Crop Video
Crop a rectangular region from each frame of a video, removing unwanted outer areas while preserving the content within the selected bounds. Useful for reframing shots, removing borders, and adapting aspect ratios. All cropping runs on your self-hosted server.
Features
- Visual crop region selection with adjustable coordinates and dimensions
- Preset aspect ratio guides for common social media and broadcast formats
- Preserves audio and subtitle tracks through the crop operation
- High-quality re-encoding with minimal generation loss
- Frame preview to verify crop positioning before processing
What you can do
- Removing black letterbox bars from a video recorded in the wrong aspect ratio
- Cropping a speaker from a wide conference recording into a tighter portrait frame
- Extracting a specific screen region from a multi-monitor desktop recording
- Reframing landscape footage into vertical format for mobile social media posts
Self-hosted. Your files never leave your network.
SnapOtter runs entirely on your own infrastructure. Files processed with Crop Video are never uploaded to third-party servers. Deploy a single Docker container and process files with full privacy, no watermarks, and no usage limits. Open source under AGPL-3.0.
Frequently asked questions
- Does cropping reduce the video resolution?
- Yes, the output resolution matches the cropped region dimensions, which are smaller than the original. This is expected since you are selecting a subset of the frame. Processing runs on your self-hosted server.
- Can I crop to a specific aspect ratio for social media?
- Yes, preset guides for common ratios like 9:16, 1:1, and 4:5 are available to help position the crop region precisely. All processing happens locally on your self-hosted SnapOtter instance.
- Is the audio preserved when cropping?
- Yes, all audio and subtitle tracks are preserved unchanged since cropping only affects the visual frame. Everything runs on your own self-hosted server with no external service involved.
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