MPC-HC Video Editor (C# / WPF)

Create bookmarks with a hotkey to merge, split, and trim video clips via ffmpeg with MPC-HC. There are also a lot of other features that allow you to: bulk image convert, bulk image resize, strip audio, convert video, crop video, apply video effects (flip, mute, fade, rotate), extract frame thumbnails, extract image metadata, export clips as gifs, create custom anchors for filename tags, create explorer shortcuts, create and manage playlists, customize the look and view, and more.

Portable. No installer. Some backup data is stored in appdata, but it still retains its portability.

Multiple Views

Customization

Right-click the seekbar for its own settings, or Options for the rest.

Upgrading keeps your settings. A spare settings.json is kept in %APPDATA%\MPC-HC Video Editor\ and restored only when none is found beside the executable — so delete-and-unpack upgrades carry over, and a deliberately fresh copy stays fresh.

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Bookmarks

A bookmark is a timestamp pair: the hotkey opens it, the hotkey closes it.

• Cuts may touch but not overlap, and new marks must land at or after the latest one. Refused marks are not added, and the reason appears over the player.
• Closing a bookmark at or before its start is refused; the bookmark stays open.
• Undo last bookmark removes the last single timestamp, not the pair.
• Enter time / range… accepts 90, 1:30, 1:02:03, 22s, 5m, 1h, 1m30s and ranges like 1:00 - 2:30.
• Edit bookmarks opens the CSV in a text editor; changes are picked up when the window regains focus.
• Scan for cuts… scans for silence, black frames or scene changes and proposes cuts to review before accepting — appended or replacing.
• Play all / Play selected seek the player to each cut and play it for its effective duration.
• Per cut: a speed slider (0.25x–2.0x), and Flip, Rotate, Mute, Fade and Crop. These act on the checked cuts, or on the highlighted row when nothing is checked.
• Only complete pairs can be checked. Clicking a timestamp seeks the player.
• Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y step back and forward through changes to the cuts.
• The timeline carries position, length, a bracket at each end of every cut and the audio waveform behind it. Click to seek.

The CSV format matches the original AutoHotkey version, is saved next to the video, and is never created empty.

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Actions

Output filenames use the active naming tag — vacation.mp4 → vacation[done].mp4 — or the source's own name when the tag is None.

Video

• Merge — the checked cuts, all of them, or files you pick when nothing is loaded. Always available.
• Split — one clip per cut.
• Crop — drag the area to keep on a still frame, per cut or across a whole video.
• Convert files to MP4… — several files at once.
• Export as chapters… — one file with the cuts as chapter marks, streams copied, so it is lossless.

Audio

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