Youtube’s Latest Launch – Online Video Editor

Cloud computing takes a step up and YouTube comes up with their own online video editor that’s supposed to make video editing child’s play -  literally!

Forget complex software and their brain-jarring instructions , this cloud-based product can edit all your uploaded videos in a few, simple steps.

Edit your summer vacation videos and ditch the strangers and tourists lurking in the background or cut off the unrequested/unflattering footage from your wedding video.

Here are a few key features:

·Merge multiple videos and make one, long video.

·Trim any part of a video – beginning or ending.

·Add soundtrack from AudioSwap.

·Create new windows without going bananas over file formats.

·Forget uploads, publish your masterpiece of a video in one single click.

The browser-backed editor is short on many, necessary features of an online video editor but YouTube says they will incorporate more, based on user feedback.

A flash-powered video editor – YouTube Remixer – was introduced in 2007 and ceased soon after. It had features like adding text, graphics, captions and transitions, directly from the internet browser; but was also full of bugs and sluggish.

Industry experts claim this editing tool to be another potshot at tech-rival Microsoft.

Microsoft’s Windows Movie Maker has a gigantic fan base of its own and is a competent rival.

How This Editor Works

Merge videos by dragging them towards a sequence you desire in the timeline – that would be the long bar beneath two frames. Or just click the + button which is right in the corner of the video thumbnail to arrange them.

Edit every clip separately by a click on the option of the thumbnail in the timeline and you’ll see a scissors icon as you hover over it. Drag the vertical bar to the beginning and the end of any video and bring it to the point where you want it edited.

Some not-so-amazing features –

·The AudioSwap library may boast of more than 40,000 approved songs but replacing soundtrack with one from it may also bring in annoying display ads as part of the deal. Plus the audio will overwrite your video completely.

·You cannot upload your own audio dubbing currently; YouTube’s working on it.

·The latest JavaScript-backed video editor will not help you create complicated alterations with it, so don’t get your hopes up of revamping the whole deal. But it’s great for basic ones.

·The 10-minute video length still applies here and YouTube will ask you to chop it off to an appropriate length.

The YouTube Video Editor is found in the TestTube, YouTube’s ideas incubator.