After recording videos with my smartphone, I often need to trim parts of the video files. Fortunately, Microsoft Windows 10 has tools that provide an easy way to trim video. Just follow these steps.
- Right-click the video file, and choose “Open with” > “Photos“.
- Select the “Trim” button located at the upper-right portion of the window.
- Slide the two white sliders to where the portion of the video you wish to keep is in between them. The blue slider only shows the current frame and has no bearing on trimming.
- Once you have the area of the video you wish to keep selected, click the “Save a copy” option located at the upper-right portion of the window.
- Give the video file a new name. Once saved, it will be the new trimmed version of the video.
Charmaine says
I cannot save the trimmed video. I get an error box that says:
It looks like you don’t have permission to save changes to this file. Try saving a copy instead.
How do I fix this??
Danielle says
I’ve tried to trim my video clip on two different types of computers and each time the clip is sped up. What can I do to avoid this problem ?
Paul says
The trim worked, and saved. BUT … the original was 482 mb and the trimmed copy is 1.51 gb … almost 4 times the original size!!!! That really doesn’t help.
JennyD says
After you do the trim and you know the beginning and end is where you’ve marked it, go to the top right of the “photos” screen and use the drop down to choose ‘save as’. The file will go to wherever you designated BUT it is not ready to play yet. Notice that on the ‘photos’ page where you did the trim, that a blue line is now in the middle of the screen and moving slowly. That is film actually getting ready to be complete. Wait for it to finish and then you can close out ‘photos’ and go to your file and it will play.
Trimmer says
DO NOT FOLLOW THIS GUIDE
Trimming video using Windows Photos reduces the quality of the trimmed video and worst of all reduces frame rate from 60FPS to 30FPS.
Jennifer Mayweather says
Thanks for the good tutorial. wonderfox hd video converter factory can also trim/cut videos easily. I use it to do basic video editing like cutting, cropping and merging.
vidyasagar says
Hi, I trimmed the video, however it will not let me save, “i don’t have permission” how do i get around this? Thanks!
Jim says
There is “Save a copy” option for me, so I am not able to save.
cptnoremac says
It trimmed the video, but the output was 30fps, while the input was 60fps. What gives?
Mike says
Hi, I trimmed the video, however it will not let me save, “i don’t have permission” how do i get around this? Thanks!
Rosa Maria Gonzalez-Lamas says
Having the same problema as Julie. It doesn’t allow me to save the document. Save as button does not work.
Julie M Robert says
The save section is not illuminated so I cannot save after moving the dial to trim. Thank you so much.
Paul says
Fantastic, thank you!
Shellipe says
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!!!
Brooks Carter says
A friend sent me an MP4 video. After setting the section to be trimmed, I tried to use the save a copy option and I got a message that said, “It looks like you don’t have permission to save changes to this file. Try saving a copy instead” which, of course is what I had already tried. How do you solve this?
Stemgurl81 says
Thanks so much! We already spend so much on our tech tools I appreciate being shown how to use the features on something I already own rather than downloading yet another tool.
kelios incantare says
I’ve tried this several times, but for some reason the trimmed copy won’t play after it’s saved. Any ideas?
Sian says
Thank you Mitch! This helped.
Mitch Bartlett says
What I do is I split it where I want the first segment, then split it second at the end of what I want to edit out. Then the segment in the middle can be deleted. Repeat until end of video.
Demetri says
How do you split a long video into segments?