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Video tools that never upload your footage

Convert a clip to MP4, cut the dead air off the front, squeeze a recording under an email limit, or pull the audio out of it. Video files are the ones you least want to hand over, and these never ask you to.

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Video tools

Convert, cut, caption and shrink footage. Every one runs on your own device.

17 more are being built. They are listed here without a link until they actually work.

What these tools are for

Video is where “upload it to a website” hurts most. A two-minute screen recording is a few hundred megabytes, so you wait twice — once to send it and once to get it back — and in between a copy of your meeting, your kid’s birthday or your unreleased work sits on a machine you do not control.

Your browser can already decode and encode video with the hardware in your device, which is how video calls and streaming work. These tools use that first, through WebCodecs, and fall back to FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly for the older formats browsers do not handle natively. That fallback is a one-time 31 MB download, after which it works with no connection at all.

Hardware encoding is fast — often faster than the upload would have been — but it is your hardware. A long 4K clip on an old laptop will take its time, and the tool tells you what it is doing rather than pretending it is instant.

The conversions people ask for most

Each one opens the converter already set to that format, with a note on what the change keeps and what it costs.

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Video formats we read and write

What each format is for, where it opens, and the mistake people usually make with it.

Which format should you use?

Questions

How big a video can I convert?

There is no limit we impose. The ceiling is your device’s memory and patience: multi-gigabyte files work on a desktop, while a phone is happier with clips of a few hundred megabytes. See what the limits really are.

Is the video uploaded anywhere?

No. The clip is read by the page and processed by your browser; nothing is sent. You can confirm it by opening the network panel and watching it stay silent — here is how.

Why does a video tool sometimes download 31 MB first?

Browsers can only encode a few formats natively. For everything else the page loads FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly — a one-time download that is then cached, so later conversions work offline.

Will converting a video lose quality?

Any re-encode loses a little, which is why trimming and muting copy the picture untouched where the container allows it. When a real conversion is needed, each conversion page says what that particular change costs.

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