Cut a Video in Half Online - Free, No Upload
Cut a video in half — one click, two equal parts. Drop your video into the box above and press cut. You get two files of identical length, ready to download. No timeline to scrub, no markers to place, no settings to learn. Everything runs locally in your browser, so nothing is uploaded and no watermark is added.
Everything runs locally in your browser. No upload, no queue, no server-side size limit. Parts are made by copying the encoded video stream — no re-encoding, no quality loss.
One click, two halves
No decisions to make. The tool finds the midpoint for you.
No re-encoding needed
The video stream is copied, so both halves keep the original quality.
Works without an app
Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone. Nothing to install, no account to create.
How to cut a video in half
Add your video
Drag the file onto the box above, or tap it on a phone and pick a clip from your camera roll. MP4, WebM, and MOV all work. Read from your own device, so even a large video opens immediately.
Press cut
The mode is already set to two equal parts. If you would rather the halves meet somewhere other than the midpoint, switch to custom cut points and place a single marker.
Download both halves
Each part appears with a length, a size, and a download button. Save one or save both. Nothing expires, because nothing was stored.
When cutting a video in half is the right move
A single file that will not go through
Mail boxes, upload forms, and messaging apps all have size ceilings. Compressing the video softens the picture everywhere; cutting it in half produces two files that each pass, at the quality you started with. The first thing to try is almost always the cheaper one.
Splitting the work between two people
Two editors, two halves. Handing over "the first half" is unambiguous in a way that "the part up to around 12 minutes" never is, and the split is instant enough to do mid-conversation.
Two episodes out of one recording
A long recording that naturally divides into two parts — a morning session and an afternoon session, part one and part two — is easier to publish as two files than as one file with a chapter marker nobody clicks.
Uploading the first half while the second still processes
Publishing platforms accept the start of a series before the rest is ready. Cutting in half means the first file can go up immediately instead of waiting for a whole export to finish.
Cutting in half vs. equal parts vs. custom cut points
| Mode | What you decide | When it fits |
|---|---|---|
| Cut in half | Nothing — the midpoint is found for you | The job is "two files" and any even split will do |
| Split into equal parts | How many parts — 3, 5, 10 | One recording becomes a series of evenly sized episodes |
| Custom cut points | Where exactly each cut lands | You know the timestamp you want, and the midpoint is not it |
Why the cut point can land a fraction of a second off
Video encoders do not store every frame in full. They store one complete frame every second or two — a keyframe — then record only what changed. A cut inside that gap either moves to the nearest keyframe or re-encodes the small section around it. Vidkito moves the cut by default: the two halves come out quality-identical to the original, because the video data is copied rather than rebuilt — but the meeting point may sit a fraction of a second before or after the true midpoint. If you need an exact frame, only that thin section is re-encoded. For “cut it in half and post it”, moving the cut is the better trade every time.
About this tool
Cutting a video in half is the simplest thing Vidkito does, and it is deliberately built to stay that way — one button, no mode selection, no timeline. It runs entirely in your browser, which is why there is no upload step and no server-imposed size limit. If you want several parts rather than two, use the video splitter. If you want one shorter section, use the video trimmer. To cut an MP4 specifically, see the MP4 splitter.