Hey everyone. Alec here with VEED.
And in this video, I'm going to be showing you how to edit a YouTube video for beginners.
So let's say you want to be a YouTuber, you want to make YouTube videos and have your own YouTube channel.
Well in this video, I'm going to be showing you how to edit a YouTube video step-by-step using an online video editor called VEED.
And here's everything we're going to cover in the video with timestamps in case you want to skip ahead.
First, I'm going to show you how to create a new project and add videos to your timeline.
Then I'm going to show you how to cut, trim, and split your clips.
Then how to add text to your video. How to add audio to your video.
How to add an image to your video.
Then I'm going to show you how to do some basic color grading, show some filters and other tools that you can find with inside VEED
and then finally how to export your video with the right settings for YouTube.
And with that being said, let's get started and to begin,
all you need to do is head over to VEED.IO and the link is going to be in the description down below.
So once you're on VEED, the first step is to click on New Project and then we're taken into VEED's video editor
and this is where we're going to begin uploading our video files.
So to do this, we're just going to click on Upload the Files.
If not, you can upload them directly from a device, you can record your webcam and edit that video directly or import from Dropbox
or a YouTube link. So I'm just going to click on Upload the Files
and then as we can see, our documents now pop up and we're going to browse through our documents and select the video that we want to import and edit.
Here in this VEED project, I'm going to be using a quick sample clip.
But I'm still going to show you everything I mentioned at the beginning of the video.
So here I just select my clip and click on Open
and as we can see, it's now imported in to VEED and if I press play.
"Hey everyone. I hope you're all doing great. Welcome to the social media..."
As you can see, we have our video.
Now what if you want multiple clips? Well not to worry.
All you have to do is click on the "+" sign at the end of your first clip
and then again your documents will open up and you can
keep on adding clips and add as many as you want
so that way if you wanted to, you can make a YouTube compilation videos.
So now we have our video within VEED.
First thing I'm going to do is rename it so I'm just going to call this "YouTube Video" just like so
and then we want to cut, trim, and split this.
So what I'm going to do is just listen through to the video,
find an area where I want to make the first cut and find a section that I want to remove.
So if I press play from the beginning.
"Hey everyone. I hope you're all doing great. Welcome to the social media podcast. I'm your host Alec."
So let's say here, I wanted to make my first cut.
Well as we can see, my playhead is currently positioned right here
and all I have to do to split the clip right here is click on the split tool right here
and then it will be split and turn into two clips, exactly where the playhead was positioned.
So now as you can see, I've got two separate clips and if I wanted to trim the second one or the first one,
I can hover over either extremity and just click and drag it,
as you can see to remove some of that clip and trim off the beginning.
But let's say I want to find another exact location where I want to cut it,
So now if I press play,
"...and in this podcast, we're going to be talking about everything and anything related to social media..."
Imagine, I wanted to cut out this entire sentence.
Again, what I could do is just click and drag to trim it all the way there or I can use the split tool.
So I just click on Split in the timeline.
As you can see, we now have a second cut and I want to remove this middle clip right here.
So what I can do is right click on it and then just click Delete.
So now as you can see that clip has disappeared.
We no longer have it and there is a blank space in my timeline.
So what I need to make sure I do is bring back the previous clip and stick it next to the first one.
So if I just click and drag this in the timeline and place it right there just like so.
So now if we listen back.
"Hey everyone. I hope you're all doing great. Welcome to the social media podcast.
I'm your host Alec. Get comfortable, grab your favorite drink, and let's get started."
And that is how to cut your video and although my sample video doesn't make any sense because I've removed the majority of the content,
now that you know how to cut and trim a video,
you can go ahead and use these tools on your YouTube video.
Now the next thing we want to do is add a bit of text.
So let's say you want a title at the beginning of your YouTube video. Well, this is a very easy thing to do.
So again here I'm in VEED and I have my sample video right here. And if I play the beginning.
"Hey, everyone. I hope you're all doing great.
Welcome to the social media podcast."
So where I say social media podcast, I want to add a text
that says social media podcast.
Well to do so, all I have to do is click on Text in the left toolbar and then I can just begin adding some text.
I'm just going to select this Headline Title.
And then in this text box here,
I'm just going to type out "Social Media Podcast" just like so.
