Video splicer

Picking the transition that fits your clips

The three transitions do genuinely different jobs, and the right one depends on what the clips are. None (hard cut) is the professional default for footage of the same event — two angles of the same moment, or a sequence of actions that belong together. It feels invisible precisely because films use it thousands of times. Crossfade softens the join and quietly says that time has passed, which suits holiday montages, before-and-after pairs and anything set to music. Fade to black is the strongest punctuation of the three: it closes a chapter and opens a new one, so save it for real scene changes rather than every join, or the video starts to feel like it keeps ending. One practical note: the result always uses the first clip's dimensions, so start with the clip whose shape you want and avoid mixing portrait and landscape footage — the odd one out gets scaled to fit and picks up bars or stretching in the process.

Order first, button second

Clips are joined in the order they appear in the list, and when you select several files at once they arrive in the order your file picker delivers them — which is usually alphabetical, not the order you clicked. Glance down the list before pressing Splice & download. If something is in the wrong place, remove it with the ✕ and add it again; it lands at the end. It also helps to know what this tool deliberately does not do: it joins clips, it does not trim them. There is no way to shave a slow start or a fumbled ending off a clip here, so record tightly or cut each clip to length in whatever recorded it before bringing the pieces together. Ten seconds spent ordering and checking beats re-rendering a video that plays back in the wrong sequence.

What the free tier covers, honestly

Free splicing takes up to 3 clips, each up to 1.5 minutes and 60 MB, with a combined result of up to 1.5 minutes inside a 200 MB total — and the free result carries a small CONVERTBURDA.COM mark in the corner. That is enough for the most common job this tool exists for: stitching two or three phone clips into one shareable video. A day pass or an unlock removes the clip count, the length caps and the watermark in one go, after which the only real ceiling is your device's memory, because everything still renders locally in your browser. Nothing about the paid tier changes how the tool works — same clips, same transitions, just no fences.

Every render re-encodes — plan the chain accordingly

Because the clips are played back and recorded onto one continuous video, the output is a fresh recording rather than a byte-for-byte copy — a WebM re-encode of your footage. One pass looks close to the original; what hurts is stacking passes, since each generation compresses the previous generation's artefacts along with the picture. So do all your editing before the final render: splice here, add a logo or caption at /video-overlay, and only then convert the finished piece. That order matters most when the destination is a GIF — make the GIF at /video-to-gif the very last step, because GIF's 256-colour palette is the harshest conversion in the whole chain and there is no point polishing anything after it.

How the clips are joined

Each clip plays through in real time and is recorded onto one continuous video — a hard cut jumps straight to the next clip, a crossfade blends the last frame of one clip into the first frames of the next, and fade-to-black dips through black between them. The result always uses the first clip's dimensions; later clips are scaled to match.