Edit your video, your way
Kapwing is a free online video editor. Simple enough to learn without tutorials, yet powerful enough to support full creator workflows, Kapwing offers a robust video editing solution for every creator. Kapwing is a non-linear editor, meaning that video clips can be rearranged, appended, trimmed, and much more on a single timeline.
Within Kapwing, creators can splice and combine video clips, trim and cut inline, add transitions, overlay text and images, generate subtitles, and upload music. On the canvas, adjust the position and layout of your video and add special effects to make eye-catching and shareable videos. Add in audio, mix tracks, and import from YouTube to let your creativity shine.
How to Edit Video Online
- Upload Video Footage
Upload your original video footage to Kapwing's advanced media library. Media library will convert and optimize your uploads and serve as an easy area for organizing all your clips. Once you're ready to assemble your video, drag and drop clips to the timeline or canvas.
- Edit Video Clips
Using the timeline, trim and split clips until you have highlighted the key parts of your footage. Append these clips together to assemble your full story. Add text, audio, animations, and any other elements that you need to make your video stand out.
- Export and share
Once you're done, hit the green "Export" button and your final video will be generated in just a few seconds. Unlike other video editors, Kapwing works completely online for free. Download your final video and share it on your favorite social media platform.
The Internet's #1 Free Video Editor
Kapwing is how video editing should be. No downloads, no complicated tutorials, no spammy ads - just video editing made easy. Projects are backed up to the cloud so that you don't lose your work, and you can collaborate with other people in real time. Millions of creators use Kapwing for free every month, making it the best free video editing option online.
Kapwing supports many different file types including MP4, MOV, AVI, 3GP, and many more. Creators can record video clips, add voice overs, and search for images from inside the Studio. The videos can be edited directly in the browser from any device. When the video preview looks correct, click “Export” to create the final video. Download the MP4 file, publish the video on social media, or share the link with your friends.
We started Kapwing to make video storytelling accessible to anyone, on any device. Kapwing is designed by and for modern creators: storytellers, entertainers, and educators who share their message online. Perfect for YouTube videos, social media, school assignments, work projects, TikTok, and more. Kapwing is useful to beginners and experts alike! No film school degree or Macbook required.
Why is Kapwing so popular amount casual creators and professional video editors alike? Here are a few reasons:
- Collaborative: Like Google Docs and Dropbox, creators can collaborate on video projects in real time within Kapwing. Every asset and web page is shareable. Anyone with the URL can watch the video, re-edit, and make a copy. Kapwing is the first platform to make video editing a truly collaborative process from start to finish.
- Smart tools: ML-powered tools speed up creative workflows. Try our automatic subtitle generator, remove background tool, automatic translation, and more. Kapwing's video editor also supports Smart Cut, a new way to automatically remove silences from videos, saving creators time and energy when editing.
- Modern features: Kapwing's video editor is built for the modern generation who expects software to be fast, reliable, and easy to learn and use. You can get started with editing video in just two clicks in Kapwing, with no downloads or signing in required.
Powerful track handling
Kapwing's powerful timeline-based editor allows anyone to add and manipulate multiple tracks easily. Edit audio, images, and video all in one place. Adjust layers and place overlays at any point in the video. Drag and drop tracks to rearrange clips in just a few clicks.
Simple media management
Upload any file that you need to edit, and convert it in the cloud. With the powerful support for a media library, Kapwing lets you separate your files from your editing work. Reuse files across multiple projects, and create content faster than ever before. Organize your files all in one place, and edit them on any device as you need.
Discover millions of assets
With integrations in popular providers like Giphy, Unsplash, Pexels, Kapwing provides millions of stock video and audio files to help you get started in seconds. Discover inspiration for things to make directly within the Kapwing editor, and tap into a robust ecosystem of plugins and integrations.
Discover even more features on Kapwing
Add Subtitles
Generate and customizable captions that automatically sync to your video. Use our AI-powered tool to create a transcript of your video, and then customize your auto-synced subtitles to make them perfect for your content creation needs. Resize, swap out fonts, or add in professional animations and transitions - all your edits will instantly be applied to the entire video.
Smart Cut
Smart Cut automates your video editing process by detecting and removing silences from your video in a matter of seconds. You'll be saving hours of editing time and completing your rough cut faster than ever for talking head videos, recorded presentations, tutorials, vlogs, and more. Editing has never been so seamless.
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Resizer
Repurpose videos faster and make them look more professional with our Resize Canvas feature! In just a few clicks, you can take a single video and adjust it to be the right size for every other platform, whether it's for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, or somewhere else.
Background Remover
With Kapwing's smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Upload your content, select the Remove Background tool, and use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you.
Clean Audio
Enhance your project’s audio in seconds with Kapwing. In one click, Clean Audio automatically removes background noise, corrects loudness, and helps reduce popping sounds in your audio and videos. To use it, simply upload a video or audio file, then select Clean Audio on the right side.
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Collaborative editing
Work with your team directly in Kapwing. Create and edit content, then send it to share and collaborate with your teammates. Make team workspaces, comment in the editor, and work on videos together in real time or asynchronously.
Trimmer
Edit the length of your video clip by dragging the timeline handles or by using the Split tool. It’s never been easier to cut out silences, rearrange clips, or adjust the length of your audio to fit your video.
Waveforms
Kapwing's customizable waveforms let you bring your audio or podcast content to life. Our Waveform tool creates an automatically-generated, animated graph showing the frequency and amplitude of your audio over time. Choose between a classic waveform style and a stacked “bars” style to bring your own touch to your project.
