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VLC Media Player is best for not only playing videos from di erent sources but it can be
used as a video editing software. You can cut or trim any videos to create video clips.
That means you can select a certain part of your video and cut it out to a smaller clip.
You can easily select a beginning point and then an ending point. Then, VLC will
automatically cut and save from point A to point B to your PC.
VLC might not be the most advanced video editing software but it can easily cut videos.
Advanced video software requires advanced skills to perform even basic tasks like
trimming a video. But VLC is simple enough to allow you to trim parts of your videos.
You will never have to keep a lengthy video le because of some clips in the video that
you really don’t want to delete. Just save your favorite segments and leave out the rest.
This will also allow you to easily share videos with friends and family via di erent
mediums.
To cut parts of a video using VLC Media Player:
1. From your normal VLC screen, using the menu bar go to View > Advanced
Controls.
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2. Recording buttons will appear above your normal player control buttons.
3. Open up your video that you are looking to cut.
4. Play the video or scroll around to the starting point from where you want to trim.
5. At the starting point click on the record button. It is the round red button.
6. Play the video or move it frame by frame using the “Frame by Frame” button for
more accuracy.
7. After you reach the ending point, hit the record button again.
Simplify the cut with the help of hotkeys:
Another way to extract clips from videos is by using shortcut keys or hotkeys
(https://www.vlchelp.com/vlc-media-player-shortcuts/).
1. To begin recording: Press Shift + R
2. To stop recording: Press Shift + R again.
The player will display “Recording” when you start the process and “Recording done”
when you cut it o .
Your trimmed video will be saved in your “My Videos” folder in Windows. In Win 7 it is
found under C:\Users\Username\Videos folder if Windows is installed in C: drive. For 
other OS just visit your documents folder or your user folder and nd the default
videos folder. You will easily nd your edited video there. File names can be something
like vlc-record-2013-11-16-14h25m16s-vlc-streaming-audio.avi-.avi if you need to search
for it.
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52 thoughts to “Cut Videos with VLC Media Player”
TIAGO AKIRA
September 9, 2018 at 9:00 pm (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-1532)
VLC is just the best thing. Thanks and congratulations for making this useful program that
helped me a lot in these 10 years of use.
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SERGIO
August 21, 2018 at 5:50 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-1487)
Hello! A couple of years ago, I could cut videos perfectly with VLC, but now the result is a
video trimmed without sound. What is the problem? It happens to someone else? I have
the latest version installed (in Windows 10).
Thank you very much,
Sergei
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Same thing just happened to me. Windows 7.
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E LYE
Yes it works …. but ….. during this DVD playback I did the record thing ……… but ……on
playing that segment, the sound and video were disconnected. Is there a bug. x?
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DANIEL
Thanks so much! This worked just ne!
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TIMWIIM
Thank you.
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JENGEL
July 23, 2018 at 7:45 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-1446)
Where on macOS version is this control?
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ANTONY MUKUHA
September 6, 2018 at 6:54 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-1529)
cmd
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RAISSA
June 19, 2018 at 11:04 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-1354)
yooo this worked perfectly, thank you so much!
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KEITH
Hi. Just cut the end o a video for the rst time. It works great. BUT, when the new video
ends, it shoots right back into my video le so all my videos are listed (and playable). How
do I stop that happening. If i send the video to someone or share it on Facebook I don’t
want them to see all my other videos.
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ADMIN
So, you are saying it is opening up other video les? Maybe you can try putting the one
that you are trying to share on a separate folder?
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EMBØL
October 4, 2018 at 12:56 pm (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-1596)
in the settings you can specify somewhere that it should stop playing on the very last
frame and pause there instead of ending the video.
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JAQUES

All I wanted to do was trim a second or two out of the original clip. I cannot seem to do
this. I can extract portions of a clip to make new clips, but I cannot trim a clip. Clumsy.
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MICHELLE VAN DER WESTHUIZEN

