Recently, many have an amateur video camera, and a trip to the countryside or any other event is necessarily accompanied by shooting. The ability to trim a video can be very useful when creating home videos, since not all shots taken are of interest. This article is aimed at users who want to create their own collection of amateur films.
Trimming itself is subdivided into simple and complex, and it does not matter with which program it is implemented. The first is done when the user needs to measure, for example, several minutes from the start of the video. The second is focused on the case when a person selects some moments from the entire video and combines them together. We will not now consider such utilities as Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere or others designed for professionals. We will not rely on paid programs either. To get started, let's get acquainted with the work of products built into the OS (operating system). For Windows 7, this utility is called Windows Life, and it has an analogue for the XP version - Windows Movie Maker.
So, how to crop video in products offered to us by systems? To get started, you need to start the program and transfer the video to the appropriate window located on the left side. On the right, it will be divided into frames after loading, and now you can proceed to editing it. In the case when you need to trim the video in a simple way, the user will need to transfer the slider that counts the frames for the right amount of time, and click on the endpoint setting. Then the rest of the clip will be deleted, but the desired will remain.
Now let's see how to crop a video in a complicated way. To do this, in fact, you need to do the same manipulations, only before that set the slider to the start point with the appropriate key. The movie ends as described above. But there is another, more complicated method of cropping, and we come across it when we need to split all the videos into several necessary sections and subsequently compose them. It can also be done in this utility. To do this, the slider must be used in those areas that need to be removed. First, the entire movie is divided into parts, necessary and unnecessary, then the latter are simply removed. Naturally, here we cannot talk about a smooth transition between sections, since it is impossible to align them or harmoniously overlap in these programs. However, embedded products have one, but main advantage. They don’t care what trim video –mp4, avi or any other format.
There is another similar free product. It is also designed to crop video - Virtual Dub. After you download it, it can immediately start working, since it does not require installation. It will not be possible to transfer the movie to an open program window, you need to specify the path to it. However, after selecting a video, all actions will be of the nature indicated above. The key difference between this utility and the built-in utility is the preview of the created video. Thus, the user has the opportunity to visually familiarize himself with his video directly in the program, and not save it on the hard drive and view it in the player every time after processing and editing.
Cutting an amateur video will not take you much time, even a child can handle it. This statement, of course, will be true only when it is not about professional programs.