Why does YouTube's new video editor not allow to put pictures on published videos? In this
video, I show you how to download a video from YouTube, add pictures to it using a free
online video editor, then re-upload the video to YouTube. Hello, my name is Herman Drost.
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videos. Here are steps to add image overlay on your video. Later on, I'll show you how
to add a picture before and after your video clip using a free online image and video editor.
Step one, download the video from your YouTube channel. Log in to your YouTube channel, click
on YouTube studio beta, click videos, select the video that you wish to download. I'm going
to select this one, tick the box next to the video, hover over the three dots that say
options, click download. Step two, add the image to your video using a free online video
editor, Kapwing. Go to kapwing.com, click on tools, click on add image to video. Step
three, choose a template. This temple puts a picture on the bottom right-hand corner,
this template puts a picture at the top right-hand corner, this puts an iPhone graphic on the
left side. If I click layer preview, then I can put a
picture in picture video. In this case, I'm going to select this template that puts a
picture at the top right-hand corner. I can place a picture here or even a logo. Click
make it. Step four, upload your video and image. I'm on the Kapwing online video maker
right now. I'm going to select my video. I can select the output size so it can be one
on one. This could be for Instagram, 9 by 16 which is for Instagram stories, 16 by 9
which is for YouTube video. I'm going to select that one, click replace to upload a video.
I can just get my video here that I downloaded and I'm going to drag and drop it. Here it
is. I have the options up here trough add text,
add images. I've got an image there already, so I click images and I can select an image
here like a mountain, click go. I'll search. These are all copyright-free images you can
add to your video. I'll click on this one and I can shrink it to where I want it. I
can also add shapes, so I click shapes. I can add a shape to my video and I can change
the color. If I click on audio, I can add music from YouTube's audio library. I can
also trim video if I click trim. I can trim the beginning, I can trim the end. I also
trim a section of the video if I just move the slide it to the right and move the other
slide to left. This blue line is where I can remove a section
of the video. If I want to trim that, I can just click done. I can also crop a video so
I can do Instagram posts, YouTube widescreen, Instagram snap story. I can just move this
around. LinkedIn mobile, Facebook Twitter portrait, Facebook Twitter landscape, Facebook
cover photo and I can just move this around how I want. I'm going to click cancel. In
this case, I'm just going to add an image to my video so I click replace, click upload.
I'll select this image, click open. I need to rotate it then you can expand it. Now the
image is overlaid on my video and appears throughout the video.
Step five publish your video. If I'm happy with it, I click publish. You wait a few minutes
for the video to be processed. Step six, remove the watermark. You noticed a Kapwing watermark
at the bottom right-hand corner. If you want to remove that, you need to sign into a Kapwing
account, click sign in to remove watermark. Click continue as Google. Says watermark-free
content is being processed. You'll wait a few minutes and then it will be processed
without the Kapwing watermark. Now you notice the Kapwing watermark is being removed. Now
I can download the video and uploaded to YouTube, edit the video again, make a copy, share it
on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or copy the link or embed the video on my web site.
What if I want to add an image before and or after a video clip? Click add scene, click
on the scene, click upload, drag and drop your file here or click to upload. I'm going
to select this image, click open, position the image how you want it or you just click
crop and select 16 by 9, click done cropping and move the handles to fill the whitespace.
If I want this image to appear before my video, I can just drag it to the top. If I want to
select another image, just click add scene, click the whitespace, drag and drop your image
or video clip here. I'm going to select this image, click open, click crop, select 16 by
9, click done cropping. I can move the handles to rescale the image.
Add my video first, then two images. If we want to have an image to go first, I just
put it above the video and the image will appear first, then video clip then the image
again. That's how you can place images before or after your video clips. Step seven, upload
your video to YouTube. Log to your YouTube channel, click YouTube studio beta, click
the camera icon at the top, click upload beta, select the file that you wish to upload. I'm
going to select this edited video, highlight that, click open. While the video is being
processed edit title description and thumbnail. I suggest uploading a custom-designed thumbnail,
but for the purpose of demonstration, I'm just going to select one of the screenshots.
I'm going to select this one, click next. Here you can add your video to playlist, add
a card to your video and add your tags. Put the tags in there, also select your category,
recording date, add an end screen and language and titles. Click next. Now you can select
your visibility public, private or unlisted. If you want it to go public then just select
public, but for the sake of this demonstration, I'm going to leave it as unlisted. Then click
done. Now you can share it on these social media sites. I'm going to play the video.
You can see the image comes first, then the video and then an image at the end.
Here are some important things to keep in mind. Number one, only use copyright-free
images to add to your videos. Click the link in a card to learn where you can get free
stock images for your videos. Number two, use Creative Commons videos or royalty-free
videos to add stock video footage to your videos. Number three, post images, polls and
videos to your community tab. Number four, link your old video to your new video using
cards and end screens if you have outdated content on your channel.
Let me ask you a question, do you want to know how to trim the beginning, middle or
end of an existing video on YouTube without losing its views and comments? If that's a
yes, watch my next video on how to trim an existing video on YouTube. Thanks for watching
and we'll see you in the next video.