April 5, 2018 at 3:07 pm (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-1227)
Wow this was so easy … Got it right the rst time … Shortened a 60 minute video which I
only needed the rst 03:30 minutes .. Went to my Video Files ,.. and for sure it was lying
there and waiting for me … Thanx
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BRADEN DODGE
March 15, 2018 at 4:23 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-1201)
What version of VLC is this? At some point VideoLan cut this bit out…..ironic, lol.
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DEBBIE
November 20, 2017 at 9:19 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-1053)
Same problem, I was able to crop the video but there is no image just a black screen and
sound on the cropped video
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WILLIAM ROBINSON
October 20, 2017 at 1:19 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-1020)
I wish it was as easy as it shows in that video (lol) But for some unknown reason the
webm le that i try an convert gets changed to MKV and then wont play in VLC if anyone
has some advice as to how this could be resolved that would be awesome. I shall in the
meantime continue searching for a solution.
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May 7, 2017 at 10:21 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-890)
here’s the strange thing about my situation. i edited two videos successfully. got the
edited parts in both video and sound. but then on the 3rd and thereafter, all i get is a
black screen and audio. i did not change anything after that, and even tried return
preference to default. still i get black vid and good audio. how do i get the video to
work???
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ADMIN
Did you try editing the videos that you were successful with to see whether you get the
same result?
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KARTHI
June 9, 2017 at 10:24 pm (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-914)
yes.thanks a lot
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NWORDU FRANCIS
May 26, 2018 at 2:45 pm (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-1304)
Dear Admin, please I can’t nd the record button on my VLC media player. What
should I do?
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ADMIN
If the record button doesn’t show up after you activate the View > Advanced
Controls then you might have to edit the layout and customize the VLC Interface
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YATTY
thanx a lot
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GEORGE D
April 10, 2017 at 3:21 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-863)
I want to perform a very simple task i.e. assuming that I have a video from A to Z lasting
totally 5 min. I want to crop a section B to C lasting 30sec and then further down another
section D to E lasting 45sec and then one more section K to L that lasts 45 sec. That
means I want to keep the video A to Z without the sections B to C and D to E and K to L,
thus the new video will have a duration of 3 min. How can I do that in a simple and quick
way??
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ADMIN
VLC isn’t that feature rich for such video editing but a simple video editing tool will be
able to do what you are trying to achieve here.
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ACTION ADMIN
Perhaps you want video editing software of which there many out there. This a video
player, though full featured, a video player none the less.
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CHRIS PRICE
December 31, 2016 at 12:00 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-732)
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I don’t see any reason not to simply let us
crop the length.
I’m trying to make a gif that needs millisecond accuracy on its start/end times, and it is
less than 2 seconds long as well. But even when it seemed like I hit it precisely at the right
marks, I end up with a 0 second long pitch black video, so I’m assuming that it was too
short to count as one or… something.
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What’s the deal here? Is there a reason I can’t just say, “here’s the start time, here’s the
end time, delete everything that is outside of these parameters or whatever”?
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JRB
February 19, 2017 at 9:24 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-806)
It works as described; unfortunately it can’t be played in Windows Media player or

IrfanView.
Not everybody has VLCMediaPlayer.
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ACTION ADMIN
How could it work as described yet one not have VLC? This method uses VLC to do the
action stated.
If it worked as described a proper mp4 WOULD play on any standard player.
Plus there’s no reason not to have VLC, it’s free and multi-platform.
I have the same issue as many others I get an unplayable black screen that attempts to
play for about a second.
Interestingly, even though the clip is about 3 seconds the timecode is always wrong
when I try to play the resulting le. It might say 4 hours it might say 10 min. It’s always
di erent each time I encode. This function seems to be broke.
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GREG BLANK
November 13, 2016 at 5:16 pm (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-674)
This is not an appropriate solution that they have provided. If you want to cut multiple
sections of a video. You should be able to select all those points using a new VLC interface
and then export those time points to a zero frame lossless editor that makes the cuts in
seconds – DONE! Ideally VLC could implement zero frame lossless cutting!
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ZEKE5555
Yeah it’s about what I’ve come to expect. Many “added features” in VLC are cumbersome
and “twitchy.” It works fair as a basic player that doesn’t hog resources, and its desktop-
recording feature isn’t bad, but many of the functions are just plain clumsy. (…and still
no screen-click pause after all these years, not since last I checked.)
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BOB LOBLAW
It’s nice that VLC is actually capable of doing this, but it *is* very clunky. If I want to trim
say 15 seconds o the beginning of a 20 minute video, I still have to let it play out for
19m45s as there appears to be no way to immediately scrub to the end of the clip. Not
very practical…
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RAKESH GOEL
Whether it is possible to get a pause in between the cut video. I mean to say, I want to
record from A to D and in between A to D I want that B to C is not recorded. There should
be single video from A to D leaving B to C in between.
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Why would an otherwise ne video player make it so di cult to do such a basic task?
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ACTION ADMIN
You answered your question within your question, it’s a video PLAYER not a video
EDITOR.
I don’t understand why people keep wondering this about the great , and free mind you,
VLC video PLAYER not having good video EDITING features.
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I postulate this: Why would an otherwise ne screwdriver make it so di cult to pound in

