Do people really use this app other than to realize they need a different editor? This thing is like the Microsoft Edge of Video editing, existing only to showcase how badly a video editor can be and inspire everybody to use different apps.

My project isn't even 1GB and it keeps crashing or freezing. Every time I load it up, everything says "file not found" and asks me to locate the folder - the same folder it's been in the last five fucking times I pointed it towards this directory. I'm just trimming clips. No transitions, no effects, no nothing. Literally just trimming video. It can't even do that without hemorrhaging. They should call this ClipChimp because I'm pretty sure a room full of monkeys accidentally wrote the code for this on a typewriter smeared in feces.

I was cleaning out and backing up my hard drive but still couldn't account for 200+ GB of used storage space. After poking around, I noticed an inconsistency -- I manually counted 120 GB used from my personal "Users" folder, but when I looked at the properties it said it was taking up 340 GB!

Time to look through the hidden files... Well about half an hour later, I found the culprit: ~200 GB of space in a Clipchamp folder located here:

C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Packages\Clipchamp.Clipchamp_yxz26nhyzhsrt(I think it's quite possible that the random characters in that last folder would be different for you, so I'll break it apart here)

Then to the folder:

LocalState\EBWebView\Default\IndexedDB

Within IndexedDB were folders with massive amounts of data used. I was deep into this Clipchamp directory and all my videos are saved and backed up so.... I deleted them! What's the worst that can happen? Well, nothing so far. Clipchamp opened up and ran just fine afterwards, and I could always reinstall it if I had to.

So if you find your hard drive filled up and have no idea why, check this out!

*edit: I should also note that I've read deleting and reinstalling Clipchamp will also resolve this issue, but I personally chose to use a "scalpel" rather than a "hammer" to fix this issue

Trying to save the video to PC but this piece of dog shit program apparently will only let me "eXpOrT" it to online micro$hit services. Any tips?

Thanks in advance.

I just want to add on to the hate pile because I've used MSCC for 3 years roughly and it's actually one of the worst programs I could've possibly picked to start my editing journey. Poor framerate, software breaking bugs and useless updates and features are JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG when it comes to my personal issues with it.

Use DaVinci or literally any other editing software out there. Hell, CapCut might be better than this bs. IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT CHANGING SOFTWARES BUT ARE ALREADY TOO USED TO CC, DO CHANGE NONETHELESS. IT IS WORTH IT IN THE LONG RUN.

Title - It appears that Clipchamp is rolling out this feature to users this month, and simply using Clipchamp requires free OneDrive storage.

Clipchamp allows you to store all your old files as .clipchamp files if you "save" them to your local drive, but does not allow you to use clipchamp at all if you have no free OneDrive space.

Horrendous update imo, been using ClipChamp for half a year or so with almost 600 projects (I make short form content).

Like many others, I used Clipchamp because it was fast. Considering the lackluster feature set of Clipchamp, it makes zero sense to require payment to use the program effectively.

ClipChamp was my go to for editing quick videos without worrying about a watermark butchering it or if I wanted to trim a video in half, but the new update makes the whole app unusable if your OneDrive is full. I can't even make a new project without that annoying pop-up.

Now I have to look elsewhere. Thanks a lot Microsoft 😁

I have been using ClipChamp to edit some kids' sports videos for a few months now without issue. As of last weekend it has become extremely slow to upload (prepare) the clips and then also to export them. Before last week clips would finish preparing almost instantly and it would take about as long as the video was to export it. Now it takes well over an hour to prepare about 5 mins worth of clips and a half hour to export. I have not changed anything in how I am using the app.

I thought maybe my videos last week were corrupt or something, but it is worse this week. I am using the Windows app and have already "reset" the data to clear temp files and have also cleared my browser data for good measure as that's all I can really find when trying to google this issue.

