Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition

Tip 230

Edit Movies

QuickTime Player is the Mac’s built-in movie player—you can find it on the Applications menu within Finder.

Trimming Movies

QuickTime Player is actually a trimmed-down version of the (not free) QuickTime Pro, but it’s pretty powerful in its own right. For example, you can edit movies within QuickTime Player, at least in a primitive way, as follows:

1. Open the movie in QuickTime Player, and click Edit→Trim. The timeline will now change to a frame display of the movie, surrounded by a yellow boundary box—see Figure 39, ​Trimming a movie file​.

   

   Figure 39. Trimming a movie file

2. Click and drag the boundary box on the left and right ...