How to Cut, Crop, Trim & Split Videos on iPhone Using Splice
Channel: Travelvids - Video On Your Phone
Date: 2020-04-17

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Splice App Video on how to Cut, Crop, Trim, Split & Shorten Video's on iPhone or iPad
Professional tips tricks and tutorials on how to edit videos using splice app.
Really all these actions like Cut, Crop, Trim, Split & Shorten are just different ways of asking the same question, which is how do i make my video clip shorter.

There are 3 ways to make a clip shorter.

We will go over all 3 in this video. They are trimming, Cutting & Splitting clips.

Let's start with trimming.

Trimming is the most commonly used method of making a video clip shorter. 

It simply means to take off the front and the back of your clip.

In the splice editor  tap on a clip to highlight it.

once the clip is highlighted a little handle will appear at start and end.

You can TRIM the clip to its best part by sliding these handles.

There is not much more to it.

How do we decide how long a clip should be?

More often than not the music has something to do with it.

Music sets a mood.

Happy upbeat music tends to allow for shorter clips.

Sad slow music lends itself to longer clips.

I want to talk about beat editing, but it’s just a little too early for that right now.

Let’s move on to cutting.

How to Cut a video in splice

Ok this going to be a short one.

The cut feature has been removed from the new splice.

Cut used to mean trimming the clip from within.

Basically cutting out a part from the middle.

It was clunky and hard to use - I never ever used it.

One of the things that made iMove better than Splice was the fact that Splice only had Trim & Cut, and iMovie had the winning tool: Split.

Now Splice has the Split function too.

Yay for the new Splice.
How to Split a video in splice

Split means to, as the name suggests, split the clip at a point breaking it into two.

The split will happen at the point of the video playhead.

What’s a video playhead?

This line at which the video is now being seen in the preview window.  

Once a clip is highlighted, scroll across in the submenu and find the Split tool. 

Hit it.

Wherever the playhead was has now divided the clip at this point.

Why would you use the split tool instead of the trim tool?

2 reasons: ONE your iPhone screen is small. 

Even the largest phones are small compared to a computer monitor.

And trying to accurately trim off a third of a second can be hard. 

When you grab the trim bar handle and want to move it to trim off a teeny-tiny little bit….

Whoosh

Slipped and you lost a chunk unintentionally.

You have to un-do and try again.

Waste of time and effort.

To do this right you need to zoom all the way in, trim, and zoom out again.

You might loose your place.

It Works, but meh.

Waste of time and effort.

With the trim you just stop the video head where you want it. 

Hit trim. 

Select the little spot and delete it.

Quick & Easy.

The truth is I wish Splice would move its Split tool to the first position in the menu.
It Would speed things up even more.

But I’m just glad they have it now.

The other reason  for using split instead of Trim is for rather long clips..

If you have a really long clip that needs to be trimmed down to only a part, but you also need another part of the same clip, then you would first split the clip, then trim each part.

So First

Split the clip.

Then...
 
Trim the Clips.

If you have been following this series from the beginning then you would already know that the highlight tool quite elegantly solves this problem too.

You can watch that video in the card above right now.

When it comes to cleaning up your clips you should allow yourself the time to do it properly.

We believe that it is the most important step in the editing process.

Got any more questions about the Trim, Cut & split, let us know.






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