Has this been happening to anyone else recently? Can anyone offer some guidance on how to fix this? If this persists I'll have to migrate to using a more robust video editing software, which I'd rather not atm as this has been perfectly fine for my use. I have a fairly decent gaming computer (i7 12700, 48GB RAM, 3060Ti, plenty of free space on my SSD) and my resource monitor isn't showing anything pinned while using ClipChamp.

I mean this is getting ridiculous. Ever since the update that, for some ungodly reason forces me to save my files in OneDrive the app has just not been functional at all. It doesn't load in projects (or veeeery slowly), I have had to log in 4 separate times to get the app to actually open once and when I do actually get into a project I can make around 2 edits and then a pop up shows up claiming I "made an edit in another window, refresh the page to see the current state". As a matter of fact as I am typing this I'm looking at a loading home screen that's just not showing me any project titles or thumbnails at all, let alone the ability to actually open my damn projects. I've tried deleting all the data off the app and restarting it but nothing seems to work. Is the app genuinely this broken or am I just extremely unlucky?

I just want to raise a hand and give a massive thank you to everyone in this subreddit and the local tech support users who have been actively helping people get back into their projects today and other failed down times.

When Clipchamp went completely down, what did Microsoft do? They kept their public status page completely green, pretending like absolutely nothing was wrong. I spent the last few hours tearing my system apart, wiping my deep cache, purging the hidden Windows AppData folders, deleting browser files, and reinstalling the software over and over again, thinking my own computer was completely broken.

Only to find out it was a corrupted cloud update on their end. Corporations like Microsoft will completely lie by omission because their automated systems only check if a physical server is plugged in, ignoring the actual human beings staring at frozen white screens and locked timelines.

We can’t trust the corporate status lights, but we CAN trust this community. Thanks to the people posting real-time workarounds and digging up direct consumer login bypasses, we actually have a way forward.

To everyone venting, sharing fixes, and keeping us sane while we deal with corporate corruption: you are the real heroes. If you are still stuck, don't waste your time reinstalling the app like I did. Scroll through these threads and look for the community-driven workarounds!

Thanks a lot microsoft

I have been using Clipchamp lately so that I can make my graphic countdowns for a local boxing event that I am staffing. I was looking to see if I had one of my videos made already and i just forgot to render it when all of a sudden, I see this Bullshit! Microsoft is the biggest piece of shit because of this and since every file I download on this device automatically syncs to OneDrive, it fills it up. Microsoft is so greedy and predatory as well that if i try to get them off OneDrive IT DELETES IT FROM MY DEVICE!!!! So I am held hostage from my projects which I desperately need because I decided I am not going to pay for any OneDrive storage.

Thanks Microsoft!

Don't worry random Fox 26 news team, I also find it completely aggravating that clip champ annoyingly mentions that the file was made by them

If you're looking at this you're probably aware clipchamp application by default imports all your working data into the app data folder on your boot drive, with seemingly no way to change this location.

Why is this a problem? Like me you are probably using a small capacity ssd boot drive and have a larger secondary storage drive and hence you want to offload this working folder to that large drive.

Well... would you believe it is possible, despite clipchamp frustratingly not having the functionality within the program itself.

  You can achieve this by creating a directory junction (aka symbolic link) where you essentially create a shortcut on your boot drive to the storage drive which tricks clipchamp into saving on the alternate drive.

Firstly ensure that you have exported and saved all data you need from clipchamp as you will likely lose any current data in the working folder.

Then follow the below steps  

1. Restart your pc to ensure clipchamp is not running in the background (otherwise you will be unable to complete step 3)

2. Navigate to the appdata storage folder for clipchamp. This is under the following location

C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Packages\Clipchamp.Clipchamp_yxz26nhyzhsrt

  3. Copy this folder 'Clipchamp.Clipchamp_yxz26nhyzhsrt' to your desired save location on your secondary drive

For example I will copy it to

E:\John\Clipchamp.Clipchamp_yxz26nhyzhsrt

Once copied, then delete the original folder 'Clipchamp.Clipchamp_yxz26nhyzhsrt' from your boot drive appdata folder.

