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)
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This is a key function to use Stream as the video management tool for a company. I am trying to cut out content from the end of a video that can't be there and now I have to find another tool to do this in.
- PaulScheiman you can now use Clipchamp to trim videos. It is already included in your Enterprise subscription if you have a Targeted Release tenant and it is available in the Windows app store for your laptop. This is what we use for right now. Some extra steps, but the price is right and it's pretty easy to use.
karen_dredske Yes, there are many third party apps available too, but that is not at all helpful: Microsoft have foolishly decided to take away this feature from Stream and WE are suffering as a result; Videos that have been recorded e.g. in Teams are already uploaded and present online. All people like me want to do is be able to trim out, for example the time it takes the presenter to get ready at the start of a recording. Your suggestion means downloading the video, editing it in e.g. Chimpface, re-saving it, re-uploading and then having to tell those present where the new recording is !! Do you not see how illogical all that is ? All we want is the trim feature added back to Stream (as well as the other features that used to be there).
- Tim_J_E I feel your pain. I'm wondering if the metrics are just wrong that were collected by the Stream team related to video trimming. They are working on it now and I am hoping the inconvenience for all of us passes quickly. It was also the most common feature that I used in the past also.
However. . . what I will say is that you should not have to tell anyone where the new recording is because if you save the updated video file with the exact same name, upload it to the exact same location in OneDrive or SharePoint you will be prompted to tell whether you want to replace the current file or not. If you replace the file, then it should be found in the same location. You will have to re-run a transcript on it though as the file owner if your organization uses the transcript feature.
