WebM Cropper – Crop WebM Videos with Perfection

In today's digital world, video content is the most prevalent. Popular social media platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, act as the major hub for video content. This also increases the need for royalty-free content which is where the role of WebM videos comes in Place. Cropping, as a popular video editing skill, is widely used when you want to focus on a specific object or person. Do you know how to crop WebM videos? Let's dive in.

What is WebM Videos?

First of all, let's have a brief idea about what's WebM videos. WebM is a royalty-free alternative to store audio and video content in an open-source media file format.

Created by Google, WebM is supported by all the major web browsers. Besides, for web browsers that don't directly support the WebM file format, third-party plugins can be used to play them. Normally, WebM can be used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.

It is gaining a lot of popularity in recent times due to the following reasons:

• It is a powerful alternative to the patented MPEG4.
• The files saved on WebM are smaller in size as compared to MP4.
• It is a free video format.
• The huge media files are compressed and saved in high-quality video standards and thus occupy very little space.

How to Crop a WebM video?

After knowing the basic information about WebM files, let's learn how to crop a WebM video to meet your requirements. We will discuss two ways in this article.

Method 1: Cropping WebM Videos to Perfection Using Wondershare Filmora

Wondershare Filmora is one of the most advanced software when it comes to video editing. Powered with AI, editing a video had never been so easy. Supporting almost every popular video format, Wondershare Filmora offers quite easy way to crop WebM videos. Besides being a video cropper, it can also rotate, flip, and make other video edits like below:

• Enhance the visual image of the videos with one click by auto-enhance.
• Crop videos into different shapes with masks
• Keep the moving object always in the frame with auto-reframe
• Remove video background with AI Smart Cutout
• Remove background noise from videos by Audio Denoise
• Sync audio and video automatically
• Make your video perfect with 900+ free exclusive and creative elements

Here are the steps to crop WebM videos on Filmora:

1. Download and install Wondershare Filmora on your computer.
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2. Open the Filmora software and click on New Project.
3. Import the WebM video and add it to the timeline.

   

4. Click on the crop icon on the editing bar to open the Crop and Zoom panel.

   

5. Set up the aspect ratio from the preset options or customize it by yourself.

   

6. Click apply to cropping WebM videos.

Method 2: Cropping Webm Videos Online Using an Online Video Cutter

Alternatively, you can also crop the WebM videos online. After doing a full research, we've picked 123apps online video cutter as a solution here.

Supported by many popular video formats such as MP4, M4V, AVI, MOV, WMV, 3GP, and WEBM, this online video editing tool also offers popular aspect ratios such as 16:9, 4:3, their vertical counterparts, square, etc. What's more, it is quite simple to use.

Here are the steps:

Step 1: Navigate to the 123apps website from your browser.

Step 2: Click on Open file. Select the WebM file that you want to crop. Change the aspect ratio from the options under the timeline, or customize it according to your needs.

Step 3: Once all the necessary changes are done click on Save. The video will be processed and saved on your PC.

Bonus: How to Convert Cropped WebM Videos into MP4?

While WebM compresses the video in high resolution, it is still not compatible with all the media players. You might need an additional plugin to play the WebM videos on a media player not support the WebM files.

As an alternative solution to downloading an additional plugin, we can also convert the WebM file to MP4. Many tools can complete the converting process, today, let's learn how to achieve that in Filmora.

1. Import the WebM file to Wondershare Filmora and drag it to the timeline.
2. Click on the Export button on the right upper side.
3. Adjust export settings according to your needs, you can customize resolution, frame rate, and file format here.
4. Under the file format dropdown list, choose MP4 as required, and finally, click export again.

   

Conclusion

Here are various ways you can use to crop WebM videos, in our article, we have discussed two ways, one is using the software, and the other is using an online tool. Normally, software solutions bring much more stability and offer more video editing features.