the free built-in YouTube video editor
is a simple but surprisingly powerful
tool for quickly trimming splicing and
editing your videos online to show you
what it can do in this video we'll dive
in and step through exactly how to edit
videos using the new YouTube video
editor hey it's Justin Brown here from
primal video but we help you amplify
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below so let's jump into it now if you
haven't already stumbled upon it YouTube
has a simple built-in video editor
that's designed to help you perform
quick edits on your videos without
having to waste time reuploading or
downloading your completed live streams
it's great for making simple changes for
trimming or splicing your videos that
are already up on YouTube but you can
also use it for other simple edits as
well so to help you get the most out of
it we're gonna do a full walkthrough
highlighting the key features in the
YouTube editor and how to use them
ok so we're over on YouTube now all you
need to do is make sure you are signed
in to your account and go and navigate
through to the video that you would like
to edit come down the bottom here to
edit video and that will open it up to
edit in the YouTube studio but to open
up the actual YouTube editor itself then
you want to come over here to editor now
it may take a little bit to load you can
see here the images are loaded the sound
or the waveforms are now loading here
and it is done so you can see a visual
representation of your video in the
timeline here you can see your audio
waveforms down the bottom here we've got
our end screen layer as well and we've
also got an option here to add blur and
I will run through these in a minute up
the top here you've got your YouTube
video itself if you put your mouse over
it you can see you got the ability to
play to rewind or skip back 10 seconds
to skip forward 10 seconds to adjust the
volume levels you can also adjust the
playback speed here as well if you want
to playback in slower speed or faster
speed and you can also maximize or
fullscreen your video there too you can
zoom in and out on the timeline here
just using the slider here for more
detail or to get more accuracy with your
editing you got your undo and redo
buttons up the top here in case you make
any mistakes or you do anything you want
to undo over here you can cancel out or
discard
of your changes and you've got your Save
button up here as well now under these
three little dots here you can access
the keyboard shortcuts for this so if
you're looking to speed up your editing
in here or even for some greater control
then you've got access to all of those
keyboard shortcuts listed out here
okay so we'll close out of this now now
Before we jump into it I do want to say
that this is a live stream that I'm
editing here this was video one of a
three-part live training workshop that
we ran on our channel so this was a live
stream everything that we're gonna cover
in here and all the tools and features
and things will work exactly the same
for a live video to your channel as a
regular video for your channel so it's
not just limited to one or the other so
first we'll do is come over here to trim
and I'll show you what you're able to do
in here in regards to trimming and
splicing out sections of your videos so
we'll click on trim and you can see
straight away that we are in the trim
mode because all of this area here has
gone blue now let's say in this example
because it is a live stream that we
would want to remove the star part of it
so it could be where I'm welcoming
people in it could be where I'm just
doing quick last-minute checks to make
sure that everything is good before we
actually start the presentation so down
here somewhere here we go I kick into
some PowerPoint slides or keynote slides
we will might want to remove this start
here so we can zoom in using the arrows
here to zoom in and to get more control
over it and make sure that we're editing
and cutting to the right place we can
simply click through our timeline here
until the slides come up we can also use
the audio waveforms as a gauge you can
see that it's gone quiet here there's
not much going on there's there's not
much visually there on the graph and
then up here is where I start talking
and the graph gets bigger which means
I'm talking so we're gonna do is scrub
our timeline across so I can see the
start I want to come back across here
grab this left side and move it across
to this point here and that is now our
new start point so if we hit preview
here now this is previewing our finished
video if we hit play you can see that we
can't come back here to this section
this section is now no longer in now in
video product our video is now going to
start at this point so if we come back
here and hit play it's gonna start from
there got it through our video now
they're really simple so you might want
to start by trimming off the start if
there's any extra stuff at the end you
could come down to the end where you've
said goodbye obviously in a live video
awesome have a good one
see you then okay so about here we might
want to finish it we can come to edit
and trim again we can zoom in we can
scroll across so that we can see the end
of our timeline there and we can grab
that end marker and we can slide it back
to there and our video is now going to
finish at that point so we've removed
this extra few seconds at the end of our
video here now we'll zoom out now and
let's say for example there was a chunk
in the middle of it or a couple of
chunks in the middle of it that we
