Trimming is an important part of post-production editing because it makes the video more relevant to the viewer. The web-based Clip&Trim editor makes it easy to cut the beginning and end of your video, as well as parts where there is no useful content.

General notes

• Trimming a video does not change the original video. Instead, it creates a new version (and turns on Versioning) that becomes the active version and is downloadable. The original video is saved, and you can revert to the original video if needed.
• Because trimming creates a new physical version of the video, it takes some time to copy and trim the original video. During this time, the caption creation, face detection, and cue point creation features are disabled.
• To increase processing speed, the clip is not frame-accurate. Your in- and out-points for the edits are only accurate to the nearest keyframe, usually within a 2-second window, which should not have a significant effect on the trimmed version.

Trimming a video

Create a new active version of the current video by following these steps:

1. Press the Video editors and select the “Trim video” option.

2. Set In- and Out-Points:

• Below the player is a timeline that displays selected keyframes from the video. Use the blue handles on either end of the timeline to set the in- and out-points by dragging them.
• Alternatively, you can set the Start and End time manually using the hh:mm:ss format.
• The vertical blue line, or Current Time Indicator (CTI), moves with the player. You can drag the CTI to advance the player or use the player controls to move the CTI.

3. Optional: Edit the Title for a new version.

4. Press “Trim video” to start the transcoding job.

If the video has captions or chapters, they will be trimmed automatically. Learn more.

As a result, a new Version is active for the view on a Portal. Versions can be managed from the “Versions” tab:

Managing Versions

From this tab, you can take the following actions:

• Upload the new version from your local machine.
• Change the active version of a Video by selecting the button:
• Download any version of the video: there are separate files for each quality or audio.
• Retranscode the active version if necessary:

For further details about cue points and captions, refer to the respective pages on "Add Captions" and "Cue Points".