Hi Paddy -
Thanks for the "enlightenment"
I had no idea Microsoft Photos could do such a thing!
I've now explored it fairly thoroughly & it's quite amazing what it can do with video... trim, combine, slo-mo, draw on, add effects etc. I had no idea!
BUT - for your purposes of maintaining maximum quality - I wouldn't recommend it. A few things happened in my testing that make me say that... mainly to do with video bitrate.
1. Imported a .MOV clip from Canon 70D, 1920x1080/30p @
87.3Mbps - trimmed it and saved a copy. There were no options for output quality. Resolution & frame rate were retained, but bitrate dropped to
27.8Mbps. MediaInfo attached.
2. The only output option is MP4, so you get AAC audio.
3. Used the "Create a video" feature to combine a number of clips (all from Canon 70D) & exported to the maximum quality (Large). The original video bitrates were all ~
30Mbps. The rendered file from Photos dropped to
11.6Mbps. Side-by-side MediaInfo attached.
I only mentioned all that because your original question was: "
Can I do that in power director without losing original file quality?"
Cheers - Tony
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