---
title: "Crop a video online, free, no upload | Kuro"
description: "Crop a video to any box, a square or 9:16 in your browser, free and with no upload. Drag the box over the picture; what you keep is never scaled up."
canonical_url: "https://meetkuro.com/tools/crop-video/"
locale: "en"
tool: "crop-video"
---

# Crop a video

Drop a video, drag a box over the part you want to keep, and download it. Lock the box to a shape or leave it free. What you keep stays at the source's own pixels and is never scaled up.

Your file never leaves this device. Everything runs in your browser.

[Crop a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/crop-video/)

## Made for

- [Crop a video to a square](https://meetkuro.com/tools/crop-video/crop-to-square/)
- [Crop a video to 9:16](https://meetkuro.com/tools/crop-video/crop-to-9-16/)

## How it works

1. Drop your video.
2. Drag the box over what you want to keep, or pick a shape.
3. Press Crop and download the MP4.

## Questions

### How is this different from Resize?

Resize makes a video the shape a platform asks for: it crops along one direction only and brings the result down to that platform's size, 1080 × 1920 for 9:16. Crop keeps any box you draw, anywhere in the picture and at any size, at the source's own pixels. Use it to cut away black bars, a busy edge or everything but one subject.

### Does cropping lose quality?

What you keep isn't scaled, but the picture is re-encoded to H.264 at high quality, because a crop changes every frame. The sound is copied when it's already AAC and re-encoded to AAC otherwise.

### What size is the result?

The box's size, to the pixel, with each side rounded to an even number because H.264 needs that. The preview shows it as you drag, with how much of the picture you keep.

### Is there a length limit?

Files up to 2 GB and videos up to 15 minutes, because the picture is re-encoded.

### Does my video get uploaded?

No. It's cropped in your browser, on your device.

### Which browsers does it work in?

Current Chrome, Edge and Safari. Cropping makes an MP4, which needs a browser that can encode H.264; if yours can't, the tool says so before it starts.

## Kuro

In Kuro you make the clip at the shape you want from the start, 9:16, 1:1, 16:9 and more, from a few words.

[Make a clip in Kuro](https://app.meetkuro.com/create?type=shorts&utm_source=tools&utm_medium=tool&utm_campaign=crop-video) — Kuro opens the clip composer, at your crop's shape when clips come in it.

## More free tools

- [Compress a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/compress-video.md): Make a video small enough for Discord, email or WhatsApp.
- [Resize a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/resize-video.md): Turn a video into 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, or 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9.
- [Rotate a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/rotate-video.md): Turn a video the right way up, or mirror it.
- [Safe-zone checker](https://meetkuro.com/tools/safe-zone-checker.md): See where TikTok, Reels and Shorts will cover your video before you post.
- [Trim a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/trim-video.md): Cut a video down to the part you want, in seconds.
- [Mute a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/mute-video.md): Remove the sound from a video without re-encoding it.

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## About Kuro

Kuro is an AI picture studio: prompt-driven images, clips, voice-overs and music, and storyboard-backed films with consistent characters across every scene.

Agents connect over MCP and can generate directly:

```
claude mcp add kuro https://api.meetkuro.com/mcp --transport http
```

The app is at https://app.meetkuro.com and requires an account.

Each guide, model page, comparison and free tool page on this site (not a tool's variants, and not the index pages) has a Markdown twin at its own URL plus `.md`, and so do /benchmarks/, the English /agents/ page (as /agents.md) and the MCP tool reference. Free video tools: https://meetkuro.com/tools/