Cut Assistant

Cut Assistant is a program designed to help you trim video clips. It supports plenty of file types, including WMV, ASF, AVI and MP4, and can be used by individuals of any level of experience.

This is a portable application, so installing it is not necessary. You can store it on a USB flash drive or any other removable device and just run the executable file.

More importantly, the Windows Registry is not updated with new entries, and no leftover files can be found on the hard drive after program removal. You can always have Cut Assistant with you whenever you're on the move.

The interface of the tool is standard. Loading a video clip into the working environment can be done via the file browser or "drag and drop" function. You can preview the videos in a built-in media player and trim them by marking the start and end position or time values.

You can jump to a specific frame, adjust the volume or mute it, specify the rate and cut mode (cut out or trim), as well as establish the number of frames. It is possible to process multiple selections from the same video at the same time.

You can repair a broken movie, save a cut list for further processing, navigate back and forth within the clip, edit a selected cut and make file associations. From the Settings screen, you can establish the default output directory for cuts and the cut list, specify a preferred source filter, and others.

The video processing tool requires a moderate-to-high amount of CPU and system memory, has a good response time and quickly finishes a task. No error dialogs have been shown in our tests and Cut Assistant did not hang or crash. Thanks to its multiple customization features, the app should be appreciated by users with some experience in similar software. Unfortunately, no recent updates have been made to Cut Assistant.