Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
On today's episode I'm going to show you how to do simple video editing using only QuickTime
player.
So say you want to do some very basic video editing.
You just want to trim some video or maybe combine two videos.
You can do that with QuickTime player.
There's no need to start a whole project or final cut project to do it.
I've got two videos here and let me demonstrate with them.
I'm going to double click on the first one and it will open up in QuickTime player which
you may just use to play the video.
That may be all you've used it for up to this point.
But you've got some editing commands in QuickTime player as well.
I'm using the QuickTime player in El Capitan and its version 10.4.
In order to trim this video I just go to Edit, Trim, and now I've got this control at the
bottom that allows me to set the Start and End points.
I just drag the ends here.
I'm able to trim off some stuff in the beginning and some stuff off the end and grab a section
in the middle.
I hit the trim button and now I have a much shorter video.
I could just, from this point, just save it out.
I'll show you how to do that at the end so that I've got a shorter video.
That may be enough for a lot of things you need to do.
But you can also add other videos to this.
So to add another video I'm going to go to Edit and Add Clip to End.
Then I'm going to select another video.
Now you can see I've got two videos here in the Timeline at the bottom.
I can jump into either one for trimming just as before.
So I'm just double clicking on them and it goes to the trim control.
Now I can drag the beginning and end of this if I want to trim.
I can hit the trim button and that will shorten this video.
So now I've been able to combine these two.
Not only can I combine them but I can move them around.
I can drag this one to the other end if I wanted to.
The third command is one that you can use to split the video up.
So I'm going to use my trackpad and use that to move that red line there which shows me
the frame I'm at.
I'm going to get it somewhere in the middle of this video.
I go to Edit, Split Clip or use Command Y and this will split that clip into two pieces.
You've already seen how I can move these around so I can move this one here.
So I can do a lot with splitting.
I can split this into as many sections as I want.
Move the different sections around.
In addition to that I can trim each of these sections.
Go back in and do that.
Just go in there and you can see the section of the original video that this is.
By just doing that there is a lot that you can do and when you're done and get it the
way you want you can now save this out as a single video.
So this is where it gets a little weird.
You would think you would go to File, Save but that's not an option.
You can't even go up here to actually set the name for this because it is basically
some sort of weird QuickTime player composition document that you are in.
All you need to do is you can either go to File, Export from here and Export is one of
these formats.
So I can do 720 p and export this video.
You get the same options if you try to close this.
If you try to close it it will ask you to export and you can open this up so you can
see exactly where you're exporting to.
So I'll do Combo and it will save it out.
So you can use either one of those.
Use the File, Export for more control and for just saving it out in the format that
it's already in you can just Close and then save out from the dialogue there.
Now you can see I've got this Combo video and now it's one video here that has at the
beginning fireworks and then it goes to the waves and then it goes back to the fireworks.
So it's saved out as one big video and I've successfully edited it without having to create
a big project and make a big deal out of it.
It's a good basic way to just handle some video very quickly.