MKV Trimmer
Cut your MKV to exactly the piece you need, with zero quality loss: free, no signup.
- Free, no signup
- No watermark, ever
- Files auto-delete in 1 hour
- Nothing to install
MKV is the format that hoards: video, a dozen audio tracks and every subtitle, all in one box. The Matroska container: it will hold practically any codec ever made.
- Born
- 2002, the open-source Matroska project
- Type
- video · container
- Typical size
- as big as whatever you put inside: movie files often run to several gigabytes
- Plays on
- VLC and desktop players love it; smart TVs, Apple devices and editors often don't.
- Fun fact
- Matroska is named after matryoshka nesting dolls: a container built to hold containers.
Trimming MKV without touching the quality
Flippy trims MKV with stream copy: it slices at the nearest safe boundary and copies the data straight across: no re-encoding, no quality loss, and it's near-instant even on big files. Everything travelling inside the MKV container makes the cut with it, soundtrack included.
How to trim an MKV file
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1
Drop your MKV into the trimmer: the waveform draws itself.
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2
Drag the two handles around the part of the video you're keeping.
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Hit Cut and download the piece: stream copy means your MKV keeps its exact quality, near-instantly.
Flip MKV to something else
Questions people ask
Does trimming an MKV re-encode it?
No: Flippy uses stream copy, so the trimmed MKV keeps the exact original quality and the cut takes seconds, not minutes.
Will I lose quality working with MKV here?
None. Stream copy moves your MKV's data untouched; only the length changes.
Is this MKV trimmer really free?
Yes: free for everyday use with no daily cap, no signup, and your files delete themselves from our servers within an hour.