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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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- This is ridiculous. Stream {Classic} worked just fine. Stream on Sharepoint is like rummaging through other peoples drawers.
Trim is absolutely essential. Recording starts as soon as anyone joins. I often have to trim 10 minutes of video. I can't believe we've been talking about this for 8 months with no action. - In 'Classic' Microsoft style, release a replacement platform with less features than the previous platform. Trim is absolutely essential - how you could release this system without it, is just laughable. As someone previous said, and I will echo: "Do better, Microsoft" 🙄
- Couldn't agree more. I've just tried and realised that the "old" functionality has been turned off in our (NHS) organisation... Which doesn't allow any external video editing, etc. Significant time and effort going to be needed to get things sorted... Trimming wasn't perfect but it was much better than this!
BHBrookfield I've just spent the best part of a day downloading a large workshop recording, where I then spent less than 5 minutes trimming the last 1 minute of footage in ClipChamp only to now wait for the recording to be uploaded back into the project folder (losing the chapters I made before I realised the trim feature had gone from Stream).
Previously this would have taken me just that "less than 5 minutes" part, and I wouldn't have lost the chapters I made.
Find a way of allowing users to trim videos, even just the beginnings and ends, in Stream. It's a pretty essential feature for a great many Teams users.- I'm a Mac guy and I haven't gotten straight answers from my IT team. I don't want them to use ClipChamp since it is only a consumer service currently (assuming I have that correct).
Surely Windows 10 has an app built in that can trim video. The ability to edit or remove personal information from recordings is a much-needed feature that should be reinstated. Many recordings contain personal information that needs to be edited out or removed, and the only current option is to download, edit, and reupload the recording. This is a time-consuming and inconvenient process. It is frustrating when updates to software or services remove features that were previously available. This is a common habit in the IT world, and it is often done without any explanation or warning. It can be difficult to understand why a feature would be removed, especially when it is a useful and important one.
- Not only time-consuming and inconvenient!
I often end up with a video that is half the length and twice the size.- I have used this tool instead - and it is not just faster - it is also ridiculously fast.
The drawback is of course that you have to download the video-clip - cut it - and upload again.
(but since I always move the e.g. meeting recording from the sharepoint stream recording to the "classic stream" - that is a non-issue)
https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut#download
It would have been awesome if the lossless-cut could be an integrated feature - cause it is brilliant!
- Please add this feature back, where do we go to request this? thank you!
The feature is gone from the new Stream and the page to vote the change back, as with many other pages with many votes, is "missing."
The following is NOT a SOLUTION BUT is what I do and what works for me and my situation:
1) Download the video from Streams and then delete it. (I also download the transcript as a .vtt file to be safe).
2) Upload the video to the Stream Classic (it suggests you to use the new version OR, tiny at the bottom, to keep uploading to Classic). I choose to upload it to Classic.
3) Upload the .vtt file I downloaded earlier as subtitle (I haven't taken the time to compare the A.I. auto captions on Classic VS. Auto caption on Streams SharePoint but, I rather have excess than not enough).
3) Trim it.
To me, this way is faster than downloading and editing in my favorite video editor (Davinci Resolve) and uploading back to the new Stream version. Granted, this is not a workaround for many people as most don't have access to fast download/upload internet speeds or hard drive space and because of that, this feature SHOULD BE BACK ASAP.
God bless you all with peace of mind and joy,
Virginia Ramunda-MartyGeekyLady It seems as if even this solution does not work anymore. I am not allowed to upload a video to classic stream anymore. Instead it is uploaded to Stream Sharepoint where I can't trim it. It is a pity.
- I noticed this yesterday too - not good.
- Uploading to Classic is not a long-term solution, with organizations able to shut it down anytime and the entire service being retired in Feb 2024.
Disappointing how they take away features. I wonder how they make these decisions... BHBrookfield
I loved classic and I fully support why you are moving to the sharepoint model. I was ready to go until I noticed that Trim feature was missing. Trimming the front and back of videos is important. Thank you for working on this solution.
