Free Video Splitter

A video splitter cuts one large video file into several smaller ones so it fits somewhere it otherwise would not: an email attachment, a chat app's upload cap, a USB stick formatted years ago, an upload form that times out on anything big.

This tool splits by file size. You say "parts of 100 MB" and it produces exactly that: a set of pieces you can send separately and put back together at the other end. It does this by slicing the bytes of the file where they already sit on your disk, which is why it is instant even on a 20 GB export and why nothing is lost along the way.

One thing to be clear about, because plenty of tools are vague on it: the parts are pieces of a file, not short clips. Only the first part carries the video's header, so none of them play on their own. That is true of every byte-level splitter, and it is exactly what makes the round trip lossless. If what you want is genuine short clips you can post, that is a different job — cutting on scene and time boundaries — and it needs a real editor.

Upload limits are the usual reason. Email attachments are commonly capped around 25 MB. Chat and messaging apps cap uploads too, and the number differs per app and per plan. Client portals and school submission systems often set their own ceiling and reject anything over it without much explanation.

Then there are the slower problems. A very large upload that fails at 90% and starts over is worse than four uploads that each succeed. A drive formatted as FAT32 cannot hold a single file over 4 GB no matter how much space is free. And archiving footage across several discs or cards needs the file broken up at a size you choose.

In all of these the question is the same: get this file under a number, without losing anything and without handing the footage to a stranger's server first.

Videographers and editors sending raw footage to a client or a colleague when the shared drive is full or the transfer service caps out.

Students and teachers submitting a recording to a portal that rejects large uploads.

Small businesses emailing a product demo or a recorded walkthrough to someone whose mail server refuses anything over a set size.

Anyone archiving — splitting a long recording across memory cards, discs, or an older drive that cannot hold one huge file.

What they have in common is footage they would rather not upload to an unknown service just to make it smaller. Because this tool runs on your own device, that trade-off does not come up.

When you choose a video, the browser gives the page a reference to the file on your disk — not a copy of it. The splitter uses that reference to describe each part as a byte range, which costs no memory and takes no time regardless of how big the file is. That is the whole trick, and it is why there is no upload progress bar anywhere on this page.

You choose the part size, or the number of parts, and the exact plan is shown before anything happens: how many parts, how big each one is, and how big the final one will be. When you download, each part is written straight from the original file to your downloads folder.

If you would rather have one file to send, the parts can be packed into a zip — also built in your browser, and stored rather than compressed, because video is already compressed and squeezing it again would cost minutes for nothing.

Yes, and it is private by construction rather than by policy. Your video is never sent anywhere, so there is no server that could keep a copy of it, no retention window to read about, and no account to delete afterwards. You can watch this yourself: load the page, disconnect from the internet, and split a file — it still works.

That matters more for video than for almost anything else people put through an online tool. Footage tends to contain faces, homes, workplaces, children, unreleased work, or a client's confidential material. Uploading all of that to a free service in order to cut it into four pieces is a large amount of trust for a very small operation.

Here the operation happens where the file already is.

These are two different jobs and picking the wrong one wastes time.

Split by size — this free tool — when the goal is to move the file. The parts are not playable, they rejoin perfectly, nothing is lost, and there is no limit on file size. Use it for sending, uploading, and archiving.

Cut into clips — the paid Imagera clip maker — when the goal is content someone will watch. It cuts on scenes and timing in the cloud, and each output is a finished, playable video, with reframing and captions available. Use it for social posts, highlights, and anything you are publishing.

Start here if you are trying to get past an upload limit. Go there if you are trying to make something to post.