wanted to remove all we need to do is
come across and find where they are and
again you could just come up here and
press play and skip through and find
where those sections are let's just say
that we want to remove a section from
here you come across to this point here
and come down the bottom and press split
and that's going to add a split in our
timeline at that point so if we click
off you can see there's a blue line
there now
so that's just a matter of selecting
that line and dragging across we can see
where we want our video to start again
so let's say that we wanted to pick it
back up on the next slide here and again
you can zoom in and really get detailed
with this but you can see now that this
chunk here is grayed out in the middle
we've removed this section so our end
video now would look like it would start
here it would play through to here and
then it would jump immediately to this
point here and continue through to that
last blue line so we've able to remove
this first chunk remove this second
chunk and remove the end now there's
currently no limit as to how many of
these actions you can perform so I said
there was another chunk up here that we
want to remove let's hit split there and
we want to remove all the way up to
smooth big chunk all the way up to here
the moment we let go that is then
applied and that chunk would be removed
if we want to undo it we can either
click and drag this and readjust that
position or if we want to undo it
totally we can either come up the top
here to undo or you can just hit the
cross here the X here to undo that split
and that has brought it back in now if
you want to undo all of your splits or
all of your trims you can come down the
bottom
clear all and that will undo all of them
so the idea here is that you're going
through you're removing anything that
you don't want in your video or making
any edits to it after your video is
already up and live on YouTube so it
could be that you've forgotten something
you've left something in something that
you don't want to have in your video
anymore you can come in here and trim
out that section save your video out and
that's back live on YouTube with that
edit performed previously the YouTube
video editor wouldn't let you remove any
chunks from the middle of your videos
you could trim something off the start
and you could from something off the end
but you couldn't do anything with any of
the video in the middle without needing
to save it out as a totally new video so
once you've gone through and you've
trimmed your video down and you've
removed any sections that you don't want
in here
you do need to hit the preview button
down the bottom here to apply it before
you can either save your video out or
continue making further edits so that's
the trim tool or trim feature in here so
the next thing I want to show you here
is this audio section so if we come down
here to the audio lets click the little
drop down button here to expand it out
and click on the plus button here this
will open up in a new tab and I'll pause
this video and it goes to play it but in
here is where you can add and replace
audio in your videos and this will let
you bring in some of YouTube's
royalty-free songs or royalty-free music
to use in your videos so you can either
perform a search to find music or you
can go down here and see all the top
tracks or list all the tracks
it's just then a matter of finding the
track that you want so you can press
play on the buttons here to playback the
track once you're ready to add one in
what we need to do is just hit add to
video and that's going to be added in to
your video
[Music]
but it's really important to be aware of
this slider over here which they call
audio saturation which is really the
volume levels for your video is that is
going to default to favor the music at
the highest amount meaning that this now
is your music track is overriding all of
the audio in your video now you can turn
that down to favor the original audio so
this is the volume level of the music
that you have added in to your video
I'll grab this music track now and just
slide it across to a piece where I am
actually talking in this video and let's
just see what that sounds like now you
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you can hear there is now mixed we've
got the music in here with the original
but the music itself still here is
pretty loud there's not a great amount
of control over this but you can add in
music over different sections of your
videos but this is also really really
limiting while it's pretty cool to have
this feature to be able to add it in you
also can't upload your own music tracks
and you also can only add one music
track so you can see here our video or
our live stream is 49 minutes long we
can only add one if I pick another track
here to add in it's only letting you add
one in even if you're positioning them
in different areas of the video so
personally I think this is actually only
really usable if you've got a section of
your video that has audio in it that
might be copyright infringement or
something that you can't use that you
definitely need to swap out but you
don't want to download and reapplied
your video again then this might be the
use case to cover up that section of
your video with a music track beyond
that it's not that useful to apply any
changes you've made just hit Save
Changes and that will be applied or if
you haven't made any changes just hit
closed on that window and you'll be
taken back to your previous window which
is your timeline now the next feature
you've got in here is the ability to add
