- Jan 22, 2012
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The other thread about video editors got me wondering if there is any way to successfully shrink an existing video, on the phone, so it can be sent with a text or as an email.
First, I can't find any video editing features on my phone, either, just like in the other thread. Second, I've now downloaded several alleged video editors, even paying for one, and none of them seem to have any way to simply downsize an existing video.
I tried to send a video I shot via text messaging, and the system said it would need to compress the video before it could be sent. It then went through the motions of compressing the video, and then tried to send it, only to fail with a message saying "cancelled, file too large". Nice!
So, I can, of course, copy the video to my PC, and then do whatever editing and file conversion I want, then copy it back to the phone, and finally, share it as I wish.
But that defeats the immediacy and sponenaeity of the whole exercise. I figured one of the main things these modern phones would be good at is sharing stuff in the true spirit of "social media".
Anyhow, are there any good video editors (that run on the phone itself) that will resample/resize/compress existing videos down to reasonable sizes for "sharing"? I now have a half a dozen that will crop, put stupid graphics on them, change the aspect ratio, let me trim them for length, etc., but none that will downsample, compress, or convert the file to a smaller format.
And the built-in file shrinking obviously doesn't work. At least if the video is over some length, and it does not know that ahead of time.
First, I can't find any video editing features on my phone, either, just like in the other thread. Second, I've now downloaded several alleged video editors, even paying for one, and none of them seem to have any way to simply downsize an existing video.
I tried to send a video I shot via text messaging, and the system said it would need to compress the video before it could be sent. It then went through the motions of compressing the video, and then tried to send it, only to fail with a message saying "cancelled, file too large". Nice!
So, I can, of course, copy the video to my PC, and then do whatever editing and file conversion I want, then copy it back to the phone, and finally, share it as I wish.
But that defeats the immediacy and sponenaeity of the whole exercise. I figured one of the main things these modern phones would be good at is sharing stuff in the true spirit of "social media".
Anyhow, are there any good video editors (that run on the phone itself) that will resample/resize/compress existing videos down to reasonable sizes for "sharing"? I now have a half a dozen that will crop, put stupid graphics on them, change the aspect ratio, let me trim them for length, etc., but none that will downsample, compress, or convert the file to a smaller format.
And the built-in file shrinking obviously doesn't work. At least if the video is over some length, and it does not know that ahead of time.
