The operation of cutting a video is useful to make the files smaller and, therefore, easier to send via email or to upload to Facebook or Whatsapp or to keep them on a smartphone, extracting only the interesting part and eliminating the rest. An operation with the cutting of a video, however, must not be done using expensive or complicated video editing programs and can instead be carried out without difficulty through some dedicated, free software, which have all the necessary options already preconfigured, but which can be optimized for who needs a more elaborate job. With this type of program it is also possible to do the reverse operation, that is, to merge several parts of a video into a single file. Here, then, the best programs for Windows PC to cut a video and those to unify several pieces of different movies in one .
1) Weeny Free Video Cutter is currently one of the most powerful video cutting software for Windows PC and perhaps the best choice. This program supports MP4, MKV, FLV, MPG, VOB, RMVB, RM, DAT, AMV, AVI, MS-DVR, WMV, 3GP and other video formats. It allows you to preview the movie and can also be used as a video to audio converter with MP3, WAV, AAC, WMA format and also works to extract audio from videos.
With Weeny you can select multiple segments of video to be cut, so you can delete different parts of a movie in one fell swoop. In addition, you can cut a video to split it into multiple parts and generate separate files for each one automatically. For those in need, there are options to improve quality, set the volume level and choose the output format.
2) Free Video Cutter Joiner is a good free program for Windows that allows you to combine multiple video files to combine them into a single file. Video cutting supports all common formats even if it generates only one file at a time. It has no ability to generate previews, although you can use the default video player installed on your PC to do it. There are options to select the format of the cut video, the frame rate, the audio quality and other things such as the video size (in the "indirect cut" method).
3) Moo0 Video Cutter is another excellent alternative to cut videos of all kinds, MKV, FLV, OGG, TP, OS, WEBM, WMV, MPG, MP4, AVI, MOV. The only flaw is that the interface does not show a preview, but only the frames of the movie to be cut. You must therefore use the sliders to set the start and end points of the video to be extracted.
4) SimpleVideoCutter is capable of cutting any video format and also allows you to cut audio files and music tracks. The program interface is very simple, with a menu bar at the top, a left side panel with editing tools and a video preview pane in the center. The small panel at the bottom of the video panel is the timeline chart that you can use to view the frames. The status bar at the bottom shows the volume level and the selection status of the file. After opening a video, from the bottom timeline, set the beginning of the video and the end to cut the part of interest.
SimpleVideoCutter requires the installation of FFmpeg (open source) for the conversion of video files. SimpleVideoCutter supports the following video formats: MOV, AVI, MP4, WMV, RM and MPG.
5) Gihosoft Free Video Cutter and Gihosoft Video Joiner are two free programs from the same developer, one for cutting videos, the other for unifying multiple parts into a single movie. These are simple programs, but which work with all video formats. In particular, one of the most interesting features is the possibility of previewing the video file to be cut and the movie that is saved after the modification. The video joiner, then, allows you to unify multiple movies of different video formats, namely MP4, WMV, MOV and AVI.
7) Wanting a more complete program for video processing, you can choose the Avidemux video editing program, which can be used, among other things, to cut parts of video, extract them from the rest and edit them as you wish. Although more complex, it is possible to choose different display parameters and in a nutshell it is used in this way: open a file, get to the point of the scene to be deleted and press the A key, then position yourself at the end of the part to be cut and press B, then press Canc on the keyboard.
6 other programs to split and unify videos are reported in another article.