So now as you can see, I have this text and I can customize this text in various different ways.
So first of all, I'm going to change the font size and make it even bigger.
So I'm going to switch this up to 72. On the video canvas,
I'm going to click and drag this out so it's all on one line.
Click and drag it, place it in the middle
and then what I'm going to do is actually change
the color and maybe the font as well.
So to change the font, I can just click on the font and then select the one I want.
So I like this Anton font right here.
I might make it even bigger now since it's a bit more scrunched up.
Again, just click and drag it out on the video canvas.
Click and drag to place it on the video canvas.
Now I'm going to change the color and we're going to make the color, let's say this pink right here.
And here, we have this little More Options menu and if I click on it, we have more options that appear.
So like I mentioned the texts are scrunched up.
But if I want, I can adjust the letter spacing just like so and it will increase the letter spacing.
Then you can do the same thing with the line height and here we also have this style drop-down box here
and as you can see, we've got a bunch of different styles for our text.
So if I wanted a block behind my text I can do so.
If I want my text to be outlined, I can do so.
I can also change the color of this outline so I can make it black and then I can also add some drop shadow.
So now I've got this black drop shadow that helps the text
stand out even more from the background of my video.
And I might actually change this one back to white because I think
white with black drop shadow looks very nice.
Now, I don't necessarily want to place this in the middle.
So I might place this at the bottom of my video here.
And now what I need to do is adjust the text timing and duration within the timeline.
And to do this, very simple, as you can see here,
we currently have the text element and I can just click and drag it to move around in the timeline.
So let's find the area where I want it to begin.
So where I begin saying social media podcast,
I'm going to click and drag it and bring it to my play head
and then I'm just going to click and drag this right here.
So now if I press play from the beginning.
"I hope you're all doing great.
Welcome to the social media podcast. I'm your host..."
As you can see, I might just tweak this a little bit but I think that's pretty good.
And that is how to add text and change the duration.
And then if you want to add more text, you can just repeat the same process by going to the Text and then just click on Add New Text.
So now let's say you want a little bit of background music in your video
to make it a little bit more entertaining and to boost your watch time on YouTube.
Well again to do this, it's very simple.
All we're going to do is head over to the Upload tab in the left toolbar
and here we're going to select audio just like so
and again our documents will open up.
Select the audio you want to upload and then click on Open
and as you can see, it's now imported in to my timeline.
And the first thing you'll notice is that for my video it's way too long because this is just the sample project.
So I'm just going to trim this and just like any other element
hover over the extremity, click and drag, just like so and then I'm going to click Fit timeline.
And then what I want to do is actually make my audio background audio for the entire video.
So I'm just going to click and drag this out for the entire video just like so.
So now if I play it from the beginning
"...everyone. I hope you're all doing great.
Welcome to the social media podcast. I'm your host..."
So this is pretty good.
However, I think the background music is way way way too loud.
So we're just going to select it.
And as you can see, we now have this Edit Audio tab for this music,
this background music right here, and I'm just going to click and bring this down, the slider.
So we're going to try 25 and see what this sounds like.
"Hi everyone. I hope you're all doing great. Welcome to the..."
So this is good.
But I'm going to turn it down even more because I want it to be very low background music.
So I'm just going to again click and drag the slider,
might try 16 just like so, if I press play.
"Hey everyone. I hope you're all doing great.
Welcome to the social media podcast. I'm your host."
Okay, this is perfect.
That's how to add audio.
And then there's also a few other things you can do with
the audio because you can also adjust the speed.
Again, you can change the duration so it doesn't have to last throughout your entire video.
And then if you want, you can also replace this audio track or delete it at the bottom.
So now the next thing I'm doing show you is how to add an image to your YouTube video.
Let's say in your video, you're describing something
and you want an image of what you're talking about to appear on the screen.
So if I find the area around to add an image.
"...podcast. We're going to be talking about everything and anything related to social ..."
So when I say social media, I want some social media icons to appear.
And to do this, again, very simple,
I'm going to click back on the Upload tab and this time we're going to select image.
Now right here,
I actually have my Brand Kit images and I can upload these.
These are images that I've already uploaded in the past to my Brand Kit.
And I can click and drag them every time so I don't have to re-upload them every time.
