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)
- I'm just using the preinstalled desktop version on my Surface Pro.
- Unfortunately, no.
BHBrookfieldturns out it will only be available in Microsoft 365 E3, and NOT "Office 365 E3" which is what we were on. I switched over to MS 365 E3 and it was available immediately on my targeted release account.
That said, Clipchamp is very disappointing. This is not replacement for Trim - it's an awkward workaround with its own issues.
- You still have to process the files for export. You're not trimming the file that appears in the Teams chat. You can import that file from Onedrive, but it ultimately results in a new exported file that you need to share & upload.
- My usage is also combining meeting files. After 4 hours Teams splits the mp4's to a new file, which needs to be combined for my purpose. Combining two mp4's results in a huge size increase in the Clipchamp export. Two files (about 2gb combined) became a 5gb export at 720p. It also took 45-50 minutes. In fairness this is similar processing time to Premier, though is unnecessary to re-process. The original quality is fine. All I need is trim + combine - no need to reprocess.
- Still have to upload the exported file to Onedrive, which takes even more time especially with a 5gb file.
- I found the experience with Clipchamp to also be disappointing. There's a menu item on a meeting recording to Edit in Clipchamp, but it doesn't provide a way to edit that file and save it back to the same location. At least as far as I was able to figure out.
