Shorten a Long Video to a Target Length

Condense hours of footage down to the length you actually need

Set a target duration and VideoRecompress detects scene changes, keeps the most distinct moments and drops the dead space — fully offline, in batch, with no upload caps.

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Why Shorten Video With VideoRecompress?

Online clip makers upload your private footage to a server, watermark the result and limit how long a file you can process. VideoRecompress runs entirely on your own machine — no accounts, no caps, nothing leaves your PC.

Scene-detection picks out where the video changes, then keeps the strongest moments until your target length is reached. Prefer manual control? Trim to an exact range or speed the whole clip up into a timelapse instead.

Three Ways to Make It Shorter

Hit a Target Duration

Tell it make this 2 minutes and it keeps the highest-scoring scene changes until it reaches your target — no manual scrubbing.

Keep the Top Scenes

Or keep the N most distinct moments as a quick highlight reel, with padding before and after each cut and optional crossfades.

Trim or Speed Up

Prefer it simple? Trim to an exact start and end, or speed the clip into a timelapse — batch a whole folder at once, offline.

100% Offline
500+ Videos per batch
0 Upload limits

How to Shorten a Long Video

1

Add your videos

Drag and drop clips or whole folders of MP4, MOV and MKV files.

2

Pick a target length

Choose a target duration, a number of scenes to keep, or a manual trim and speed.

3

Export the short version

Run the batch and get a shorter, ready-to-share file for every source video.