Split a video into several clips on your phone

Overview

Pick a video and decide how to divide it. Equal parts gives you 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 10 clips of the same length. Fixed length cuts the video into pieces of 15, 30, 60 or 90 seconds, which match the limits of most story and status formats. Either way, iEdit writes each part as its own file into My files and leaves the original alone. A single video can be split into as many as 50 parts.

Like Trim, Split copies the video and audio streams without re-encoding them, so there is no quality loss and the job is quick even for long recordings. The trade-off is precision: a copied stream can only start on a keyframe, so each cut lands on the keyframe nearest the chosen point rather than at the exact millisecond. How far it moves depends on the recording's keyframe interval, which Video info can show you. The work runs on your device and finishes in the background with a notification.

Split is made for posting: a two-minute clip becomes four 30-second pieces for a status update, or a long screen recording becomes a series of short parts. It also helps when a single file is too large to send and you would rather send parts than compress. Because nothing is uploaded, splitting works offline and your footage never passes through anyone else's server.