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Trim video in photos app on iMac with Monterey?

I've recently upgraded to a new iMac and have come up with a problem. The article on Apple Support on trimming videos says to hover over a video to bring up the 'action' button (some articles refer to it as the gear icon that I was used to using previously). But I can't find any such action button for any of my videos, nor any obvious way to do a trim of the beginning or end of a video. Would appreciate any advice. (I'm not really needing to do big edits of little videos that are really for fun so I really don't want to bother with exporting to another app). Thank you to the wise ones.

iMac 24″, macOS 12.1

Posted on Feb 26, 2022 2:53 AM

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Posted on Feb 26, 2022 3:51 AM

Hi


In Big Sur, there are two white arrows on either end of the time bar. These can be dragged to trim the video (and turn yellow when you have:





I did find that on a very short video (<1s) it was not possible to move them.

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Feb 26, 2022 3:27 AM in response to TonyCollinet

Thanks for very quick reply Tony. In edit mode I see all the thumbnails across the bottom of the screen with a white vertical line moving as the video plays. Highlighting the thumbnails used to give a yellow 'box' that could be adjusted in length but this is no longer the case. In non-edit mode I have a dark grey bar with a play arrow in the centre but no gear icon at the right of that as it used to have.

Trim video in photos app on iMac with Monterey?

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