I recorded a video for my YouTube channel. After editing it, I try to crop out any unwanted borders. When I finish cropping out the borders, I wait for “preparing video”, but it’s stuck at about 25%, and doesn’t load anymore. Can someone help?
iPhone XR, iOS 14
I was able to fix this issue by double tapping the video when it was stuck. The progress would go back to 0 and slowly make its way to 100%. I was able to do this twice.
seems the issue happens if you lock or move away from the photo app while it’s preparing.
I am having this same problem. I needed to do some editing to fix the lighting on a longer video, and now its just stuck on "preparing video" at about 25% unless I revert the video back to its original settings. This is very frustrating.
I'm having this exact same issue. It's almost comical how terrible Apple has slowly devolved and become over time.
I remember when they used to be INNOVATORS... now they can't even get their videos on their software to work properly without having to ignore the fact that it's broken for the next several months.
Instead of RIPPING US OFF and not including charges in our new phones, cause you wanna pretend to be "woke", how about you go back to the basics and fix the SIMPLE things that people want and need?
I don't understand why this issue is marked as solved. I have a 9 second video that has been stuck at 25% for the last 20 minutes. All I did was crop it. I reverted the changed, cropped it, and it still gets stuck at 25%.
There is definitely an issue here that needs to be addressed.
2020 iPhone SE, iOS 14.0.1, video is 4K30, 25.9 MB recorded from the Apple Camera App, 9 seconds long.
If I go home after I see 25%, then back to the video, the progress circle stops working correctly. See the attached picture.
This is real pain. Not fixed by any means and loathe to do a hard reset, but if that's a guaranteed way...
It does eventually complete 'preparing video', but you need to keep the app active. Takes ages though. If you let it go to sleep then it stops - ridiculous.
iPhone 11
how this is resolved ? also, why it is marked as solved ? after editing the video, mine is stuck at 25% stating as 'preparing video'. I am using iPhone 11 Pro and its so embarrassing that after having so expensive phone we cannot even edit our video as it gets stuck like this!!! If changes are Reverte back to original then it works but after editing, it gets stuck !!!
Mine too. Very annoying. Restarting the app, restarting the phone neither worked. Its stuck at 3 oclock.
I don’t know what happened, but it resolved on its own.
My video ended up finishing after 1.5 hours. All I did in the edited video was to zoom in. Again the video was only 9 seconds long. Hopefully Apple can replicate this and fix it. My old Pentium 3 600 MHz computer would have processed this video faster.
I still have the same problem, it has been ongoing for about a month now, sometimes works with no issues, some others don’t. Like today is freeze in 25% won’t move, already reset my phone and tuned it off and back on. NOT WORKING.
I ran into this issue too when I was doing a letsplay on my iPhone 11 Pro with a game that happened to have a 16:9 mode (which I used since not many of my videos that I make are 16:9), and I cropped the vid because it was still the aspect ratio of the 11 Pro (19.5:9), and it ran into this issue as well. The hard reset didn’t work, either. Eventually I looked up for a way to fix this, and when I came back the preparing finished 😅
This kinda really needs a fix, please
Unforgivable that this happens on a phone which is supposedly designed for photo and video.
I shoot a lot of video on my phone and if they are of any length (and in 4K) then the phone just cannot handle it.
Like I said, unforgivable.
This keeps happening to me too, both on my iPhone and my iPad. It’s annoying because I need to color grade a video, and color grading is not available on iMovie, so I have to do it on the Photos app. But it’s stuck as always. My iPad is very new but it’s doing the same thong
I am having an issue editing videos that might be related. When editing videos on my Iphone 11 it looks like it works but the video is converted to a photo. Photo cannot be edited and has no revert option. Original video is no longer on the phone. Has anybody else experienced this issue or have a fix?
Same problem. I just bought a 12 Pro Max and can't do a thing with videos. I have tried multiple times to edit a video on the phone to change it to black and white (Noir mono option), and it never finishes. I also can't seem to share this video to Dropbox (useless).
And you would think apple would see all of these discussions about it and perhaps fix it... they say maybe iOS 14.4 it would be resolved in but it still hasn’t Im during 14.4 right now and still having this issue months later please hope it gets fixed in 14.5
Video stuck on “Preparing Video”
