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VibEdit - simple video cutter
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Cut clips out of one or more videos and join them together (or save each
clip as its own file). Uses ffmpeg, which is included in this folder.
Start
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Double-click vibedit.exe. The editor opens in its own window (Microsoft
Edge app mode). A small console window also opens - it shows the editor's
address and closes the program when you close it. Closing the editor
window also quits VibEdit after a few seconds.
If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC", click "More info" and then
"Run anyway" (the program is not code-signed).
How to cut
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1. Click "Add videos" and pick one or more source files.
2. Move the playhead (click the timeline, arrow keys = one frame,
Shift+arrows = one second, Up/Down = keyframes).
3. Press I to set the In point and O to set the Out point, then Enter to
add the clip. Repeat for every part you want - from any source video.
Or click "+ Whole" on a source and press S to split it at the playhead,
then delete the pieces you don't want.
4. Drag the clips into order, click Export and choose:
- Lossless: copies the original video/audio. No quality loss and very
fast, but cuts can only start on keyframes (shown as ticks under the
timeline), so a clip may start a little early.
- Re-encode: frame-exact cuts; choose codec (H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 and
NVIDIA/Intel/AMD GPU encoders when available), quality, resolution,
frame rate and audio.
- Animated GIF: a looping animation without sound, with frame-exact
cuts; choose resolution, frame rate, dithering and whether it loops.
Keep GIFs short - the files get large quickly.
- Join everything into one file, or save each clip separately.
5. Captions: click "+ CC" on a source video and pick its .srt subtitle
file. The captions show in the viewer, and Re-encode and Animated GIF
exports burn them into the picture, timed to each clip (choose their
size and style in the Export window). Lossless export can't add them.
Press the ? button in the editor for all keyboard shortcuts. Your project is
saved automatically and restored the next time you start VibEdit.
Options (run from a command prompt)
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vibedit.exe -default-browser open in the default browser instead
vibedit.exe -no-browser just print the address
vibedit.exe -ffmpeg C:\path\ffmpeg.exe -ffprobe C:\path\ffprobe.exe
ffmpeg is licensed separately, see ffmpeg-LICENSE.txt.