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When you Trim a video, you delete its start and /or end, which is worthless to the whole video. To help our users better understanding these video editing terminology, we prepare this special part, not just including Cut and Trim, but also the related one, Split. However, technically, in video editing, they are different things. Both of them are about changing the original video into several sections. We have noticed that many users are mixing the Cut with the Trim. Figure out Cut and Trim Before Methods Explaining But before we get the details about these methods, we may need to first figure out some misunderstanding about video cutting. If you find yourself exactly stuck in these situations, no worries, and 4 methods are here for you coping with them. When we have initially assembled the film shots, we need rough cut to cut off the meaningless snippets when we plan to insert a section of a video into another clip, we need first to remove the unwanted parts when we would like to share some videos that have recorded our daily lives to social media, we need to cut it into several pieces, because of their video length limit issue etc. We need it almost whenever we polish a piece of our video footage.
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Video cutting is one of the most fundamental video editing skills. Here in this guide, we will share with you 4 practical methods, making this mission achievable on your desktop computers, mobile devices, and online. SUMMARY: Looking for a tool or some way to cut videos? No worries.