HowTo trim a Flip Video clip with FlipShare

If you using FlipShare to manage your video clips shot with your flip camera, then you have probably run across the need to trim the video clip down to extract a section of the video.

Trimming a video using the FlipShare application is very easy as I'll show in this post.

• Start up your FlipShare application and select the video clip that you want to trim
• To trim the video, click on the scissors icon at the bottom right of the video clip

•  Once you click the scissors, you will be presented with a small edit window that has two tabs on the bottom of the video slider.  Move the left tab to change where the starting position of the clip will be.  move the right tab to change where the ending position of the clip will be.  You can slide the whole tab or click the arrow buttons to move one frame at a time (there are approximately 30 frames per second, so clicking the buttons can be slow).   Play around with the tab positions to get your clip just right.

• Once you have the clip just right, select the Save button, which will over-write the original clip with your trimmed clip, or select Save As, to save a copy of the clip.  If you wish to cancel the operation, just click the Close button without saving the clip.