Forum Discussion
Trim feature removed in new Stream?
I know that not having trim in Stream (on SharePoint) is painful. Full video editing will come with clipchamp being added to enterprise later this year.
It's been a long road for us in the product group to get to a plan for what to do in Stream. We apologize for how long it's taken us. It's not easy for us to just add back the ability that was in Stream (Classic) to SharePoint, the underlying architecture and storage is very different.
Thank you for all the feedback you've shared and all the votes in the ideas forum. We've finally been able to land on a design for a simple trim option directly in Stream. We aren't able to share a timeline or roadmap item yet until we get further on the engineering design and start coding.
Feel free to keep adding your votes and comments to this item in the Ideas forum. (I consolidated the other few ideas into this single one that joined all the votes together):
Support for video trimming (start, end, & middle) · Community (microsoft.com)
MicrosoftI know that not having trim in Stream (on SharePoint) is painful. Full video editing will come with clipchamp being added to enterprise later this year.
It's been a long road for us in the product group to get to a plan for what to do in Stream. We apologize for how long it's taken us. It's not easy for us to just add back the ability that was in Stream (Classic) to SharePoint, the underlying architecture and storage is very different.
Thank you for all the feedback you've shared and all the votes in the ideas forum. We've finally been able to land on a design for a simple trim option directly in Stream. We aren't able to share a timeline or roadmap item yet until we get further on the engineering design and start coding.
Feel free to keep adding your votes and comments to this item in the Ideas forum. (I consolidated the other few ideas into this single one that joined all the votes together):
Support for video trimming (start, end, & middle) · Community (microsoft.com)
- I really appreciate your response, but not being able to easily trim a teams recording is pretty much a deal breaker. I tried ClipChamp, and this was my experience: 4hr Teams meeting (forgot to stop the recording apparently), original mp4 file from teams was 450MB. Used ClipChamp to trim it to 44 minutes, and exported the file (in the same resolution as the original; there aren't any more options for frame rate or compression in ClipChamp) and I got a 2.2GB mp4 file. Bonkers.
- This was over six months ago, and we are still waiting (the suggestion page indicates "we are considering this", so likely two more years). Not sure how it's beneficial to try to cover so much ground if the coverage is so shallow... This only gets people to complain about the lack of features, and to be honest, it makes us doubt if we should push for this and other tools.
- This seems like a move to make more money and provide less value from Microsoft. Now they've also removed the standard (included) and basic Video Editor and are having people buy a new app called Clip Champ. That's fine if people want to do advanced editing. But trimming a video recording from a meeting is like expecting a pair of running shoes to come with laces. Basic expectation of value from a service built around effective communication and info sharing. C'mon and be all you should be Microsoft!
- I believe announcement MC664866 from Microsoft indicates that users with these licenses will have access for free to Clipchamp for work: Microsoft 365 - E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium.
In the announcement Microsoft also indicate "Clipchamp runs in the Edge or Chrome browser and is accessible via OneDrive or SharePoint on the web by creating a new Clipchamp video or editing an existing video." so it is a web app not the desktop client.
Apparently roll out has begun and is expected to be complete by mid-October.
There is also detail on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124826 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124826
- Why is this core functionality taken out making it again more work for me to run other tools to make it happen while Microsoft should free-up time in practice. Agree that product development is not standing still and evolutions need to happen but sometimes the Good needs to be preserved unless you have a technical reason for this. So in other words bring this back please!
- This is so frustrating, trimming is a very basic but help video editing feature. Why would they get rid of it
- It seems a bit silly to phase out a product that worked before the replacement product can match it in terms of such basic functionality.
- We use GCC and have been trying to be patient but killing off Stream Classic decimated our video training program. I understand you to say the clipchamp feature will help but when will GCC have that access? I understand you to say MS is working on a "soft" solution to hide instead of actually trim. This is not a good solution if we have a FOIA request. Please put a rush on this project.
- I feel for your team and yourself about the lag in feature releases and stuff, but to have switched the classic Stream to the SharePoint version without a Trim option is really bad. It feels like most people are in the same situation as I am. We start recordings at some time, and then actually start the presentation or the discussions, then at the end there are more nonsense stuff happening and then the recording ends. Not having a basic trim tool really makes the use of the whole Stream platform unusable. We can't be a serious company and offer streaming services to our clients and coworkers that contains garbage at the beginning and garbage at the end. Basically we then have to download the video, upload it to a platform that has some basic tools like this and then share it from that platform instead. Really disappointing to say the least.
