- Are you looking for a way
to speed up your streaming videos
so that you can watch them even faster?
Well, in this video we're gonna run through how to speed up
your YouTube videos as well as Vimeo, Wistia,
and pretty much any other video out there
that's on a website to two speed, three speed,
or even four speed with a simple video speed controller.
So, if you haven't tried this before,
then this is an absolute game changer
so stick around and give it a try for yourself
and trust me, you won't look back.
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Hey, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video.
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So, let's jump into it.
Now, if you're watching longer YouTube videos
or you're streaming something like an online course
or you're just watching any sort of long form content
in your web browser, it can get a bit tedious.
So, there's so much content out there to consume,
if you're anything like me, there's too much
and there's not enough time to do it.
So, what do you do?
You speed it up.
So, it sounds obvious but if you haven't tried it yet,
it's an absolute game changer.
I can punch through things like an online course
in less than half the time or speed
through longer form content to skip to the good stuff
much, much faster.
And, these days, I really can't live without it.
So, in this video, I'm gonna show you how you can easily
speed up YouTube, Wistia, Vimeo, and other HTML 5 videos
to two speed, three speed, or even four speed
with just the click of a button.
So, there's actually a couple of different ways
to do this.
We're gonna look at the obvious way first
before we get into the tool that we are currently using.
So, the first method doesn't require any additional plugins
and it's gonna work by default, but it'll only allow you
to speed up to a maximum of two speed.
And, it's gonna rely on your standard video players.
So, we'll cover this off first because if two speed
is all that you're after, then this might be
the easiest option.
But, after awhile, I guarantee you you'll get used to it
and two speed won't be enough.
So, when I say two speed, I mean
that you're playing back your videos at twice the speed
that they were recorded at.
So, YouTube, for example, supports playback
in the built-in YouTube player to let you speed up
by two times or slow it down by two times.
So, on YouTube all you need to do
is while you're playing a video,
hit the little settings button or the little cogwheel
and go to speed and you can change it there from normal
to 1.25, to 1.5, or to two.
And, obviously the higher the number,
the faster the video is going to play back.
Now, if you're watching YouTube videos
through your smartphone as well,
through the YouTube app, you can actually speed up
your videos as well.
All you need to do once you're playing the video
is hit the three little dots in the top right hand corner
and in the menu that appears, you can go down
to playback speed, and again, change it from normal
and boost it up to a maximum of two speed.
The process is almost exactly the same in things
like Vimeo and Wistia.
You can control the speed in there as well
as long as the owner of the video
or the owner of the account the video is hosted through
has enabled that feature for that video.
So, they're taking speed things up two speed.
But, two speed, while it's nice and all,
it's not three speed or four speed.
So, let's jump straight to the big guns
and ramp that up even more.
Okay, so option number two,
and this is where things start to get pretty cool,
is called video speed controller.
And, it's actually a Chrome plugin.
So, this will give you an extra set of tools
that appears across any HTML 5 video.
So, that's YouTube, that's Vimeo, that's Wistia,
that's even Facebook Lives that aren't live
but you're watching the replay of them.
You can then speed those back up as well.
So, there's a heap of videos out there
and I'm sure there's others I'm missing.
Pretty much, almost any video that's embedded on a website
this will work for.
And, the biggest other feature is this lets you go
well beyond two speed as well.
So, how this works, once you've downloaded
and installed the video speed controller plugin
in your Chrome browser, when you open up a web page
that has a video on it, what you'll see in the video
in the top left hand corner is a little number one or 1.00.
So, this is showing you
that your current playback speed is one.
Now, all you need to do to increase or decrease the speed
here is put your mouse up over that number one
and you'll get a bigger menu that appears
with a plus and minus button on that.
Obviously, increase the speed by hitting
the plus button or you can slow it down
by hitting the minus button.
There's a couple of really cool features with this as well.
So, if you wanna hide that menu
so that you're not seeing it,
you can go into the settings and tick the box
to hide the menu.
