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BHBrookfield
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Sep 20, 2022
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Trim feature removed in new Stream?

Has the trim feature been removed in both the new (SharePoint) Stream and tradtional Stream interface?  I discovered this today when attempting to trim a video recorded from a Teams meeting.  The ...
  • Marc Mroz's avatar
    Marc Mroz
    Mar 14, 2023

    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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Tim_J_E
Brass Contributor
Nov 17, 2023
With the greatest respect to those that are contributing, which is always appreciated, recommending anything like Chimpclip or whatever it is is completely irrelevant to this thread: The question as asked (as far as I understand) all stems from Microsoft, for some bizarre reason, removing the trim feature from videos already uploaded WITHIN SHAREPOINT. Same link. Same location. That means trimming a video where it is (or was) already stored. Any use of an external video editing app or software is not helpful as it involves downloading, storing it somewhere else, perhaps re-uploading. NONE of these steps are wanted. There are hundreds, perhaps, of editing apps out there that are irrelevant, even if they are available from within 365 or whatever. We just want this essential trim feature back. Microsoft, please listen and act on the wishes of your users. And 'this decade' would be nice.... 😞
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karen_dredske
Iron Contributor
Nov 17, 2023

Tim_J_E Microsoft owns Clipchamp and it is being integrated into all tenants (except GCC and Education at this time) as part of your license. This is their recommendation. You can open Clipchamp from the applauncher and open your file from SharePoint to edit.

From there select My Content.

It will open up a view similar to OneDrive and you can select Cloud Files and your SharePoint site and the file from there to trim it.

Microsoft is in the middle of giving us more than just trimming off the beginning or the end of a video. They are going to give you the ability to "hide" any part of the video from viewers that you want to. That is in development, was shown at Ignite on Wednesday, and is captured in line 23 of this spreadsheet that tracks Stream features - https://aka.ms/StreamClassicToSPFeatureList. They just don't have a delivery date for it yet.

Here is the video of the new features that are coming. Check the lower left corner of the video for an estimated timeline for each feature they go through. 

Microsoft Stream: The Future of Video in Microsoft 365 (youtube.com)

 

  • Marc Mroz's avatar
    Marc Mroz
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    Nov 18, 2023

    Thanks everyone for your feedback and suggestions. We hear you, on a simple trim within Stream without having to make a whole new video. We are working on it as fast as we can.

    See this part of our “what’s new” video at 3:59 for a demo of the coming trim ability:


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