Update v1.0.4

• New ⏯ toggle button (next to "Save frame") to show/hide the native <video> controls. The preference is persisted per file in localStorage and restored on reload. Useful when the native controls overlap the crop box during corner-resize.
• Restored the pointer cursor feedback: the cursor changes to move (body drag) or nwse-resize / nesw-resize (corner handles) while dragging, and returns to default on release.

Update v1.0.3

• Fix: widget dropdown menu (aspect-ratio select) and the "Save frame" button are now clickable even when they overlap the crop box. The pointer/wheel handlers no longer hijack events that land on UI elements floating above the video.

Update v1.0.2

• New Free (Custom) aspect ratio: a crop rectangle of any shape, not limited to the preset ratios. In Free mode the box keeps the shape you draw:
  • four small resize handles on the corners — drag one to resize the box freely (the opposite corner stays fixed; minimum size 2% of the frame);
  • the box still moves by dragging its middle, and the mouse wheel still zooms it (preserving the drawn ratio);
  • switching to Free keeps the current box (from Original it starts full-frame); switching back to a preset refits that ratio as before.
• The aspect-ratio selection is now persisted per file in the browser localStorage as well (alongside the crop box and the IN/OUT marks), so a Free crop survives a page reload.

Update v1.0.1

• Video-editor-style trim timeline below the preview (outside the crop area):
  • filmstrip of real frames sampled across the clip (1/s, min 4, max 48), rendered progressively;
  • audio waveform (decoded loudness envelope) under the filmstrip, skipped for very long clips;
  • mark-in / mark-out window: two thin (frame-precise) marker lines with a small grip on top; drag a marker to change the in or out point (minimum window 0.05 s); the middle of the window is not draggable;
  • playhead line following the native playback position in real time;
  • keyboard I / O set mark-in / mark-out at the playhead (standard editor convention);
  • a plain click anywhere on the timeline (including on the blue selection) seeks the native player;
  • playback is confined to the marks: starting from a time before the mark-in jumps to the mark-in, and reaching the mark-out loops back to the mark-in (unless the mark-out is the end of the clip, in which case it stops naturally); seeking while paused stays free anywhere on the clip;
  • dragging a marker (IN/OUT) pauses the preview and scrubs it to the marker position, so the frame being marked is visible (editor behavior).
• The timeline is display-only and reflows as the node is resized (thumbnails stretch, waveform re-samples, marks keep their exact times).
• The timeline survives aspect-ratio changes and preview re-renders (both designs); the captured assets (thumbnails, waveform) are kept across re-renders of the same file.
• New start_time / duration / strict_duration inputs (hidden widgets, same semantics as the core Trim Video node) — the trim is stored in the workflow and can be set via API.
• Changing the video file resets the trim window to the full clip.
• The trim works in combination with the crop rectangle (both at once, still static across all frames).
• Fixed: clicking/dragging the crop box no longer triggers the player's click-to-play/pause (the click synthesized at the end of the drag is now absorbed; clicking the video itself still toggles playback as usual).
• New 💾 Frame button (top-left of the preview): one click saves the current frame as PNG file(s) downloaded by the browser — full frame plus cropped frame at the exact output dimensions (WYSIWYG with the node output); with the Original aspect ratio only the full frame is saved (the cropped copy would be identical); file names carry the source name and timecode; the button briefly shows the outcome (✓ Saved / ⚠ Failed).
• The node now also outputs the frame the preview is showing as two IMAGE sockets (full + cropped): the exact frame the player displays at frame_time (hidden input, kept in sync with the player by the frontend; settable manually to export an arbitrary moment) — the same frame the 💾 Frame button saves (in Original the two are identical).
• Per-file persistence: the crop box and the IN/OUT marks are cached in the browser localStorage and restored across multi-tab switches and page reloads, in both the classic and the 2.0 layouts (the frontend resets the hidden FLOAT widgets when it re-instantiates the nodes); a workflow that already carries crop/trim values always wins, and a new file always starts from its own memory (or clean).

Initial release v1.0.0

• Node based on the official Load Video: same file picker, drag & drop, and native <video> preview.
• Visual crop rectangle drawn on top of the native video preview: drag to move, mouse wheel to zoom, locked to a fixed aspect-ratio list (1:1, 2:3, 3:2, 3:4, 4:3, 9:16, 16:9, 21:9).
• WYSIWYG: the output VIDEO matches the framed area (dimensions are even-aligned for the x264/yuv420p encoder); the crop is static across all frames.
• Memory-efficient: the cropped video is saved frame-by-frame straight from the source file, so peak memory does not scale with video length or resolution; tensor consumers materialize only the cropped region.
• Original (default) passes the video through uncropped — the node behaves exactly like the official Load Video.
• The crop is stored in the workflow and exposed via the hidden crop_x / crop_y / crop_w / crop_h inputs (normalized 0..1), so it can be set from an API script.
• Works with classic nodes and ComfyUI 2.0 (Vue nodes).