And, if you wanna control the speed
without clicking the mouse,
you can actually use keyboard shortcuts.
So, you'd increase your video speed by using
the letter D on the keyboard or decrease the speed
by using S.
You also have the ability to save a preferred speed.
So, if there is a podcast or a YouTube creator
that you like watching their content
and you're able to listen to it at 2.65 speed,
and that's your speed for their content,
then you can set that as your preferred speed.
And, all you need to do
is when you're playing their content,
press that keyboard shortcut and it would automatically
jump to that speed for you.
There's also keyboard shortcuts that you can use
to either fast forward or rewind the videos
so really you can control the whole playback
and the speed experience
just using your keyboard shortcuts
once you've got this plugin installed.
Now, there's another really big feature
that this plugin has and that's the ability
to, while speeding things up, have them sound normal.
So, typically when you're speeding things up
and you're playing things at two speed or three speed,
things start to sound like The Chipmunks.
Everything goes high-pitched and it's really hard
to understand what is being said.
So, what this does is it keeps the pitch the same.
So, it's able to speed things up,
but it also keeps the pitch the same
or what we would expect to hear at a normal level
so that everything sounds normal, which is amazing.
And, even when we're comparing this plugin
side by side with YouTube's speed controller,
so setting a YouTube video both to play back
at two speed, the video speed controller
did a much better job.
It kept everything clear, whereas, the YouTube plugin
at two speed almost sounded a little wobbly
or like it was missing bits of the audio,
so it was a lot harder to understand at two speed
than the plugin.
Now, one little quick word of warning or disclaimer here.
We've been using this plugin for quite a long time now
without any issues, but obviously adding extensions
to your Chrome browser, or really any browser,
you can bring in security risks.
So, definitely this is a use at your own risk,
but we are flying the flag for it
because it's an awesome tool and it's saved us
a heap of time.
And, as far as we know, it's working fine
without any issues.
So, take a look for yourself,
but use it at your own risk.
Now, for those of you who have never tried this before
or have never even thought to try it before,
or maybe you've tried it and you couldn't understand
what was being said in the videos
because it was going too fast, then this is a tip
that will help you out to really master and use this
because it is a real game changer.
How many times have I said
game changer in this video? (bell ringing)
It's a game changer.
So, what you need to do is pick a video,
press play on the video and set the speed
to, let's say, two speed.
If you've never done this before, start at two speed.
Now, you might not understand what's going on
in this video or understand what's happening
for the first part, but stick with me.
Keep listening to it for 15 to 30 seconds
even though you're not understanding it.
After that time, go back and play that same section
of the video again, back at, say, 1.5 speed.
So, a little bit slower than what you just heard.
And, your brain will be able to decipher it
as if it was normal.
So, go faster than you can understand
and listen to that and then slow it down at bit
and then you'll start to make sense of it.
Now, this is something, that the more you do,
the faster you'll be able to go,
but it does also come down to the content
especially how people are presenting on camera.
So, you might find that with my content
because I speak a little slower,
you're able to speed me up to three speed
and still understand fine.
But, it could mean that you need to listen
at four speed to be able to then work backwards
to get to three speed so that you're able to understand
everything that I'm saying.
So, no matter where you're at with this,
you can always listen to a faster speed
for a short period of time and then slow it down
and then it'll sound like it's normal for you
and you'll then be able to understand everything
at that new speed.
And, what's really interesting
after you've been watching video content
at a faster speed for awhile is then go back
and listen to it at one speed
and it will be painfully slow to watch a video
at the speed it was actually created at.
So, this is a massive productivity tip
and it's a quick way to consume online courses
or even just consume YouTube videos.
Definitely give it a go if you haven't yet.
This is something that I use every day.
So, now that you're able to play back
your videos faster, if you're interested
in editing your videos faster, great segue there Justin,
then check out the link onscreen now
to our Primal Video method which is the most efficient
way to edit your videos without any re-work
or any wasted time.
And, I'll see you soon.