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Back in June, YouTube released an experimental tool that had been long asked for by its users: a browser-based video editor. The tool, which requires no additional software, or browser plug-ins (besides Adobe's Flash), lets users make minor edits to videos they've uploaded, as well as stitch several clips together into one.
While it lacks many basic features of modern day consumer video editing software (such as captioning, transitions, and image stabilization), it makes up for it in convenience. All your video files, and the rendering, is taken care of by YouTube's server farm, meaning you can do some very involved HD video editing on older machines that would be otherwise woefully inadequate.
YouTube has its own introductory guide on what the editor's various features are, but we thought it would be a good idea to walk you through how to create something, as if you had just come back to your computer with a digital camera full of clips you wanted to put into one, cohesive video. Read on to see how to do it.
1. Upload
First things first, you need to upload your videos. You can't actually do this through the editor--they need to be on YouTube before you even begin. If you're new here, that involves hitting the large 'upload' link on the top of the YouTube home page, then following the directions.
Tip: if you're working with several clips that you wish to string together, but that you don't want to have exist as their own, standalone videos, simply check the 'unlisted' or 'private' option while they're uploading. This way, they won't show up on your public profile, but they're still in YouTube's system. (More on unlisted videos here.)
2. Arrange
To get to YouTube's editor, you can either head to TestTube (a directory of YouTube's Skunk Works projects) and click the 'try it now' option, or visit the direct YouTube.com/editor link.
Once here, you'll see a listing of your videos in chronological order. For the purposes of this story, we're going to start with these three at the top:
To add clips to your video you can drag them from the 'my videos' section, down to the time line, or you can hit the plus icon that's in each clip's top right hand corner. In case you're not sure what a clip contains, you can mouse over it and hit the play icon to watch the whole thing without leaving the page.
3. Cut
At this point, if you don't need to make any edits to your videos, you can just give your work a title and hit the publish button. But that's no fun, is it? To make use of the editor's power you need to make some cuts.
YouTube's editor lets you trim a video, but not split it, so if you want to cut a single clip into two or more parts you need to drag more copies of that video down into the time line.
One very important thing to note right up front is that you can have only seven clips in your time line; this means cutting up something longer into several smaller clips will take up more of that work space. It's definitely something to think about when you're capturing video and know that you're going to use this editor.
Once you've added clips to your time line, you want to hit the scissors icon that appears when you mouse over the time line. This pulls up the edit dialog, where you can pick the in and out points of the clip. From there, you just need to drag the start and end markers to contain the segment of the clip you want to use.
To view the edit you're in the progress of making, you can just hit the play button and it will start wherever you set your in point. Work the start and end points into the spots where you want them, then hit save to finish the edit for that particular clip.
Tip: If you want a finer level of control, you can hit the little left and right arrows that are on the top and bottom of the in/out points. These 'nudges,' as YouTube calls them, go forward or backward by 1/15th of a second, which can help give you a more exact stop or end point than you'd get with your mouse.
4. Audio (optional)
While you can't adjust the volume level, or add an audio track of your own, you can use YouTube's AudioSwap feature to add music to your creation.
It's worth noting that just like using AudioSwap on a standard YouTube video, using it in YouTube's editor completely removes any audio that was already in your video. You can add only one audio track to your work, so you have to choose wisely.
Tip: If you're planning to use YouTube's audio over your own, you should do it once you've published your video. The AudioSwap interface you can get to from the video editor page offers a much better browsing experience, as well as a way to whittle down the list of songs to those that match the length of your finished product.
5. Publish
When you're done, just give your work a title and hit the publish button. This takes you to the same screen you'd see if you went into the 'edit video' dialog.
YouTube took about 15 minutes to process our less than two minute clip, so expect some downtime if your creation is longer. Just go watch some cute kitten videos while you wait.
For reference, here's the video I put together with three different clips that were cut into seven within YouTube's video editor (yes, the camera work is awful, but the editing was easy!):
Some other things to note:
While YouTube doesn't let you download a video from the editor itself, you can download the finished version when it's done processing. If you shot your video in HD, you have to wait for it to be processed in HD to see a properly sized version of it in the editor. The finished version will be in HD too. You can cut together HD and non-HD clips. You can delete the original video clips you used, and your new creation will continue to exist. YouTube's video editor doesn't have any image stabilization algorithm built-in, which, as you can see from the above video, means you need steady hands.
Update at 8:30 p.m. PDT: Here's the how to in video form. In it, we cover most of the main points mentioned above:
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Many people realize they want or need to learn how to edit videos when they notice they have videos or clips they need to combine or merge. While video editing is a really broad topic, this post is strictly for beginners who aren’t sure how to edit videos or where to even start!
