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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 trim feature was available recently when video recordings of Teams meetings were accessed in OneDrive.
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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- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
We don't have trim for videos in onedrive or SharePoint. Only in Stream (Classic). We are trying to build a simple version into the new experience. We are thinking of doing a default start and end time for the video. The video would start at that point and pause at end point but users could see and jump to parts outside these points.
Would that meet your need in the short term while we build a more complicated trim feature or until clipchamp for full video editing is available?- "We are thinking of doing a default start and end time for the video. The video would start at that point and pause at end point but users could see and jump to parts outside these points."
Yes, this would work for my needs. All I ever needed to do was shorten the intro time and trim the end time.I think that simply having a default start and end time is about the most monumentally poor and lazy way out of a problem that did not need to happen.
Sure, there may be a few cases where having the video available with the "tails" still there might be OK, but in most cases, it gets trimmed for a reason, and not only because of it being irrelevant.
It has to be actually gone...
- That sounds good. What would the default start / end be based on? Detected video and audio activity? From reading the comments, I believe most users like myself just want the basic capability to trim the first and last parts of a recording. More features later but we want to get back to this capability first. Thx Marc!
- Why does it seem like this was entirely a half baked system and migration requirement? Way too many features that are extremely useful in Stream (Classic - not this Sharepoint junk) appear to be missing, with very little thought on replacing these. Also - IMHO a horrible job of communicating any change to the system - I only realized when I went to go an upload another installment of our training videos to our in-house channel... If you insist on using the "new" Stream, at least keep the existing system in place until you can replicate *ALL* the features of the classic...
