Trim video: settings and best results

01Step 1: Add your videos

Click Tools in the sidebar, open the Video tab and click Trim Video in the Cut & join section. You can also type "trim" in the search box at the top.

Drop your videos on the queue, or click it to pick files. Each row shows the video’s size, length and file size, such as "1920 × 1080 · 0:48". Use Add more to add files later.

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1. 1Trim type
2. 2Mode
3. 3Start
4. 4Edit per clip in the Studio
5. 5Run trim

02Step 2: Choose what to cut

Under Trim type, pick one of two ways. Both apply to every video in the queue.

• Time range keeps one part of each video. Type the Start and End as minutes and seconds (0:05), hours, minutes and seconds (1:02:30) or plain seconds (90). Leave Start empty to begin at the start, and End empty to go to the end.
• Remove silence finds the quiet parts in each video and cuts them out. Sensitivity sets how quiet a part must be. Minimum pause is the shortest pause to remove, and Edge padding keeps a little room around speech so words are not clipped.

With Time range, also choose the Mode:

• Fast is instant and keeps the full quality, because nothing is re-encoded. The cut starts on the nearest keyframe at or before your Start, so it can begin a little early.
• Precise cuts on the exact frame and saves a new MP4 file. It takes longer.

Remove silence is always frame-accurate and always saves an MP4.

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1. 1Remove silence
2. 2Auto
3. 3Minimum pause
4. 4Edge padding

03Step 3: Fine-tune each clip in the Studio

Click Edit per clip in the Studio, or Adjust on a video in the queue. The Studio plays the clip with a timeline under it. Amber sections are kept and striped sections are removed.

• Drag the edges of an amber section to move its start or end. Drag a section to move it.
• Drag across a striped part to keep it too. Select a section and press Delete to remove it.
• Click Remove at playhead to take out a short moment where the playhead is.
• In the Silence tab, turn on Remove silence to cut the pauses from this clip only. It has its own Sensitivity, Minimum pause and Edge padding, which start at Auto, 0.5 s and 0.12 s and don’t follow the panel. The tab shows how much is kept, such as "0:29 from 0:48". Each removed pause shows its length on the timeline. Point at it and click + Keep to put it back.

Switch between Result and Source above the video to watch the trimmed clip or the original. Use the arrows at the top to move to the next clip. Your changes are saved as you go; close the Studio when you are done.

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1. 1Result
2. 2Silence
3. 3Remove silence switch
4. 414 sections joined
5. 5Remove at playhead
6. 6Close

A clip you change in the Studio gets a ★ and keeps its own trim, even if you change the batch settings later. Click Reset custom changes in the Studio to put it back on the batch settings. Studio changes last until you close Hangar.

The Studio picks the fastest way to save each clip. A single section that starts at 0:00 is copied as it is, with no quality change. Anything else, such as several sections or a later start, is cut on the exact frames and saved as an MP4.

04Step 4: Cut words from the transcript

In the Studio, the Transcript tab lets you edit the video by editing its text. Pick the Spoken language or leave it on Automatic, then click Transcribe. The first time, the button reads Download speech model · 574 MB: Hangar downloads the model once, then everything runs on your computer. See AI models.

• Click a word to jump to it. Drag across words and press Delete (or Backspace) to cut them from the video.
• Click Fillers to see the ums, uhs and repeated words Hangar found. Hesitations and repeated words are selected for you. Click one to hear it in context, then click Remove (the button shows how many) to cut them all at once.
• Type in Find in transcript to find a word or phrase, then delete every match in one click.
• Long pauses show as small chips with their length. Delete one to shorten that pause.

Every cut you make in the transcript also shows on the timeline, and each one can be undone with the Undo button.

05Step 5: Run, then check the result

Check where the files will go: Default output folder saves them in your workspace’s output folder, in a trim folder with a subfolder for today’s date, such as 10-15. Click Change to pick another folder for this run. Then click Run trim.

When the run ends, each file shows Done. Each new file keeps its name with -trim added, such as filming-tips-take-3-trim.mp4. Fast keeps the original format; Precise, silence removal and clips with several sections are saved as MP4. Click View on a file to check it, and Open folder to go to the trimmed copies. See See and compare your results and Where your files are saved.

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1. 1Done
2. 2View
3. 3Saved to
4. 4Open folder