Are You Finding a Video Cropping Software? No Problem

Many people love free video cropping software. After all, who doesn’t want to get the video cropped without charge? But most free video cropping software suffer from drawbacks, such as slow and laggy operation speed, constant crashes, risk of downloading malware or virus, etc. Luckily, you can stop looking now and take a look at the list of the 7 best free video cropping software.

• 1. How Do We Rate Video Cropping Software
• 2. The Best Video Cropping Software
•      2.1 VideMake Video Editor (Mac and Windows)
• 3. Other Free Video Cropping Software
•      3.1 iMovie (Mac Only)
•      3.2 Freemake Video Converter (Windows Only)
•      3.3 Handbrake (Mac and Windows)
•      3.4 VLC (Mac and Windows)
•      3.5 Clideo Crop Video (Mac and Windows)
•      3.6 Online Video Cutter
• 4. Conclusion

1. Authenticity: Since we are looking for freeware, the most important thing about the reviewed software is that it should be really able to crop videos without any problem. This will also help you avoid malware and viruses.

2. Cropping Ability: A enjoyable cropping experience speaks louder than anything.

3. Smoothness: The program should not be too laggy for the users to tolerate.

4. Features: Additional and useful features come as icing on the cake.

5. Results Exportation: It whether the cropped videos can be output to various formats fast enough.

6. Customer service: Most freeware providers wouldn’t even bother to listen to their users, but some are exceptions.

VideMake Video Editor (Mac and Windows)

After our close review, VideMake Video Editor is awarded the best on the list. VideMake Video Editor is a powerful video cropper that is designed to be as user-friendly as possible. Cropping is intuitive, as you simply need to mark the clip you want to crop and adjust the crop area, whose ratio can also be configured. Aside from the amazing cropping ability, the software has other useful features, such as splitting screen, rotating which becomes very handy combined with cropping, text adding, templates for transitions, and filters, which are all highly useful when combined with cropping. All those features, though sound a bit complicated, can run smoothly and are easy-to-learn.

In terms of results exportation, dozens of video formats with customizable resolutions are presented for you to choose from. The free trial version really allows the users to save export projects with a tiny watermark, which will be gone once you purchase the program. Feel free to consult their customer service team with any trouble you have, as they always give you timely feedback. There are many tutorials on their website to help you get over the difficulties.

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iMovie (Mac Only)

iMovie is being pre-installed on every mac device free of charge, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good enough. Just like most Apple-designed apps, it’s highly useful and user-friendly. A beginner user who might just want to crop videos from time to time won’t need too much time to get used to iMovie. As long as the video is of extremely high quality, such as 4K or 8K, the cropping will work with little to no lags. The fact that you can even use it on portable iOS devices, such as iPad and iPhone, increases your cropping efficiency. The customer service is above the bar of Apple customer service. You can even expect new features from the developers even though iMovie is merely a freeware.

Upon using the app, you have to accept the fact that it is not equipped with many extra features. Plus, Windows users might not be able to enjoy it, not to mention the export options is pretty limited.

Freemake Video Converter (Windows Only)

Freemake is a famous freeware provider target at videos specifically, therefore, its video converter maintains the high quality of Freemake. The program comes with many strong features, one of them is to stretch, zoom or crop videos easily. The “Auto-adjust” features are quite useful as it will automatically reshape the video dimensions according to the targeted devices, such as TV and desktop. The cropped videos can be converted to a large number of formats. If you ever find trouble using this established video cropping tool, just resort to their tutorial videos on YouTube to solve your problems.

Unfortunately, Freemake is only available on Windows, which is bad news for Mac users. The UI design is not as good as other software in this list. Plus, the frequent ads in this software are rather annoying, so you might want to think twice before you install it.

Handbrake (Mac and Windows)

Handbrake is an all-in-one video freeware toolkit, and video cropping is one of its major functions. The program processes and crop video at a fairly high speed, and most projects run smoothly in it. Besides, it is able to maintain the original resolution ratio while cropping. Extra features include import of subtitles, customizable filters, audio adjustment, etc. The batch processing really draws our attention because it will potentially increase the cropping efficiency greatly. Specifically, it allows you to edit a folder of videos at one time.

It is worth noting that Handbrake will crop the whole video, which means it’s impossible to crop selected clips in Handbrake. Also, it cannot zoom a specific clip in a video.

VLC (Mac and Windows)

It might surprise you, but VLC is more than a good video player. The program is able to process videos of different formats and render them. To crop video, simply input the pixels in the settings menu and export the video. About the extra features, you can customize filters, audios, and subtitles.

However, it can only crop a whole video instead of selected segments. The UI design is more suitable to play videos rather than editing them.

Clideo Crop Video(Mac and Windows)

Clideo Crop video is hands-down the best online video cropper. The UI is so beautiful and intuitive that you will know how to crop your video the second you enter their website. Just by clicking the big Upload button to upload your videos and a few minutes later you can crop them. What amazes us in the testing process is the great compatibility. When your browser is not compatible with the Clideo cropping tool, the online cropper still extracts a still image from the video to let your finish cropping. Also, unlike many online tools, Clideo doesn’t shuffle a ton of ads on your face.

But Clideo is still an online tool with many drawbacks. The length of video uploading and processing is considerably long, and the cropping options are very limited. There is no much extra feature, which might disappoint professional users.

Online Video Cutter

Online Video Cutter is another amazing online video editor. When you crop video with it, many preset options, such as 4:3 and 16:9, are provided to make the cropping easier. Of course, the ratio can also be customized by yourself through dragging the crop frame or input the exact pixels. As its name indicates, this online tool comes with video trimming and cutting ability to seconds. It can also adjust volume, rotate, change the play speed, which all come in handy. It’s also worth noting that the website is clear from ads.

As for the drawbacks, it doesn’t allow you to select clips to crop, nor you can add filters to the video. Besides, the processing takes a pretty long time.

To fulfill different cropping demands of different users, we have listed the 7 best free video croppers. Part of them may export videos with watermarks but also offer many extraordinary editing features other benefits, while the rest are freeware that is easy to use. Some of them are online tools that can be easily used, and others are not even cropping software. Nevertheless, we can guarantee the quality of our recommendations and hope you can find the perfect one on the list that suits you.