YouTube adds online video editing tool

Jun 17, 2010
YouTube users can now edit their own videos online Enlarge
YouTube users can now edit their own videos online. The Google-owned video-sharing site added an online editing tool this week that allows YouTube users to combine multiple videos, shorten a video or add soundtracks from songs in the AudioSwap library.

YouTube users can now edit their own videos online. The Google-owned video-sharing site added an online editing tool this week that allows YouTube users to combine multiple videos, shorten a video or add soundtracks from songs in the AudioSwap library.

The newly created video can be published to YouTube directly from the editing site.

To edit a video, a user drags a thumbnail of the video they want to edit into an empty timeline. The video can then be trimmed or other videos added to make it longer.

YouTube users can only edit videos they have uploaded themselves and not the videos of other users.

The new editor is located at youtube.com/testtube.

Explore further: Kim Dotcom slams Megaupload 'data massacre'

add to favorites email to friend print save as pdf

Related Stories

YouTube doubles video file size to 2G

Jul 01, 2009

Video-sharing site YouTube announced on Wednesday that it was doubling the size limit for uploads to its website to allow users to post more high-definition (HD) video.

Recommended for you

Kim Dotcom slams Megaupload 'data massacre'

5 hours ago

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom Thursday condemned a Dutch company's decision to delete million of files belonging to users of his defunct website, calling it "the largest data massacre in the history of the ...

States scramble to attract suddenly hot cybersecurity firms

13 hours ago

As data dragnets and information breaches dominate the news, states are scrambling to cash in on a rapidly expanding business sector by offering tax incentives to firms that protect sensitive information from outside attacks.

A year on, Assange stays put in Ecuadorean Embassy

20 hours ago

A year ago, Julian Assange skipped out on a date with Swedish justice. Rather than comply with a British order that he go to the Scandinavian country for questioning about sex crimes allegations, the WikiLeaks ...

Google asks US secret court to lift gag order (Update)

Jun 18, 2013

Google on Tuesday sharply challenged the U.S. government's gag order on its Internet surveillance program, citing what it described as a constitutional free speech right to divulge how many requests it receives ...

User comments : 2

Adjust slider to filter visible comments by rank

Display comments: newest first

amySoldier
not rated yet Jun 17, 2010
A Flip Mino and iMovie and all is well.
dilbert
not rated yet Jun 18, 2010
iMovie is a desktop application is it not? The youtube editing feature albeit very limited is a web based application. It will be available to things like netbooks and tablet computers that may not be able to handle full blown video editing apps.

More news stories

Multiview 3-D photography made simple

Computational photography is the use of clever light-gathering tricks and sophisticated algorithms to extract more information from the visual environment than traditional cameras can.

Microsoft mulled buying Nokia unit

Microsoft was in talks to boost its position in the mobile phone market by buying the devices business from Nokia but failed to seal a deal, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

LA to give every student an iPad; $30M order

Los Angeles' school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks.