in this updated tutorial i'll show you
exactly how to edit videos with the
youtube video editor including the
latest interface and features and how to
make the most out of them hey it's
justin brown here from primal video
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free built-in youtube video editor is a
simple but surprisingly powerful tool
for quickly trimming splicing and
editing your videos online now since we
released our last tutorial it's actually
gone through a few upgrades the editor
was originally designed to help you
perform quick edits on your videos
without needing to waste time
re-uploading or downloading your
completed live streams now though it's
not only a great tool for making simple
changes to your videos that are already
up on youtube like removing a section of
your video blurring out a face a phone
number or editing down your live streams
or fixing copyright claims for music on
your videos being able to replace music
in your videos but now you can also use
it for complete edits on simpler
projects as well so to help you get the
most out of it we're gonna do a full
walkthrough and i'm gonna highlight the
key features in the youtube editor and
how to use them okay now there's a
couple of different ways that you can
find and open up the youtube video
editor you want to start by heading over
to your youtube channel and then you can
either go ahead and find the video that
you want to edit so let's pick this one
here how to create a youtube channel
video if you
pause that guide talking you can then
come down to edit video
and then over on the left here you've
got editor
now if you want to edit down a video
that's not public on your channel then
we can just come over here to manage
videos
it's going to open up the youtube studio
dashboard area come down here to content
which it should have already loaded out
and then you'll see a full list of all
of your videos in here whether they are
public unlisted or private also your
live streams will be listed under this
tab here so if you want to edit down a
live stream then this is where you'll
find it so i'm going to pick this first
live stream here and we will do some
editing on that so i've selected it
again we come across to editor on the
left side here and this will then open
up the youtube video editor so i'll give
you a quick overview of the interface
first before we jump into how it all
works so this is obviously your playback
area this is where you can see your
youtube video and the edits that you're
making you've got controls here to play
to skip back 10 seconds skip forward 10
seconds your volume adjustments here
turn it up or down or mute it and then
over on the side here just like the
regular youtube player you also have
speed control so you can slow down your
video or speed it up in here as well
just the playback of that video down the
bottom here is the editing timeline this
is where we can see our video here
little thumbnail images of our video
right through from start to finish
underneath that is the audio waveform or
the visual representation of the audio
in our video down below that one again
is where you can specify ad breaks in
your videos if you're already part of
the youtube partner program you've got
monetization enabled on your channel
then you can actually specify where you
want to have ad breaks in your video
from inside this video editor too the
next one down from that is where we can
blur out sections of our video and the
one down the bottom here is where we can
edit and customize up our end screens
the last 20 seconds of our videos now we
can zoom in and out on our timeline here
using the plus and minus to get more
granular control we can make some minor
adjustments to this layout as well by
clicking this little resize button here
we can make our timeline area bigger or
smaller it's by dragging that up and
down
over here we have our trim button which
we'll jump into next that's where we can
start to trim down our footage remove
sections then up here we've got your
undo and redo buttons in case you're
making any mistakes we can discard or
cancel out of all of our changes with
this button here and obviously we can
save our changes with the next one here
now these three little dots here next to
it little options panel we actually now
have the ability to save whatever
changes we're making in here as a new
video so we don't just have to overwrite
this existing one if say you've done a
live stream and you want to keep one
full version of that live stream in its
entirety then you can make any changes
here edit out some of the q a or
whatever it is any mistakes in your
videos and then save it out as a totally
new video with this option here now if
you have gone through and you've made
changes to your videos previously using
the youtube video editor and you want to
undo them then you can open up the
youtube editor like we have here and
come up to this option here revert to
original and that would take it back to
how the original video was and the next
one down here is a handy one if you're
going to be using this a bit this is the
keyboard shortcuts so instead of using
say the sliders here to zoom in and out
we've got keyboard shortcuts that you
can press to trigger that functionality
and likewise all of your playback and a
lot of the controls in here have a
keyboard shortcut assigned to it
so that's a quick overview of the
interface now let's start trimming down
this video let's remove a few sections
from it so let's come up here to trim
this is now in trim mode we can see
we've got this blue box around the
outside of our video maybe i'll bring
this up a bit so we can see it a bit
higher we also get this panel that
appears down the bottom now with split
cancel and preview so that's another way
that you can know that you are in trim
mode so let's say that we want to remove
something at the start of this video we
want to make sure that we are clicking
towards the start of our video
and when we can zoom in
and let's just say with this video here
that i didn't start the actual content
until around here 55 seconds in all we
need to do to remove that start that
first 55 seconds is come across here to
that blue line and we get an arrow that
appears so if we click and drag on that
and then move it across to where we want
our video to start somewhere around here
then that is now essentially trimmed off
the start of our video so that it's now
going to start at this point you can see
that all of that previous stuff is still
there but it's grayed out so if we try
to play this now let's go back over here
let's click so that our playback head is
here and let's hit play we see people
get
and you see that it jumps straight to
this section starts playing from here so
this is now the start of our video so
just the same let's go and trim the end
