It's Nothing Easier Than Cropping Videos

Recently, many have an amateur camcorder, and traveling to nature or any other event is necessarily accompanied by shooting. Ability to crop the video can be very useful when creating home videos, because not all of the captured footage is of interest. This article is aimed at users who want to create their own collection of amateur films.

Directly the trimming itself is divided into simple and complex, and it does not matter by which program it is implemented. The first is done when the user needs to measure, for example, a few minutes from the beginning of the clip. The second is focused on the case when a person chooses some moments from the whole video and puts them together. We will not now consider such utilities as Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere or others designed for professionals. We will not also rely on paid programs. First of all, let's get acquainted with the work of the products built into the OS (operating system). For Windows 7, this utility is called Windows Life, and it has an analog for the version of XP - Windows Movie Maker.

So, how to trim video in the products offered to us by the systems? To start, the program must be launched and transferred to the corresponding window on the left side. On the right it will be broken into frames after it is loaded, and now you can proceed to edit it. In the case where it is necessary to trim the video in a simple way, the user will need to move the slider, which counts the frames for the desired amount of time, and click on the setting of the end point. Then the rest of the video will be deleted, and the desired part will remain.

Now consider how to trim video in a complex way. To do this, in fact, you need to do similar manipulations, only before you set the slider to the start point of the corresponding key. The movie ends as described above. But there is another, more complicated method of trimming, and it occurs to us when it is necessary to break all the video into several necessary areas and then to compose them. This can also be done in this utility. To do this, the slider should be used in those areas that need to be removed. First, the entire video is divided into parts, necessary and unnecessary, then the latter are simply removed. Naturally, here we can not speak of a smooth transition between sites, since it is impossible to align them or harmoniously overlap each other in these programs. However, built-in products have one, but the main advantage. They do not care at all how to clip video -mp4, avi or any other format.

There is another similar free product. It is also designed to clip the video, - the Virtual Dub program. After you download it, it can start working right away, since you do not need to install it. Here you can not transfer the movie to the open program window, you need to specify the path to it. However, after selecting a video, all actions will be of the character that was mentioned above. The key difference between this utility and the built-in is the preview of the created video. Thus, the user can visually familiarize himself with his video directly in the program, rather than save it on the hard disk and view it in the player every time after processing and editing.

Pruning an amateur clip will not take you much time, even a child can cope with it. This statement, of course, will be true only when it is not about professional programs.