

You could also use the Quicktime that comes with your Mac to edit videos. It’s also important to remember the difference between cut and paste and copy and paste, cut removes the item from it’s source to then be pasted elsewhere, whereas copy makes a duplicate of it within the clipboard buffer. RELATED: Use Your Mac’s QuickTime App to Edit Video and Audio Filesįor more advanced editing - including combining several video clips into one - you’ll need a more advanced video-editing application, such as Apple’s iMovie. That makes these alternate keystrokes for cut and paste unlike the typical copy and paste commands on Mac which will preserve formatting. You can copy an image by hovering the cursor over it, pressing Control, then selecting Copy Image. To paste the text or folder you cut or copied, place the cursor where you want it to go and press Command+V. For eample, this is a quick way to email the video to someone, upload it to YouTube, put it on Facebook, or send it over iMessage. Select the text or folder you wish to cut or copy, then press Command+C to copy or Command+X to cut.

If you’d like to share the video, you can tap the “Share” button at the bottom of the screen and select an app to share it with. Y ou’ll be taken back to the video in the Photos app - the same screen with the “Edit” button you tapped earlier.

This is ideal if you want to cut a clip out of a longer video and share it with someone else without losing that original, longer video. Tap “Save as New Clip” if you want to keep the original video and save the trimmed part of the video as a new video clip. This is ideal if you’re simply editing a video you recorded and trimming out unimportant parts of the video you never want to see. Tap “Trim Original” if you want to permanently edit the original video file. You’ll permanently lose the parts of the video you removed.
