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How To Split And Merge Your Video Clips for YouTube?

You may have recorded many great moments with your mobile phone or camcorder in your spare time? Want to share your great works with worldwide audience? Uploading these videos to YouTube is a good way to let people discover joy and get fun from your videos. In such case, editing videos for YouTube is important because it can help your videos look better, which can get you more views and up-votes. For example, merge multiple separate videos into one single file or split large video into small parts to meet the time and file size limitations for YouTube video upload. This article will explain how to get these work done quickly and easily.

Best Video Editor for YouTube

Well, if you want an all-in-one solution for splitting and joining video files losslessly and very fast, Pavtube Video Converter will be the best choice. This video editor comes with power and high quality that most of its competitors lack. With it, you can quickly join multiple video files together(See how to merge multiple MP4 files) as you need. Also, you can split any video files by file account, time length or file size. What's more, this program can convert multimedia files MOV, MP4, AVI, DivX, MPEG, MOV, H.265, VOB, MKV, etc from one format to another with codecs of your choice suitable for uploading to YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Facebook, etc.

Its other features are support for multiple file formats, video conversion and previews. It will guarantee you of a memorable experience. If you wanna perform the video splitting and merging on Mac OS, Pavtube Video Converter Mac is the alternative choice. Just download it to achieve your goal.

Step by step to Split or Merge Video Clips for YouTube

Part 1: Split Large Video Into Small Parts by File Size, Count or Time Length

Step 1: Import large video files

Launch and start the program on your computer, click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from Folder" to import source files to the program.

Step 2: Define output file format

From "Format" bar drop-down list, select YouTube supported uploading formats, such as H.264 MP4.

Step 3: Split video into small parts

By clicking the "Split" button video converter split button under the file displaying list, checking "Enable" to enable it, and then you can split the file by file count, time length, or file size according to your own needs.

video converter video split

Step 4: Start video splitting process for YouTube uploading

Press the right-bottom "Convert" button to start the large video into small parts or segments splitting process. After that, you can find your converted files by clicking "Open output folder" with all splitted small files for convenient sharing to YouTube.

Part 2: Combine several videos into one

Step 1: Import source files and adjust the video file order

Click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from Folder" to import source files to the program. Click the "Move up" or "Move down" arrow under the video file displaying window to adjust your source video file order according to your own needs.

Step 2: Choose output file format

Select YouTube Supported video format from "Format" drop-down options.

Step 3: Join several videos into one

On the main interface, check the box before all video files you want to merge, then check "merge into one file" option to combine all your separate video clips into one single file.

Step 4: Start separate video clips joining process

Press the right-bottom "Convert" button, when the conversion is completed, you can find your converted files by clicking "Open output folder" with all merged files into one for further usage.

Additional Tips:

With the Pavtube's full package video editing and customization function, you can get the exactly video you want. You can also flip the video horizontally or vertically, rotate the video clockwise or counterclockwise to make the video displayed in a right angel, trim or cut a length video to leave only your favorite parts, crop the video to remove the unwanted black borders or area, personalize or protect your video with image/video/transparent text watermark, change video effect like brightness, contrast, saturation or apply special rendering effect, add external srt/ass/ssa subtitle to video to make it more interesting, etc.

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