off our video i've zoomed out let's
click towards the end of our video let's
zoom back in
and let's say for the sake of this video
that we want our video to finish here
again come across to that blue line
we'll grab it and move it back to where
we want our video to stop
and that now is the end point of our
video now obviously with this to find
the areas that you want to cut or trim
out you can just click to that section
and then you can press play q a
to play through that content to make
sure that that is where you want to be
making edits or to find the bits you
want to fix up but let's say for example
that you want to remove a section in the
middle of the video not just the start
or the end you want to go through your
content find those sections that you
want to remove let's say that we want to
remove this section here so i will come
across two here and i will click
then we want to come down the bottom to
split so we're going to split our clip
at that point so then we just come up to
this blue bar blue line that was created
and we click and drag on from that one
and we're essentially here highlighting
the section that we want to remove from
our video so let's say we want to remove
that chunk there that video will play
through from here and then jump to here
seamlessly now with that section removed
so we can go through our video now and
add a split anywhere that we want to
remove any sections of our videos now
it's important to note here that you
actually can't pick up and move around
the footage and change the order of your
footage this youtube video editor is
built for trimming down existing content
or trimming down videos that you've got
uploaded already on your youtube channel
but we can't use it to add new video
clips to our videos or to move around
pieces of our existing videos either now
if you want to undo any of these edits
that you've made you do have that undo
button up the top or you can just remove
an individual split by hitting the
little x above it so if you press on
this one here now then it's going to
remove that split so that content is
going to play through as it originally
was so this tool is great if there is a
section of your video or multiple
sections in your video that you need to
remove or trim out now once you're done
trimming down your video you actually
can't come up here and hit save you have
to hit preview first so if we hit
preview now that save option at the top
has become available to us so make sure
you're hitting preview otherwise you
won't be able to save the edits that
you've made so if there's sections of
your video that you need to remove
because of a copyright claim or anything
like that that trim functionality is a
great way to do it but the other thing
that you've got access to is to add in
some music tracks to either cover up
that section or to replace the audio in
that section entirely so if we come
across to the start here let's hit the
little plus here for audio to add an
audio track this is then going to open
up in the top corner here youtube's
music library now the library is much
bigger than what you will see here so
you can actually search for the type of
music that you're after or if you've
used the youtube music library before
you might have already starred or saved
or favorited some music tracks in here
or to make it even easier for you to
find music tracks i do find it easy just
to click on this audio library button
here that'll open it up in its own tab
and it gives you a much bigger screen
you better go through and find and
listen to find the ones that are going
to be a fit for your content so once you
find those tracks then you can just
press the little star here next to it
and then when we go back to the youtube
video editor you can see that those just
show up on the start so it's much easier
to find the content that you like or
that you've previously used before then
if you want to add it to your project to
add it to your video you need to come
across to the add button here so let's
pick this one here we hit add it's going
to drop it down into our timeline into
our video at that point now this is
something that now we have the ability
to pick it up and to move it around so
if you only want to add this music track
in a specific section of your video then
you can just pick it up and drag it to
where you want that audio to play and
again it's always handy if you zoom in
on that area so that you've got more
control over the placement of that track
now with each music track you actually
don't need to use it in its entirety you
could just use a small section of each
track if you'd like so if we go to the
start of the track let's say we want to
remove some of the start we can just
click and drag on that end and we're
able to adjust the start time on that
same as we did with trimming down our
footage likewise if we wanted to finish
a little bit earlier then we can drag
that to remove the end of that audio
track too now if we click on this little
audio adjustment level here then we get
to choose our audio mix so right now
this music track is played on full
that's actually going to overwrite what
i'm saying in this video so any other
video content you got playing behind it
this audio will take over that audio at
the default setting so if i play this
back now
we can see that it's just the music
playing but if i want to adjust that
then we can come in here to that volume
level slider again let's drop it down
and now let's play it producer director
not on on camera talent not someone that
sits
so now we're able to have a mix of both
the audio so we can hear what i'm saying
and we can hear the music i would say
it's probably not the best choice of
music but yeah there's lots of options
in there now the other new addition in
regards to audio with the youtube video
editor they now let you have multiple
tracks so you're not just limited to one
track so if we want to add another one
in here now let's pick this one two
moons
then we can have a second audio track we
will have to zoom out because it's going
to default to put it back at the start
of our video but we can again move it
along and position it wherever we like
it so you could have one music track
finish and then the next one start
automatically or even have them overlap
a little if you'd like so you don't get
a ton of control with this but this is a
lot better than what it used to be used
to just be limited to one audio track
with not a lot of control so i'll zoom
back out now so the next thing you can
do in this youtube video editor is
adjust the position of ads inside your
video so you need to be in the youtube
partner program you need to have
monetization enabled for this specific
video and then this section will be
enabled so if we just click on one of
these little grey markers here these are
