Video Editor
Free app for trimming and converting videos
Free app for trimming and converting videos
Last updated: 2026-09-27
Video Editor is a free browser-based app for trimming, cropping, resizing, compressing, and converting videos. Start here for quick answers about the tools, file formats, exporting, privacy, and Google Drive. For step-by-step instructions, see the Help guide.
Video Editor lets you open a video, make changes in your browser, and save the result or export it as a new file. You can trim the start and end, crop the frame, rotate or flip, resize, compress to a smaller file, convert between MP4 and WebM, remove the audio, export the audio alone, and save a single frame as an image.
No. Open videoeditor.co in a current browser and start editing. There is no desktop installer, browser extension, or plug-in. If you use Google Drive, you can also add Video Editor to Drive's Open with menu: click Add to Drive in the app's header, next to the theme button, and sign in. Video Editor isn't listed on Google Workspace Marketplace yet.
Video Editor is free to use. You don't need an account to work with a video on your computer. Google sign-in is requested only when you choose a Google Drive action.
Once the app is loaded, editing, saving, and exporting a video from your computer don't send it to a Video Editor server. However, the initial page load, app updates, and all Google Drive actions need a network connection.
You can open MP4 (including M4V), MOV, WebM, and MKV files that contain a video track. Whether a particular file plays and exports also depends on the codecs your browser can decode, such as H.264, HEVC, VP8, VP9, and AV1.
Convert format offers MP4 and WebM. A MOV or MKV source can also be kept in its own format. When the video has to be re-encoded, an MP4 is written as H.264 video with AAC audio and a WebM as VP9 or VP8 video with Opus audio, using the encoders your browser provides. The Export dialog always states the format and codecs it settled on before anything is written.
Yes. Export audio only, in the File menu, writes the sound track without the picture.
An HDR video can be trimmed with a Fast trim, which copies the original video data untouched. Edits that need the picture to be re-encoded, such as crop or resize, are turned off for HDR video so that its colors are never flattened.
The toolbar and the Tools menu include Trim, Crop, Rotate, Flip, Resize, Compress, Convert format, and Audio (keep or remove the sound). The File menu adds Save, Save as, Download a copy, Re-encode, Export video, Export audio only, and Save frame as image. The visual tool guide on the start page explains what each tool does.
Not in the current version. Video Editor works on one video at a time and doesn't include joining clips, a multi-track timeline, titles, music, transitions, filters, or speed changes in the saved or exported file. The Preview speed setting only changes how fast the preview plays.
Yes. Use the Undo and Redo toolbar buttons, or Ctrl/Cmd + Z and Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Z. Revert all changes, next to them, returns to the video as it was opened. Your edits are a list of instructions, so nothing is re-encoded until you choose Re-encode, Save, or Export.
Yes. A rotation, a flip, a trim, and a crop you have applied show in the preview right away, over the original video. When an edit needs the picture to be re-encoded, the status next to the file name says so. Choose Re-encode on the toolbar or in the File menu to build the edited video in the tab and play the real result. Re-encoding doesn't save or download anything, and you can keep editing afterwards. A save or an export made right after a re-encode uses that result, so the video isn't encoded a second time.
Choose Save (Ctrl/Cmd + S) to write the result to the video you opened: a file on your computer is replaced after you allow it, and a Google Drive file gets a new revision. Save as (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + S) writes a new file and keeps editing that one. Nothing is written until you choose one of them, and the status next to the file name says when the video has unsaved edits and whether saving will re-encode it.
Press the Export button for a copy. The Export dialog describes what will be written: the range, the size, the format, what is copied and what is re-encoded, and an estimate of the file size. An export always writes a new file and never changes the video you opened.
Two checkable rows under Tools > Options decide it. Include metadata tags is on by default and carries tags such as the title and creation time into the saved or exported file. Include location is off by default, so GPS location tags are left out unless you turn it on. The Export dialog states what will be kept.
Renaming in the app bar changes the name used for saved and exported files. For a video opened from Google Drive that you can edit, it also renames the file in Drive. Renaming never changes the video's content; only Save does, and only when you choose it.
A Fast trim copies the original video and audio data without re-encoding, so it finishes quickly and loses no quality. Because copied video can only begin on a key frame, the exported clip may start slightly earlier than the point you marked, and the Export dialog tells you the range it will actually use. An Exact trim re-encodes the video so the clip starts and ends on the frames you chose. It takes longer.
Crop, resize, compress, and some format changes need the picture to be re-encoded, and a re-encoded export is always exact. Video Editor tells you when this happens and keeps your Fast preference for the next video.
Yes. The saved or exported file contains only the range you kept. The trimmed parts are not hidden inside it.
Video Editor asks before you close a video that has edits you haven't saved or exported. It doesn't keep recovery drafts, so edits that were never saved or exported are lost when the tab closes or the browser stops. The video you opened changes only when you choose Save. Save or export when you reach a result you want to keep.
Opening, decoding, editing, saving, and exporting happen locally in your browser. A file is sent to or received from Google when you choose a Google Drive action.
See the Privacy Policy for details.
Video Editor requests basic sign-in information and the limited drive.file permission. This lets the app work with files you select in the Google picker or create with Video Editor; it doesn't grant general access to everything in your Drive. The app also requests drive.install, which only lets Google offer Video Editor as a choice in Drive's Open with menu; it doesn't grant access to any of your files. Short-lived access tokens stay in memory.
Not for files on your computer. Sign-in is needed only for Drive actions. You can revoke Video Editor in your Google Account at any time; files already exported to your Drive remain yours.
Yes, when your Google account has access. A shared video with view-only permission can be opened and edited, and Save as or Export writes the result as your own new file.
It is downloaded in parts into temporary browser storage on your device, so a long video doesn't have to fit in memory. That temporary copy is removed when you close the video or the tab.
Video Editor opens in any current browser. Saving and exporting rely on the browser's built-in video decoders and encoders (a feature called WebCodecs). Current versions of Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, and desktop Firefox include it. In a browser without it, Video Editor still opens and plays a video and can save a frame as an image, and Save and the export tools are shown as unavailable with the reason.
Yes. The layout adapts to smaller screens and touch input. Phones have less memory, so long or high-resolution videos are more likely to reach a limit there than on a computer.
A saved or exported video is written to temporary browser storage before it is delivered, so it needs free space on your device for roughly the size of the finished file. When storage isn't available, the result is held in memory instead, which has a much lower limit. Video Editor checks before it starts and, if it has to refuse, tells you the size it needs and the space it found.
Free up disk space, close other memory-heavy tabs or apps, export a shorter range, or use Compress or Resize to make a smaller file. A Fast trim needs the least memory and time because nothing is re-encoded.
See the Help guide for detailed steps and troubleshooting. If you still need help, email support@videoeditor.co. Include your browser, operating system, video format, approximate length and resolution, what you were trying to do, and the exact error text. Don't email a confidential video unless you choose to and support specifically asks for it.