Public bug reported: The gallery currently allows editing photos by cropping them or rotating them. By analogy, it should be possible to extract a short portion of a video clip and save it as a new video. Note that saving as a new video is critical, do not overwrite the original. This is because you might want to extract multiple clips from a single video.
Justification for why this is important enough to add to a core app: A phone is a communications device. The reason for adding a video camera to a phone is so that you can quickly share a moment with your friends, on the spot, immediately. It's not really so that you can shoot footage for the feature film you're developing in your studio. You don't want to waste data and you don't want to waste your friends' time. You want to send as short a clip as possible, normally just a few seconds. But you have to shoot a fairly long video, several minutes, to be sure of capturing the right moment. So without the ability to clip the video it's almost impossible to capture something worth sharing. Mucking around with a specialised video editing app is complicated and loses the spontaneity. There is definitely a role for a feature-rich, sophisticated video-editing app. I would certainly want this for more interesting cases. But I would only resort to that on rare occasions. It could be argued that this is the responsibility of individual social media apps. But if you use multiple social media apps that wastes time. It also wastes developer time and increases the UI surface area. Adding a video clip feature would take the video recording functionality from a "maybe I would use that sometimes" to a "something I couldn't live without" level of usefulness. ** Affects: gallery-app (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Apps bug tracking, which is subscribed to gallery-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1553431 Title: Feature: clip video Status in gallery-app package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The gallery currently allows editing photos by cropping them or rotating them. By analogy, it should be possible to extract a short portion of a video clip and save it as a new video. Note that saving as a new video is critical, do not overwrite the original. This is because you might want to extract multiple clips from a single video. Justification for why this is important enough to add to a core app: A phone is a communications device. The reason for adding a video camera to a phone is so that you can quickly share a moment with your friends, on the spot, immediately. It's not really so that you can shoot footage for the feature film you're developing in your studio. You don't want to waste data and you don't want to waste your friends' time. You want to send as short a clip as possible, normally just a few seconds. But you have to shoot a fairly long video, several minutes, to be sure of capturing the right moment. So without the ability to clip the video it's almost impossible to capture something worth sharing. Mucking around with a specialised video editing app is complicated and loses the spontaneity. There is definitely a role for a feature-rich, sophisticated video-editing app. I would certainly want this for more interesting cases. But I would only resort to that on rare occasions. It could be argued that this is the responsibility of individual social media apps. But if you use multiple social media apps that wastes time. It also wastes developer time and increases the UI surface area. Adding a video clip feature would take the video recording functionality from a "maybe I would use that sometimes" to a "something I couldn't live without" level of usefulness. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gallery-app/+bug/1553431/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-apps-bugs Post to : ubuntu-apps-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-apps-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp