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This guide explains how to use WMP Trimmer plugin for fast editing of popular video or audio files like MP4 or MP3 or many other.
The Windows Media Player Plugin module is designed to operate within Windows Media Player™ version 12 (up to 9). It enables a user to cut or edit out a part of media file directly from Windows Media Player™ at high speed without quality degradation and problems with audio/video synchronization.
Enabling WMP Trimmer plugin
- Launch Windows Media Player.
- Click main menu item «Tools->Plug-ins->SolveigMM WMP Trimmer Plugin»
If main menu of Windows Media Player is switched off follow steps shown on Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Trimming media files
Trimming media files is easy and straightforward. Trimmer's GUI controls are shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3.
The operations order for trimming mediafile is listed below.
1. Open your media file in usual way via Windows Media Player menu (Figure 6a) or use 'Open Media File' button of WMP Trimmer Plugin (Figure 6b).
Figure 6a
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2. Click the 'Edit File' button of Plugin (Figure 7).
3. You will see the expanded view of Plugin. Use slider and markers to set the start and stop time positions of the fragments you would like to save.
Free Media Player Editor
To mark the beginning of the fragment navigare the slider to the desired position and click the 'Add marker' button. Do the same to mark the end time position of the fragment
If you would like to save several fragments to the output file use the same operation: move the slider to the desired position of beginning and end time of the necessary fragments and click the 'Add marker' button.
You can use mouse wheel to change the scale of timeline for convenience and to easily find the needed frame of end/beginning.
Figure 8
4. Now it is necessary to mark fragments you would like to be cut out from the output video file. Move the slider to such fragment. Then click the 'Cut Out Selected Fragment' button.
Do the same operation for all fragments you would like to be deleted (Figure 9).
Figure 9
5. When all fragments that you would like not to be presented in the final video are marked, press the 'Trim' button to start the editing process (Figure 10).
Figure 10
6. You will be asked for a file name in which trimmed part of media file should be saved (Figure 11).
Figure 11
7. The trimming process will be displayed with a progress bar and can be canceled at any time (Figure 12).
Figure 12
8. When the trimming process is done, you will be informed with the corresponding message (Figure 13).
Click 'Yes' button in the message dialog if you want to open folder with output mediafile. Click 'No' button otherwise.
Figure 13
That's all! Good luck with your editing projects!
WMP Trimmer Plugin supports formats as follows
- MP4 (*.mp4)
- MPEG Audio (*.mp3,*.mp1,*.mpa )
- FLV (*.flv)
- AVCHD (*.m2ts)
- WebM (*.webm)
- MKV (*.mkv)
- MOV (*.mov)
- AVI (*.avi )
- DV AVI type 1,2 (*.avi)
- Windows Media Video (*.asf, *.wmv,*.wm)
- Windows Media Audio (*.wma)
- MPEG-2 Video PS,TS,VES (*.mpeg,*.vob,*.ts)
Figure 14. SolveigMM WMP Trimmer controls (expanded view)
3. You will see the expanded view of Plugin. Use slider and markers to set the start and stop time positions of the fragments you would like to save.
Free Media Player Editor
To mark the beginning of the fragment navigare the slider to the desired position and click the 'Add marker' button. Do the same to mark the end time position of the fragment
If you would like to save several fragments to the output file use the same operation: move the slider to the desired position of beginning and end time of the necessary fragments and click the 'Add marker' button.
You can use mouse wheel to change the scale of timeline for convenience and to easily find the needed frame of end/beginning.
Figure 8
4. Now it is necessary to mark fragments you would like to be cut out from the output video file. Move the slider to such fragment. Then click the 'Cut Out Selected Fragment' button.
Do the same operation for all fragments you would like to be deleted (Figure 9).
Figure 9
5. When all fragments that you would like not to be presented in the final video are marked, press the 'Trim' button to start the editing process (Figure 10).
Figure 10
6. You will be asked for a file name in which trimmed part of media file should be saved (Figure 11).
Figure 11
7. The trimming process will be displayed with a progress bar and can be canceled at any time (Figure 12).
Figure 12
8. When the trimming process is done, you will be informed with the corresponding message (Figure 13).
Click 'Yes' button in the message dialog if you want to open folder with output mediafile. Click 'No' button otherwise.
Figure 13
That's all! Good luck with your editing projects!
WMP Trimmer Plugin supports formats as follows
- MP4 (*.mp4)
- MPEG Audio (*.mp3,*.mp1,*.mpa )
- FLV (*.flv)
- AVCHD (*.m2ts)
- WebM (*.webm)
- MKV (*.mkv)
- MOV (*.mov)
- AVI (*.avi )
- DV AVI type 1,2 (*.avi)
- Windows Media Video (*.asf, *.wmv,*.wm)
- Windows Media Audio (*.wma)
- MPEG-2 Video PS,TS,VES (*.mpeg,*.vob,*.ts)
Figure 14. SolveigMM WMP Trimmer controls (expanded view)
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If you're a Windows user, you probably have Windows Movie Maker pre-installed on the computer. So, it is also a good choice for you to trim your MP3 files without any other software installation again. Cutting an MP3 with Windows Movie Maker only needs 3 simple steps and here is how:
Audio Editor Windows Media Player 64-bit
1. Add MP3 music file. Launch Windows Movie Maker program first and then click the 'Add Music' option to import an MP3 file you want to trim;
2. Trim MP3 file. Right click on the audio file and choose 'add to Timeline', or just drag the file to the Timeline. Set the start trim point and end trim point by dragging the cursor;
3. If you're satisfied with it, save the trimmed audio in .wma format; if not, redo it again.
See also:How to Cut Videos in Windows Movie Maker
