How to Edit Video for Free
How to Edit Video for Free
Trim, combine and share your videos using QuickTime Player
With the likes of iMovie and Final Cut Pro available to cater for all your video editing needs, it can be easy to overlook the fact that your Mac comes with QuickTime Player 10: a free basic video editor. Granted, it’s nowhere near as sophisticated as iMovie or Final Cut Pro, but it won’t cost you anything either.
QuickTime Player is perfect if you’re just starting out with video editing, and for those situations where you quickly want to make some alterations to a video before sharing it with family and friends.
Say you’ve been filming your children playing out in the garden, and the bit you’d like to share is halfway through the clip you’ve recorded. With QuickTime Player, you can quickly chop off the preceding and following parts, leaving you with the highlight to share. The app also enables you to join clips together, meaning you can easily create a highlights video from an array of recordings, which is something you can’t do on an iOS device without a video-editing app. We’ll show you how on the next page.
In order to edit your video clips, you’ll first need to copy them to your Mac from whatever device you used to record them. This could be your camcorder, or iOS device. Connect the camera to your Mac using the cable it came with, and switch it on. Now click the Finder icon in your Dock, then click the Go menu and select Applications. Double-click the Image Capture icon, and you should see your camera appear in the left column under Devices. Click it and your images and videos will show up on the right. If it’s video you shot on an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, the filename will end .MOV. Drag the clips you’d like to use to your desktop â€" this will make them easier to find later. Now quit Image Capture and disconnect your camera.
Before you open QuickTime to start editing, click the Finder icon, go to the Finder menu and select Preferences. Click the Sidebar button and make sure Desktop is ticked: this will save you time when it comes to opening your video clips. Now open QuickTime Player, which is in your Applications folder. If it isn’t there, go to www.apple.com/quicktime to download it for free.
What You’ll Need:
>> Some video clips
>> QuickTime Player 10
>> internet connection
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