How to 'save as new clip'

I’m on iOS 13.2 public beta 2, and it’s still not working as it should or as it used to.

Duplicating the original video and then editing the duplicate does nothing. Let’s say you have a 10 minute video, then duplicate it and then trim it down to 10 seconds. Think that video is 10 seconds? Click edit again and you’ll see it’s still 10 minutes long, but the yellow bars are showing the 10 seconds. So if you play back the edited video on your iPhone or iPad, it’ll play the 10 seconds. Share that video with anyone via say Facebook messenger - it sends them the full thing, but it shows them it’s 10 seconds long. Play it and it’ll go from 0:00 to 0:10 and then keep playing up to the 10 minutes. It’s a waste of time.

One way I tried was screen recording the clip and then trimming that, but again you’ll be sending the full thing.

The only way I have found that works is to trim the video, then text it to yourself and then save that. Then you’ll get the true 10 second video.

Why Apple haven’t fixed this yet is beyond me. I’ve reported this five times now through the Feedback app. I honestly don’t think they look at those reports...

I FIGURED OUT A WORK AROUND!!

This was bugging the **** out of me, as I kept trying to upload a trimmed video to Facebook and it just uploads the full unedited clip. This is super stupid, by the way, Apple. Fix it.

For now, text yourself the trimmed video and save the one that arrives back on to your camera roll. Its trimmed and unrevertable.

Youre welcome

It’s crazy that Apple got rid of save as. Now I text the trimmed video to myself and save that to my album. I then go back to the original video and revert to original.

I did a workaround on this by sending the trimmed video to my mac through airdrop, the sent video is a 'flatten' version of the video and I send it back to my phone over airdrop again, hence the new version in the phone is the new clip version

Seriously though, just iMessage the edited video to yourself and save it to camera roll and use that in WhatsApp or Facebook or twitter etc (it’s all the same story). It’s obviously not ideal, but it works.

I think this feature was taken out, but what I did was after trimming the video, save the trimmed video to files and then save it back to your photos, and it should be saved as a new clip in a way.

This forum needs an “unhelpful” button. Sarcasm helps no one.

Anyway, edit, text it to yourself, save what you receive. That’s it.

I’m out.

Important point re: cropping video vs editing it:

If you crop a video to the desired length, iMessage it to yourself or save to files or something like that, but then do “anything” to that saved file later - those new edits done through the photos app will also not be there in whatever you share with anyone.

Example: Crop a video down to 10 seconds - text it to yourself and save it. You realize the new saved video could do with a little more color and it’s not level so needs to be rotated - whatever the result is - it will still be the original unless you send it to yourself.

This isn’t just a cropping issue - it’s anything you do with a video.

Convoluted workaround: https://appletoolbox.com/use-this-workaround-to-save-and-rename-a-trimmed-video-in-ios-13-or-ipados/

Yes this is terrible for editing clips out of videos. I film skateboarding on my phone and without the save as feature I’m holding on to multiple massive clips just to graphic 10 seconds. It’s filling my phone up and forcing me to buy more iCloud space to free up space on my phone. The only way to avoid it is to duplicate the clip text the clip you edited down to yourself then save that and go back and revert the original. What is the point of duplicating the entire clip and not just the part you want? Seems like a scam to sell phones with more storage or force you to buy more iCloud space. We need save as back ASAP. This is wack!

It’s in iOS 13.3 which is currently in public beta, so the official iOS doesn’t yet have it, but will whenever apple release 13.3.

Quick update on the bugs found before in 13.3 beta 2: In beta 3 released today, the photos app still freezes a little when saving as a new clip, but not as much as before, and audio/video sync is better. Looks like it’s being improved.

btw that chiitan7407 on Instagram in the screenshot above is hilarious lol what better way to test video clips that screen record a Japanese mascot causing havoc.

Just click share on the video you want to shorten and click “duplicate”. Then edit the duplicated video.

I found a way

i was so frustrated why did they remove the option in photos

but

you can transfer the whole video into files and then in files you can trim it and save as new clip

Send it to yourself in iMessage, then save it

From what I understand, they just completely took this away which is a total crime. Other apps can’t read the trimmed clip. Also, I used that “save as a new clip” very often! I would take a long clip and save a bunch shorter ones to post. But now I can’t do that without going to a third party app and it takes so much longer. #shakingFistAtApple

please bring this back!!!