QuickTime Player on Mac lets you do many things, other than playing audio or video files. With QuickTime player on Mac, you can easily create or edit movies or record your screen. If you are shooting videos then there may be a chance that your videos have spare parts. QuickTime Player on Mac lets you make common video edits like Trim, Rearrange or Split.
Below, Let’s find out how to Trim Videos in QuickTime Player on Mac without using any third party apps.
Step1- Choose The Video File
Before we jump to the trim process, Open Video location from Finder on your Mac. Now, if you double click on that then it will start playing by the player.
Sometimes the player may not be able to start the video. If the player tells you that it can’t play that video then you must convert the video in a compatible format.
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Step 2- Bring the Trim Option
The Trim option can be found inside Edit Option > Trim on QuickTime Player menu. Alternatively, you can press the command+ T key on your MacBook to bring the Trim option in work.
You may see a yellow frame when you enable the trim part, this is where you select the parts of the video that you want to edit.
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Step 3- Ready with Trimmed Video
If you correctly performed the above steps then you will see a yellow trimming bar with handles on each side. The inside clips are combined to create a Timeline on which you can work. You can select the part of the video that you want to keep using the handles. For example, if you want to start the video after some second or minute from its original start time, then drag the left side handle. Similarly, you can drag handles inside to stop the video before its original end time.
For help, you can use the Play button to play back the selected part. Moreover, you can also see the Audio Track in this mode and do the same selection using handles. To bring the Audio track mode, press command+U button simultaneously.
Perform the selection until you are happy with the resulted Video and Audio. Once done, Click on Trim. This will trim the Video with selected parts.
To save the trimmed video, you can either click on center Top of the edited video. Here it will ask you to provide a name, place to store and add tags(optional) for the edited video. Also, you can Click on Save from File menu. From Keyboard, press command+S to Save.
Alternatively, You can export the trimmed video in different formats such as 4K, 1080P, 720P, 480P, or Audio only. Please note that each format will take a different amount of space in your storage.
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Though QuickTime Player can trim videos very easily, it limits to certain functions and good for basic video editing. So you may want to switch to other Mac video editing apps which are completely designed for video editings. These apps are mostly paid and used by professionals who want more effects and elements in their videos.
It’s actually handy to trim our large videos in QuickTime on our Mac. However, sometimes, there is quality loss after cut files. My friends told me a great tool and you can take it as an alternative if you want. It’s Joyoshare Media Cutter. 100% original quality and accurate trimming process. As you know, QuickTime only simply slide the handles to choose section rather than set time to millisecond.
Thanks for your tips. But to trim my videos on Mac, I would like to use the DRmare Media Converter for Mac. This program works well to trim and edit video files. It supports to add watermark, substitle, etc. for videos and save them to computer for using.