How to Trim and Cut a Video in YouTube Studio

in this video I will show you how to use the trim and cut features in YouTube's built-in video editor this is useful if you shoot a single continuous take with your phone or camera and want to trim off Parts at the beginning and end or cut Parts out of the middle of the video we're going to take this step by step for people who are new to YouTube first you'll need to go to youtube.com on a computer click your profile icon in the top right then click on YouTube Studio this is assuming you have already uploaded the video directly from your phone if you haven't uploaded the video yet you can do that from a desktop after first transferring the file to your computer clicking the create button clicking upload video then selecting the file you want to upload but again for now we're going to assume you have already uploaded the video to find a video that you've already uploaded click content on the left hand side in YouTube Studio this will give you a list of all of your videos I should have mentioned earlier that if you plan to edit a video after uploading you should make sure you set the visibility to unlisted when you first upload it so other people can't see it then after you finish at the editing you can switch this to public so the video is public on YouTube find the video you want to edit hover over it with your mouse and click the pencil icon to bring up the video details on the video Details page select editor on the left hand menu this will bring up an editor with several different options including blurring parts of the video and adding audio which we're not going to cover in this video we're just going to look at the trim and cut feature click on that button to add a new trim so you can see here I have the timeline for the entire video from the beginning to the end this video is only 11 seconds long this highlighted Blue Area has two ends that you can click and drag to trim the beginning and end of the video you can click anywhere on the timeline to see that point in the video and you can also use the controls here to play a preview of the video skip ahead 10 seconds or backward 10 seconds if you want to zoom in to get finer control over the trim you can use the plus and minus buttons here and then use this horizontal bar scroller at the bottom to scroll left and right so for example if I wanted to zoom in as far as possible to decide exactly where I'm going to trim the beginning of the video I can do this then I can zoom back out to see the whole thing that is for trimming the beginning and end of the video if you want to cut part out of the middle of the video you can select new cut here and then you can either drag this red section on the timeline to cut part out of the middle of the video or you can manually enter the times here for the beginning and ends of the cut when you've decided where you want to put that click the check box and it will show where it's going to cut the middle of the video out you can now see that if I hit play it will skip over the part that I have selected to cut if I want to edit that cut I can hover over it click the pencil icon and change it again after I hit the check box now when I hit play we'll skip over that cut in the video you can add another cut by again selecting New Cut dragging where you want this one then clicking the check box you can also delete a cut if you decide you don't want it by mousing over it and then clicking the delete button confirm delete cut to get rid of it and then you can always hit New Cut to go back and add it if you change your mind again when you are all done with your trimming and cutting then you can either choose to discard changes which will get rid of everything or click the save button to save these changes to the video you will get a confirmation that warns you about a few things first especially for longer videos it might take a few hours for your changes to apply so you still won't want to publish it away publish it right away if you have the video unlisted you don't have to worry about this but if the video is already public viewers will continue continue to see the current version of the video you also won't be able to make additional changes to the video while it's processing but YouTube luckily will store the original version of the video so if you want to come back later and undo or change these Cuts you can still do that you go ahead and hit save here and then while you wait you don't have to stay on this browser tab YouTube will just continue to do this in the background so you can go somewhere else in YouTube Studio or even close this tab and then you'll be okay you will want to check on the content Tab and see here that it says processing up to HD so it is still processing the video you want to wait until that note goes away you can see my other videos here are already fully processed they don't have this processing notification once that is done then you can flip the video to public and your edited video is ready to watch

Channel: Ben Finio

Views: 6,574

Keywords: youtube, editing

Id: QX9O2Ffw3D8

Length: 5min 29sec (329 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 29 2023