- In this video, I'm going to show you how to use
YouTube's brand new, finally finished built-in video editor.
So let's just get on with it.
(upbeat music)
All right then, the key thing to note before we jump
into the editor is that you can't add any content.
If you've missed something out,
then you need to delete the video
and re-upload it with the changes.
What you can do in the video editor
is change existing content and remove some if you need to.
As for audio, it's pretty much the same thing.
You can change and remove audio,
but you can add music as well
from the YouTube audio library.
And we're gonna show you all of it right now.
All right then, let's get you into the editor first
from the YouTube studio, click on the content option
down the left-hand navigation bar
to list all of your videos.
For the video you want to edit, mouse over it,
to display options and click the pencil icon
to jump into the details of the video.
The menu options down the left-hand side have now changed.
And the one you want to click on is the editor
as an alternative way of getting to the editor screen,
if you are on the video watch page
as the owner of a video, you should see two buttons,
one of those being edit video
which takes you to the videos details page,
where again you can select the video editor.
Fun bit of trivia by the way, this used to be the only part
of a new YouTube studio, that was displayed in dark mode.
And now, none of it's in dark mode, how curious.
All right, let's make this editor full screen
and show you what we've got.
We have the timeline first where you can click and drag
and scrub through the video.
Over on the right-hand side you have zoom functions
to make super accurate changes on the video itself.
You have some standard YouTube controls on the video.
If you mouse over it such as skip forward, backwards,
and video speed.
In the top right-hand corner, you have three dots
where you can display all of the keyboard shortcuts
to help you navigate and edit quicker.
And, over on the left-hand side of the video editor
you have a simple undo and redo functions.
This is all pretty straightforward stuff
that you likely have in the video editor
that you use when you make your videos.
So let's move on to trimming and splitting a video.
Let's start with something easy.
We're going to trim the beginning of this video.
So first, click on the trim button
and that will highlight the entire video in blue.
I'm going to scrub the timeline to where I want to trim
and zoom in so I can clearly see the sound waves
to get an accurate trim.
Then from the beginning of the video,
click and drag to that point.
With this bit now grayed out, it won't be played
when we test that on the player.
It just jumps past that bit.
The reason I am recording right now is I need...
When you're happy with the trim click preview
to confirm the change but do note
this doesn't yet save a change we'll do that later.
For now, we're going to undo this and clear all
to take us back to the beginning
of the video editing process.
Next up, we're going to do a split
in the middle of the video and remove footage.
First of all, find your split point
in the timeline and click trim, then click split.
This time, click and drag
from the split point to create the split
in the middle of the video.
Everything grayed out is now cut from the video itself.
The cool thing about this is that you can continue
to split as much of a video as you want.
The key thing to remember is that the cross
at the top of these splits doesn't remove the content,
it cancels the split itself.
So with two splits in the middle of a video,
let's trim the end of it.
And again, we're going to click preview
that confirms all of these actions.
Now then, let's say we want to save the changes.
Remember those three dots in the top right-hand corner?
This now allows you to save the changes
as a brand new video, if you wish, but most of you
are likely to just save a video.
Well, consider this when you do.
The changes may take hours to apply
and in the meantime, the original video unedited
will be shown to the YouTube audience.
So if you are going to edit a video,
try to do it before you set it to public
or if it's already public
and you need to urgently change something,
set it to private until the changes are applied.
All right, let's move on to audio.
As stated, you can't add new audio,
external to the YouTube edit tips which is a new voiceover.
But you can add music to the video
via the YouTube audio library.
The best thing about all of this music
is that it's royalty freed and you are guaranteed
not to get any copyright claims or strikes from them.
YouTube does have a dedicated audio library screen
where you can get more information
and actually download the tracks if you want to,
to use in your own video editor
before you upload to YouTube.
So, if I start a track here and then go back
to the YouTube video editor,
I can filter by starred tracks,
and quickly add it to this video.
All right folks, the music fun doesn't end just yet.
Once you see the music audio track in your timeline,
you can press the three dots to either remove the track
or check out the license info to confirm
what you can actually do with the music track.
Sometimes you may need to add text
in your video description to credit the artist.
Next to the three dots, we have the mixing levels.
By default, the music will completely replace
the audio like so,
(upbeat music)
so if you want a mixture of both the original audio
from the video and then your music track,
adjust this slider as appropriate.
Word of warning, each time you do this,
it takes a good few seconds to process a change
and it can be really tricky to get these levels just right.
Hello everybody, welcome to this test video.
The reason I am...
Next up is the position of the music itself.
You can click and drag at the edges
to trim the audio track as well as clicking
in the middle of a track and dragging
into the appropriate place on the timeline.
As far as I can tell, there is no limit
to the number of audio tracks you can add to a video.
So if you want to use it several tracks to fit the mood
and pace of a video, go for it.
My general advice however,
would be to download these tracks from the audio library
and edit them into a video before you upload it to YouTube
where you're going to have much more control.
Let's now move on to the blur tool.
You have two options here, face and custom blur.
Face blur will scan the video
for all of the faces in the video that it can detect
and you can choose which faces to blur
on an individual basis.
Once you've selected the faces you want to blur,
it will add all of this to have the timeline
and this does take a little while to process the first time,
as with audio tracks you can trim it if you wish,
and it all works remarkably well.
Next up, we have custom blur.
This is where you can manually highlight an object
in the video you want to blur.
What's cool about this is that you can tell the editor
to track the object.
So when it moves, the blur effect follows it.
You can also change the shape
of a blur between rectangle and oval.
Now, admittedly, in the editor, this can look a little junky
and it doesn't always track the object properly,
especially if it goes offscreen
and then comes back onscreen again.
But here's a perfect example of one I made earlier.
Okay, let's see if this is gonna work,
(fingers snap)
oh, tu-tu-du-tu-tuh,
tu-du-du-duduh,
that's pretty cool.
(fingers snap)
Oh, come on, that's a bit harsh.
Yet, that was all done exclusively
through YouTube's blur tools in the video editor.
Pretty impressive right?
Now then, end screens.
The first thing I will say is that the editor probably
isn't the best place to do this.
If you go back to the video details page,
there is a dedicated end screen feature
which is a little less cluttered
for all of this type of stuff.
Having said that, let's go back to the editor
and see what we can do in there.
You can add up to four end screen elements
and we'll start with adding a video.
This will appear as a rectangle in the video player
which you can move around on screen.
The video can be anything from YouTube
but obviously you want to promote your own content
which the editor makes easy to find for you.
You can also add a subscribe button, playlist,
external links, if you've set them up and more stuff.
The key thing to remember is that end screens run
for a maximum of 20 seconds at the end of the video.
So that's the manual way of adding end screen elements.
But YouTube does offer you templates
which helps a little bit to create a layout
at the end of your video quicker.
You can even import end screens from previous videos
to make this task even quicker, if you want to.
End screens are important
for keeping viewers watching your content
and you can really get cute with the layout
and recording of your videos,
so that you actually reference and direct viewers
to related content in those end screens.
And since we've come to the end of this video editor guide,
let me use those end screens.
If you wanna learn more about
how to customize your YouTube channel,
check out the video over here.
Otherwise, thank you very much for watching
and enjoy the rest of your video making day.