An Instagram Reel can only be three minutes, and Instagram will not split a longer upload for you. Paste a link or upload your video and this free tool cuts it into ready-to-post Reels — vertical, full 1080p HD, no watermark, no signup.
Reel Frame always renders 1080×1920 (9:16), so the aspect ratio above is ignored while it is on.
Crop PositionA vertical clip is narrower than the original video, so the sides get cut. Pick the side the speaker sits on — or choose Fit, which shrinks the whole frame so nothing is ever cut off (good for videos with words written across the screen).
Clip LengthThe entire video is sliced into consecutive clips of your chosen length. For example, a 15‑minute video at 1 min will produce all 15 clips in full 1080p HD.
Type “Episode 1” or “Part 1” and numbers will auto‑increment (Episode 1, 2, 3…) across all clips.
Leave it empty and the AI writes a viral hook for each clip automatically.
Runs on our own dedicated server — most clips are ready in under a minute.
Starting…
Three steps, no account, nothing to install.
Upload a file from your device, or paste a YouTube link instead. Your video is only kept long enough to cut it.
Choose how long each clip should be, from 20 seconds up to 10 minutes. Leave Fast Mode on for a straight cut by the clock, or switch on Reel Frame to add the black canvas and a bold headline on top.
Each clip arrives on its own in full 1080p HD, with the audio intact and no watermark. Download the ones you want.
A Reel can be three minutes long, and that is a hard ceiling. Stories are different — upload a long video there and Instagram quietly breaks it into 60-second pieces on your behalf. Reels get no such help. Hand Instagram a twenty-minute podcast and it simply will not take it. The cutting is your job, and doing it by hand in a phone editor twenty times is the reason most long recordings never become Reels at all.
It is worth separating the two. Three minutes is what Instagram permits; it is not what performs. The algorithm pays far more attention to how many people finish a Reel than to how long it was, and a ninety-second clip that holds people to the end will travel further than a three-minute one that loses them at forty seconds. That is why 1min is selected on this page rather than the maximum. If your material genuinely needs the room, switch to 3min — the option is there.
Every part runs straight on from the one before it: 0 to 60 seconds, 60 to 120, 120 to 180, all the way to the end of the file. Nothing is sampled, skipped or shuffled, so a series posted in order plays as one continuous conversation. A leftover tail shorter than half a part is discarded rather than published, because a nine-second Reel at the end of a series looks like a mistake.
A numbered series is the whole point of splitting a video. Viewers who finish Part 1 go looking for Part 2, and that is free reach you do not get from a single standalone clip. Switch on Reel Frame and type Part 1 in the headline box before you press Generate; every following clip is numbered for you and the number is rendered into the video itself on a black banner, so it survives Instagram re-compressing the file and stays readable at thumbnail size.
Most long-form recordings — podcasts, interviews, webinars, match footage — are shot in 16:9, which is far wider than a phone screen. Cropping straight down the middle is what produces the familiar bad Reel: two microphones, half a face, and the person who was actually talking cut out of frame. Under Crop Position you can pick the side the speaker sits on. When two people sit apart, or there is text written across the screen, pick Fit instead: the entire frame is kept and scaled down, and the space above and below is filled with a soft blurred copy of the same footage rather than dead black bars.
Instagram compresses every Reel on upload, and the result depends on what you gave it. Every clip here is rendered at 1080×1920 in H.264 High profile with proper entropy coding, which is exactly the shape Instagram expects, so its compression has good pixels to work from. No tool can invent detail that was not in your source, though — upload the best copy you have rather than a version that has already been through someone else’s compression.
This runs in the browser against our own server. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, and no logo stamped across the corner of your Reels. The clips are yours.
Quick answers about how this tool works.
Upload your video or paste a link, choose how long each Reel should be, and press Generate. The tool cuts the whole video into consecutive parts and hands you each one as a separate 1080x1920 download, ready to upload as a Reel.
Three minutes is the maximum for a single Reel. Unlike Stories, Instagram does not split a longer upload for you — it simply will not accept it, so a longer video has to be cut into Reels first.
Shorter than the limit. Most creators find 30 to 90 seconds works better than a full three minutes, because completion rate matters more to the algorithm than length. 1min is selected here for that reason; switch to 3min if your content genuinely needs it.
Yes. No signup, no account, no app to install and no watermark on any clip. Every part downloads in full 1080p HD.
Yes. Switch on Reel Frame before pressing Generate and type Part 1 in the headline box. Every following part is numbered automatically, and the number is rendered into the video so it survives Instagram compression.
They can, if you crop blindly. Pick the side the speaker sits on under Crop Position, or choose Fit to keep the entire frame — the video is shrunk to fit and the space above and below is filled with a soft blurred copy instead of black bars.
1080x1920 in H.264 High profile, which is what Instagram expects for Reels. Feeding Instagram a full-size file means its own compression has less to damage.
As many as the video allows. A 30-minute podcast at 1min gives 30 Reels. There is a safety ceiling of 200 clips per video.
Yes. It runs in the browser, so Android and iPhone work the same as a laptop. Nothing to install.
Background reading on how this actually works.
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