▷ How to cut video in windows 10 without installing anything

If you want to discover how to trim video in Windows 10 without installing any external program, here you will see it quickly and easily. Windows 10 is a system made to work with it graphically and this is demonstrated by its range of utilities that are increasingly more complete and functional. An example of this is for example the possibility of mounting ISO images, saving MP3 music or burning CDs and DVDs.

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Well today we bring another interesting utility so that we can edit videos, yes, in a basic way, simply by opening them with the Windows photo tool. If you want to cut different parts of a video and you don't want to install those heavy programs, most of them for a fee, Windows will help you quickly and easily. Let's see how to do it.

Crop video in Windows 10 using Photos tool

Yes, the program that opens our photos is also capable of opening and editing videos. The first thing we must do is place ourselves on the directory where our video to edit is. If you wish, we recommend making a backup in case something goes wrong during the process.

• Right click on the video in question, and choose " Open with " and then " Photos "

Once the video is open we will go to the top of it and click near the edge of the window. This will open a toolbar in this area

Select the button " Edit and create " and inside it click on " Trim"

• The presentation mode will change to edit mode and a white bar with two round ends will appear below. The cut When everything is ready, we go to the top and click on " save as " to apply the changes

As you have seen, there are quite a few limitations such as the fact that we will not be able to cut internal parts of the video, or certain pieces at random. This tool will be useful to make small quick cuts at the ends of the videos.

The copies can be stored in MP4 format

Add text to video with Windows 10 Photos

In addition to cutting the video, we can also make other types of edits. You will have already noticed that in the Edit and Create menu there are more interesting options

Add slow motion: we can create pieces in the video that are seen in slow motion.

• Save photos: if what we want is to store screenshots of a video, we can also do it from here Draw: obviously to make drawings Create a video with text: in addition to drawing we can also create text notes and attach them to the video Add 3D effects: This function has been introduced in the October 2018 Update and allows us to create 3D effects in our video.

The way to use these options is very similar to the previous one, we only click, drag the effect or create the drawing, and we assign a certain amount of time according to the bar that appears in the timeline of the video.

Trim video in Windows 10 using Movies and Photos

But not only do we have the Windows photos tool to cut video in Windows 10, but we can also do it with the “ Movies and Photos ” tool. In principle, the most logical thing would be to do it with this application since it is called precisely Movies, right?

• What we will do is right click on the video and in this case choose " Open with " and " Movies and Photos "

• If we now go to the pencil icon located in the lower right, the least edition of this program will open

Although contrary to expectations, it will have fewer options and will not direct you to the photos tool to make the corresponding changes.

Install Movie Maker in Windows 10 to edit video in Windows 10

The truth is that these programs are somewhat limited in possibilities. This is why we have an article where we teach how to install Movie Maker in Windows 10. But not the current Microsoft Store program but the old one with more features.

This way you will have a complete free video editor that has always worked like a charm.

How to install Movie Maker in Windows 10

This is the fastest and easiest way to trim video in Windows 10 without using external programs.

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