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How to cut video and edit

April 30th, 2009 by admin

In this post i will show you a video that i have done, but this video is unedited so i will need to cut out the parts that are no good and reduce the size of the video.
Thus making it smaller and much more quickly upload to YouTube or your favorite video sharing website.
Take a look at the video you will see many errors and even some Aussie Slang, then i will show you how i edit it.

Now as you can see there is a few things in that video that need to be cut out.
Below shows you how i have done that in a step by step easy guide using windows movie maker 2.
First thing you will need to do is boot up Movie Maker 2, then you need to select import video.

import-video

find-video2

Then click on the down arrow in the Look in: folder (up the top) this will open up a directory tree of your Hard Drives, find your video, mine is saved in the c:/Videos     folder as i had created this folder earlyier before.

click-import1

Now click on the import button, then you should see the clip on the time line area.

time-line-jpg

Now drag that clip or clips onto the video time line like this see pic, you can select multiple clips by holding down the Ctrl button.

drag-the-clip-into-time-lin

You can start the edit process.
play the video to see what it looks like then you will be able to choice what you like and not.
Click on the Zoom button to stretch the video time line this helps as it will be easy to select a clip zone and cut it.

zoom-time-line

When you find the part you want to split (cut) you will need to have the video in the sample viewer, to be able to do this and have the video time line selected, once you find the spot click on the Clip then Split

split-video

after doing that play the video to see if you like it, and do the same thing again (split it) just b4 you want the video to resume onto a good part, then you should see a separate tiny clip that you can just delete from the time line, right mouse click on the part you don’t want and delete.

delete-clip

After you have cut out all the parts you don’t want its time to save your video,

save-movie-file

click on File, then Save as movie, i choice My computer

as i will upload it later and keep the video on my hard drive if i ever need it again some day, give the file a name for your video so you will know where it is and where to find it, i also leave it as Best quality for playback

save-as-type

on my computer (recommended) i will talk about other formats and that in future posts, it may take a little while to save the video depending on your system, mine is slow.
Now let take a look at the final video and see what it looks like, I’m not the best at this lol i am a complete novice hehe.


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    In this post i will show you a video that i have done, but this video is unedited so i will need to cut out the parts that are no good and reduce the size of the video….

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