What does it mean to trim a video?
Definition
To trim a video is to remove time from its beginning or its end.
Trimming is the most common edit to a screen recording: cutting the seconds before the action starts and the seconds spent reaching for the Stop button. Removing time from the middle is a cut.
How to trim and cut a screen recording →
Related terms
- Split
- To split a clip is to divide it into two at the playhead, so each part can be moved, trimmed or deleted separately.
- Ripple edit
- A ripple edit removes or shortens part of a video and moves everything after it earlier, so no gap is left.
- Timeline
- A timeline is the part of a video editor that lays the video out from left to right in time, with tracks for picture, sound and effects.