YouTube Video Editor was an online video editing software made by Google for YouTube in 2010. It utilized Adobe Flash, so it was mostly suited for PC users. Despite this, mobile users could still use the video editor without the preview window. It was superseded by YouTube Studio Editor a year later, as well as a mobile editor called YouTube Create.
YouTube would announce sometime in June 2017 that the editor was going to be discontinued on September 20, 2017 due to low usage and likely the discontinuation of Adobe Flash, alongside YouTube Slideshow Creator. Few days after September 20, 2017, YouTube Video Editor was discontinued.
Functionality[]
The video library was limited to a set of Creative Commons videos uploaded on the website.
Users could add filters, transitions, text, audio, as well as stabilize videos and use color-correction tools.
When creating a new video, the project name would be "My Edited Video" by default, and the paragraph "I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)" would append to the description.
History[]
On June 15, 2010, YouTube released its own video editor for people to edit videos. The only features in this editor at that time were adding videos and audio.
More features in this were later being added, such as transitions and creative commons in 2011, plus text in 2012.
In June 2017, YouTube announced that this video editor, along with its slideshow creator, will be discontinued in September 20, 2017 as YouTube claims its not being used alot, later getting superseded by the new YouTube Studio Editor a year later.
Changes[]
- 2010 - The editor used to have a gradient color in the parts of the video editor, its video viewer was on the right side, and you used to only use the feature of adding videos or audios, which they are called My Videos and Audio.
- 2011 - The video viewer lost its borders, making the name and publish interactives no longer attached on them. The transitions and creative commons features were added, and the My Videos and Audio texts were removed. The in and out iris used to be named masks at the time, and there used to be a Pumpkin in and out iris transition.
- 2012 - The text feature was added, and the video editor is now accessible in the videos corner. The bottom is now colored black.
- 2013 - The feature buttons have reverted back to icons.
- 2014 - The video editor had several changes, the bottom is back to white, the background no longer has a gradient color, the video viewer is now at the left side, the feature you are now represents in a red underline instead of brighten, and all the feature texts reverted back to logos.
- 2015 - The publish button that said Publish was renamed to Create video.
Use in logo editing culture[]
It did not allow editing imported videos directly from your computer. Instead, you had to download the video, and re-upload it to YouTube. Videos uploaded with the standard YouTube license could not be accessed through the YouTube Video Editor video search. Only videos with Creative Commons license could be searched, which is why people enabled Creative Commons license on all videos.
Logo editors used it to make source vs. rounds, X sources with are slides, X sources, (Source) Effects Round 1 vs (User), Low Battery and other similar videos.
Some commonly used effects were Heat Overload, Greenwater and Haunt.
Attempts to revive the editor[]
During September 20, 2017 to August 22, 2018, the Enhancements section on YouTube was not affected, which still had filters from this editor. However, in August 2018, Google announced that they would be limiting the editing capabilities of that feature to only include Blur and Trim effects.[1]
Sometime in 2020, a trend would surface where users pretended to have YouTube Video Editor back under a new name of YouTube Video Editor Remastered (often shortened as YTVE Remastered). Transitions were recreated through green/blue screen videos.[2][3]
Sometime in December 2023, RichardRayovaCatBoyTeh577 announced in a community post that he would start creating his own version of YTVE Remastered.[4] He provided, in later community posts, screenshots of this supposed project, showing the interface, re-textured into the new YouTube design.[5][6][7][8][9][10] Later on, he would later change the name of the project to YouTube Video Editor Redux (YTVE Redux).[11] The project was delayed from a February 2024 release to September, before getting cancelled in July due to Richard having problems with coding.[12][13]
On September 21, 2024, InteractiveMediaEnaShinonomeVideoMaking8421 UHD made a community post saying that they would make the YouTube Video Editor Remastered (YTVE Remastered for short) be real in 2025.[14] It was later confirmed to be real.[15] She provided, in a community post, a concept of what this supposed project could look like.[16]
Limitations[]
- Videos made with YouTube Video Editor were set to the standard YouTube license and were not monetized by default, since the editor was not updated for those features.
- Videos with copyrighted content could not be inserted into YouTube Video Editor.
- You could not speed up the video, only slow it down. However, you were able to speed up clips in the YouTube Enhancements editor.
- There were no distortion effects, only color filters. Closest one was a pixel filter + interpolation effect from slowing down to 4x/8x.
- There was no horizontal or vertical flip tool.[citation needed]
Controversy[]
After the announcement of the editor being phased out soon, all users who had huge interests with the editor went frustrated and unhappy after what YouTube had announced. Some became frightened thinking that after the video editor gets phased out, they will have no other place to edit their videos. Users have found the reason of YouTube discontinuing the video editor being low usage very lame and pointless as they claim that the video editor has shown huge usage, causing some users to find that reason as a "totally invalid reason". After the removal, users were later forced with YouTube Studio's video editor, which, at the time, find it completely bad due to the lack of features the editor had. Up to this day, there are likely to less users wishing the editor to come back.
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- The video editor gained its own replacement known as YouTube Create, which was released on September 2023. However, none of the stuff from the YouTube Video Editor have returned.
- The video editor was often referred to as the Old YouTube Video Editor as an excuse to differentiate the editor from the current YouTube Studio editor.
External links[]
- Link for the video editor[dead link]
- YouTube Video Editor on Google Wiki
- Archive of the video editor
- Archive of the editor's sample videos
- Archive of the editor's old transitions
References[]
- ↑ Improve videos with Enhancements
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsMGtO67gPQKNHrMucUSRWoRu_KwFDhum
- ↑ https://www.mediafire.com/file/zz21o2xmceqr3m9/Old+YouTube+Video+Editor+Transitions.rar/file
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx3YKsyrFugchct1tWH4G7LTDu2iCGIaY_
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxlUAIulO_NqIgc_HNeNiytrFhfg_GF7N4
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxGSdW9Thb9FwcjamTugK-DF30fODk3Fkf
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxX8R90bL_MNWJdPxTmcGZbIuFCna89erg
- ↑ YTVE Remastered Screenshot Reveal #1 on YouTube
- ↑ YouTube Video Editor Screenshot Reveal #2 on YouTube
- ↑ Unfinished YTVE Remastered Test on YouTube
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxAu4VWehJZC8Q91A80D8JB9P_WRBEZmqR
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxBCtQGLnuoABmW9_kiqqWgZTvanIBn_je
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxQcTHVVnp10Q7iVaMx8SioDZVScmr_R1D
- ↑ http://youtube.com/post/UgkxctQDFn8i9JOi0txjoP1LJgkEiRAVMMjo?si=5rP_MApyyoAWB3m0
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx6HvszDSNO_iY1Bg4TjJkYiV0aJo-o2rt
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxfC02-pmMu6-BeLdv4j3mWHnlVPBW2Kwc
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