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Title: How To Edit Videos On YouTube - A Step-By-Step Guide
Post by: javajolt on June 16, 2010, 10:40:21 PM

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YouTube is offering a video editor (http://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-finally-lets-you-edit-videos-2010-6) for users of their site.

Basically, you can take your uploaded videos and cut them down, combine them together, and/or add a new audio track from YouTube's 'Audio Swap' library.

This is a VERY basic video editor from YouTube, but it has a chance to breakthrough into mainstream use since there are no popular cloud-based video editors that are free-of-charge.

Not everyone's a video editing expert so we created a step-by-step guide on how to use the new YouTube Video Editor.

1. For now, the url is a bit lengthy. So, get the link from a reputable site...

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Here is the correct link for W7NI (http://www.youtube.com/editor?popart=681928) members and guests http://www.youtube.com/editor?popart=681928 (http://www.youtube.com/editor?popart=681928)

... such as ours – YouTube Finally Lets You Edit Videos (http://www.youtube.com/editor?popart=681928)

... or just type in the url manually:  www.youtube.com/editor?popart=681928 (http://www.youtube.com/editor?popart=681928)

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3. Look through your uploaded videos for the ones you want to cut down or mix together

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4. You can preview each video to jog your memory

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5. Edit your videos by putting them in the 'storyboard.' Either click on the + on the top right corner of each video thumbnail...

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... or just simply click and drag the video onto the storyboard

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6. Cut down each video by clicking on the scissor icon

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7. Watch through the video and determine what part you want to keep

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8. Drag the bar on the left to the new start time and drag the bar on the right to the new end time

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9. Click on the arrows on the top and bottom of the bars to fine-tune the timing. Click 'Save' and repeat the process for the other videos you want to cut down

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10. When you're done cutting, click on the 'Audio' tab if you want to replace your audio with a song. Unfortunately, you can't edit the songs or combine it with your audio

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11. Title your newly mixed video and click 'Publish' when done

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12. It took no time for the video to upload since the videos are already technically uploaded to YouTube...

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... although it took around 30 minutes for our 1-minute clip to finish processing

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13. You're done! Check out your beautiful video and share it with your friends

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Here's our final product: a short montage of our interview with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo

Maria Bartiromo Montage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HUnuwqnIto&feature=player_embedded#lq-lq2-hq)