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[Bill Filler <1553431@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

we could certainly use a generic video editing component that any app
could use

** Changed in: ubuntu-ui-extras (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Also affects: canonical-devices-system-image
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Bill Filler (bfiller)

** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image
    Milestone: None => backlog

** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Feature: clip video

Status in Canonical System Image:
  Confirmed
Status in gallery-app package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-ui-extras package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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