Hello I'm Neil thanks for clicking on this video.
Today I'm going to show you how some of the speed keys work on YouTube.
When I found these they saved so much time, especially if like me you spend so much time
watching YouTube videos.
You can actually control the YouTube player using your keyboard and it's so much faster
than clicking around on the screen with if you're using a desktop
Let's bring the camera around and dive in.
So the first one you've probably used already - you can start and stop the video by pressing
the spacebar.
[MUSIC] This by the way is my warning from history
- British beauty contests from the 1970s - I'm using as a demonstration.
Now the next, the next button that can help is this one - the F key.
If you press F the video goes full screen and if you press F again it brings it back
into its box - that's a useful one F for full... screen.
The one I use the most next, is one I had no idea - it's not actually listed on Google's
web page for the speed keys.
If you hold down shift you get these sort of diagonal brackets above the comma and the
full stop.
If you hold down shift right-bracket, look what happens and if you can see that the speed
goes all the way up to two times speed.
If you click left-bracket it slows down again.
So it can go down to 1, or 0.75, 0.5, 0.25.
So that's really helpful when I'm watching long videos I can just speed through them
and you can still hear what's going on and that way I end up watching more videos which
is good.
Next to the speed keys - well without pressing the shift even if you press the full stop
- I'll pause it.
If you press the full stop, it inches the video forward one frame at a time.
That's good I chose this video isn't it because you can see on the timecode - let's make it
full screen by pressing F - if you press... keep pressing the fullstop button you can
see the frames are going forward one frame at a time.
And, cleverly, if you press the comma button it goes back one frame at a time.
Now this is really useful for when you are trying to grab thumbnails if you're making
youtube videos, you can use the comma or the full stop button or sorry in America, I know
you call it the "period" button.
If you press the period button you can get to exactly the right frame that you need so
that's a really useful button to use on the speed keys.
So we've done speeding around - let's do some more speeding around.
Let's take it off fullscreen.
Instead of pressing spacebar for stop or pause, you can also use the K - the letter K - and
I'll show you why that's useful now because next to the K is the L.
If you press the L button, it jumps forward 10 seconds.
Let's keep it playing.
You'll see it's jumping forward 10 seconds each time, if you press the J it jumps back
10 seconds.
If you want to make smaller jumps just go down to the or arrow keys if you press the
right arrow it jumps forward only 5 seconds at a time and the left arrow back 5 seconds.
If you click up, you can see that on the screen: it says 35%, 40%, 45...
All the way up to a 100%.
And if you click the down arrow on your keyboard it decreases the volume of the YouTube video,
so that's really useful.
Just show you one final useful keyboard shortcut: your numbers actually jump to the same percentage
in the video.
So if you wanted to go to the Midway point, you click on five, it jumps to the middle
of the video.
If I click on 1 it goes to 10% in the video.
If I click on zero, it goes to the start of the video.
If I click on 9 it goes to 90% in the video.
So if you know roughly where you want to jump to you can kind of guess it from the numbers.
If I want to go sort of near the start - let's press 2.
It jumps to 20% in the video.
If I wanted to jump to near the end, just go to 8 for 80% of the video.
And we're at the end of the video.
And now we're at the end of this video!
I hope this video has helped - I hope you haven't needed to jump back too many times.
I've put all of the speed keys in the description below.
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