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My purpose is simple. I want to be able to drag and drop a video into a website or a free piece of software, set a start time and end time for cutting to save or delete a portion of video and if it can join video together, great. Must be simple and straight-forward because I'm not looking to do anything else with the software and I don't want to have to spend hours trying to figure out how to do this.

 

What would you guys suggest?

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If you're on windows you can do this using "Films & TV"

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Windows 10 built in video editor is decent for quick and dirty cutting, splitting and joining video clips. 

 

I've also used Blender for quick and dirty video work. (Technically its a 3D modelling and rendering package so its definitely a limited video editor)

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34 minutes ago, Vectraat said:

My purpose is simple. I want to be able to drag and drop a video into a website or a free piece of software, set a start time and end time for cutting to save or delete a portion of video and if it can join video together, great. Must be simple and straight-forward because I'm not looking to do anything else with the software and I don't want to have to spend hours trying to figure out how to do this.

 

What would you guys suggest?

Another i would recommend is using your phone's built in video editor. Samsung and apple have one, but im not sure if other phone companies have those.

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16 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

Another i would recommend is using your phone's built in video editor. Samsung and apple have one, but im not sure if other phone companies have those.

Adding onto this, Google Photos has a fairly capable one built-in.

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1 minute ago, Vectraat said:

Yeah, I guess I should've specified, I'm looking for something on a PC. I don't want to edit on a phone. 

Yeah, on that, well beyond NLEs like Davinci Resolve or Hitfilm Express (hope ya enjoy crashing if you use that thing), i dont have any other recommendation of video editor that isnt basically digital ewaste.

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1 hour ago, Vectraat said:

What would you guys suggest?

https://kdenlive.org/en/download/
Free, open source, cross platform, light (compared to alternatives)... Takes an hour tops to learn basic video editing, but if you ever need more you can learn more. And if one day you wish to switch to something commercial like Premier Pro or Vegas Pro or DaVinci Resolve or whatever... then the workflow and the layout you've learned will come in handy, unlike learning to work in some random "online video cutter" or MS Paint equivalents for video editing heh.

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Hmm I just tried out the Windows built-in "Video Editor"

>Edit a video that's 5:36 long and 15.6 MB.

>Reduce it to 3:36 long and now the file size is 38.0 MB 

Both 720p files, same container (MP4) 

 

This was only a small test file. I plan to be editing videos much longer than this so I'm not sure how I feel about editing 45min-1 hour long content down to 10-15 minutes only to end up with a larger file size. Weird. I see no render options. 

 
 
 
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Why is it now 22.4 MB BIGGER.
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5 hours ago, Vectraat said:

Hmm I just tried out the Windows built-in "Video Editor"

>Edit a video that's 5:36 long and 15.6 MB.

>Reduce it to 3:36 long and now the file size is 38.0 MB 

Both 720p files, same container (MP4) 

 

This was only a small test file. I plan to be editing videos much longer than this so I'm not sure how I feel about editing 45min-1 hour long content down to 10-15 minutes only to end up with a larger file size. Weird. I see no render options. 

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Why is it now 22.4 MB BIGGER.

The original was most likely more compressed. Windows built-in doesn't have many options, I was doing similar basic stuff, but ended up going with Resolve since I had better control over rendering options.

 

But if you only need to compress files, you could still edit with Windows editor and then compress with Handbrake.

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