What's the best way to trim a video file?

I have a big mov file (143 GB). I just need to trim a part of that file quickly. I tried to trim and save it as an mp4 but the quality turned out awful. I just trimmed and saved it as an mov but it's taking forever. Is there any quicker way I can do this?

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions. 
Email isn't really designed for large file transfer and so most videos of a few minutes or more at an acceptable quality can't be sent.
Sign up for a free YouTube account and upload the video and set it as private. You can then invite people to watch the video.
If the person on the other end needs to be able to edit the video then I'd suggest snail mailing a CD/DVD.
If quality isn't an issue then you can use the Export options in Quicktime Pro to make the video file size small before you email it.
mrtotes

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