How to Cut a Video Easily with VLC Media Player

When it comes to cut a video, you may consider a video cutter software, like Gihosoft Free Video Cutter, but if I tell you that you can use VLC media player to do so, you may feel strange. Yes, the first sight of VLC media player to most people is a video player. In fact, we do not use VLC media player to cut videos, instead, we record the portion of the video we want to cut to finish the process. Here I will tell you how to do it with 4 easy steps.

Step 1: Open VLC media player, click the View in the tool menu, and tick Advanced Controls to activate it.

Step 2: Once you activate the Advanced Controls, a toolbar with four buttons will appear above the Play/Pause button. The red dot button is the key to point, it’s used to record video, you need to use it in the next step.

Step 3: Play the video you want to cut, go to the starting position you want to cut. To cut the video accurately, you should press both play and Record button simultaneously, or you can play the video ahead of time, when the slider goes to the exact starting time, you press the Record button.

Step 4: When the video goes to the ending point you want to cut, you should stop it by pressing the Record button again. The clip will be automatically saved as an MP4 video file type, you can find it in your Libraries/Videos folder. 

So, these are all the steps to cut a video using VLC media player. It’s very easy if you follow these steps.

How To Edit Videos with Camtasia

When you use Camtasia to record videos, usually there are some unwanted parts in it, such as some irrelevant operations, or some glitches of your software which may cost your extra time, you may want to get rid of these. In this situation, you can just use some simple software, like Gihosoft Free Video Cutter to deal with them, or you can directly use Camtasia itself to do them. In this article, I will tell you how to edit videos with Camtasia, you can use it to split videos, add captions, callouts and transitions in it etc.

1. Import Video File
Open Camtasia and press the “Import media” button, load the video to the software, the video will show in the blank.

2. Edit Dimensions
After you import you video, pull it directly to the timeline, a new interface will pop up, the software will automatically ask you to edit dimensions. Choose and dimension you want to keep your video, you can select wide screen for 16:9 and standard for 4:3. If you are not sure about the aspect ratio, you can set it any time you like, or change the resolution as you wish. When adjusting the aspect ratio, you’d better keep the original rate, otherwise it will be stretched or squished, which is not comfortable for watching.

3. Trim the Video
You can comfortably play the video in the preview screen before you decide which parts you want to discard, the slider in the timeline will slide alongside with the video. To accurately control the time, you can use the UDLR key to adjust the time inch by inch.
To cut the unwanted part, you need to mark a start point and end point. When you choose the part you want to cut, just click the “Split” and a line will automatically appear. You just do it like this to mark the start point and end point, and click the right key of your mouse, choose “Remove from timeline”, you will finally cut the unwanted part successfully. 

If you want to do more operations with your video, it has different choices for you: you can use Callouts to add annotations, use Zoom-n-Pan to to zoom in the important parts, use Transitions to add special transitional effects, use Cursor Effects to display the cursor in different ways to underline the important parts, use Captions to add captions in the video.