Media

Video Cutter

Cut and trim video clips with precision, supporting multiple formats and quality settings

file· File resultOpen tool

Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/video-cutter' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/videoFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/video-cutter' \
  -F 'videoFile=/path/to/file.ext' \
  -F 'startTime=0' \
  -F 'endTime=0' \
  -F 'duration=0' \
  -F 'outputFormat=mp4' \
  -F 'codec=libx264' \
  -F 'quality=75' \
  -F 'bitrate=e.g., 5M, 10M' \
  -F 'preserveAudio=true' \
  -F 'audioCodec=aac'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/video-cutter

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
videoFile	fileupload required	Yes	—
startTime	number	No	Start cutting from this time
endTime	number	No	End cutting at this time
duration	number	No	Duration of the output clip
outputFormat	select	No

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-video-cutter": {
      "name": "video-cutter",
      "description": "Cut and trim video clips with precision, supporting multiple formats and quality settings",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=video-cutter",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "video-cutter",
    "arguments": {
  "videoFile": "https://example.com/file.ext",
  "startTime": 0,
  "endTime": 0,
  "duration": 0,
  "outputFormat": "mp4",
  "codec": "libx264",
  "quality": 75,
  "bitrate": "e.g., 5M, 10M",
  "preserveAudio": true,
  "audioCodec": "aac"
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).