Let’s say I have a 1-Hour-long video of a family event. I want to take a cut from the first 3 minutes THEN the section from Min 13 to minute 25 and a section from Min 41 to minute 44 and finally my third selection from minute 51 to the end at 59 minutes. How can you make these FOUR cuts in order and then make it a solo file and in MP4 format?
I am using SHOTCUT freeware because most video editing software is extremely expensive…unless you can name a good one that is cheap.
What you ask about is very basic video editing.
It doesn’t make sense to show you how to do this here on the forum when there are tons of Shotcut tutorials for beginners on YouTube. In any language you are confortable with.
My suggestions:
This video by Teacher’s Tech
And this playlist of 38 Shotcut tutorials by @UbitronicsUK
press S at the starting point (in your case 13min, 41min, 51min) and S at the ending point (in your case 3min, 25min, 44min, 59min) and then delete the unwanted areas by pressing Delete with ripple (at left to the zoom out icon, probably) turned on.
I don’t find them expensive, davinci resolve costs 200 bucks but is industry standard. Even 50$ is not that high for the subscription of all adobe apps considering there features. Yes, we can say Vegas and Hitfilm as high priced, they almost give nothing compared to even the free version of davinci (You need to get a very expensive and powerful desktop for using it, my current desktop, which is a beast, also crashes with 4k quality 8 hours video in davinci)
But in anyways, freeware have a lot of power in them, I find shotcut, audacity, and gimp (used to create the first logo of google) the perfect combination while working free.
And as @MusicalBox says, these are the basics, you can learn them easily on youtube. Or if you want to learn everything, then you can enroll in the recommended course of shotcut.