in an end screen so if we click on add
an end screen here then there's some of
the templates here that you can
to your video directly from within this
editor you don't need to go back to the
YouTube edit screen and then over to the
end screen window to be able to add
these you can add them directly in your
timeline from here and there's a few
different templates to choose from
depending on what you actually want to
show so let's just pick this one here to
videos or playlists and one subscribe
button we'll hit apply you can see it's
taking us to the end of the video
because these are only gonna work in the
last 20 seconds we can zoom in and we
can see those down the bottom here and
now to actually link these up we can
come up here and click on the ones that
we want to make adjustments to so let's
go this video here best video for viewer
if we want to swap that for a specific
video we can click on this pick the
video that we want to link to at the end
of our videos or we can change it to the
most recent upload these are your
standard options for creating in screens
at the end of your YouTube videos and
exactly the same with a subscribe button
here we can also pick them up and move
them around or if we don't want them in
there we can delete the element and they
are gone so maybe you'll have one down
like this now the last feature that
you've got in here is the ability to add
a blur or to blur something out of your
video again the use case for this would
be that you have something in there that
you don't want to show someone's face
that you may not be allowed to show in
your videos or don't want to show in
your videos you can blow them out here
as well now there's a couple of options
here to do it you've got blur faces and
you've got custom blurring so if we go
blur faces it says it's gonna blur faces
of people who appear in your video if we
hit edit it's actually going to go
through our video and it's gonna pull
out the faces of anyone that sees in the
video then all you need to do is select
on the people that you want to blur out
and those faces are then blurred in the
entire video so if we put our mouse over
these icons you can actually see the
time codes of when that person or that
face was visible on screen so you can
see here this one was from the start two
three minutes 16 from for 22 for 21 all
the different times it's detected it so
if we press on this one here that's
actually going to go through and blur
out that face my face at all of those
times and that's what it's gonna look
like there so I'll cancel out of that
one the next option is custom blurring
so if we hit edit on this one this is
where we can manually select objects in
our video
go to blur so the idea here is that we
are playing through or going through our
videos and we are drawing out the
sections then that we want to blur so
let's say we go across here to there's a
great shot there of my kids let's say we
want to blur out Mike we just come up
here and draw out a box around him and
that's now going to blur out that
section now if you want to add multiple
blurs then you can draw out another
section that you want you can see you've
just got an additional layer there added
and you can pick them up and you can
move them around in your timeline now
one feature that you currently don't
have is the ability to shorten this so
we can pick these up and move them
around but there's no ability to shorten
this down just to highlight it for a
certain amount of time you can see that
that actually wasn't shortening it it
was just changing the position of it so
again this is a feature here that I
wanted to highlight for you to show you
what you can do in here but again unless
you're masking something that you
probably shouldn't have shown in your
video or is stopping your video from
being monetized then you probably won't
really need this feature so we'll back
out of this now hit cancel we'll close
this window and we're back to our
editing interface so once we're done
with all of our edits and changes we
want to make you come up here to save
and then it says that it might take a
few hours to apply your changes during
that time your viewers will see the
current version of your video you won't
be able to make any other changes to
your video until it's done but you can
leave this site so once you hit save and
those changes are made to your videos
feel free to close your browser down to
leave your computer those changes are
going to be made without you needing to
be there or to do anything else now I do
want to stress here again that any of
these changes that you're making whether
it's just trimming off a section of your
video or taking out entire chunks of
your videos all of these will be saved
over the original video so there's no
need to download your video and
re-upload it again you can make these
changes while your video is already live
on YouTube and that is what makes this
YouTube editor so powerful it's
definitely not the most full-featured
video editing application there's a lot
of things that you can't doing a lot of
restrictions in here but the power
really is in letting you make these
minor edits to your videos while they're
live without the need to create it as a
new YouTube video
so that's a complete walkthrough on the
YouTube editor now if you're looking to
improve your editing game no matter
which software or app you're using to
edit your videos then check out the
video linked on-screen now for the most
efficient way to edit your videos down
with minimal wasted time or rework and
I'll see you in the next video