Facebook recently announced new ways to easily edit existing video with three new video editing tools: automatic cropping, video trimming and image and text overlays.

These tools are already available in Ads Manager and can help you to reduce the resources to create new video content for your campaigns. 

How to manually crop a video in Ads Manager: 

• Upload your new Video or select a video from your library.
• Click Customize Video to open the Edit Video window and then select the Crop tab on the left of the window.
• Choose a desired aspect ratio. For example: 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:5, or 2:3.
• Move the cropper to show the parts in your video you want to highlight. This step is optional. You can click Preview to hide the cropping grid.
• Click Apply Changes. That´s it! Your video is now cropped!

How to Trim the Duration of a Video Ad:

• Upload your new Video or select a video from your library.
• Click Customize Video to open the Edit Video window.
• From the timeline...