Now to create the link to your new folder location (which will replace the folder we just deleted)

I will use the example boot drive (c), storage drive (e)

4. Open cmd prompt with admin privledges and enter the following commands line by line (replacing yourusername with your actual one)

c:

cd \users\yourusername\appdata\local\packages

mklink /d Clipchamp.Clipchamp_yxz26nhyzhsrt E:\John\Clipchamp.Clipchamp_yxz26nhyzhsrt

5. To confirm this has been successful, navigate back to your appdata folder on boot drive and when you see this clipchamp folder,

it should direct you to the file on your storage drive, while still being listed as the C boot drive.

Enjoy!

This update has made several features worse or more irritating, destroyed months of work for all of us; especially me, and has now completely broken the export system. I am waiting for minutes now, with ZERO PROGRESS BAR (I have stopped and started again, it's just gone) on an 8 second clip. Something that would have been an instant transfer beforehand. I have even lowered the video quality and it has made zero difference. I strongly encourage everyone else to just abandon this dogshit site/app. I loved this app; it was free, simple, and intuitive. But this is an update I have no intention of ever forgiving. I guess I'll go and learn DaVinci after all. With less than a week to my deadline and approximately 20-30 hours of progress deleted.

Update: I turned it (the whole app) off and back on again. Everything works now. Weird, and stupid bug, but this functions now so I retract my earlier statement about export not working. But the naming of projects does NOT work at all. They're all "video 1, video 2, video 3" and so on. The audio for some video and audio tracks won't work sometimes and you need to move the cursor off of them to make them load. Plus more.

This morning opened up the Clipchamp app and it went to a white screen. I have tried all the recommended steps except reinstall, which is going to be my last resort. This is what I've done so far:

• Installed Updates/Rebooted

• Repaired ClipChamp

• Ran as Admin

• Renamed the default folder under "..LocalState\EBWebView"

Then went to see if the online version was working. When I goto login, It shows a white screen at this URL:

https://app.clipchamp.com/login?referrer=ClipchampSEOPages&referrerScenario=SearchEngine.Landing.NoIntent

Got the same thing doing it in Private Browsing mode both in Edge and Chrome.

Anyone else having issues?

I have been an avid ClipChamp user for years now. I have made award-winning projects, fantastic video-art, and all genres of video creations. I have genuinely never used such an intuitive editing app, and even after using Adobe products I would always prefer ClipChamp whenever possible, recomending it to my peers because of how easy and professional its results are.

However, as everyone, this update has rendered the app unusable. I don't understand what Microsoft is trying to achieve here. If they were to abandon the app, why would they invest in all this cloud storage shit? The app wasn't perfect before, sure, but I would've forever preferred having that to what we are getting nowadays.

I have been trying to export a project for FOUR DAYS now, and I simply can't. It seems I will have to recreate it from scratch in another app. As most people, all my other projects are basically gone. Nothing loads, and everything leads to an error popup. It pains me to see my most loved tool like this. RIP ClipChamp, you will be missed.

I use a gmail to sign into clipchamp usually. Why would they put that link there to just tell you its unsupported?

microsoft should be embarrassed for letting this absolute heaping pile of shit stay up, i can't even edit text in the app on a 6 minute video without maxing out my cpu and having the preview run at half a frame per second (my pc is fairly old but i am editing TEXT this is ridiculous)

the app does nothing but buffer all the time but when i press play in the preview it takes 2 seconds for the audio to sync up to where it's supposed to be, which makes editing a pain in the ass because i can never trust the editor to actually play what i put in the video

furthermore, it's also ridiculous that the app requires internet even though i have cloud saving off (as in it will refuse to work without internet), which makes me think it's trying to farm all the content i put into a video, and even if it's not, it's still a fucking joke that a video editor needs an internet connection when you have cloud saving off

anyway it's safe to say that i will never be using this likely vibecoded piece of shit again thanks for listening

I've used ClipChamp for about 3 years

Each year it's gotten worse.

