240 articles about video editing.
Clipchamp is the one to open first. It runs in Edge or Chrome, joins clips on a single timeline track and exports at 1080p with nothing stamped on the picture. Clideo and Canva do the same job with more conditions attached.
VLC converts a video to an audio file through Media > Convert / Save, where you pick an audio-only profile and a destination. It works, it is free software, and it fails without saying so more often than it should.
On an iPhone the song goes on in iMovie, not in Photos: tap Add Media, then Audio, then Soundtracks or My Music. Apple Music tracks will not load at all, and that is where most people stop before they have placed a single song.
A subtitle in VLC loads from the Subtitle menu, or on its own if the .srt file sits beside the video with the same name. Playing them is the part VLC does well. Welding them into the picture is the part that goes wrong.
A video quality reducer moves one of three things: resolution, bitrate or frame rate. Choose the right one and a 400 MB clip fits through email with nobody noticing a difference on the screen it will be watched on.
To make QuickTime Player trim video, open the clip and choose Edit > Trim. Drag the yellow handles to the part you want to keep, then click Trim. It is the fastest cut on a Mac and the least forgiving.
Fun birthday videos are short, specific and made of other people. Ten to fifteen clips, twenty seconds each, one story per person. The editing is the small part of this job. The asking is the real one.
You cannot combine YouTube videos on YouTube. A playlist plays them back to back without joining them; a single file means downloading your own uploads and merging them on your computer. Other people's videos are off limits.
Shoot and upload at 9:16. Instagram accepts anything from 1.91:1 down to 9:16, so a wider clip will post, and only the upright frame fills a phone. The minimum resolution Instagram names is 720 pixels.
A video speed editor online changes how fast a clip plays and hands the file back from a browser tab. Clipchamp runs from 0.1x to 16x, Canva from 0.25x to 2x. Speeding video online is two decisions: which tool, and how much faster.
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