How to Clip a YouTube Video

Part 1: What is YouTube

YouTube, an American video sharing website, can play videos like clips from film and TV show, music videos, VLOG and innovative video, etc. Now, YouTube is not only the most outstanding video sharing website but also the second place of the most popular websites.

Part 2: How to Download YouTube Video

However, YouTube will not allow users to save videos to local as cache. But users can get the YouTube videos as MP4 with the following method.

1. Download and install Renee Video Editor Pro. And click “Screen Recorder”.

2. Open the target video in YouTube. Click “Settings” in Renee Video Editor Pro and select “MP4” in the list.

3. Set the recorded screen size, sound and output location.

4. Following screen will be shown when recording with “Screen Recorder” function. Please click the square button if you want to stop the recording.

5. You can check the properties of the recorded file after finishing.

Part 3: How to Clip YouTube Video

Video technology came from TV system and has developed into different formats. Now, the question is how to clip the downloaded YouTube video with tools?

Renee Video Editor Pro is worth to try. It will firstly detect the added video and choose lossless way to combine or clip the video if possible.

If the source of the video is different, Renee Video Editor Pro will re-encode the videos without reducing the quality of the video automatically. Users are free from going through the complicated codec tool or reset the codec, code rate and frame rate.

1. Launch Renee Video Editor Pro and choose Video Toolbox.

2.  Click “Cut” and adjust the progress bar manually to cut the desired video clips. Then click the button under the progress bar to make it mark the bar. Then please adjust the accurate start and end time.

3. Confirm the Output format and Output folder. Then click “Start” to output the clipped YouTube video.

Besides, Renee Video Editor Pro also supports to rotate the video and add watermark, effects, music and subtitles. Users can also create Video Overlay effects by “Add video watermark” function in Renee Video Editor Pro.

Part 4: Knowledge of Video Edit

Some users may find that the quality of the video which is cut or combine is reduced. To figure out this problem, we need to get some basic knowledge of video editing.

1. What is Lossless Video and Lossy Video Cut

Video LossLessly Cut: Edit videos without re-encoding, which will not reduce the quality of the video and audio.

Video Lossy Cut: Edit videos after re-encoding. Generally, the codecs that videos use are lossy compression mode (The quality of the video and audio will be reduced after re-encoding.). So, this video edit way is also called lossy cut.

2. What is the Effects of Lossy Video Cut

Video could be regarded as the combination of bitmap, the size of which is large. So, the size of any videos which have not been compressed will be large. To improve the compression efficiency, video lossy cut will compress the video in a lossy way which will reduce the saturation of the video and the size as well.