- If you've uploaded a video to YouTube,
but you realize you've made a mistake,
and you need to trim something out,
this is the quickest and easiest way to do it
without having to re-upload the entire video.
Let's do this.
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- We will start, as always, on any YouTube page.
Click on your profile picture
in the top right-hand corner of the screen,
and then go to the YouTube Studio.
This will display the main studio dashboard screen,
and from here, you want the videos section
from the left-hand navigation panel.
When you mouse over any video in this list,
a few icon options will appear,
and you want to click on the edit video icon.
Once you're in the video details page,
you may notice some new options down the left-hand side.
The video editor is one of these new options.
Click on this, and it will take you
to the YouTube video editor,
which at the time of recording,
seems to be defaulted to dark mode.
Let's show you a few key controls first.
You've got the Undo and Redo buttons on the top left,
discard and save options in the top right,
along with a quick keyboard shortcut guide.
And over to the right-hand side,
you have your zoom slider,
so you can focus right in on the spot
where you need to trim your YouTube video.
Now let's trim a video.
Place the playhead at the starting point
of where you want to trim,
and click the trim button to the left.
Note that when you do this,
the editor seems to zoom all the way out again,
so you may need to zoom back in.
You can still click and drag the playhead if you wish.
When you have your starting point,
click the split button at the very bottom of the screen.
The playhead line will thicken,
at which point you can click and drag
to create a split of content
that you wish to remove from your video.
Now a really important point next,
this X button does not execute the split,
it cancels the split you have just created.
To create the actual split,
you will need to click the Preview button
at the bottom of the screen.
The split section of the video
will now be shaded out,
and you can preview how your video is going to look
on the video player above.
You can continue to edit the video as you see fit,
adding more trims if you wish.
The most important thing to remember
is that none of this is saved
until you click the Save button
the top right-hand corner of the video editor.
And by clicking the three dots next to the Save button,
you also have a couple of extra options,
including saving the edited video
as a completely new YouTube video.
Have you ever needed to edit a video on YouTube?
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Now, ever since YouTube announced the new studio,
I've been wanting to make this video
all in the new editor, but to be quite honest,
it hasn't been ready for a long time,
and it still isn't, if truth be told.
What I've shown you in this video
is how to trim your videos,
but you can also add blur effects, you can add audio music,
and add end screens.
The problem at the moment is that
a lot of these things aren't baked into the new editor,
and take you off onto a new screen, which isn't ideal.
So if you want me to make another tutorial video
on the video editor when it has
all of the bells and whistles baked into the video editor,
so you don't have to go anywhere else,
let me know in the comments below.
Now, a couple of things to note about this editor.
If you make changes, and then save them,
it will take YouTube a little while
to process those changes,
and in the meantime, viewers will still be able to see
the old version of the video.
So if you do desperately need to get rid of something,
you might want to send it to private and unlisted
while you make the changes.
Also, if you have any copyright issues with the video,
this video editor is not the place to try and fix them.
YouTube has a built-in copyright claims tools
that are far more efficient
and could remove the claim completely,
meaning that you can remonetize your video,
but if you do it through here,
it's just gonna cause chaos.
For the full tutorial on
how to use the copyright claims tool,
we've got a video over here.
For more YouTube beginners guides just like this,
check out the playlist over here,
and if you want to learn more about VidIQ,
which can help you get more views in less time,
we have a beginners guide down there.
Thank you very much for watching, as always,
and enjoy the rest of your video-making day.