actually all the ad positions that
youtube has automatically placed in our
video that is around an hour 10 long so
that's a lot of ad breaks it's added in
here so you can just choose place
automatically and it's going to do what
it's done here and put in a lot of them
or you can go through and you can
manually remove them or adjust them so
if there's any that you want to remove
we can just press the little trash can
and you can see them disappearing from
the bottom down here likewise if we want
to have one at a specific time we can
either pick one up and move it back to
where we want it
or we can come across to where we want
to have an ad break and just hit add and
add break and that's now going to be
added at that time so while it is a
little interesting how many they've
added in here for an hour 10 video it's
pretty cool that you can at least come
in and adjust them or remove them if
you'd like to now it does say here as
well that even if you've got these ad
break sections placed in your video it
actually doesn't guarantee that ads will
appear there for every viewer but it's
still awesome to see that we can have
some control over where and how many of
these things are happening inside of our
videos now the other primary feature in
this youtube editor is in regards to end
screens which is this bottom line down
the bottom here so we can add in our end
screens or our clickable links at the
end of our videos from in here too so if
we go down here to the little plus
button and we can add in here either an
individual element like a single link or
a link to a channel subscribe button a
playlist or a video or there's also
templates you can use in here as well so
i'm going to go apply template
and you can see that it's giving us the
option of using some of their preset
templates here to set up our end cards
or we also have the option to import
from a video so if you've already gone
through and you've set up end cards on
other videos and you like the layout you
like the content then you can just
import it from one of your existing
videos as well so i'm just going to go
ahead and pick this one here one video
one playlist and one subscribe button
and you'll see that it appears down the
bottom here on that row so obviously
we're on a really long video we want to
come to the end we want to zoom in so
again we've got more control more detail
and we can see that the default length
of these here is for the 22nd so we
can't make them any longer but we can
shorten them down we can even have them
appear one by one if we want the
subscribe button to appear first
then that link there for the best video
for the viewers and then they're going
to show up in that order as the video
plays through so if we hit play on this
now next year they're year four we're
gonna get the subscribe button
here then the video i look forward then
video one then video two and likewise
for each one of these three that are
down here we can click on them and get
options and set them up in the top here
so if we want to change what type of
video that is or which video that's
linked to we could link it to our most
recent upload
the best video for the viewer so
youtube's auto suggestion which is what
that's on here now or we could go
through and choose a specific video and
just the same for the playlist if we
press on that one it's asking us to
select a playlist
let's just say this one here how to make
videos on android and that is now linked
in there as well so again once you've
gone through you've got everything set
up you've made your edits don't forget
to come up here and hit save or if you
want to save it out as a new video then
you can come over here to these three
little dots and hit save as new now when
you do save your video the changes
aren't instant your viewers are going to
see the old version of your video the
original video until youtube has
processed that video and as for how long
it takes for youtube to process your
video it really comes down to how long
your video is if it's just a really
short clip that you're making changes to
then it can be done in a matter of
minutes or upwards of a few hours if
you're editing down a longer video like
we are here so now if you want to blur
out parts of your video you want to come
down here to where it says blur parts of
your video or come over here to this
blur area and press the little plus
button next to it then you get to choose
face blur or custom blur so if we go
ahead and press face blur that's going
to go ahead and it's going to detect all
the faces that are in our videos now
depending on how long your video is it
could take quite a while for it to go
through and detect all the faces but
they're going to be shown here now
obviously in this video it was a live
stream with me talking to camera there's
no one else in here but it's gone
through and picked out three different
faces for me so you would then just go
ahead and pick out the face that you
wanted to blur or the person that you
wanted to blur and go apply but you're
going to pick whoever it is that you
want to remove from it and you get a new
video layer created here and we can see
that it's currently running the length
of the entire video if you only want to
blow that person out for a short section
of the video then we can shorten this
area down as well for just the section
that that person's going to be in to
undo that blur or to remove it we can
just hit the little trash can here
delete button and likewise if we want to
come back and choose a custom blur then
we can go through and we can select
either a rectangle or an oval we can
draw out the section here on this area
that we want to blur we can choose if we
want to track that object or if we just
want to fix the blur position so if we
just go fixed below position then it's
just going to be static on the screen so
if you're just going to blur out a
mobile phone number or something that
you've left in the video or something
you don't want to have in there then
it's cool that you've got some options
so again you've got this area down the
bottom here we can just select the area
of the video that you want to have that
blur show up for you might want to
zoom in
to get a bit more granular with it but
youtube makes it really easy for you to
control this stuff and it has actually
saved us on a number of videos where
somehow my mobile number has made it
through or there's been a stream key or
some information through that we don't
want to have public on a video so now
that you're up to speed with the
built-in youtube video editor if you're
looking for something more if you're
looking for actual video editing
software then check out the two videos
i've got linked on screen one for pc
users one for mac users all designed to
help you decide the best video editing
software for you i'll see you in the
next one