"Which is the best software for trimming videos? I want to remove certain parts of videos, leaving the rest unaffected"
To trim unwanted parts of videos, you'd better get a professional video trimmer. Here, you can turn to Wondershare Video Editor, which is a professional Video Trimmer for you to keep your desired parts of video, and remove unwanted parts.
Not only can Wondershare Video Editor be served as a Video Trimmer, it can also be a Video Spliiter, Video Merger, Video Cropper or Video Effect for you to merge, split, crop and effect your video
Tips: if you want to trim videos on Mac, you can turn to Wondershare Video Editor for Mac
Below, we will show you how to trim videos on Windows
Step 1: Load your videos
You can eitehr click "Import" or drag videos directly to Video Editor. And then drag and drop videos to the timeline.
Note: If you have several videos, you have to trim them one by one unless you also need to merge these videos together.
Tips: Video Editor can trim all videos including both SD and HD including AVI, WMV, MPG, MOV, MP4, MKV, FLV, 3GP, VOB, ASF, SWF, AVCHD, MTS, XAVC, VRO, Tivo, MOD, TOD etc.
Step 2: Trim videos
You can choose either of below ways to meet your requirements.
- Trim from the beginning or from the ending part.
- Mouse over the left or right edge of your MP4 file on Timeline, and when the "double arrow" indicator appears, drag to trim to any length as you want.
- Split your MP4 file into several parts and get your wanted clip.
- Play your MP4 video, drag the slide in the preview window to your desired location, click "Pause", then choose "split", your video is divided into two parts. You can repeat this to get your wanted part then delete the others.
Tips: You can personalize your video clip. Double click the trimmed clip, in the pop-up edit window, you are able to rotate and crop your video file, and adjust some other effects. Also, in the main interface, you can add Text, Effect, PIP, Transition, Intro/Credit etc.
Step 3: Export your trimmed videos
Click "Create" button, then you will go to the "Output" window. You can either keep the original video format or convert to other video formats or share it on YouTube or burn to DVD as well.
