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)
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.Hi Karen - Thanks for your reply. We're focused on the Trimming aspect here, but I could write a book on how much Microsoft have dropped the ball around the video recording. For example, I sense that instead of Teams videos being stored on the organisational Sharepoint as it was, it now seems to have been pointed to my own My.sharepoint etc... I can only assume that is to try to manage GBs stored back to personal allowances ? Many other dimensions of the new Sharepoint have wrecked (I do NOT use that word lightly) my ability to manage the various videos I created and shared i.e. to ditch the great control e.g. for access and viewing with the old Channels and Groups.... we now have ? A damned mess.... without most of the controls to organise access and sharing of contents in an around differing groups with ease. I used to love dipping my toe into the Stream facilitites. I now dread it as it sucks my time and frustrates the hell out of me. And "no" it is not my lack of knowledge or effort.. I have given the new ecosystem a chance. But it is lightweight and lacking most of the professional functionality I used to use daily. Microsoft have not only 'scored an own goal' here, they have dug up the grass and torched the stadium.... We now have no idea what game we can play....!!. To the extent I think I'll just stay home.... as I think they don't want anyone on the pitch !! Such a bizarre mentality at Microsoft these days.... I think, as we say in the UK, they have 'lost the plot'....