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Split Video For Stories.

Break a video into sixty second Stories.

→ Split a videoFree, no account, and your video is never uploaded

How it works.

Cut one long video into shorter pieces you can post.

  1. Step 1

    Drag your video in

    Or click to choose a file. It stays on your device.

  2. Step 2

    Pick the length, see the cuts

    Thirty seconds for Status, sixty for Stories, or any number of equal parts.

  3. Step 3

    Download the pieces

    All of them together, in one zip file.

In detail

Instagram Stories and Facebook Stories both stop at sixty seconds, and a video that runs past it gets truncated rather than continued. Splitting it first turns one long clip into a sequence people actually watch through, each frame landing exactly where the previous one left off. This opens at sixty seconds for that reason. The parts are cut by copying the streams, so they upload at full quality and the split itself takes seconds, and every part is listed with its real length before you commit to anything.

What it gives you.

  • Lossless by default, with the boundaries shown

    The packets between each pair of cuts are copied straight across, so nothing is decoded, nothing is re-encoded, and a long file finishes in seconds. Because a copy has to begin on a keyframe, the parts come out near your target rather than exactly on it, and the table tells you the real length of every one of them before you press the button.

  • Exact 30.000 when you need it

    One chip switches to a mode that re-encodes so every part starts on the frame you asked for and runs to the second. It costs a generation of quality and real time, and it says both of those things up front instead of after.

  • WhatsApp and Stories presets

    Thirty seconds is the Status cap, sixty is Stories and Shorts, three minutes is a TikTok. They are chips rather than a number you have to remember, and any part that would still come out over the cap is badged in the table so you can fix it before you upload.

  • Up to sixty parts in one zip

    A half hour lecture at thirty seconds a part is sixty files, which is where this stops, because past that a download is a chore rather than a result. The archive is written here in the browser and holds the parts in order, named so they sort correctly in any file manager.

  • The short tail, folded or kept

    A five minute video cut at thirty seconds leaves twelve parts and nothing over, but a five minute four second one leaves a four second runt at the end. Keep it as its own part or fold it into the one before it, which then runs thirty four seconds. The choice appears only when there is a runt to make it about.

  • No account, nothing uploaded

    The reading, the cutting, and the zip are all built in this tab on your own machine. There is nothing to sign up for, no queue page, no watermark, and no stranger holding a video you were only ever going to post in pieces.

Straight answers.

How do I split a video into sixty second parts for Instagram Stories?

Cut it at sixty seconds a part and upload them in order, which is what this page opens ready to do. Instagram truncates a longer clip rather than continuing it, so splitting first is the difference between a story that runs to the end and one that stops mid sentence. The cuts copy the streams instead of re-encoding, so nothing is lost on the way through, and because a copy starts on a keyframe the parts land close to sixty rather than exactly on it. Anything the table badges as over sixty means picking a slightly shorter target, or exact mode, which re-encodes for a precise boundary.

Why are my parts not exactly thirty seconds?

Because a lossless cut can only begin on a keyframe. Most frames in a video are stored as the difference from the frames before them, so they mean nothing on their own; only a keyframe stands by itself, and a copy has to start on one. Cameras and phones write one every one to three seconds, so a boundary aimed at thirty lands on the keyframe at or before it, and the parts come out at roughly twenty eight to thirty two seconds. The table shows the real length of every part before you run anything, and the badge tells you if one would still be over a platform's cap. If you need thirty on the nose, switch to exact and the tool re-encodes to get there.

Will the quality drop when I split a video?

Not in the default mode. The video and audio packets inside each part are copied into a new file without ever being decoded, so the bytes describing your picture are identical to the ones in the source and each part is the same generation as the original. That is also why it is fast: the work is reading and writing rather than looking at pictures. Exact mode is the one exception, because landing on a specific frame means decoding and encoding it again, and it is labelled as a re-encode wherever it appears.

What is the zip, and can I download parts one by one?

The zip is one archive holding every part, so you get a single download instead of ten. It stores the files rather than compressing them, because an MP4 is already compressed and squeezing it again would cost time and save nothing, which means opening the archive is instant on any machine. Every part is also listed on its own in the table with its own download link, so if you only want part three you can take just part three and leave the rest.

Is there a limit on the file or the number of parts?

Sixty parts per split, and no limit on the file you start from. There is no upload, so the size ceiling is your own disk rather than somebody's server: a two gigabyte recording is read where it sits. Sixty is where the part count stops because a download of more than sixty files stops being a convenience, and a part cannot be shorter than a second or longer than an hour. If your video needs more than sixty parts, use a longer part length, or split it in halves first and split each half again.

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