The method is almost the same: You view video in the Photos app, then click the little settings cog in the playback controls, and choose Trim from the resulting popup menu.
Secret Photo 1.4 Movie Is InPhoto: Charlie SorrelCult of Mac The secret of a good movie is in the editing.Well, the script, the lightning, the directing, the photography, and the acting are all important, but for home movies, you have little control over those. And the most basic of edits is to lop the ends off a clip, to trim video and make it shorter. Watching excessively long clips is the equivalent of a conversation with someone who cant ever get to the point. Even if youre not planning on combining your edits into a short movie, you should at least remove the cruft from anything youre going to show. The good news is that its dead easy to trim video on Mac and iOS. How to trim video clips on iOS On iOS, video editing is done inside the Photos app (you can also do the same trick on the Mac, with one fundamental difference details below). To trim a clip, find it in the Photos app, and tap to open it. Depending on your iCloud Photo Library settings, the clip may not be stored locally on your device. In that case, it will be automatically downloaded, ready for you to edit, and a little progress pie will fill up as this happens. Photo: Charlie SorrelCult of Mac Now youll see the video editing screen, with your clip at the top, and the timeline at the bottom. You can play the clip, and you can also scrub through the clip by sliding the little white bar along the timeline. This will help you narrow down your trim points. The screenshots in this post show the iPad, but the steps are the same on the iPhone.) Perform the cut Trimming the clip requires a little finesse to get things started. You see those arrows at either end of the timeline You need to grab one of those. When you manage it, youll see a yellow box over a part of your video timeline. Photo: Charlie SorrelCult of Mac This box shows the part of the clip that will be kept. To check that it looks good, you can hit the play button, and only the selection in the yellow box will be played. Now, you have your new, shorter clip, ready for sharing, or just showing off. Depending on your preferences, you might want to keep that original clip, or you might want to delete it. If its a long baby-goat video, with a whole slew of cute moments, then you will surely want to keep it, and chop out the best bits to make goat GIFs. Trimming video on Mac, iPad or iPhone You can trim a video clip on your Mac just as easily as on your iPhone or iPad.
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