How to extract clips from videos with VLC Media Player after enabling advanced controls and choosing recording output folder
It has happened to everyone that they have a video of which we are only interested in a part, which can be at the beginning, at the end or in the middle of the video itself. To do precision work and save only the desired part, you can use video editors like da vinci resolves,
shotcut
or also
the video editor
from
Windows 10 and 11.
In this post we will see how you can extract one or more clips from a video with the multimedia player par excellence, which
VLC media player
which is defined as a player
template
for audio and video files.
One of its many features allows us to
to record what the program is playing, being able to choose the parts of the video that we intend to save. I also remember that with VLC you can capture a frame
of a video and save it as an image to use, for example as a thumbnail, and then publish it on YouTube.
VLC media player
is free, open source and can be installed on
Windows, Mac and Linux. Click the arrow next to the button
Download VLC to then choose the link of our operating system. At the time of writing, the most recent version is
3.0.17.4. a user windows going to download a file .exe
to double-click.
You will have to follow the dialog boxes to complete the installation process. VLC media player.
posted on my
Youtube channel
a tutorial in which I explain how
extract clips from videos with VLC.
Before saving parts of a video, you need to change some default video settings. VLC.
open VLC and you go Vision and then check a advanced controls to see another row of buttons.
The new ones verifications I am Record,
Take a screenshot, circle from point A to point B and advances
frame by frame, respectively from left to right. They will be positioned above the classics of the Touch it's from Stop.
Always on the menu VLC then go up
Tools -> Preferences and you choose the tab
Input / Encoders.
Inside Log folder or file name you choose where to send entries made with VLC. Then click on To browse and you choose a folder from
file explorer so go up
select the folder
right away To save.
At this point, we're ready to extract a clip from the video. he goes up
Media -> Open file and you choose the video from which
pull the clips. he goes up You open and the video plays stopping it just before the start of the clip to be saved.
Then click on the button Touch to play the video and when it reached the starting point of the clip to save, click the button Record. Then click the same button when the playback reaches the point where the clip to be extracted should end. then open
file explorer inside output folder of
records that we chose earlier in the tab
Input / Encoders of Preferences.
A video file with a name with this syntax will be displayed:
vlc-record-year-month-day-hour-minutes-seconds-filename.ext
Where branch is the file format extension, for example mp4. This file is nothing more than a
excerpt from the original video obtained through
video recording from the start point to the end point.
The original video file will remain unchanged and if you want you can proceed to extracts from other clips.