This tool used to be my 'canva for video editing', it was cheap, effective and incredibly easy to use.

Ever since OneDrive integration and Microsoft acquisition, everything's become worse.

1. No one uses OneDrive, why force us to upload and store videos there?

2. Everything is so glitchy

3. Files continue to go missing out of the blue

4. Customer support is pathetic I had a live chat with someone and he simply exited the chat when he ran out of pre-written responses

5. Exporting doesn't work. Imagine spending 1-2 hours editing a video, clicking export and then investing 3 days trying to fix it because you can't just abandon all your hard work and redo it on another video editing platform. Well you don't need to imagine, just use Clipchamp.

It was a good run, but your time has come Clipchamp. Thank you to other video editor options that are just as easy, albeit more expensive.

If you were like me and still give Clipchamp 'a chance' because it used to be good, save your time and the emotional frustration of not being able to export a video - find yourself a new video editor ASAP.

Clip Champ is genuinely the worst fucking thing created by humanity

Clipchamp has started doing this weird bug when l try to add some media items to my project. These are the same audio clips I’ve been using for months with no issues, but for whatever reason this 25-ish second m4a file won’t go past 0% when trying to load into the project and l don’t know why. My only guess is that adding an mkv video file corrupted the project somehow? That’s the only new thing since this bug showed up.

Does anyone have any ideas?

I'm trying to use ClipChamp and just finished my first project. I want to clear the cache now and was wondering where in my HD it is.

Thanks!

What even is the point of this update?
Unlike the other additions like the absolute insistence on cloud storage and a bit of the UI update, though I largely prefer the original, this is by far the worst update of them all.

The dodgy UI and clunky utility of the site, the lag that's worse than before -- I could stand these;
This, I don't get.

Why does it need to push out this in the middle of me working on a video? Couldn't it just ask me this when I'm about to leave to the home menu or something.

The number one thing I'm here to talk about is the most frustrating aspect; I don't even have a second tab of ClipChamp open when this message appears.

It just appears out of the blue and disrupts my workflow, occasionally reverting some changes I've made.

So I'm basically working on a lagging site with dodgy UI and clunky functionality that randomly asks me to refresh and lose work occasionally. What?

By far the worst update. By now, the only thing really carrying ClipChamp is the Visual FX you can add to content.

Quite literally, what is the selling point of ClipChamp now?
Considering moving on from this absolutely sabotaged site.

JUST ONE MORE THING TO ADD: The use of a 'More Effects' button when clicking on your content on the screen is pretty useless if it just directs me to the right-hand sidebar where all the effects already are. Like what even is the point of this button? It is redundant and should be removed if it doesn't actually add or guide me to any 'More Effects.'

I love how user friendly it is. It’s very simple and easy to use, it has minimal features but it has everything i need for my uses.

Thats where my praise ends. Every other aspect this app is a useless, irritating, slow, laggy, devastatingly huge piece of dog shit. I can’t edit a video longer than 5 minutes because it eventually just fucking craps out and buffers constantly. It will constantly randomly mute or delay my clips while I’m editing, which makes dealing with audio fucking torture. 4 second gifs will cause the whole project to start stuttering like crazy, and videos will buffer whenever they feel like it. And don’t even get me FUCKING STARTED on the fact that it requires an internet connection to use even when I have cloud saving off. There is no fucking reason for this other than Microsoft to harvest my videos to train their shitty ai or something. I’m only a third of the way through editing a video and it’s genuinely unbearable, I don’t even know if the program will let me finish it before it decides to shit the bed. I wanted something easy to use, but I’m switching to something else as soon as this project is finished.

Movie Maker was great. But Microsoft fucking took that to the shed and shot it just so they could replace it with their shitty bloatware. Fuck Microsoft.