However, if you haven't uploaded any images at all yet,
we're just going to click on Upload Image and then just like
all the other elements, you can browse through your documents
and upload the element that you want to.
However, I'm just going to select them from my Brand Kit.
So I'm going to select the Instagram icon, the Instagram logo.
Resize it on my video canvas, position it right here.
And then I'm also going to add the YouTube logo.
So I'm just going to select it right here, click and drag to resize, position it on the screen just like so.
So if I press play.
"...about everything and anything related to social media. So get..."
There we go. I want these two icons to appear one after the other and then last for a few seconds.
So again, click and drag any timeline to adjust the timings and durations.
So now if I press play.
"...related to social media. So get comfortable grab your favorite drink."
Okay, so that's how to add an image to your YouTube video.
So now, you know most of the basics for editing a YouTube video
You know how to cut and trim your video.
You know how to add text, you know how to add audio and images.
Now, I'm going to show you a few other tools that you may find useful within VEED.
So in VEED, if we head over to the left toolbar right here,
if we go into Filters, here we can actually do a little bit
of color grading or we can choose some effects.
We can choose some filters right here.
So for example, if I place my playhead right here and then
choose this effect or this color, I can then adjust it to
barely add a little bit more color and make my video pop a little bit more.
However, I don't want to do it like this.
What I can do if I click on the actual video clip itself,
I then have this video settings menu that pops up
and if I click on Adjust right here,
as you can see, I can do some very basic color correction such as adjusting the exposure.
I can change the brightness, the contrast, and the saturation.
However, I'm doing this very randomly right now.
But you get the idea, you can go ahead and play around with this yourself.
However, I'm just going to click Reset right here.
And then there's a few other tools I want to show you.
If I click on Elements, here we can add some shapes, some emojis, some progress bars, and some sound waves.
So for example, if I add a sound wave, surround sound wave right here
and I click play.
"..to the social media podcast. I'm your host..."
We have an automatic sound wave that reacts to our audio automatically generated
and then again, I can go ahead and customize this.
I can change the color.
I can change the opacity.
I can also change the maximum decibel levels.
So it doesn't peak as much
or I can turn the maxim decibel level all the way down so it only peaks
just like that.
And then, there's also automatic progress bars you can add again if it's going to the Elements tab in the progress bars.
And then one of my favorite features with VEED is the subtitles.
When you are on YouTube, adding closed captions to your YouTube videos
is a great practice for ranking within YouTube and Google search.
And with VEED, you can automatically generate
subtitles using the video's audio.
So if I use the Auto Subtitles tool right here,
and then I select the language I was speaking in in the video and I click on Start.
VEED then takes a few seconds to a few minutes to automatically transcribe the audio from a video
into text and turn that text into closed captions.
And as you can see, now it's finished and we can see them right here.
However, I'm not going to go in detail and in-depth into these right now.
But once you've generated them for your video, if you go into the options tab right here,
we can then download them as an SRT file, to then add them as closed captions to our YouTube video.
And if you do want to go in-depth into automatic subtitles
and closed captions for YouTube videos using VEED,
I am going to link to a video in the cards at the top of the screen.
You can go ahead and check that out.
Now finally, you've edited your YouTube video.
The last thing to do is export and render your video.
And to do this, to render it, all we have to do is click on Export in the top right.
But before we do this, we want to make sure we export it with the correct settings
so it's optimized for YouTube.
So if we go into the Settings in the left toolbar at the top right here,
as you can see here, we have this Output tab and if I select this,
here we have the Output, Export settings.
So as you can see, I can change the frames per second. I can change the resolution
and here we have this Preset drop-down menu
and if I click on this and open it up and I scroll down as you can see here,
we have some Preset export settings which are the settings that YouTube recommends to upload your video as.
So here, I have this video in 1080P.
So what I'm going to do is select this YouTube 1080P
and as you can see it says uses YouTube's recommended settings for 1080p 60 frames per second videos.
However, I know that my video is in 30 frames per second.
So once I've selected this preset,
I'm not going to touch anything besides the FPS limit, and I'm just going to click and drag this down to 30 right here just like so
and then click on Export in the top right.
VEED then begins to render my YouTube video
and then once it's finished rendering, I can go ahead and preview it
and then download it straight to my computer.
And that is how to edit a YouTube video for beginners using VEED.
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