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Getting A Short Clip From An Iphone Video
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From a five minutes' long film I took on my iPhone, which I want to keep fully in tact, I want to email a 20-second clip. Please can someone provide an easy-to-understand step-by-step guide on how I can do that? I definitely do not want to email the entire 5-minute film, only the chosen 20 seconds. Also, if there's a way of creating a still picture from a moment in this film, I'd love a guide to that too please. Thank you in advance for any help
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Copy the video to your PC.
Install an OLD version of VLC Media Player onto your PC. (There have been some problems with video editing in the recent versions). I use v2.0.3, which was designed for Window 7 & 8 but I'm fairly sure that it will still run in Windows 10:
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Open VLC.
Go to the View menu and select Advanced controls.
Play your video. (Use the Media menu)
At the point where you want your clip to start, click the red 'Record' button.
At the point where you want it to end, click the 'Record' button again (or use the black Stop button).
You'll then have a copy of the relevant section of the video in your computer's 'Videos' library.
To take a snapshot, start as above but, at the point where you want to capture the image, click on the 'Snapshot' button (immediately to the right of the 'Record' button). A snapshot will then be saved to your 'Pictures' library. Note though that:
(a) the human eye puts together a clear moving picture from the individual frames of a video, even though some of those frames might be rather 'fuzzy'. So you could capture a fuzzy image. (If you do, try again. A frame which is a fraction of a second to one side of the first one might be far clearer) ; and
(b) The default image format used by VLC is .png. You'll probably want to change it to .jpg before capturing an image. To do so, go to Tools > Video > Preferences.
Install an OLD version of VLC Media Player onto your PC. (There have been some problems with video editing in the recent versions). I use v2.0.3, which was designed for Window 7 & 8 but I'm fairly sure that it will still run in Windows 10:
http://
Open VLC.
Go to the View menu and select Advanced controls.
Play your video. (Use the Media menu)
At the point where you want your clip to start, click the red 'Record' button.
At the point where you want it to end, click the 'Record' button again (or use the black Stop button).
You'll then have a copy of the relevant section of the video in your computer's 'Videos' library.
To take a snapshot, start as above but, at the point where you want to capture the image, click on the 'Snapshot' button (immediately to the right of the 'Record' button). A snapshot will then be saved to your 'Pictures' library. Note though that:
(a) the human eye puts together a clear moving picture from the individual frames of a video, even though some of those frames might be rather 'fuzzy'. So you could capture a fuzzy image. (If you do, try again. A frame which is a fraction of a second to one side of the first one might be far clearer) ; and
(b) The default image format used by VLC is .png. You'll probably want to change it to .jpg before capturing an image. To do so, go to Tools > Video > Preferences.
There are several video-editing apps available for the iPhone.
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My concern about using any of them though is that they might well simply end up editing your existing file (meaning that you'd lose everything except the 20-second excerpt), rather than creating an entirely new file (as my method above does). So, even if you want to use one of those iPhone apps, you'd still be well advised to back up your full movie to your PC first.
If you're short of space on your PC's hard drive, simply plug in a USB memory stick and copy the file to there.
e.g.
https:/
https:/
https:/
My concern about using any of them though is that they might well simply end up editing your existing file (meaning that you'd lose everything except the 20-second excerpt), rather than creating an entirely new file (as my method above does). So, even if you want to use one of those iPhone apps, you'd still be well advised to back up your full movie to your PC first.
If you're short of space on your PC's hard drive, simply plug in a USB memory stick and copy the file to there.
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