How to edit WMV file

 

  By Olga Krovyakova - modified April 4, 2024, created March 27, 2019

SolveigMM Video Splitter allows deleting unnecessary fragments from video file without video/audio quality loss. This guide explains how you can edit WMV file.

 

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Understanding of some basic terms used in this guide will help you to start using SolveigMM Video Splitter in most comfortable way.

	Marker is set to a current cursor position.
	The selected marker is highlighted with blue color.

Markers can be added or deleted. Such operations as deleting and positioning are applied to the selected markers only.

Fragment is a part of video (or audio) file limited by two markers to be removed or kept in a final movie, e.g. commercial block you want to cut off. Fragments marked as 'cut off' are colored with brown-red color. 
Examples of fragments are provided in table below:

Color of Fragment	Description
	This fragment was set to be deleted. It will not be presented in final movie
	This fragment was set to be kept. It will be presented in final movie
	This fragment was set to be deleted. It will not be presented in final movie. Yellow slider on it means you can edit it (delete, set it to be kept, etc.)
	This fragment was set to be kept. It will be presented in final movie. Yellow slider in it means you can edit it (delete, set it to be cut off, etc.)

Control Panel contains main tools for file processing.

 

Window Element	Description	Shortcut Key
	Button "Add Marker": Adds a new marker to current slider cursor position.	M
	Button "Remove Marker(s)": Removes a current marker or fragment.	Delete
	Button "Invert": Inverts time line fragments.	I
	Button "Set audio silence": Sets the audio silence for the selected fragment.
	Button "Save": Starts trimming or Batch Processing (if batch queue has any task).	Ctrl+T
	Edit box of a left marker cursor time position. You can edit this value by manually.
	Edit box of a right marker cursor time position. You can edit this value by manually.
	Button "Zoom In/Out": Increases/descreases a slider timeline resolution for more comfortable editing neighbor markers (*).	Num+ Num-
	Button "Browse output file(s)": opens folder in the File Explorer with the output file.
	Audio off/on: turns off/on sound of the whole video track Story board or audio wave off/on: turns off/on the story board or audio wave
(*) - To view timeline areas after Zoom In you can use a scroll bar (below a timeline slider) and "Alt + Left arrow" and "Alt + Right Arrow" hot keys.

In our example we will edit initial WMV file by cutting off two fragments with frame accuracy in one pass. In our final movie only the video stream will present, the audio stream will be disabled .

In our example we will edit initial WMV file by cutting off two fragments with frame accuracy in one pass. In our final movie only the video stream will present, the audio stream will be disabled .

1. Select the Open Media File... command in the File menu.

2. Select file to be edited.

3. Click the Open button to open the selected file.

Figure 1

4. Move the file from the Media library to the timeline.

Figure 2

5. Click the Zoom In button to increase a slider timeline resolution. This will allow more comfortable editing neighbor markers. The scroll bar under the timeline appears.

6. Find the beginning of the first part of your movie using Video slider.

7. Click the Add marker button. You can also add the marker selecting the Add Marker command of the contextual menu or using the [M] key. Then add the marker at the end of the fragment. Markers divide movie into several fragments (see Basic Terms). In our example we divide our movie into four fragments by adding markers in the required places.

Figure 3

8. Move the mouse cursor between the markers of the segment you would like to be deleted.

9. Click the "scissors" button that will appear under the segment. The segement will change its color to brown-red (see the Basic terms).

Figure 4

10. Select other fragments you want to cut off from the movie. In our example we marked the second fragment as 'cut off' as described in 9.

11. Select the Tools->Batch Manager->Add Task To Batch Queue command or press the [A] key to add task to the batch queue.

Figure 5

12. Enter new file name in the appeared Save As window.

13. Click the Save button. You will see the current progress of splitting.

14. If you would like to process several tasks at a time use the Batch Manager of Video Splitter. Please note it is available only in the Business and Broadcast Editions.

Select the Tools->Batch Manager->Show Batch Manager command to open Batch Manager. In the appeared window (Figure 7) you can see the list of added tasks.

Figure 6

Figure 7

15. Open the contextual menu in the Batch Manager window by clicking your right mouse button and selecting the Start Batch Processing command in the contextual menu or follow to Tools / Batch Manager / Start Batch Processing (Figure 8) to start performance of the tasks.

Figure 8

The window containing information about splitting process (Figure 9.1) appears. When the trimming process is finished, the window shown in
Figure 9.2 opens.

Figure 9.1

Figure 9.2

Every task from the list should be performed. In our list we had one task, so at the end of the procedure we have one edited file. It consists of two fragments. Two fragments selected as 'cut off' was deleted from the movie.

 

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 About the author

Olga Krovyakova is the Technical Support Manager in Solveig Multimedia since 2010.

She is the author of many text and video guidelines of company's products: Video Splitter, HyperCam, WMP Trimmer Plugin, AVI Trimmer+ and TriMP4.

She works with programs every day and therefore knows very well how they work. Сontact Olga via support@solveigmm.com if you have any questions. She will gladly assist you!