Have you ever noticed an mistake in your YouTube video after it has already been uploaded and shared by yous and others to social media?

If you accept constitute yourself in this state of affairs, your first reaction might be to panic and remember you must fix the error, delete the uploaded video, and re-upload the new ane.

However, this process will return your previous video link dead, and whatsoever embeds of your video will show the post-obit image to visitors.

Don't forget that you will also lose all your stats and comments associated with the removed video. However, there is a better solution. Welcome to the YouTube Editor.

Beyond the basics of producing customized video thumbnails, the YouTube editor allows you to edit the video itself in a number of actually useful ways. Here are some of the edits and fixes y'all can do to your uploaded YouTube video without losing your link or stats.

Trim Your Video

In that location might be times when you want to cutting out parts of your video at the starting time, middle, or the cease. This capability is especially helpful for those of you who do live streams and have too much dead space that you lot want to remove.

Rather than re-uploading a new video where yous volition lose comments, the original URL, and the number of views, follow the steps below using the YouTube Editor.

  • Log into your YouTube account.
  • Click on your profile pic in the top right-hand corner
  • Select YouTube (beta).
  • If you are currently using an older version with Creator Studio, click on it
  • You tin then cull to use the Beta Studio.
  • Click on the videos tab from the left side menu.
  • At present click on the thumbnail of the video you want to edit.
  • Choose editor from the menu on the left.
  • Now that y'all are within the YouTube editor, you can choose to trim the starting time or stop of the video. The procedure is the aforementioned no matter which end you want to cut off.
  • Click trim and come across the blue bar at the beginning and the finish of your video.
  • Hover your mouse over the blueish bar until it turns white and shows double arrows. When it does, you tin can drag the bar to the role of the video y'all want to keep.
  • The process is the aforementioned for the beginning or the end of the video.
  • Note that when yous select an area you lot want to remove, it will be a darker color than the residue of your video.
  • Now click preview to see what your edited video looks like.
  • You can brand further edits by clicking edit trim.
  • Once you are satisfied with your edits, click save.  The sections you highlighted will be taken out in the final version.
  • While the edits are being processed in the background, your original video will continue to be shown to your viewers until information technology is replaced with the finalized edited version. It might take a few hours to process.
  • To remove a portion of your video that is not at the start or the stop, commencement select the expanse y'all want to remove.
  • When you find the offset part of the video that you lot want to trim, click trim and then click dissever.
  • Once you click split, you volition run across another white line similar you did when trimming the offset or terminate of your video. Elevate this other white bar to the identify in your video where yous want it to outset again.

If you need or want to, you can trim multiple parts of the aforementioned video using the same process.

  • Click preview to review the edits you made.
  • Click edit trim if you want to make any boosted changes.
  • When you are satisfied with your edits, click relieve.

Do Not click on the "ten" over the section you have selected. Information technology will not remove it from the video. It will, however, remove your selected section.

You will not be able to salve your edited video until you preview information technology first. The save button will be grayed out. However, once you preview your changes, the button volition be blue, and you volition be able to relieve it.

Edit Your Sound

Changing the audio or music file in your YouTube video is a simple process. Some of the reasons you lot might want to swap or add sound are:

  • You might want to add some music in the background of a alive stream effect.
  • YouTube blocks your music track because information technology violates copyright every bit defined by police.
  • A content ID claim is placed on your video. It is dissimilar from a copyright violation in that it is a deal between content partners and YouTube. Content ID claims practice not block a video. They don't count as a copyright strike and don't result in your channel being suspended or terminated.

Let's become started showing y'all how simple it is to bandy or add music to your video from the more than 150,000 free music tracks available inside your YouTube channel.

  • Start from the same editor section you lot used when trimming your video. Expect for the music note and click the drop-down adjacent to it.
  • When you click the bluish audio push button, you will exist taken to a different screen, as shown below.
  • Select from one of the audio tracks provided past YouTube. You can sort by genre, mood, and duration.
  • In one case yous accept selected a track you like, click add to video and then save. The sound will then exist replaced.

The ability to trim your YouTube video and to swap out the audio are ii ways to avert losing your stats and links. However, many other valuable features of the YouTube Editor tin can help you bulldoze more traffic to your videos and increase engagement. Here are some examples.

Add an End Screen

Using the YouTube editor, yous tin can add together an cease screen to:

  • Watch your almost recent uploaded video.
  • Provide a link to a related video on your aqueduct that you want the viewer to watch next.
  • Lead your viewer to a specific video or playlist y'all choose on your channel.
  • Get people to subscribe to your channel.

Yous will be given the choice of using a template or starting from scratch.

For more than specific and detailed instructions on how to add terminate screens, watch the following video on the discipline.

Add a Mistiness

There might be a situation where yous don't want to testify someone's face in a video. Rather than take it downward, you can use YouTube's blur face characteristic.

Y'all can also choose any part of your video that you desire to blur with the custom blur functionality of the editor.

In that location is no longer the demand to worry about taking down a YouTube video if yous need to edit information technology in whatsoever way. With YouTube's editor, make the changes to your video after it's uploaded and don't lose your link or stats.