How to Edit Videos in Youtube

About

This article explains how to edit videos once they have been posted to YouTube.

Environment

YouTube 

Steps

Open the video editor

Open the video editor to trim or remove a section of your video.

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio 

2. From the left menu, select Videos.

3. Click the title or thumbnail of the video you’d like to edit.

4. From the left menu, select Editor.

Trim the start or end of your video

1. Select Trim. A blue box will appear in the editor.

2. Click and drag the sides of the blue box. Stop when the box is covering the portion of the video that you’d like to keep. Anything not in the box will be removed from the video.

3. To check your edits, select Play.

4. Click Save. (IT IS BLUE WHEN READY TO SAVE) 

Take out a section of your video

1. Select Trim. A blue box will appear in the editor.

2. Click in the blue box at the beginning of the section you’d like to remove.

3. Select Split.

4. Click the white bar that appears, and drag it to the end of the section you’d like to remove.

5. To check your edits, select Play.

6. Select Save. (IT IS BLUE WHEN READY TO SAVE)