Written by Have some online downloaded files or camera recorded files encoding with the H.265/HEVC codec and wish to trim the video to cut some unwanted clips from the beginning or end to save more space or join all the separate video clips into one file.
Best tool to cut or join H.265 video
Although there are many free video joiner software such as Windows Movie Maker, VLC, Freemaker, iMovie, etc on the market can do the video joiner or cutter work for you. However, you may be disappointed to find that a lot of them including Windows Movie Maker, Freemake, lacks the ability to handle H.265 video, in addition, there are only available on the Windows OS, while iMovie is only workable on the Mac platform. Others like VLC is too complicated to process the video joining or cutting process. The good news is that here comes Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, which has perfect importing support for both HD/4K HEVC/H.265 files wrapped with either MKV or MP4 container file format. With this simple to use H.265 Video Joiner/Cutter software, you can do the following work with ease.
1. Trim or cut H.265 video
Want to trim out a funny part from the H.265 video or cut the shaky or useless parts of H.265 camera footage to empty more space for your hard drive. With the built-in trimming function offered by the application, you can easily achieve that by either dragging the pointers on the process bar or set the exact time point in Start and End boxes to set.
2. Join H.265 files into one file
Wish to join all the separate H.265 files into a large complete file for better sharing? With our application, you can easily make that by rearrange all the separate video clips into the right order, then check the “Merge into one file” option, then you can get a complete single file. While other application such as Windows Movie Maker only allows you to join contiguous video clips into one file while Avidemux only join 2 parts of the video.
3. Join or cut H.265/HEVC video without re-encoding
Unwilling to suffer any quality loss when combining or trimming H.265 file, the good news is that the program allows you to directly output original H.265 files including H.265 MKV file, H.265 MP4 file, H.265 HD MP4 file or H.265 HD MKV file in the output format options according to your own selections.
4. Transcode H.265 to H.264 or other formats
Since the H.265 codec has poor compatibility with most popular media player software, portable devices or editing software, therefore, it would be a good idea for you to use application to convert the H.265 or H.264 or other popular digital file formats, device preset profile formats or video editing software preset profile formats.
Related article: Best H.265/HEVC Encoder/Decoder
5. Other beneficial video editing options
Apart from cutting or joining the H.265 video, the program also offer other beneficial video editing options for you to get the exact video that you want. You can flip or rotate video orientation, crop the video to remove the black edges or unwanted size area, deinterlace interlaced video into progressive form, apply special rendering effect, split large video into small parts by file size, count or length or insert external srt/ass/ssa subtitle to video.
6. Perfect OS compatibility
For your great convenience, this application is available on both Windows and Mac platform (get Mac version). What’s more, it is also has perfect compatibility with the new Windows 10 and macOS High Sierra. So free feel to download and install our application even if you have upgraded to the new Windows or Mac OS.
Step by Step to Cut or Join H.265 Video with the Best H.265 Video Cutter or Joiner
Step 1. Load H.265 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. You can also directly drag and drop the files to the app.
Adjust video order: 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: Merge several videos into one.
On the main interface, check 
option to combine all your video clips into one single file.
Step 3: Trim or cut H.265 video files.
Open “Video Editor” window and switch to the “Trim” tab, you can drag the slider bars to include the segment you want to remain, click the left square bracket to set start point, and click the right square bracket to set end point when previewing the video or directly input specific values to “Start” and “End” box.
Step 4: Start the conversion process.
Press the right-bottom “Convert” button, a window will pop out with the H.265 video cutting and joining process.
When the conversion is completed, you can find your converted files by clicking “Open output folder” with a complete H.265 video clips.
