Trim the ends or cut out the middle
Most of the time you want to lose a slow start or a fumbled ending: choose Keep selection, place the handles around the part worth keeping and export. Everything outside the handles is dropped.
Sometimes the problem is in the middle, a mistake, an interruption, a long pause. Switch to Cut out selection, mark the part to remove, and ClipLime joins what comes before and after it into one continuous video, with a tiny audio fade at the join so there's no click. Preview the cut plays the moments around the join so you can hear and see how it flows before you export.
Precise or Fast?
Compressed video is stored in groups of frames. A keyframe is a complete picture; the frames after it only describe what changed. A copy made without re-encoding has to begin on a keyframe, because the frames in between can't be shown without the picture they depend on.
Fast copies your selection exactly as it's stored, so it's finished in seconds with zero quality loss, but the start moves back to the keyframe just before your handle. The panel tells you that time before you export, and a dashed line marks it on the timeline. The result keeps your file's original format.
Precise re-encodes the selection so it begins and ends on the exact frames you chose, using a bitrate matched to the original so it keeps its look. Cutting out a section always works this way, so the join is seamless.
Landing on the exact frame
- While you drag a handle, the preview shows the frame at that point, so you can see exactly where the cut falls.
- ← and → step the playhead one frame at a time; hold Shift to jump a second.
- The −1f and +1f buttons move the start or end by a single frame.
- Type times in whichever way is natural:
1:23.45,83.45or1m23sall work. - Play selection plays from the start handle and stops at the end handle.
After trimming
A shorter clip is a good moment to compress it for sharing, turn it into a looping GIF or join it with other clips. Removing lots of pauses from a talk or tutorial? The Silence Remover finds and cuts them all at once.