How to cut a part of the video on the Xiaomi phone: all the ways from standard to advanced

Cutting video on Xiaomi smartphones (including the Redmi and POCO lines) is a challenge that every second user faces. Whether you want to remove excess footage from a video from a vacation, cut ads from a saved stream or prepare a clip for TikTok/Instagram - MIUI has both built-in tools and hidden features. But not everyone knows that the standard Gallery app on Xiaomi can not only trim video by time, but also preserve original quality when exporting, if you adjust the parameters correctly.

In this article, we’ll look at 5 proven ways to crop video, from basic to professional, including the little-known MIUI 14/15 chips. You’ll learn how to get around the duration limit in a standard editor, which apps don’t spoil 4K quality, and why video after cropping “slows down” (and how to fix it), and at the end, answers to frequent questions, including about screen clipping and working with files over 2 GB.

Method 1: Standard editor in the Gallery appendix

The fastest method is to use the built-in tool in the Gallery app (or Photos on newer versions of MIUI) that supports cropping without loss of quality for video up to Full HD (1080p), but has a duration limit: if the original video is longer than 30 minutes, the editor can "hang" or automatically compress the result.

How to cut video through the Gallery:

• 📱 Open the Gallery app and select the desired video.
• 🎬 Click on the Edit icon (pencil in the bottom menu).
• ✂️ Go to the "Pruning" tab (scissors).
• 📏 Drag the sliders on the timeline to highlight the fragment. Use the button to fine-tune the sliders. 🔍 (magnifying glass – it increases the scale of the timeline.
• 💾 Click Save and select Quality: Original (recommended) or Optimized (compressed).

⚠️ Note: If the video is taken in HEVC (H.265) or has a high bitrate, a standard editor can save the result in AVC (H.264) Check the camera settings if it's there. 4K@60fps, It is better to use third-party applications (see Method) 3).

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To speed up processing of long videos, move the file to a folder before cropping. DCIM/Camera — MIUI Optimize your work with the media from this directory.

Method 2: Trimming with Google Photos (without loss of quality)

Google Photos offers a more flexible editor than the standard Xiaomi Gallery, which supports video clipping to 4K (including HEVC), allows you to rotate the frame and apply basic filters. The main advantage is cloud synchronization: if a video is already uploaded to Google Photos, it can be cropped even without the original file on the phone.

Instructions:

1. Open Google Photos and select a video.
2. Tap "Edit» → «Video».
3. Click on the scissors icon ("Pruning").
4. Move the white markers on the scale to highlight the fragment. Use the button for accuracy. 🔍 (rise).
5. Click Save Copy. The app will prompt you to select permission — always choose Original.

⚠️ Attention: If after trimming in Google Photos video began to "twitch", check the synchronization settings: with a weak Internet, the application can compress files automatically.

Method 3: Professional cropping in CapCut (for TikTok/Reels)

If you need to not just cut a piece, but add transitions, text or music, use CapCut, a free editor from the creators of TikTok. It is optimized for vertical video (9:16), supports key frames and export in 4K. An important nuance: CapCut by default compresses video when exporting, but this can be disabled.

Step-by-step:

• 📱 Install CapCut from Google Play.
• 🎬 Click on “New Project” and select a video.
• ✂️ Drag sliders on the timeline to trim the extra. Use the Separation function (scissors on the toolbar) for precise trimming).
• 🔧 In export settings (Exports) → Settings, select: 📹 Permission: Original (or 4K, if the source supports). 🎵 Bitrate: Maximum (e.g. 50 Mbps for the 4K). 🔄 Codecs: H.264 (for compatibility) or H.265 (save space).
• 💾 Click Export and wait for processing.

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CapCut automatically optimizes videos for social media: for example, for Instagram Reels, it offers templates with safe areas for text. If you need to crop videos for YouTube Shorts, choose the 9:16 format and up to 60 seconds.

Method 4: Trimming through VLC for Android (for large files)

If the video weighs more than 2 GB or has a non-standard format (for example,.MKV,.MOV), standard Xiaomi editors may not open it, in which case VLC for Android – a player with an integrated editor that works even with corrupted files – will help.

How to crop video in VLC:

1. Install VLC from Google Play.
2. Open the video in the app and click on the three dots in the upper right corner → “Edit”.
3. Select the “Pruning” tool (scissors).
4. Specify the beginning and end of the fragment by dragging the markers.
5. Click Save and select the folder to export. VLC will offer to configure the codecs - for maximum quality, select: Codec: H.264 Bitrate: 20,000 kbps (for 4K) Format: MP4 Footage/sec: Original

⚠️ Attention: VLC Does not support hardware acceleration on all Xiaomi models. If the video slows down during processing, close the background applications or use the "Energy Saving" mode in the settings MIUI.

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Method 5: Trimming through MIUI Tools (hidden function)

Few people know, but MIUI has a hidden tool called MIUI Tools that allows you to crop video without installing third-party apps, which is faster than the standard Gallery and supports batch processing, and to activate it, you need to turn on the developer mode.

Instructions:

1. Activate Developer Mode: Go to Settings → About Phone. tap on MIUI Version 7 times. Return to Settings → Additional → For Developers and enable USB Debugging.

MIUI Tools

website

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Media

Video Trimmer

Download the video and trim it with sliders.

Save

MP4 (No Re-encode)

This method is especially useful for Xiaomi owners with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2/3 processors (such as Xiaomi 13/14 or Redmi K60), as MIUI Tools are optimized for their graphics cores.

How to Cut Screen Recording (Screen Recording)

Videos recorded through Xiaomi’s built-in Screen Record feature often have “extra” moments: delays at the beginning, click errors or system notifications. These can also be cut, but there are nuances:

• 📱 Screen video is saved in format MP4 with a resolution equal to the resolution of the display (for example, 2400×1080 For the Redmi Note 12 Pro+).
• 🔊 If there is sound from a microphone in a recording, it cannot be separated from the system sound in standard editors.
• ⚡ Cutting down these videos takes up more resources because they are encoded in real time.

The best tools for screen recording:

• 🎬 CapCut – if you need to add subtitles or music.
• 📁 VLC — If the video is longer than 10 minutes.
• 🔧 MIUI Tools – for the fastest pruning without loss of quality.

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Xiaomi screen videos have a high bitrate (up to 50 Mbps), so when cropped in the standard Gallery, they can automatically compress. Always check your export settings!

Frequent problems and their solutions

Even with simple tools, Xiaomi users are faced with mistakes, and here are the most common ways to fix them:

If none of these methods helped, check:

• 📂 Free space on the phone (needs at least 10% of the video size).
• 🔋 Performance mode in MIUI: Switch to “High Performance” in Settings → Battery.
• 🔄 Updates MIUI: in older versions (below) MIUI 12) the standard editor is unstable.

FAQ: Answers to Frequent Questions