It is essentially re-recording the part and saving it as a separate file.

It is very easy to cut a video into many small parts with VLC without downloading another software.

A friend of mine had a big video file of about 2 hours duration and he wanted to upload a ten-minutes long portion from it on YouTube.

He asked me if there was an easy way to extract part of a video from a big file.

I told him that there are many ways but because he asked for an easy one, I told him about probably the easiest one We all know VLC is a great media player and a lot of people have it on their computer.

My friend also had VLC Media Player already installed on his laptop.

So, why not split video with VLC Media Player In todays tutorial I will tell you how you can extract one or more parts from a video using VLC.

Lets jump right in and learn a new use of our beloved VLC Split Video with VLC Media Player STEP 1: Open the video file in VLC STEP 2: Forward the video to the starting point where from you want to split the video.

STEP 4: Go to Tools Preferences InputCodecs and look for Record directory or filename.

This directory will store the video that we will split from your original video file.

STEP 4: Now play the video and click on the record button STEP 5: Let the video play up to the end point of the portion you want to extract.

STEP 6: Click record button again when you want to stop recording of the part to be extracted.

STEP 7: Open Windows Explorer or File Explorer and go to the directory that you had set to store the recording.

Wasnt it easy Well, now lets look at the merits and demerits of using VLC to split a video.

Merits of Splitting Video with VLC The foremost merit is the ease.

It is likely that you will already have VLC Media Player installed on your computer.

The same instructions are also valid for an audio file as well.

Output quality of the video part will be exactly same as the original video.

Demerits of Splitting Video with VLC If you are looking for very finely cutting video (for example, to the precision of milliseconds), then you should go to Google and look for a software tailor-made for splitting videos.

One of the good choices for precision split would be MKV Extractor.

For example, if you want to extract a 20 minutes portion, the splitting process will also take 20 minutes.

If you consider it a demerit, then lets also admit that VLC is not exactly splitting the video.

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