Nowadays you can make a lot of fun edits and exciting changes to your videos. You can merge and mix more than one video into a single file. Videos are often large and their duration is also long, which is why you may need to trim them to share them with other people.
Thus, you may need to use Video editor/cutter/trimming software. This article discusses how you can trim videos using native Windows methods and free third-party tools to get the job done. You can review and choose any method you find appropriate that matches your requirements.
Check out how to compress video files without losing quality if you are looking to free up some space.
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How To Trim/Cut Videos
Using Photos App
Microsoft previously replaced the Photo Viewer with the Photos app in Windows 10 and is now shipping the Photos app pre-installed into Windows 11.
Learn how to restore Windows Photos Viewer in Windows 10/11.
The Photos app is a useful tool to cut and trim videos according to your requirements. You can cut a single section out of a video, or trim multiple sections to create a single video file.
Trim Single Segment of Video using Photos App
Perform the following steps if you wish to trim a specific part of a video:
Note: If you want to create an edited video by trimming multiple parts of an existing video, refer to the next section of this post.
- Right-click on the video that you want to edit, expand Open with from the context menu, and click Photos.
- The video will now start playing in the Photos app. Click the Trim button from the top menu, or use the CTRL+ E shortcut keys.
- Now select the begining and the ending points for the video that you want to trim, and then click Save as from the top when the selection is finalized.
- From the popup, select a location and a name for the trimmed file and then click Save.
Photos app will now begin saving the trimmed segment of the video at your chosen location.
Trim Multiple Segments of Video using Photos App
If you want to trim multiple segments of the same video and cut out the other parts, follow these steps:
- Open the Photos app by searching for it from the Windows Search box.
- From the top of the app, click Video Editor.
- Next, click New video project.
- New enter a name for the new video that will be created at the end of the process, and then click Ok.
- Click Add under Project library and then click From this PC from the expanded menu. Next, browse to the location of the video that you want to edit and select it.
- You should now be able to see the video in the library. Drag and drop it into the Storyboard at the bottom of the app.
- The video will now be in the Storyboard. Select the video and click Split above it.
- From the next window, drag the slider to the location where you want to split the video, and then click Done. This will split the video into 2 segments (you can choose which segment to keep and which to remove later in the process).
- You will now see the video split into 2 videos in the Storyboard. Select the one that you want to split again and click Split.
- Now drag the slider to the location where you want to split the video again, and then click Done.
- Now repeat steps 9 and 10 until you have the desired partitions of the video.
- Now the actual video will be cut up into several different segments. From the Stotryboard, select the ones that you do not wish to keep and click Delete (Trash icon).
- Now preview the remaining videos to make sure you have the desired segments, then click Finish video from the top of the editor.
- From the popup window, select the resolution in which you want to save the final video in, and then click Export.
- From the Save as window, select a location where you want to save the video and click Export again.
Photos app will now begin compiling the video and save it to the chosen location. Photos will also automatically play the trimmed video which you can double-check.
Using Filmora Free Online Video Trimmer
If you are not satisfied with the results of the Photos app, you can also upload your video online and download a cut version of it from there. The process does not add a watermark and is completely free to use.
Filmora Free Online Video Trimmer is an online utility that can be used to cut videos for free. This way, you will not need to download and install a third-party application on your computer.
Perform the steps below to cut a video using Filmora Free Online Video Trimmer:
- Open Filmore Free Online Video Trimmer in any web browser.
- Drag and drop the video that you want to trim in the highlighted section on the website.
- When the upload completes, adjust the begining and the ending points of the video which you want to be trimmed and click Done.
- Filmora will now compile the trimmed video and show you a preview. If you are satisfied with it, click Download to obtain the trimmed video.
Using Third-Party Tools
You can also use third-party tools on your Windows PC to cut videos. Below is a list of the ones we found most useful and free to use.
Free Video Cutter
Free Video Cutter supports almost every video format. This is the best tool for video cutting and trimming. It can also be used to trim multiple segments in a video. The video that you cut is saved in good quality. This software is easy and simple to use.
When you click on “open video”, it’ll allow you to add any video you want to trim. After adding the video, select the starting and ending points to trim the video from the slider. You can also select the format of your resultant video after it has been trimmed. Once one, click Save Video to export the final, trimmed video.
Use this simple, easy and free tool for smooth cutting of your videos.
WinX Video Converter
This is another amazing tool for video cutting and is free to use. You cannot only cut the videos, but it also provides you the easiness of merging your videos into one. You can save your resultant video in any format with WinX Video Converter. This software supports 1080p multi-track videos.
First, add videos by clicking on +video. Then choose the “output format” for your video from the list provided by this tool.
Click Edit and a new window will open. Here, adjust the sliders to define the starting and ending points for the trimming, and click Trim to begin the cutting process. When the process is finished, click Done.
WinX Video Converter also acts as a video joiner and you can add more videos to an existing one by applying the same steps discussed above.
When you are done with adding and merging all your videos, click on Run to finalize it. Your new video is now ready and saved to your system.
Media Cope
Media Cope is a free tool used for video or audio cutting. You can also convert any video or audio in any other format with this tool. It has many features and can act as all-in-one software. The disadvantage of Media Cope is that the saved audio/video resultant file is not of very high quality.
Nonetheless, it gets the job done and is just as easy to use as the rest of the tools we have discussed thus far.
Video Edit Master
Video Edit Master is an interesting and user-friendly video-cutting software. The tool is free to use but it only supports AVI and MPEG formats. You can edit and merge your videos and save them in good quality. It also provides you with other video editing options.
Free Video Cutter Joiner
Download Free Video Cutter Joiner
This is another free video cutting tool. It supports almost every type of video format. You can easily trim videos and also remove any commercials and trailers from them. It cuts trims the videos quickly and speedily. The Video Joiner feature can merge more than one video.
Honorary Mentions
There are other free tools available on the internet that could be used to cut, trim, and edit videos for free. Below is a list of other tools we think you will enjoy using:
- Gihosoft Free Video Cutter
- Moo0 Video Cutter
- Cute Video Cutter Free
- Weeny Free Video Cutter
- iTech Video Cutter
- AIV DVD Cutter
Closing Words
These are the top free video cutting tools for Windows available on the market today. You can either choose to use the built-in Photos app in Windows to trim your videos, use an online tool with no installations required, or download and install any of the third-party tools we have discussed in this post.
What is your preferred tool for cutting/splitting videos? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section below.
8 comments
Blair
You cannot ask too much from a freeware. It might be slow or buggy, but they manage to put so many features into the product without charging you.
I hate slow loading and exporting, so I spend a little on Joyoshare Media Cutter.
It turns out that this budget video cutter, triming by frame, large collection of format, video rendering and export video without quality loss.
Joe
Free Video Cutter is very slow to load a video? It says Creating video thumbs… and taking much time to count up to 60.
Leroy Dawley
It offers free version.
Leroy Dawley
Does anyone use WonderFox HD Video Converter Factory Pro? A good video editing software that can cut videos easily.
Usman Khurshid
WonderFox Video Converter is not free?
Hakus
Don`t bye anything from WinX.
30-Day Money Back Guarantee ???
They gave me a useless outdated program as compensation when i wanted my money back.
Im stuck with the programs ive bought and the compensationprogram don`t function.
Then they stoped answering on the support.
Josh
WinX Video Converter is trash. Trim doesn’t work.
Robert Michaels
Great collection! I use this software: http://www.videostudiopro.com/en/pages/video-trim/ to trim and cut my videos but i needed a decent free alternative for my other computer. So thank you very much for the help.You gave me more than I needed :)