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Crop AVI Online - Free

Cut the edges off an AVI or reframe it to a new shape, and download it as AVI again. Free, in your browser.

Free to start
In your browser
Up to 1GB

How it works

Crop AVI in 3 steps

Upload your AVI
Drag and drop the AVI file, or click to browse. Anything under 1GB.
Drag the crop box
Pick a shape, then move and resize the frame over the part of the picture you want to keep.
Crop and download
The output is already set to AVI. Create a free account to download it, or keep editing in REQO.

Cropping an AVI and keeping it an AVI

AVI is a Microsoft container from 1992. It still turns up in old archives, camcorder dumps and downloaded footage, but it predates modern compression and has no idea what a phone is.

The output format is set to AVI before you start, so what you download is the same kind of file you uploaded: nothing downstream that expects an AVI has to be told about a new format. If you would rather have something that plays everywhere, switch the output to MP4 in the panel.

Container

AVIAudio Video Interleave (Microsoft)

Typical codecs

AVIDivX, Xvid, MJPEG and other legacy codecs

Plays on

AVIDesktop players with the right codec pack

File size

AVIVery large for the quality

Feature	AVI
Container	Audio Video Interleave (Microsoft)
Typical codecs	DivX, Xvid, MJPEG and other legacy codecs
Plays on	Desktop players with the right codec pack
File size	Very large for the quality

Before you crop an AVI

No browser plays AVI, so an AVI cannot be previewed or embedded on a web page without converting it first.

AVI files from older cameras and downloads often hold DivX, Xvid or MJPEG video, which modern phones and TVs frequently refuse even when the extension looks familiar.

FAQ

crop avi: questions

Will it stay an AVI?

Yes. The output is pre-set to AVI, so the cropped file downloads as AVI. You can change it to MP4 or another format in the panel before exporting.

Does cropping an AVI lose quality?

The part you keep is re-encoded once at a high quality target, so it is not bit-for-bit identical, but it is indistinguishable at normal playback. Editing the same file over and over will eventually show, so keep your original.