YouTube's Editor tool is a saviour for amateurs like me in video editing field. It surely has a long way to go. I am going to support it for a long time and I'll tell you why...read on!!!
Recently I got a chance to visit a National Park with my family and we had many videos made on handycam. Now both me and my dad agreed that these videos cannot be uploaded or shared with the family without editing else the fun will go due to all the pauses and breaks between the various animal sights. So, I began googling for various video editing softwares (both free and licensed) that could serve my purpose without degrading the quality of the videos.I ended up spending about 2-3 hours on the net.
Now, I know some people will say that windows movie maker is readily available, so why waste time. But I have another problem. I am still struck with Windows Vista Home edition. For day-to-day work, it is fine with all its bugs, but it just made my life tougher that day. When I tried to start a video in Windows Movie Maker, only audio came without any video. So, I again searched and found that many people faced this problem and the issue was that DirectX codecs were not installed. So, I downloaded the K-Lite codecs and ran the install. THAT'S IT!!! MY WINDOWS CRASHED :(
Thankfully, I tried the System Restore feature that day before going for formatting my system and that saved my day.
But after all this, we had given up the idea of editing and uploading our family videos. Then after 3 weeks, I was going through one of my earlier YouTube uploads and I thought of trimming that video. So, just searched YouTube help and support for editing videos already on youTube and I found links to YouTube Remixer, an older tool for editing videos, which has now been withdrawn. It was then that I discovered the YouTube Editor feature.
Finally, today I was able to upload my first edited video on YouTube. For a first timer and especially after all that I had gone through, this was nothing less than a victory. And so, I am going to celebrate it. But before that, I genuinely want to thank all the developers of the YouTube Editor software. God bless you guys!!!
(P.S. Have a look at my video here)
