Cut/Trim Videos on Windows 10 Easily and Losslessly

If you are active in video cutting and trimming, you may wonder whether there is an easy and powerful tool you can use to cut/trim videos on Windows 10. As a matter of fact, Windows 10 has a hidden video editor - Photos app - that works like Apple iMovie, which enables you to trim and cut videos as well as create your own slideshows. Also, if you enjoy watching videos on Windows 10 Movies & TV, you could use it directly to process your videos. In the following article, we are going to teach you how to cut and split videos using the Windows 10 Photos app and Movies &TV with ease. Furthermore, we will discuss another third-party video cutter and trimmer to help you cut videos professionally and losslessly.

Method 1. Trim Videos Using Windows 10 Photos App

Method 2. Trim Videos Using Windows 10 Movies & TV

Method 3. Trim Videos Using Joyoshare Media Cutter for Windows

Method 1. How to Trim Video on Windows 10 - Photos

If you don't want to install any extra software on your PC, then the Photos app could be the best option for you to trim videos on Windows 10. Here's how.

Note: The Photos app on Windows 10 is not a fully functioning editing tool but a simple solution that focuses on easy video cutting only. If you are looking for a more powerful video trimmer that has complete cutting and editing options, you can jump to the other way instead.

Step 1: Open Photos App

Firstly find the video file you want to trim on your computer drive and then right-click Open With > Photos.

 

Step 2: Adjust Settings

Once it's launched, click on the video and you'll see a menu bar come across the video. Click Edit & Create > Trim.

Step 3: Set Trimming Section

Now simply move the starting and ending sliders to select the video segment you want to keep. By clicking on the "Play" icon, you can preview how the video looks after trimming.

Step 4: Start to Trim the Video

When the trimming part of the video is set ready, click on the "Save a Copy" button at the top. Depending on the file size, quality, and resolution, it can take some time to create a copy of the trimmed video for you.

Step 5: Edit the Name of the Trimmed Video

Once done, go back to the same folder where you've saved the original video file, and you will find the newly cut video with "Trim" at the end of the file name. You can then rename the trimmed version as you like so that you can easily recognize it later.

Method 2. How to Trim Video on Windows 10 - Movie & TV

You may not realize that there is a Movies & TV app on your Windows 10 that will help you trim videos without effort. When you're playing and watching a video file in this Movies & TV, trim directly on your Windows computer by following the steps below.

Step 1: Confirm the target video and open it with "Movies & TV" on Windows 10;

Step 2: Find the pencil-shaped Edit icon in the bottom right corner of the playback window;

Step 3: Click Edit option and select "Trim" tool in the popup menu;

Step 4: Your video will load up in the Photos app and stay in the trimming window;

Step 5: Drag the video over the timeline in playback windows to complete the trimming process and finally save it on Windows 10.

Method 3. How to Cut Video on Windows 10 - Video Cutter for Windows

This way provides you with a more professional video trimming software that can cut both videos and audios in any format to others without losing any quality on Windows 10.

 

The solution is called Joyoshare Media Cutter, a sought-after program to trim and cut any video into small segments while keeping lossless quality. Besides, it can save the video cuttings to popular formats, such as HD MP4, WMV, FLV, MOV, AVI, etc. as well as mobile devices like iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, game consoles, smart TVs, etc.

 

You can also use this smart tool to cut audios into other formats and merge the multiple video clips being cut from the same video into a brand new one. All trimmings will complete at 60X faster speed.

 

Key features of Joyoshare Video Trimmer:

• Cut all videos and audios with lossless quality
• Save video and audio cuttings in any popular format
• Trim videos at up to 60X faster speed on Windows 10
• Merge different segments to a new file

 

Step 1: Add Any Video into Joyoshare Video Cutter

After launching Joyoshare Media Cutter on your Windows 10, simply drag and drop the video file that you want to cut into the main window of the video trimmer. Clicking the "Open" button is another way to import video to Joyoshare.

Step 2: Set Cutting Section of the Video

You have two choices to elect trimming segments. The commonly used means is to move the slider key while the video is playing. The other is to set the temporal interval with start time and end time manually. Both options can help you enhance the efficiency and accuracy of cutting the videos.

If you want to cut the video into multiple segments once, you can click the "+" icon to create a new cutting task in the progress.

Step 3. Select the Output Format

Once the video length is set, click the "Format" button to choose the output format or device according to your needs. The two modes, lossless high-speed mode and encoding mode, out there are available to trim videos. You can also customize the video size, quality, codec if you like, but the quality will go down a little bit.

Step 4: Start Cutting the Video on Windows 10

Now click the "Start" button to begin the trimming process. Wait for a minute till it completes. If you want to merge the multiple video cuttings into one, you need to confirm the "Merge Segments" option has been checked.

If you have any questions about the steps mentioned above, you could also check the following tutorial video, which will show you how to use this program step by step clearly.