Online Video Cutter
online-video-cutter.com
Trims, crops and rotates a video with no account and no watermark
No sign-up
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metacafe.com
Short-video hosting that ranked clips by audience rating rather than recency.
Use Internet Archive Moving Images instead
Public-domain features, newsreels, adverts and ephemeral film, free to stream. Public-domain status is asserted by uploaders rather than cleared centrally, and print quality runs from restored to barely watchable.
Open Internet Archive Moving ImagesFor a while the credible number two to YouTube, with a novel ranking system that promoted clips by measured audience retention and a producer-rewards programme that paid for popular uploads. It narrowed to gaming and entertainment, then went dark; the domain no longer resolves.
Questions
No. Metacafe is no longer running and metacafe.com does not serve the tool any more. Internet Archive Moving Images is the closest current equivalent — it public-domain features, newsreels, adverts and ephemeral film, free to stream.
Yes. Metacafe sends your input to its own servers to process it. That is fine for public material; for anything containing personal data, use one of the on-device tools instead.
No longer resolves; the archive of uploads went with it.
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online-video-cutter.com
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audiomass.co
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clipchamp.com
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kapwing.com
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otranscribe.com
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