2Enter the start and end time of the part you want to keep.
3Preview the selection and run the cut — the part you keep is copied through untouched wherever the format allows it.
4Download the trimmed AVI file.
AVI Cutter FAQ
Does the format limit where I can cut?
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It does. AVI is the 1992 Microsoft container: broad codec support but no modern streaming features, no B-frame-friendly indexing and poor subtitle handling. That is precisely what decides whether a cut can be placed arbitrarily or has to land on a structural boundary.
Can I remove a section from the middle instead of keeping one?
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Yes — cut the piece before it and the piece after it, then merge the two results. That is deliberately two steps because it keeps both halves on the fast, lossless path instead of forcing a full re-encode.
Is the part I keep re-encoded?
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Not if the format allows a stream copy — the data you keep is bit-identical to the source and the job finishes in about the time the upload took. Only a frame-exact cut on a format that cannot do it cheaply needs a re-encode.
Does AVI Cutter cost anything?
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No. AVI Cutter is free without an account, and the output has no watermark, corner logo or intro card. The upload and the result are deleted automatically about 24 hours after the job, which leaves time to download the result.
What can I upload to AVI Cutter?
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MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, WMV, FLV, 3GP, M4V, MPEG and MPG. The container and codec are probed before anything runs, so a mixed batch is handled correctly per file rather than assumed to be uniform.
Why does a PDF site host AVI Cutter?
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PDF.to exists because PDF is where documents go to be shared and the worst place to keep them while they are still being worked on, so nearly every job here is about getting something into or out of that state deliberately. A document rarely arrives in the state it needs to leave in: it is too big, in the wrong order, locked, or a scan with no text in it. AVI Cutter sits on the same upload and the same account as the conversions because those jobs turn up together.
What should I do with the result once AVI Cutter is finished?
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The converter on this site moves documents between PDF, Word, images, plain text and eBook formats in either direction, so whatever comes out of a tool here has somewhere to go next without a second upload. Running that after AVI Cutter rather than before keeps the document structure intact through the step that is most likely to flatten it.
Is AVI Cutter here the same tool the sibling sites run?
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The engines are shared — the same document toolchain, the same workers, the same limits. What a PDF site adds is a view on when a file should stay a document and when it genuinely wants to become something else, which is the decision most tools quietly make for you. It also starts from one fact about the format this site is named after: a PDF is an object graph, not a page image, so text stays selectable and vectors stay sharp no matter what happens to the raster content inside it.
Do I need an account, and does anything get kept?
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No account is needed. Uploads and results are kept for about 24 hours, which leaves time to download the result, and are then deleted automatically; nobody reads, lists or indexes them. Several files in one job need a paid plan.
