One of the great new features that comes along with the iPhone 3GS is video recording as well as the ability to edit and easily share it while on the go. Well, in this case, I am using the term edit with a little sarcasm because it seems to be more like trimming instead of editing.
Without getting to far into the how to side of video editing, this post will remain a little simpler and just offer a friendly warning so others will not lose any video footage — like I did. Thankfully, in my case, the footage was not all that important, but still.
Anyway, getting back to the term edit, it seems that the iPhone more specifically does not edit video, but instead it actually trims the video. All in all, that is fine by me, but be prepared that when you make any edits, or trim that video on your iPhone that you are going to lose the parts you trimmed.
You see, when you trim the video it discards the trimmed portions and leaves you with just your edited version. What would be ideal, is if Apple would save the original file and then save a second (editing) version as a new file.
That said, think twice before you edit trim your precious videos on your iPhone 3GS because you may end up tossing that special moment.
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June 29th, 2009 at 10:58 am
The information is valuable, but the writing is atrocious. Maybe you could consider taking a refresher course on English writing. I mean, presumably you are being paid to write.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Zing!
July 8th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Very useful comment, Joel. How about your own written skills:
“Maybe you could…”? Odd use of the modal where ’should’ would be far more appropriate. And:
“…on English writing”? Are you suggesting Mr Nelson needs a literature course, or did you mean to say ‘in writing English’?
As for the G3S, it would be very nice if I could edit several short clips together in-phone and upload the result to MobileMe as a single file, but that isn’t possible… yet. One lives in hope!
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:42 am
For all intents and purposes, the writing is fine. Its written like a casual blog post and this site comes across as one.
August 20th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
I agree Nina. I’d love to see a true video editing app on the iphone. Something that allows folks to put several clips together. Hard to believe no one has published one yet.
September 11th, 2009 at 1:46 am
I’ve been waiting for a video editing app as well or even just a playful app that’ll let me apply filters. Despite the hardware limitations I’m sure the iphone can handle some basic editing tasks like stitching, superimposing, adding audio tracks, etc.
I believe OS 3.1 has enabled the video API for developers so hopefully we should start seeing some more video oriented apps.