
I am asking the community if there is a simple, Quicktime-like video trimmer for mac that exports in MP4 instead of MOV. I after researching, I could not find one app that trims as easily as Windows Video Player. However, it's slow to export and about as slow as the Quicktime method. Method 3: iMovie - this is my go-to method for splicing clips together and complex trimming (removing segments in the middle).


One downside is that I cant tweak the start point once I start recording, I cant see ahead and if it goes too far ill have to trim it a second time, and there are pauses at the beginning and end. Method 2: VLC - It's clunky, but faster than Quicktime and better suited to my needs. Then delete the original mp4 and the mov, and I've finally got the trimmed mp4. Import this MOV into Premiere Rush (which takes a long time to launch and is slow), tell premiere to export to mp4, and wait a minute. Method 1: Quicktime - Open the MP4 video in Quicktime, trim it using an ios-like interface, and save the video as a MOV (no option to overwrite or to save as MP4). It will save as mp4 and I can overwrite the video by selecting the original video before saving (giving the new video the same name). On Windows, I open the photo, click edit, drag the bars to where I would like to cut, and I save.

So I have a simple task that I do a lot: trimming a video's head and tail off.
