How To Use Your Android Device To Edit Video – SlashGear

If you just need basic video edits like trim, crop, rotate, and the like, then you can get away with using Android’s native video editor, Google Photos. Yes, Google Photos isn’t only a gallery app but also a hidden tool for editing your videos (and pictures). Here’s how you can use it to modify videos on your Android device:

1. Launch Google Photos.
2. Tap on the video you wish to edit.
3. Click on Edit.
4. Go to the specific edit feature you want to use:
   1. Video: Tap the speaker icon to remove the sound or the frame icon next to it to stabilize the video. To trim the video, simply drag the trim handles to the parts you want to keep.
   2. Crop: Select the aspect ratio icon to change the video’s aspect ratio, the rotate icon to rotate it by 90 degrees, and the transform icon to edit the perspective.
   3. Adjust: Change the brightness, contrast, white point, highlights, shadows, black point, saturation, warmth, tint, skin tone, blue tone, HDR, and vignette.
   4. Filters: Tap on your preferred filter to apply it to the video.
   5. Markup: Select Pen or Highlighter to draw on the video with your favorite color (limited to black, red, yellow, green, blue, pink, and white). Select Text to add text content to the video and change the color.
5. Once you’re happy with the result, click on Save copy. You can then delete the original video if you want.