(Image credit: Future) Ratios and reframing Trimming is done in a separate window, which means you can’t do it in relation to other clips in your timeline. That’s Microsoft at its nickel-and-dime worst. They could easily absorb that cost, just like much smaller companies do who do support that format out of the box.

It’s only $0.99 / 79p, but this is a multi-billion dollar multinational company we’re talking about. You need to pay for the HEVC extension for videos. You can go to the Microsoft Store and grab yourself the necessary extensions. They’ve been in use for nearly five years, which in computer terms is an eternity. We used quote marks because they’re not exactly modern.

Yes you do have a playhead on the preview window, but not on the timeline, creating a disconnect that’s hard to reconcile and harder to work with.Īnother problem that still remains is a lack of support for ‘modern’ file formats. Normally, you get a playhead over the timeline (called ‘Storyboard’ here), so you know what you’re seeing on the main preview window and how it’s connected to your project. Sure, you have a trim tool at your disposal, but only when the clip’s added to the timeline. There’s also no way to set in or out points to only insert the section you want.

That’s the simplest method of editing, and for Microsoft Video Editor, it’s the only way.

Microsoft software for video editing