Luckily, both sites we’ve listed in this article fill particular voids: YT Cutter is great for downloading and keeping cropped YouTube videos, and ytCropper is great for linking to cropped versions of YouTube videos. HeseTube was once a go-to solution for cutting and downloading YouTube videos, but now it’s riddled with “can’t process the video” errors. It also doesn’t provide the best method of sharing your clips. Kapwing Video Trimmer looks and feels like a great service, until you get to the part where you process your clips and realize you’ll need to sign up or deal with watermarks. For example, YouTube Trimmer has still not been updated to fix the way it uses deprecated YouTube URL parameters. While we’d love to offer more alternatives, unfortunately, a lot of the YouTube trimming services out there are flat-out broken or insufficient. The video is shareable by the direct link provided on the page. One interesting feature it does support is looping-this is particularly useful for when you’re cropping your favorite part out of a song. YtCropper does not offer to directly download cropped clips, and all it really does is embed the YouTube video on a page where it will start and stop at the times you’ve selected. Rather than asking users to click on a button to determine the stop and start points, you drag these elements of the UI. YtCropper features a marker system that you may be familiar with if you’ve experimented with common video editing applications. You’ll then be taken to a page where you’re able to play and preview the video. On the ytCropper website, start by pasting the link of a YouTube video and clicking the Crop! button. YtCropper functions a bit differently than YT Cutter, but it’s nice to have alternatives and options when it comes to trimming YouTube videos. If not, give it a bit of time and try again. If you wait several seconds before trying again, your download should start successfully. In rare instances after selecting a format, you may get an error stating that a rate limit set by YouTube has been exhausted. Screenshot: A high-resolution screenshot of the start of your clip.Audio file: An MP3 file of your clip (no video).GIF animations: An animated GIF image of your clip.Video file: An MP4 file of your clip (with audio).If satisfied, you can download your selected clip in various formats.Ĭlick the Download button to reveal four options:

Once you have start and end times set, you can click the Preview button to play your selection and see if it’s to your liking.

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