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[Matthew Exon <mat.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

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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.

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