Split and Remove Scenes of a Video in Windows Movie Maker

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Welcome to VisiHow. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to split and remove scenes in Windows Movie Maker. If you haven't used this program before, I suggest you watch my earlier videos for Movie Maker on VisiHow. Sometimes, we will record things in a video and make a mistake, realize a part wasn't needed, or it will be too long and we need to shorten it. We're going to want to split a scene. We can see here that we have a video that is spliced together. We have three different clips transitioning, but we decided that we don't like it.

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   We're going to move the marker (which is a long black line) to the spot where we want to split

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   Picture it as a roll of film, and we're cutting it in half. Clips will be highlighted in a blue border when they are selected.

   

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   Right click on the marker and click on "Split"

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   That cuts the video in two.

   

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   If it wasn't split already, we could split the video again at the end

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   It is already split because it was two different clips put together.

   

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   We're then going to select it and we can right-click and click "Remove", or we can simply press the "Delete" button on the keyboard

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   The part that we didn't want is removed, and the time has reduced

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   Now we can split the clip at the end. It spans for quite some time and we'll just say it's too long and we don't want it that long. In this case, we're going to cut it short by recreating where the ending of this particular clip is. We don't want to put any two things together, we just want to make it end.

   

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   We're going to place the marker, right-click, and then click on "Set end point"

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   We can click on that.

   

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   We'll see that any clips after the marker were automatically removed because that's where we wanted the video to finish

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   We can do the same thing with the start point.

   

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   Let's say everything before the marker is not necessary, so we want to set the start point at that

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   We can move the marker by left-clicking and dragging it, then right-click it and click "Set start point".

   

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   Now we see that we've set the start point on this particular clip

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    Once we've made our changes, we're going to want to click on "File" and then "Save project"

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    We haven't named our product, so we're just going to leave it as "My Movie", but you can name it whatever you wish. Now that is ready to add or edit for the next step in your video.

    

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    That is how you split and remove parts, and set a start and end point in a video in Windows Movie Maker

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    Thanks for watching VisiHow. If you have any questions or comments about this video, please feel free to leave them in the comment section below. Take care.

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Hi my name is Faaonea. I'm having trouble splitting the my videos as not all the elements of editing have included in this movie maker apps I had downloaded are there in the?

I don't know how to split a video. Can't fine the home bar in this movie maker app. I'm not quiet getting the splitting part of your demonstration Creachhigher. I have tried: I trimmed the beginning and the end of my video clip but when I tried to split a part in the middle I remove most of the beginning part of my video which I didn't plan to do. I think it was caused by: I think I don't have the full version of movie maker as I could not find the split icon and the home bar is not there to display all the icons for editing that I needed

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