For those of you who shot some family stuff on your iPhone or a bike trip on your GoPro, or maybe you’re a blogger and you want to start publishing YouTube videos alongside your blog content and start growing an audience here…
If any of that sounds like you or a close resemblance to you, then you’re are in the right place! Because that’s what I do here on at VidProMom. But I’ve never really gone back to the basics for those of you who are completely new to the world of creating videos, and I get a lot of questions about how to edit videos, so I think it’s about time!
I admit that “how to edit videos” is a very broad topic, so this video is meant to be a starting point for video editing for beginners (not a complete how-to guide!).
With that said, if you have any questions about how to edit videos, drop them in the comments below and I’ll add them to my list of topics to discuss in future videos and blog post. Make sure you subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss any of them!
Video Editing Challenge for Beginners
Before we get too far into this, I have a challenge for you! Coming up very soon, I have a beginners video editing challenge. It’s free 5-day challenge specifically beginners, to kinda help you get a jumpstart on your video editing.
It’s called the SHOOT FUN / EDIT FAST CHALLENGE, and it’s for anyone who is completely new to creating and editing any kind of video – Family movies, YouTube videos, GoPro Edits… you name it. You can read more about the challenge using the link above, but it’s 5 glorious days of online classes with me… it’s totally free, and did I mention it’s for beginners? So if you’re reading THIS post, you should definitely join me ?
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How to Edit Videos
I really enjoy sitting down and editing family videos and YouTube videos, but it wasn’t always fun. At first it was pretty intimidating, even using iMovie. I was like “uhhh I don’t know what this button does but let’s click it find out.”
But as overwhelming as it is at first, video editing can be broken down into really two basic things:
You’re either combining or merging clips together into one cohesive video that you can upload to Facebook or YouTube.
or…
You’re clipping and cutting out bits and pieces or long sections of a video clip that you don’t want in a final video.
In most cases though, it’s both. You’re putting clips together on a timeline, and you’re taking out parts of the clips (maybe small parts or big parts) in order to achieve one single, cohesive video file that you can either share with friends an family or post it on YouTube or Instagram.
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But in order to get to the place where you can actually work with your video clips and do some video editing, you have to make a couple of decisions about hardware and software.
Computers for Video Editing
So let’s start with hardware. You either need a computer or a mobile device.
I published a post recently giving a rundown of what to look for in computers for video editing, or how to tell if your computer is up for the task of editing. So I won’t completely rehash that here, but you can check that post out here (opens in a new tab).
Personally, I prefer a computer vs. a phone or tablet, but it’s a personal choice. It’s faster and easier for me, and more enjoyable on a big screen.
Now if you have just a handful of clips on your phone that you need to merge together, it’s probably just as easy to use an app for that. Or if you have one clip that you need to trim off the very beginning or the very end, or extract just one part of the clip, you should be able to use a native photos app on your phone for things like that.
But that leads me to the second decision you need to make, and that’s software…
Video Editing Software
For some silly reason making a decision about video editing software is like the most debilitating thing in the world, because there are SO many options and price ranges.
And I think it’s hard to make a decision about something and spend your time, energy, and money on something when you don’t even really know what you’re doing and if that software is ultimately going to be the best option for you.
On my Video Editing Software page, I list (almost) all of the video editing platforms that I have either used and recommend or have seen other people use and recommend.
If you are totally brand new to video editing, I highly recommend you stick to the basic software. For example, iMovie and Premiere Elements are great for beginners, but they have more advanced functions so you can “spice things up” a bit once you’d learned the ropes.
But the bottom line is: choosing video editing software or apps is a personal choice, and it’s like buying a car. You kinda have to feel it out a little bit and give it a test drive.
So the BEST video editing software is going to be the one that you decide is going to be the best for you.
Video Editing Basics
So once you have a computer or device (if you must) and you have some software (or an app)… now what?
This is where it gets fun!
You need to get your footage off of your memory card and onto your hard drive (don’t try to do this with the video files still on your memory card, it’s not a good idea).
You can use a USB adapter or you might be able to connect your camera to your computer to do a file transfer. You might be able to use Google Drive, Dropbox, or Airdrop to transfer files from your phone to your computer as well.
Next, start a new project in your software and import your footage. There’s probably an import button or “add media” button.
The simplest way to go about the actual video editing where you working with your clips, is to drag your clips to the timeline in the order that you want them in, then go through the timeline, watching your clips in the playback window, and stopping to either cut parts out that you don’t want in your final video, or trimming the beginning or ends of your clips.
