in this video i show you how to cut videos in Shotcut hi everyone my name is Joe and welcome
to Ubitronics on this channel i show you how to use open source software today we're going
to look at cutting videos in Shotcut so let's head straight over to the computer there are
three key ways to trim and cut videos in Shotcut and what i'm going to do right now is go through
each one of them depending on your situation and the end result that you're wanting depend on which
one you want to use so the first one is trimming the beginning or end of a video after you drag it
into Shotcut so the way i use Shotcut is that i put everything into my playlist before i edit it
i would recommend that you do the same thing and the first thing i'm going to do is drag my video
clip into the playlist and then sometimes when you open the video it can preview in this pane but
what you don't get are any options around here so if i double click i actually get some additional
options here so make sure you've double clicked on the playlist item and then here you've got a
little arrow and you can drag that inwards what that's going to do is going to ignore this part
of the video and trim it to this this section here going to play the blue bit and then you use this
arrow on the other side to go inwards it's going to ignore this last section as well so instead
of it being a eight second video it's now just a four second video now that's almost set up like
a template file so now when you drag it into the timeline it's only going to give you the section
that you've created from that trimming tool that's particularly helpful if you wanted multiple
versions of your cropped clip in your full video so that's the very first way of trimming your
videos at the beginning and ends the second way is very similar actually if we drag in a second video
and i'm going to create a new track just to show you the three different ways we'll have
three different tracks so i'm going to drag the whole thing without editing it into the timeline
now that's the video and what i can do very similar to method one is is use the bars
to click and drag and reduce video size now what that's going to do is this clip will now just show
the the clip that you've reduced it to but if you drag in the chess one again it's going to be the
whole thing so this one is good for individual snips and option one is good for repeated steps
now the third option is maybe slightly more advanced it gets into a little bit more editing
but actually it's the most versatile so let's create another video track to go through it
and drag in another video so i'm going to drag elephant straight down to here and as
you can see it's a bit longer so it allows me to demonstrate a little bit better on this video
so now let's imagine instead of wanting to trim the end of the video we actually want to get rid
of the middle parts so we don't want this section of the video we're going to click this button here
where we want it to stop which is called split at play head and if you wanted to use keyboard
shortcut then that's S on the keyboard and you click it and what happens is it will now
allow you to use the video parts separately but you've still got the whole thing in the timeline
let's say that we wanted to cut it about here you just click the s button again and now again you've
got multiple cuts of the same clip let's imagine that we wanted to remove this bit you can do two
things you can click delete on the keyboard which will just remove it and leave a gap in the video
or you've got the option if i do an undo got the option of selecting it and clicking this minus
button or use the X on the keyboard what that will do is it will squish it up so this part here will
go back as far as this video section here and this will be removed so let me click it and
hopefully that will make sense that will basically get removed and everything will
ripple up to the to the end i just undo that once more and i move this over to here
and if i remove that once more it doesn't move it all the way it doesn't snap it to the next video
it removes the set the length of the video that was existing okay so that's particularly helpful
if you still wanted to move this up to the next bit then you can also right click and do remove
and it will then bunch up to the next video part and you can obviously do that as much as you want
to in Shortcut and edit your videos as you need to so you've got lots of options on how to edit
and cut your videos now as i've said bear in mind option one if you want to do a repeat
of each thing option two if it's just on the fly and then option three if it's a
bit more advanced and you've got quite a bit going on in your video clips i hope
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