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YouTube has added some basic editing facilities to its upload service. It’s designed to make it easier for users to remove unwanted material from short clips.

The editing tools are not particularly advanced, but they do consist of three features:

  1. Combining multiple clips
  2. Trimming the beginning or end of clips
  3. Adding a soundtrack (but sadly only from YouTube’s licensed library)

All the editing is done online with clips which the user has already uploaded, rather than with files stored on their computer. That should mean the tools still work well even on older machines which would struggle with video processing. It could also be useful for smartphone users who want to upload and edit a clip before returning to a desktop computer.

There are some limitations, however. Most notably YouTube still blocks most users from uploading clips of more than 10 minutes, so it’s not possible to use the tool to take a lengthy video and cut it down.

Have you tried it out? What are your thoughts?

asked Jun 17 '10 at 11:04

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edited Jun 17 '10 at 11:05

yea you can cut down a 10 min video because i did. I took 3 long videos and tossed them together randomly then added there music to it. It did take forever to encode tho.

(Jun 17 '10 at 11:33) CiphersSon CiphersSon's gravatar image

I made a video on it last night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M8KSFzT5Zg

but unfortunely when google updates youtube they break something else. annotations and comments seem to be broke from what some people are telling me.

I think its a strategy to integrate it in to chromOS that is to be released this fall. The complete saturation of the google cloud.

answered Jun 17 '10 at 11:31

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Are those effects at the end of your video created from the YouTube editor? Color balls and wavy lines.

(Jun 17 '10 at 13:27) refrwfrwgrfd refrwfrwgrfd's gravatar image

Yeah, does it include those effects?

(Jun 17 '10 at 16:48) daaaveeeee daaaveeeee's gravatar image

I have not used it, but honestly... I'm surprised it took them this long... i suppose the amount of server power they need to process it was a big concern, and maybe that is what took them so long

answered Jun 17 '10 at 11:08

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That's true, millions of users use YouTube and they have to process all the editing so yeah.

(Jun 17 '10 at 11:09) daaaveeeee daaaveeeee's gravatar image

It is ok for simple video editing, but I would rather use a desktop video editor so I can just upload the selected part of the video that I want and in the encoding format that I want to choose to easily upload the video.

answered Jun 17 '10 at 11:10

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well like any online editor, you can do basic edits, like a online photo editor, they allow you to change the orientation, rotate, crop, maybe add text or a boarder, were as in photo shop you have more freedom.

(Jun 17 '10 at 11:12) trueb trueb's gravatar image

Yeah, desktop applications are much more powerful, but I think YouTube just wants to provide a basic service for those who perhaps aren't as tech-savvy.

(Jun 17 '10 at 11:12) daaaveeeee daaaveeeee's gravatar image
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