September 15, 2011
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### [YouTube released video editing effects!](http://darrencalhoun.com/2011/09/youtube-released-video-editing-effects/)
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](http://youtube.com/heyDarren)I heard YouTube has released some editing tools that allow you to modify content after you upload it to their service. I’m still dabbling my feet into video and wanted to check out the options. So, I uploaded about 16 seconds of video that I shot recently at one of the sister campuses of my church. The video was shot on my Canon EOS 7D with a Tamron 70-200 f/2.8 lens, hand-held, in a theatrical lighting scenario. As one might imagine, shooting with a lens that big and heavy means that there’s a large amount of camera shake in the video. Check out the original video (unedited below):
After uploading, an link appears in the standard information screen that allows you to go to a simple video editing interface. There are tools for rotating the video, trimming the length, stabilization, contrast, fill light, color correction (color temperature), as well as an “I’m feeling lucky” button which I guess would auto apply the features (I didn’t try it). There are other tabs with audio options (to replace the entire audio track) and an “Effects” tab with visual effects like Sepia tone, black and white, and color effects from mild to wild. The editing screen also features a side-by-side low-resolution preview of both the original video and a modified version based on what edits you have selected.
I was most impressed with the ability to see changes based on my selections almost instantly. I don’t know how it works for longer videos, but for this one, a new preview was ready almost as soon as I clicked a button – even image stabilization! And while the correction features are nuanced and overlap, the effects options only allow one effect at a time and has no adjustment options. Overall, the experience was pleasant and gives me good reason to play with the feature more in the future. In researching for this post I also discovered this.
Well, here’s the YouTube edited video. I’m pretty happy with it but the stabilization seems to create some pretty trippy effects where the guitarist seems pretty steady but the microphone stand and everything around him seems to twist and distort in the renderings attempt to keep the frame ‘still’.
– http://www.facebook.com/willboywonder Will Saunders
The features look very useful and user-friendly. But most likely, the unedited portion of the videos you upload will probably remain on the site, meaning the original video will probably always stay on their server. So, just be cautious not to upload things that you may never want other people to see or things you aren’t worried about showing up years later.
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