When you are happy with what you have, you have to export your project in the program puts everything together into one video file–usually an mp4 file–that you can actually do something with. You can watch it, share it, upload it, whatever.
Now obviously there are a LOT of things that you can do with your project and your video clips that I didn’t tell you about because I wanted to show how simple video editing really is at the basic level so that you can get started without overwhelming yourself with bells and whistles and special effects.
Now in the 5-day challenge that I told you about at the beginning of this post, you will learn how to get started with video editing (a little more in-depth than what I went over in this post), as well as how to shoot videos to make them easier and faster to edit. We’ll also talk about where to find background music, and how to edit your clips in a way that makes your video really fun to watch without spending a whole day at the computer editing!
So if you want to join me for that challenge, you can head over to vidpromom.com/challenge! It’s totally free, it’s for total newbies, and all you have to do is drop your email address on the signup page and I’ll send all of the details to your inbox.
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I wish I’d had a resource that filled me in on the basics of video editing before I dove in and figured it out on my own. So, here we are! I hope this post was helpful for you. Be sure to subscribe to the VidProMom YouTube channel so you can catch up on video editing tutorials and other videos that I upload weekly!
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In this article, I’m going to teach you how to add music to PowerPoint. By the time you finish reading this, you should be able to insert music to your slides like a pro!
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If you’re intending to export your PowerPoint presentation to video or maybe use it as a self-running presentation at a kiosk or booth in a conference or trade show, then you might want to consider adding music to your PowerPoint. Doing this is easy and in fact, can quickly be done in a few clicks.
Before we get into the main tutorial, I’d like to give you a quick list of where you can get free music for your PowerPoint presentations (if you don’t have a music library, of course).
Where To Get Free Music For Your PowerPoint Slideshow
When we say ‘free music’ it can mean ‘royalty-free’ or ‘stock music.’ Some royalty-free music isn’t really free at all, but some are. You’d have to read the license details so you’d have an idea of where you can use the music track. J rock redemption download. For example:
In short, you have to go through each soundtrack’s license to avoid getting into any trouble. With that said, here are a few sites where you can get some ‘free’ music (again, please check the license):
YouTube Audio Library
You can download free music for your project, however, some require attribution. If you see a human-figure icon, then it means you need to attribute where you got the music from.
If you’re going to be converting your PowerPoint presentation to video format and then upload it to YouTube, then you must add the attribution in your video description.
Here’s what it looks like:
Free Stock Music
You just need to sign up and register so you can start downloading royalty-free music tracks. They promise you won’t be paying fees for the use of their music nor do you need to attribute. Here’s an example license on one of their free music tracks:
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At the time of writing, there are 1,355 royalty-free music available for download. You can use the music anywhere you want, even commercial use, but you have to attribute or link to the site or the author’s YouTube channel or video.
You can download the MP3 file directly or on iTunes. The author even includes a handy permission document form where you fill in your details and use it as a license if someone (like YouTube!) ever asks you if you’ve got a license to use the music. Here’s a screenshot:
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Downloading music from this site is free. When you click the download button though, you will be prompted to enter your email address. But I think it’s a small price to pay for getting access to the author’s music.
If you want to download a high-quality version of the music or buy a license to use his music, you can do this as well.
I think these 4 sites should give you plenty of music to use for your PowerPoint presentations. There are plenty more – both free and premium music – you just need to do a quick search on Google.
Just remember to always check the license details carefully to avoid getting into any trouble later on.
Alright, now that you know where you can grab some free music tracks, it’s time to show you how you can add music to PowerPoint.
How To Add Music To PowerPoint
Once you’ve downloaded and saved your music to your computer, you can decide whether you want to use one music track for your entire presentation or use one track per slide, it’s totally up to you. Here’s how you get started:
Here’s what it looks like in PowerPoint:
There are other settings you can tweak in Audio Tools. For instance, you can adjust the Volume (low, medium, high, mute), you can add a Fade effect, you can Trim the audio, add a bookmark, and more.
Embedding Audio vs. Inserting Link To Audio
The audio insertion method I’ve shown you so far is also called embedding. This means the audio file size will contribute to the overall PowerPoint file size.
If you want to save on disk space, and reduce your PowerPoint file size by a few hundred kilobytes or megabytes, you’d need to link to the audio file instead of embedding it.
Here’s what you need to do:
If you compare the file sizes between a file with embedded audio and another file with linked audio, I can guarantee the first file (embedded audio) will have a much larger file size.
