MOV Trimmer
Cut your MOV 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
MOV is Apple's homebody: gorgeous on a Mac, awkward everywhere else. The QuickTime container; often H.264 or HEVC, sometimes heavyweight editing codecs like ProRes.
- Born
- 1991, Apple's QuickTime team
- Type
- video · container
- Typical size
- frequently huge: camera and ProRes MOVs can run to gigabytes per minute
- Plays on
- Mac and iPhone natively; elsewhere it depends on the player's mood.
- Fun fact
- MP4 was standardized on top of QuickTime's file design: MOV is effectively MP4's parent.
Trimming MOV without touching the quality
Flippy trims MOV 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 MOV container makes the cut with it, soundtrack included.
How to trim a MOV file
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1
Drop your MOV 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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3
Hit Cut and download the piece: stream copy means your MOV keeps its exact quality, near-instantly.
Turn MOV into something else
Questions people ask
Does trimming a MOV re-encode it?
No: Flippy uses stream copy, so the trimmed MOV keeps the exact original quality and the cut takes seconds, not minutes.
Will I lose quality working with MOV here?
None. Stream copy moves your MOV's data untouched; only the length changes.
Is this MOV 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.