Unlimited Overlays
Make your content pop with image overlays, emojis, progress bars, and audio waveforms. Then simply resize and position them to customize your project. With unlimited overlays, the possibilities are endless.
Stock Assets
Browse hundreds of royalty-free images, GIFs, videos, sound effects, and music clips directly in our editor. Curate assets that will bring your project to life, then edit them the way you want to all in one place.
Templates
Get inspired by hundreds of trendy video templates made to unleash your creativity. Select the template that best suits your project, and then make it your own with custom videos, images, or text. Making professionally designed videos or memes has never been faster.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best free video editor?
Kapwing is voted the internet's #1 free video editor, with a rating of 4.9 on Google reviews from 1,650+ reviews. Kapwing supports a powerful video editing workflow while also being easy enough to learn and use without any complicated tutorials. Get started with one of thousands of templates, or bring your own footage and take advantage of Kapwing's timeline, which will allow you to splice clips, adjust timing, add text, and much more all in one place. Compared to other internet video editing options which may run ads, require downloads, or add a watermark, Kapwing offers the greatest combination of functionality, reliability, and ease of use in one single platform.
Why should I edit videos online?
Using an online video editor can be faster, simpler, and more accessible than choosing a traditional native, desktop based video editing software. An online editing workflow offers a number of advantages: creators can collaborate and share projects more easily, files are uploaded to the cloud and live in one place, platforms support powerful plugins, and editors can access a plethora of online tutorials and templates. On top of this, online video editors don't require any downloads and run completely in the browser with no installations required. This makes it easy for anyone to get started with making content.
How do you make video edits?
At its core, video editing is about uploading clips and then splitting or combining them together to create a story. Using a video editor like Kapwing, creators can upload videos then edit them in a non-linear fashion on a tool called a timeline. The timeline lets creators play videos, trim their timing, and watch their finished video in one place. This tool also gives a visual way for creators to add text, upload music, apply effects, and much more to videos of any length. In summary, the best way to make strong video edits is to have a strong vision for the story that you want to tell. Then, choose the easiest tool that you can find to bring that story to life.
What's different about Kapwing?
Easy
Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.
Free
Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.
Accessible
Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.
Online
Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.
No spam or ads
We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.
Powerful
Kapwing works hard to help make the content you want, when you want it. Get started on your project today.
Trusted by millions of creators all over the world
Best online video service ever. And a miracle for deaf people.
[Subtitler] is able to autogenerate subtitles for video in almost any language. I'm deaf (or almost deaf, to be correct) and thanks to Kapwing I'm now able understand and react on videos from my friends :)
Michael Trader
Information Services Freelancer
This tool should be in every social media account managers' bookmark list.
I use this daily to help with video editing. Even if you're a pro video editor, their is no need to be spending hours trying to get the format correct. Kapwing does the hard work for you.
Dina Segovia
Virtual Freelance Worker
It just works!
Kapwing is incredibly intuitive. Many of our marketers were able to get on the platform and use it right away with little to no instruction. No need for downloads or installations - it just works.
Eunice Park
Studio Production Manager at Formlabs
With Kapwing, we're always ready to create.
Kapwing is an essential tool that we use in MOXIE Nashville every day. As a social media agency owner, there's a variety of video needs that my clients have. From adding subtitles to resizing videos for various platforms, Kapwing makes it possible for us to create incredible content that consistently exceeds client expectations. With Kapwing, we're always ready to create - from anywhere!
Vannesia Darby
CEO at MOXIE Nashville
Spend less time learning... and more time crafting stories.
Kapwing helps you spend less time learning complex video editing platforms and more time crafting stories that will connect with your audience and customers. We've used the platform to help create engaging social media clips from our clients' podcasts and we can't wait to see how the platform simplifies this process going forward. If you've learned graphic design with Canva, you can learn video editing with Kapwing.
Grant Taleck
Co-Founder at AuthentIQMarketing.com
It keeps getting better!
Kapwing is probably the most important tool for me and my team. It’s always there to meet our everyday needs in creating scroll-stopping and engaging videos for us and our clients. Kapwing is smart, fast, easy to use and full of features that are exactly what we need to make our workflow faster and more effective. We love it more each day and it keeps getting better.
Panos Papagapiou
Managing Partner at EPATHLON
By the far the most user friendly software to use.
As a housewife at home looking to start a Youtube channel for fun with absolutely zero editing experience, it was so easy for me to teach myself via their YouTube channel. It takes the tediousness out of editing and encourages creativity. As long as Kapwing is around, I will be using their software.
Kerry-lee Farla
Youtuber
Kapwing is my secret weapon!
This is one of the most powerful, yet inexpensive and easy-to-use video editing software I've found. I blow my team away with how fast and efficiently I can edit and turnaround video projects.
Gracie Peng
Director of Content
Kapwing is king.
When I use this software, I feel all sorts of creative juices flowing because of how jam-packed with features the software really is. A very well-made product that will keep you enticed for hours.
Martin James
Video Editor
Love this site.
As a English Foreign Language Teacher, this site helps me to quickly subtitle interesting videos that I can use in class. The students love the videos, and the subtitles really help them to learn new vocabulary as well as better understand and follow the video.
Heidi Rae
Education
Excellent subtitling features
[It] works perfectly for me. Have been using Kapwing for a year or so, and their automatic subtitle tool gets better and better every week, it's rare that I have to correct a word. Keep up the good work!
Natasha Ball
Consultant
Best online video service ever. And a miracle for deaf people.
[Subtitler] is able to autogenerate subtitles for video in almost any language. I'm deaf (or almost deaf, to be correct) and thanks to Kapwing I'm now able understand and react on videos from my friends :)
Mitch Rawlings
Information Services Freelancer
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