YouTube Introduces Simple, Cloud-Based Video Editor

Google recently added a cloud-based video editor on YouTube. It's not super-advanced, but the YouTube editor does allow users to trim videos they've posted, and to stitch together multiple clips from their collection into a single film. When holding the mouse over a thumbnail, a scissors icon appears that lets you cut parts of it you don't want. You can also add music files from the site's audio library. Then, just click and drag the thumbnail to a location on the filmstrip running across the bottom of the screen. When you're done editing, you can preview a lo-res video of your work, and save it to your YouTube collection. Since all this is done "in-cloud," saving is a fairly easy process, too -- although it can take a minute or two for the site to process the video. It's all a pretty bare bones affair, and transitions and captions are currently out of the question. For your cats-on-chairs megamix video, though, it should be more than enough. [From: CNET News]
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Subscribe to commentsflippinJun 21st 2010 8:05AM
Testing
addieJun 23rd 2010 5:53PM
I have a video that's 11:59 seconds long. Why on earth does youtube only allow 10 minute videos? Most of the videos I shoot are about 11-12 minutes long, they are music videos so I can't edit them to be less time. It's very frustrating that I can't post them because they are just a few minutes over the 10 minute limit. Can't they reconsider and make it 15 minutes for a video? I can't see why not!!
Sekinu2Jun 23rd 2010 7:16PM
Why are you shooting 12 minute music videos? Industry standard is 3:30 longer then that you loose a listeners attention..You can be come a sponsor and then haveunlimited lengths on youtube though
Thomas HoustonJun 24th 2010 12:37PM
maybe they're jam band videos
tylerJun 28th 2010 5:32PM
This seems really cool, and useful for me since there's not a lot of good, easy video editors for linux.
But how long are people experiencing for process time? My video has been processing for 6 hours and it's a 40 second video... :/