VideoCrop

A small Windows app for trimming, cropping, resizing, and compressing video files. Pick a clip, tweak what you want, hit Process.

Features

• Cut a precise range with a draggable timeline (frame-accurate or fast keyframe-snapped).
• Crop to any rectangle or snap to common aspects (16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 9:16, original).
• Resize with aspect lock and one-click presets (2160p / 1440p / 1080p / 720p / 480p).
• Compress with sensible quality presets (H.264 for compatibility, H.265 / AV1 for smaller files) plus an advanced panel for custom bitrate or target file size.
• Output mode — keep everything, or extract just audio (.m4a / .opus / .mp3) or just video.
• Embedded preview with transport + volume controls. Auto-updates from new releases.

Download

Grab the latest VideoCrop-vX.Y.Z-win-x64.zip (or win-arm64.zip) from the Releases page. Unzip and run VideoCrop.App.exe — no installer.

Where to put it

Recommended: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\VideoCrop (i.e. C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\Programs\VideoCrop). Avoid Program Files — auto-updates need to write to the install folder without UAC prompts.

Requirements

• Windows 10 version 1809 (October 2018) or newer, 64-bit.
• .NET 10 Desktop Runtime (the installer will prompt if it's missing).
• Windows App SDK 1.6+ runtime.

First run

VideoCrop uses ffmpeg and mpv under the hood. The first time you launch the app, it'll offer to download them (~200 MB total) into a tools/ folder next to the exe. Click Download and wait — that's it.

Using it

1. Drag a video onto the window (or click Open File…). It plays back in the preview pane.
2. Adjust any combination of:
   • Cut — start/end times, or drag the handles on the timeline.
   • Crop — click Edit crop…, drag a rectangle, optionally pick an aspect, hit Apply.
   • Resize — toggle on, pick a preset height or type a custom size.
   • Compression — pick a preset; flip on Custom (advanced) if you need codec-level control.
3. Confirm the output destination, then click Process.

The output filename is the original with _VideoCrop appended (collisions get _VideoCrop2, _VideoCrop3, etc.).

Keyboard shortcuts

Key	Action
Ctrl + O	Open file
Space	Play / pause
I	Set cut start to current playhead
O	Set cut end to current playhead
Ctrl + Enter	Process

Updates

VideoCrop checks GitHub for a new release each time it starts. When one is available, the in-app banner downloads it in the background and offers a Restart and update button — the swap and relaunch happen automatically.

Credits

• ffmpeg / ffprobe — the encoding workhorses.
• mpv — playback and frame screenshots, used as a separate process under its GPLv2+ license.