a nail?
Because it’s not the right tool for the job. Can you pound nails with a screwdriver? Sure,
but not very e ectively.
The better question is “why don’t you use a hammer?”
Use the right tool for the job at hand and your life will be so much easier. Work smarter
not harder.
Peace.
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JOE
You did a superb job of explaining “how to” here, even dumbed it down enough for us
average Joes to understand. Just reading through a few of these questions, and
comments, and then seeing this little “HELLOOO PEOPLE???” comment made me feel
the need to commend you on your patience, and thank you for continueing to help
out, regardless of the ignorant/arrogant/spoiled individuals that are blind to how 
awesome this player is for the cost..**FREE!!!** I would bet that many of these
individuals have enjoyed much use from this player, after skipping right passed the
“donate” button! Again, thank you so much for your time, and help. You can’t please
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YUZZ181
Work very well for me,

thanks !
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PIERREBON
I don’t get the same interface. There is no option for ‘advanced controls’, I’m using a mac.
Does this make a di erence?
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ES T
December 3, 2016 at 6:53 pm (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-697)
Nope, on PC is the same story!
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CWBRANDT
i am having the same problem. I thought this was because I was running VLC on my mac
so I have now tried running it on a VISTA Windows machine and get the same problem.
THe le extension is .AVI-.wav in case that helps get someone to gure out why it doesn’t
work.
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September 4, 2015 at 3:40 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-202)
i have been trimming videos for a while using vlc and it works really well however a avi le
that i trimmed today had no sound. why would this be?
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ALEJANDRO IZQUIERDO
Hi, I’m having the same problem. Did you nd a solution? Thaks, best
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CATGIRL
August 18, 2015 at 11:58 pm (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-182)
I don’t have an “Advanced Controls” option under View on my Mac. Is this another case of
our being considered second class citizens? Shame.
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ROLLYN FRANCISCO
how do you include subtitles in cropping the video using vlc?
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ASHISH
Since the subtitles aren’t hard coded with the video le, they cannot be included in the
cropped output.
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NEED HELP
this is recording which i know but how to cut part of video like any scam or sexy part from
movie using VLC player or in any player or with any resource.
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ASHISH
Try using the same method.
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RAHUL KUMAR
in my vlc there is no view option
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UMARHAYAT63
April 18, 2015 at 8:02 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-105)
Thanks brother, but when i cut any video so i get rst thats audio and after playing audio
then play video. I mean if i cut 10 sec a video so that done but when i play so rst play
audio of 10 sec and after playing audio play video of 10 sec. Please send its solution.
Thanks
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I'M SCARED
Whenever I tried to do this it desynced my audio
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March 26, 2015 at 1:59 am (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-90)
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work very well, in some cases it records only the sound,
in others the image is idle in the rst seconds
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MUHAMMAD JAMALUDDIN (@THNTP)

September 8, 2015 at 9:31 pm (https://www.vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-with-vlc-media-player/#comment-206)
I have similar issue on VLC.

It records the sound on MP3 format and no video. Have you gured out how to record?
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