The speed depends on your computer speed. VLC Media player will crop any video format it can play. Select where you want to save your cropped video and start the process. Add ( :stop-time=***) without the quotes where *** will be the stop time in seconds. You’ll immediately see the time added in seconds in the ‘edit options’ text box. Enter the start time of your clip in the Start time text box. You can also get there by pressing CRTL+R keyboard shortcut.Ĭlick ‘Add’ button and load the video you want the clip from. Then click on ‘Media’ in the VLC menu bar and select ‘Convert/Save’. The stop time should be in seconds.(Thank me later) Play the video in VLC and take note of the start time and stop time of the clip you want to crop out of the video. If you want a 45 minute clip out of a 3 hour video, this method might not be the best for you.

The main downside of this method is that you have to wait for the entire duration of the clip you want to play as VLC records. You can now use the clip to do whatever you wanted to do. The clip in between will be saved in the ‘Videos’ folder in Libraries. As soon as you get to the point you want your clip to start, click on the record button and let the video play until where you want your clip to stop then click on the record button again.

You can use this record button to record a section of the video playing. This will add extra controls including a record button. Click on view in the VLC menu bar and select ‘Advanced settings’. Play the video you want to trim on VLC Media player. This mainly depends on the accuracy you need and the length of the video clip. Once installed, there are two main ways to crop video into shorter clips on VLC. If you don’t have VLC, install it for free from the official website. But when you just want to get a clip from a long video you watched, downloaded or shot on a road trip, VLC media player can do this for you. There’s a plethora of tools and software you can find to do some high quality video editing and trimming.

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