# Split mp4-file

**URL:** <https://community.make.com/t/split-mp4-file/15889>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [September 13, 2023, 6:37am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/split-mp4-file/15889 "2023-09-13T06:37:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![viggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/4bbf92/32.png) [@viggo](https://community.make.com/u/viggo)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2023, 6:37am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/split-mp4-file/15889/1 "2023-09-13T06:37:45Z")

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Hello all!

I have a case where I want to split a mp4-file into several parts (due to size limits). Have you ever solved this case, and what was your solution? I will post mine here as soon as I’ve solved it myself!

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**Author:** ![samliew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.make.com/samliew/32/13327_2.png) [@samliew](https://community.make.com/u/samliew)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 3:01am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/split-mp4-file/15889/2 "2023-09-14T03:01:49Z")

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My guess is with mp4 or other video files, an API to do this isn’t feasible due to the nature of the large file sizes, and you might hit your data transfer limit on Make fairly quickly, so one would normally perform this locally on their computer using software.

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**Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 4:01am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/split-mp4-file/15889/3 "2023-09-14T04:01:13Z")

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HI @viggo

To trim a video, you can use the Shotstack app in Make. For more details, refer to the below link:

> **[Trim a video using the editing API](https://shotstack.io/learn/trim-video-api/)**
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> Learn how to trim the start, end or middle of a video using the Shotstack API.

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**Author:** ![viggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/4bbf92/32.png) [@viggo](https://community.make.com/u/viggo)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/split-mp4-file/15889/4 "2023-09-27T12:32:31Z")

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Normally yes, but in this case I’d like to split a .mp4 in order to fit it into a cloud conversion servicee that only extracts the audio to create a transcript and a summary of the transcript. I’d rather not do that manually on my local computer.

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**Author:** ![viggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/4bbf92/32.png) [@viggo](https://community.make.com/u/viggo)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/split-mp4-file/15889/5 "2023-09-27T12:41:47Z")

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Great answer, thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 8:31am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/split-mp4-file/15889/6 "2023-10-09T08:31:40Z")

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