Nowadays, a large number of people have a YouTube account, the possibility of being able to import videos to later share them with the entire web, is one of the most important activities that can be carried out at any time, something that enters in the field of shared entertainment.
How would you like to edit a video with different multimedia resources on YouTube? This is an excellent alternative that we could be using, something that many people have not gotten to know about and that, however, has been proposed for a long time through a link that for the vast majority, was hidden. Being able to edit multimedia material using the resources of a web application such as YouTube has its advantages and disadvantages, something that we will analyze in this article as thoroughly as possible.
The YouTube video editing interface
Well, if you want to try to make some type of videos completely free with YouTube, we suggest that you first go to the respective link, which you will find in the final part of this article. Once you have made this suggestion, you will find a very user-friendly interface, which we will propose in the following image.
As you can admire, there are a large number of elements that can help us edit a video taking as sources, a few other multimedia files, which can be images or photographs, videos and audio is mainly. Each of these elements are fully identified in the upper right with their respective icons.
Below the black screen (it is in this condition because we have not yet integrated any material) is the editing line for both audio and video. There we will be able to admire the suggestion that YouTube proposes us, that is, that we will drag both audio and video towards the corresponding space.
Whether we incorporate an audio or a video, at the same we could cut it in a specific position according to the desired TimeLine; the directional arrows on our keyboard can help us go forward or backwards frame by frame, although its accuracy is not as effective as we would have liked.
As for the videos (1) that you are going to incorporate into the editing line, these can be your own that you have uploaded to the channel, or some others that you could find through the search engine that is at the top of them.
To avoid any type of copyright problems, you could try to only use videos with a Creative Commons license, an icon that you will find in the multimedia file import bar (2).
Using images (3) for editing is a great help, as you can import photos from your albums into Drive, or upload them from your computer.
If you press the icon of the musical note (4), a large list of songs will appear at the bottom; there you will have to choose the one who identifies with your online production, being able to listen to it before selecting it. Pay attention to the time that this musical track has, although you could also cut only a segment of what you need from it.
The following icon refers to transitions (5). It should be clarified that this elements very different from the effects (filters), same as appears only when you drag and select the media element on the timeline. The effects can be placed between videos, between images, or between a video and an image, there is a large list of them to be selected.
Finally we have the texts (6), same as They will appear in the first instance as a suggestion to place them in different positions. Once you click on the little (+) the title will be added to the timeline; There you just have to customize it, that is, change the text, choose the font, its size, the alignment, the color, the transparency and a few other elements.
With all the elements that we have mentioned about this online editor offered by YouTube completely free, we could well get to make a big production easily; the only drawback is that there is no preview of what we are doing, which becomes a problem since after pressing the «Publish» button, the result will simply be made with mistakes and successes. You should not forget to place the name of a project for all your work, something that is in the upper left, a situation that will help you to make any changes, possibly if it is necessary.
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