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Edit your videos with YouTube
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Until now, when you uploaded to YouTube, your video was hosted and shared, but couldn’t really be changed. If you wanted to trim off the end, swap out the soundtrack, or add an effect, you had to edit your video using a separate program and upload again.
Starting today, you can edit your uploaded videos right on YouTube and maintain the same video IDs. This means you keep your view count and comments, and all existing links to your video will continue to work. No re-uploading necessary!
Here’s how it works: just click
Edit video
on the video’s page or on your My Videos page:
You can stabilize your hand-held footage, rotate a video, and boost the contrast and colors. Try “I’m Feeling Lucky” for 1-click color correction:
Or if you’re looking for a more dramatic change, try one of our effects (developed in collaboration with our friends at
Picnik
):
Click Save to begin processing the edits to your video. And if you don’t like the new version, fear not: you can revert to the original and save again. You can also save your edits into a new video and try out multiple versions. Note that popular videos with over 1,000 views and videos with third-party content can only be saved as new videos once edited (
learn more
).
Here’s a quick video showing what you can do:
We’ll be rolling this out to all users globally over the course of the day. We know you want your videos to look their best, and we’re excited to see what you come up with using YouTube video editing!
John Gregg, Software Engineer, recently watched “
Shenandoah
.
”
Release Notes: Seven new languages, four new countries get partner program, and lots more...
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Bits and bobs that’ve gone live since our
last Release Notes
...
YouTube is now available in...:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovenian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese!
Four new countries get YouTube Partner Program:
The Partner Program continued its expansion this quarter, with launches in Argentina, Sweden, New Zealand and the Czech Republic. That makes 21 countries in which people can make money from their videos. For more information about partnerships, click
here
.
Crossfades, wipes and slides:
The
video editor
lets you combine and trim your videos right on YouTube.com, without installing any software. Now you can add transitions, like crossfades and wipes, between video clips. Just select the transitions tab in the media picker, drag the transition and drop it between any two videos in the storyboard.
MySpace Autoshare:
Automatically share your YouTube activities on your MySpace account (you can already do this on your Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, Reader and Orkut accounts). To hook this up, go to Account >
ActivitySharing
and click “Connect accounts” next to the MySpace logo.
More filtering for charts:
YouTube Charts
can now be filtered by categories such as Comedy, Gaming and Pets & Animals, in addition to time and popularity "slices." We also show more results (20) per page.
Improved screen reader accessibility for YouTube player:
One of our engineering interns spent part of his summer improving video accessibility for visually impaired people. If you use a screen reader that supports Flash, we hope you'll find it easier to enjoy videos on YouTube now. We've also added some more captioning features to the
YouTube Data API
. You can list tracks, request auto-timing, and download the speech recognition captions for videos that you own.
Shows in France:
If you’re a YouTube viewer in France, now you can watch full-length TV shows, like
BFMTV: Bourdin Direct
and
Britain’s Got Talent
. Check out the page
here
.
HD and CC badges on search results page:
When you search for a video on YouTube, the search results now show HD and CC (Closed Caption) badges, in addition to the NEW, CHANNEL and PLAYLIST badges that already exist. If you click on the badge, it will filter out results that don’t fall under that category.
“Add-to playlist” widget:
The [+] button on video thumbnails in search results now includes a menu that allows you to add the video to any one of your playlists or start a new playlist. Additionally, the "save to" button below the video is being renamed "add to" and will have the same functionality.
Visited video styling on search results and video pages:
Browsers help people remember links they have previously clicked on by giving them a different color, the standard generally being that links are in blue and visited links are in purple. Many sites, including YouTube, opt to make all links blue regardless of visited state to give a more consistent look to the site and better reflect its dynamic nature. However, having a visited state is specifically useful when exhaustively exploring search results or related videos, and so we are launching a new style for thumbnails and links to videos in related and search results: the thumbnail for visited videos is slightly grayed, and the link color has changed. This should help you explore the site deeper without going in circles.
The YouTube Team
Edit video in the cloud with the YouTube Video Editor
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Video editing usually requires installing software packages and having a fair amount of technical savvy. But we think video editing should be fun and easy, so we’re introducing a new tool that anyone -- even
this guy
-- could figure out: it’s an online video editor, now available in
TestTube
, our ideas incubator.
Without installing any software, it allows you to:
Combine multiple videos you’ve uploaded to create a new longer video
Trim the beginning and/or ending of your videos
Add soundtracks from our AudioSwap library of tens of thousands of songs
Create new videos without worrying about file formats and publish them to YouTube with one click -- no upload necessary
Watch this video from powerposter
rewboss
to get a sense of how it works:
See? Pretty easy. The editor is ideal for merging single, short clips into a longer video. For example, you can transform clips from your vacation into a video travel diary set to music, or create a highlights reel from footage of your last basketball game.
It’s also great for trimming a long video down to the moments you really care about. Say you’ve uploaded a wedding ceremony -- beautiful event, but do you really need to see all the guests shuffle in? The video editor lets you easily remove unwanted footage so you can capture just the moment when they say “I do.”
See what some of our early experimenters
have done with (or said about) the tool --
live2tivo
even wrote a little ditty for it:
Please play with it and let us know what you think in the comments below and/or check out more info about it in our
Help Center
. We’re looking forward to adding new features based on your feedback to make the video editor more powerful while still retaining its simplicity.
Rushabh Doshi, Software Engineer, recently created "
Gnome Tricks
," and Joshua Siegel, Product Manager, recently created “
Meet the YouTube Video Editor
.”
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