Final Words
Adding music to your PowerPoint slide show is very useful especially if you plan on converting or exporting your slideshow to video. Or, if you plan on letting it play unmanned in a kiosk, booth, or somewhere similar. Just remember to make sure you use music you’re authorized to use to avoid getting in hot water later on.
You might also find this interesting: Everything You Need To Know About PowerPoint’s Morph And Zoom Features
As we all know, Wavepad Sound Editor is a professional tool to record and edit audio. Its interface is quite complicated and many people have no idea where they can make Wavepad Sound Recorder free download and how to use it. For how to make Wavepad Sound Editor free download and how to use Wave Pad Sound Editor to edit sound, today’s Wavepad Sound Editor tutorial will show you the answer.
Part 1: Wavepad Sound Editor Tutorial — How to Edit Sound with Wavepad Sound Editor
Wavepad Sound Editor is an all-in-one sound editor that it does help you complete various audio editing tasks. Wavepad Sound Editor free enables to edit audio tracks from CDs or hard disk, trim audio and add audio effects. What’s more, you can selectively trim a clip of the audio track to save it with this Wavepad Sound Editor free. The software is also able to split and cut audio files, amplify audio volume, remove background noise and plug audio effects in, etc. What’s more, you can make Wave Pad Sound Editor download online. In this Wavepad Sound Editor tutorial, we will show you some tips on how to use Wavepad Sound Editor.
1. Make Wavepad Sound Editor free download online and install the software. After installing Wavepad Sound Editor, launch the software. Download link: https://wavepad.en.softonic.com/download?ex=DSK-31.2
2. You can click File > Open File or click 'Open' icon to open the audio you want to edit with Wavepad Sound Editor free.
3. If you want to add sound effects, add a fade in or fade out t your audio, amplify the audio or change the speed of the audio, you can go Levels > Amplify/Normalize/Equalize to adjust the sound levels.
4. If you want to trim the audio, you can drag the left and right edges on the waveform to select the clip of audio. After you select the clip, you can click 'Copy' on the toolbar.
5. Choose a paste point on the waveform and then click 'Paste' on the toolbar. You can click the playing button to listen to the audio you edit. Afterwards, go to 'Edit' > ' Audio Tags' to edit audio tags like title, artist, album artist, genre, year, date, etc.
6. After you complete the above steps, you can click File > Save File As to set the output directory. The software allows you to save audio in the output format of MP3, WAV, WMA, M4A, etc.
Part 2: Wavepad Sound Editor Alternative – Leawo Music Recorder
When it comes to the alternative to Wavepad Sound Eidtor, Leawo Music Recorder is a good choice. It is a versatile sound editing tool that it can support to edit audio by setting its output format, adjusting the parameters of the audio and customizing the music tags like song name, artist, year and genre. It is featured by useful tools like Task Scheduler to automatically record audio, Auto-filter to remove ads in the recording. Compared with Wavepad Sound Editor free, the interface design of Leawo Music Recorder is simple to learn how to edit sound. Now the following steps will teach you how to edit sound with this Wavepad Sound Editor free alternative.
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Download and install Leawo Music Recorder. Then launch it to follow the below guide to learn how to use this Wavepad sound editor alternative:
Step 1: Set the output format
Click the little microphone icon at bottom left or drop-down icon in the top-right interface to go to the settings panel and then choose 'Format'. You can set the output format as MP3 or WAV. If you want higher sound quality, you can choose WAV as the output format. Besides, adjust the bit rate and sample rate by setting the parameters.
Step 2: Set output directory
Afterwards, you can go to 'General' tab to choose the target output directory.
Step 3: Select 'Audio Source'
You can select 'Audio Source' on the setting panel and choose 'Record Computer Audio' or 'Record Audio Input'. If you want to edit audio from microphone, you can choose 'Record Audio Input'. If you want to edit audio from local computer or online website, you can choose 'Record Computer Audio'.
Step 4: Start to record and edit audio
No matter you want to edit audio by trimming audio or merging audios, you can actualize this aim via Leawo Music Recorder. Simply click the recording button to start to record, then play the audio clip or audios in succession. After you finish recording, you can click the recording button again to stop.
Step 5: Modify the audio tags
Leawo Music Recorder is capable of downloading and adding music tags for audio. However, you can also manually edit music tags like title, artist, year, genre, etc. by going to 'Media' panel to right click the recording and choose 'Edit Music Tags'.
Video Demo of How to Use Leawo Music Recorder
If you’re using a Mac computer, Leawo Music Recorder for Mac is a Mac alternative to Wavepad Sound Editor that enables you to record audio on Mac OS 10.6 and later.
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