2 Easy Ways to Crop a Screen Recording

Part 1. Professional Way to Crop a Screen Recording

There are always some limits or annoying ads/watermark in online tools. To crop a screen recording, you can also directly turn to the professional solution. Here we strongly recommend a powerful video converter and editor, Video Converter Ultimate for you to crop your recording file without quality loss. It offers some basic editing functions like crop, rotate, trim, adjust effects, enhance video quality, 3D and more. The following guide will show you how to crop a screen recording with it.

Step 1 To crop a screen recording file, you should first install and run this video editing software on your computer. Then you can click Add File(s) to import the recording you want to crop.

Step 2 Click the Edit icon and then choose the Rotate & Crop tab when you enter the main edit window. Here you can freely adjust the crop area based on your need.

Step 3 After your crop the screen recording, you can click the Convert button on the bottom-right corner to confirm the operation of cropping.

Part 2. Free Online Way to Crop a Screen Recording

As it mentioned above, there are some online video editors offered on the internet that can help you crop a screen recording with ease. In case you don't know which one should use, here we take the popular video cropping software, clideo as an example to show you how to crop a video recording online.

Step 1 Open your browser and navigate to the official site of clideo.

Step 2 Click the Choose file button to upload the screen recording file you want to crop. Here you are also allowed to add an online file or add file from Google Drive and Dropbox. Note that, you are not allowed to crop a screen recording more than 500MB.

Step 3 It will take some time to complete the uploading process depend on the specific file size. After that, you will be guided to a video cropping window to edit your screen recording. Here you can freely crop the video as you like.

Step 4 After the video cropping, you can click the Crop button to confirm the operation. Then you can click the Download button to save it on your computer.

As you can see, there will be a watermark added to the cropped video. If you want to remove the watermark, you have to sign in your Google or Facebook account. (Find screen recorder for Mac here)

Part 3. FAQs of How to Crop a Screen Recording

When you want to edit and crop a screen recording, you can rely on the recommended 2 methods above to make the video cropping with ease. If you have any better solution to crop video, please share it in the comment with other readers.