parts costs you nothing but the time your own CPU takes.

Can I split a video into two halves?

Yes, and it takes one click. Every file opens with a single marker already at the midpoint, so loading a video and pressing Split Video gives you two halves. If you want the break somewhere other than the exact middle, drag that marker to where you want it first, or click the strip at the right moment.

Can I split a video at specific timestamps?

Yes, and it is the default mode. Click the strip at the moment you want and a marker drops there, with the preview jumping to that point so you can check the frame; repeat for as many cuts as you need. Each marker shows its own timecode, can be dragged along the strip with the preview following it, and moves a second at a time with the arrow keys (five with Shift held) when you want to land on an exact moment. To find the moment by ear or eye instead, play the video with the player controls and press "Split at playhead". Press the × beneath a marker to remove that cut.

Is it safe to split videos online?

It is safe to split videos with VidShift because nothing is uploaded. Your files never leave your device - VidShift has no backend servers that receive or store your media. All processing runs locally in your browser using WebAssembly, so even sensitive footage like confidential meetings, medical recordings, or unreleased work stays completely private. The tool even works offline after your first visit. Many other online splitters upload your file to a third-party server, where it can be queued, cached, or retained for hours; VidShift avoids that risk entirely.

What is the best free video splitter?

VidShift is a strong choice for a free video splitter because it processes everything in your browser - no upload wait, no file size caps, and no watermarks on any part. Fast mode splits instantly with zero quality loss, which matters more here than on most tools because the files people split are the long ones. Unlike most online splitters, VidShift works offline and never stores your files on a remote server.

How do I split an MP4 without losing quality?

Load the MP4 here and leave the processing mode on Fast. That mode copies the encoded video and audio straight into each part rather than decoding and re-compressing them, so there is no generation loss of any kind - each part is identical to its section of the original. This is also why it finishes in seconds: no frame is ever decoded.

How do I split a video on iPhone or Android?

Open VidShift in your mobile browser - Chrome on Android and Safari on iOS both work. Tap the upload area to select a video from your camera roll, choose how many parts you want or how long each should be, then tap Split Video. Each part downloads to your device. Stay on Fast mode on a phone: it avoids re-encoding entirely, which is what keeps a long recording from exhausting the browser's memory. No app install is needed.

Can I split a video and keep the original audio?

Yes. The audio track is cut in sync with the video and carried into every part. In Fast mode it is copied through untouched on the formats you are likely to meet, so there is no re-encode and no change to the audio at all. The one exception is a source whose audio codec MP4 cannot carry - G.711 from an older AVI, say - which is re-encoded to AAC at a high bitrate.

Can I put the parts back together afterwards?

Yes - use the merge videos tool, which joins clips into one file in the order you arrange them. Because Fast mode does not re-encode, splitting and re-merging a video costs it no quality, though the result will not be byte-identical to the original file since the containers are rebuilt.

Can I split audio files too?

This tool is designed for video files and needs a video track. To work with the sound on its own, split the video here first and then run the parts through the MP4 to MP3 converter to extract the audio from each one.