Hey what's up guys Rob Balasabas here! In this video I'm gonna show you how easy
it is to trim your YouTube lives streams or videos after you've recorded it or after it has finished
WITHOUT having to download the video, edit it and then upload it again. You can
do all of this right inside YouTube, using YouTube's built-in video editor!
So grab your coffee, sit back and I'll see you on the other side of the intro!
Hey what's up guys it's Rob Balasabas, as you know I do a lot of live streams, with
my live streams I try to keep the replay viewer in mind so what I've had
to do from time to time is trim out or delete a little bit of the intro a
little bit of the end of the videos so that they're more enjoyable for the
replay viewer this is how I do it let's go into my screen alright welcome to my
channel so where I want you to go is click on the to buddy icon if you
haven't installed TubeBuddy yet it's such a lifesaver, a time saver with all the
different Quick Links that TubeBuddy has so click on your TubeBuddy icon at
the top right of your screen right here and then click on videos once you get to
this page click on the live tab right here on the top left and as an example
let's click into my tick tock master class which I did just this morning
actually went live with this panel this morning recorded this live and so here
we are now once you're here the first thing you want to do is see if your
video has already processed YouTube will need some time to process your live
video sometimes it can take an hour two hours sometimes a day sometimes multiple
days depending on how long your video is so there's a couple ways to see if your
video has already processed the first way is to scroll down to the end screen
section right here I'm gonna point to it with my red marker or circle it right
there that's your end screen section if you hover over that you'll see that
YouTube will tell you this video is currently processing please check back
later now if you are able to add an end screen and click into this option then
that means the video has already processed which means you're good to go
to edit this video now the other way to see if
your video is already process is actually to download the YouTube studio
app right here which I'm gonna focus into so you see the YouTube studio app
right there this one this one right there with a red gear box if you open
this app and you go into the videos tab right here you can see it you'll see
that that tik-tok video still says processing video ok you can see it right
there processing video so what that means is that that video is still
processing so I really would suggest for you to wait till that video is finished
processing before you edit it inside of YouTube now the reason why is because if
you don't I'm gonna go back into my screen I'll show you exactly why you
shouldn't edit a video that hasn't finished processing yet let's go back to
my screen here we are again back here inside of my YouTube channel for the
tick tock master class now you can click on editor and right here on the left
hand side and this is where you're able to edit this video now I can edit this
right now but the only way that I can do this is if I create a new version of
this essentially if I duplicate this video and so the problem with that is
yes I can edit this video I can trim it right now before it's finished
processing but I lose all of the views from the livestream itself I lose all of
the engagement in the comments and all of that data all of that activity for
this video and so essentially it becomes a fresh new video and I lose all of that
work that I put in to get all of that engagement for the live video itself so
I really do not suggest you editing a video until YouTube has finished
processing it I suggest that you don't duplicate that video just so you can
edit it right now rather than waiting a few hours or maybe a day before you edit
the actual video itself so for now let's take an example of another live stream
that I've done that we can edit right now just to show you exactly how to do
that because that's what this video is all about so how to edit and trim your
videos inside of YouTube alright so as an example let's take this weekly Q&A
replay that I did last week last Friday on my channel let's go into that video
instead you'll see here if I go to the end cards I can put an end card so that
means that the video has already processed it's good to go so
I'm gonna go into the editor again click on the editor on the left hand side so
once you're into editor a few things that I'd like to point out to you that
will make your life a lot easier is that this is the timeline right here so you
can see this timeline for the entire video much like Camtasia or iMovie or
any video editing software you can see the timeline right here and you can kind
of click through the timeline of this video on the right hand side here you
can actually zoom in as well which makes it really easy if you want to really
pinpoint to a specific time in the video that you want to edit from you want to
make the split in the video at a really specific moment in the video okay
so you can zoom in you can zoom out really really easy now once you've
picked let's say I want to go here and you know 2 minutes and 44 seconds I want
to go in there and actually zoom in and I want to split this video right here
and trim out everything before that I would go right here zoom in I can see my
audio doesn't really start till about 2 minutes and 47 seconds for some reason I
think I was having some audio issues actually so what I would do is click on
trim right here right above the timeline and now you've got these two blue lines
that show up one on the end and one at the beginning and it's so easy all you
need to do is put where you want to trim the beginning and the end now again like
I said you can zoom in if you want to be really really specific down to the
millisecond even and so I'm gonna zoom right in I'm gonna go right here where
the audio actually starts and there we go now if I'm happy with this I can then
click on preview right here at the bottom and if I'm happy with that click
on preview now I can watch this video and just make sure that I'm happy with
it if I am I can click the blue Save button right at the top right of the
screen and that is my edited video the same thing goes for the end of the video
you can do the exact same thing at the end so that you trim out the end parts
of the video that you don't want to stay and that's it let me know if you have
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