Video stuck on “Preparing Video”

scroll down, past the photo of the window sill...a person explained the fix and saved me! He had more detail, his answer started with "don't worry..." Essentially he said hold the power on/off and the up/down volume at the same time until the apple logo appears. Worked for me! After that I got on screen instruction to plug into a computer, put in the apple address given, and repeat that hold buttons on both sides of phone.. Easy! Worked! Done! I went to all the trouble to register and sign in here just to find my way back to him and thank him, but since it was just luck that I kept scrolling down and down I thought I'd put this info. up near the top where others might see it. Good luck!

This is certainly NOT resolved. OMG I'm ready to trash can Apple over this, my Mac being ruthlessly hacked and out of my control not to mention that if I spend my days read "Learn more" bs I'd have zero time to live.

Sorry bout that👆🏽

but thanks for listening...😄

I screen recorded a 1 minute video, cut it down to 30 secs. This is a video from 1990 and as I spent time looking for a solution to this problem my iPhone 11 max pro is still trying to save or preparing video, for over 4 minutes to cut a video in half?

I think I finally figured out how to solve this on-going problem, in three easy steps:

Step 1: Determine your location relative to Silicon Valley, then turn and face it.

Step 2: Turn the phone onto the horizontal position and then hold down ALL side buttons simultaneously. NOTE: THEY MUST BE HELD DOWN EXACTLY AT THE SAME MOMENT!

Step 2: Say "Steve Jobs would be ******!" three times in the loudest voice possible.

ALTERNATE FIX APPROACH:

Hope that Apple will put resources to fix this glaring problem. The iPhone's best feature is its camera. How this is allowed to continue to happen is really disheartening. FIX IT APPLE!!!!!!!!!!

If Apple doesn't fix this, the only option left is to buy a Samsung product.

also find this issue super annoying, i have found a way around it (i think?). so after you finish trimming your video, cropping it, or whatever the edit may be. instead of tapping the option that says “save video”, tap the other option that says “save video as new clip” and it will instantly save the new edited clip without having that stupid “preparing video” loading bar. hope this helps anyone still having this issue in 2021 lol! cheers.

I was right now having this problem with my iPhone 12 Pro and after seeing your question and that other people were having the same problem I decided to give a try to simply turn off my phone and when I turned it on, it helped.

If you’re still having this problem first revert the video to it’s original state. Press the share button on the video and select duplicate. Edit the new video to your liking and when done select “save as new video”

Hope this helps anyone still experiencing this bug!

Double tap your video zooming in, Preparing video might restart but it will continue working on it. I think it happens when iPhone sleeps amidst processing session so make sure to keep scrolling video left to right while it's processing the video. Setting iPhone to sleep much later would help too. For me, 11 minutes video took 8 minutes to finish resizing on iPhone 12 pro max.

The iPhone DOES NOT have a “new Trojan virus.” Exactly where did you get this outright lie? If for some reason you need any kind of proof of this just use a little bit of common sense: RESTARTING A DEVICE DOES NOT WIPE OUT A VIRUS!

Mine too. Very annoying. Restarting the app, restarting the phone neither worked. Its stuck at 3 oclock.

I did a hard reset and problem got fix.

Try it.

https://drfone.wondershare.com/iphone-problems/ios-video-bug.html

If you save the video as a new clip, you get your cropped video without it having to “prepare”

Same I try to crop a video and I’m stuck on it!