Video Editing with Scissors: A Step-by-Step Guide

The process of video editing can seem daunting, but with the right tools and guidance, it can be a fun and creative experience. In this article, we'll take a closer look at the video editing software that allows users to cut and trim videos using scissors-like functionality.

Getting Started with Video Editing

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For those who are new to video editing, it's essential to understand how to get started. The first step is to open up the video editing software and select the two videos you want to work with. In this example, we'll be working with two short clips that we'll use as a starting point for our edited video. To begin, click on the scissors icon to access the cutting tool.

The Cutting Tool: A Smooth Experience

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The cutting tool allows users to pan and cut through videos with ease. While it may appear laggy in some areas, the overall experience is smooth and seamless. With a few clicks, users can navigate through their video and make adjustments as needed. The quality of the video itself is not a major concern when using this software for preview purposes.

Scrubbing Through Video Footage

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Once we've identified the sections of our videos that we want to keep or cut out, it's time to scrub through the footage. This involves dragging the playhead along the timeline and identifying the exact points where we want to start and end our edited video. In this case, we'll be scrubbing through both videos to find the perfect starting point for our edited piece.

Trimming Video Footage

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Using the trimming tool, users can adjust the length of their video by dragging the trim handles. In this example, we've trimmed one video clip down to 7 seconds. This process is straightforward and makes it easy to fine-tune our edited video.

Adding Music to Our Video

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To spice up our video, we'll be adding some music. The software includes a library of audio swap music that can be easily imported into our project. To do this, simply click on the audio tab and select the desired music track. In this case, we've chosen a techno track that adds energy to our edited video.

Publishing Our Video

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Once we're satisfied with our edited video, it's time to publish it. The software includes an option to add a title to our new video, which can be as simple or as creative as desired. With this final step complete, our video is now ready to share with the world.

Conclusion

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Video editing may seem like a daunting task at first, but with the right tools and guidance, it can be a fun and creative experience. The software we've been using today offers a range of features that make it easy to edit videos using scissors-like functionality. Whether you're looking to create home movies or just want to add some music to your existing video footage, this software is definitely worth exploring further.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay guys so if you like to make YouTube videos as I obviously do then this new feature will be excellent for you and it is the YouTube video editor so guys now you can go ahead and have all of your videos that you have on YouTube you can now edit them seamlessly on the site itself so it's really guys with this it's feasible to go ahead and instead of you know editing a bunch of stuff before you get it um especially if you have a slower computer I Know video Ed editing can be really really bad so guys all you have to do is just upload your videos to the site and you can do you know any kind of videos you want you can mix and match the videos and then you guys you go ahead use a YouTube video editor put them all together and you'll be good to go now guys before we begin I will note it's not an super in-depth editor um you know I mean it's it's good for just cutting and pasting and adding some music to it but beyond that you're not going to be able to be doing a lot of you know really in-depth stuff so you don't be throwing away Sony Vegas or anything yet so guys let's go ahead and just start so as you you can see here um the video editor is pretty basic um all of your videos will be automatically added or well most of them I've got more videos than that but hopefully yours is in the first you know 15 20 videos they show so guys let's go ahead and just make a video so guys I have two videos I'm going to combined today I've got one which is about the Xbox 360's uh connect so I'm go ahead and drop that in down here to the timeline then go ahead and do the video that I made after it came out explaining everything about it so we ahead and drop this one down so guys now I have my two videos um I will note guys even if you're have an older account that can put videos up longer than 10 minutes or you are a partner you can't actually do it in the video editor so let's go ahead and like add like 11 minute video and as you can see guys total duration is too long remove or shorten a video clip so not a big deal just keep your videos short under 10 minutes so guys we have these two videos but I don't want to just do put two videos together I want to go ahead and edit them so we go ahead and just click the uh scissors and we go and open it up so guys the video editing is actually pretty smooth um you can actually pan pretty much anywhere you want and it goes really well normally does it's a little bit laggy here but it got it's not like you're having to wait for a whole video to buffer or anything you can pretty much skip around and it will load it up pretty smoothly as you can see guys the quality is not very high but it's not a big deal it's just for the preview so let's go ahead and back up um let's see here let's go ahead and go to where is this uh I'm going to keep skimming along here till I find it um let's Point here it doesn't really matter this is just a test so we're at 31 seconds so now we come down here and let's grab this trim handle and drag it to about 31 seconds so right about that looks good so guys this is where our video will begin so now let's go ahead and uh say we want to end it 38 seconds let say we just want to use a small clip from this video so we just drag the second handle drag it back to right there that looks good so guys now we're going to be we're getting rid of all this video except 7 seconds so that's no big deal so now we have 7 Seconds now let's come to the second video clip and uh of course in the first one we already talked about a lot of the stuff that we talked in the second so let's go ahead and just scrub all the beginning out till right here okay so that looks good then let's leave the rest of the video in okay so guys now you can come over here to this preview window and go ahead and hit play so give it just a moment that's going to show the first few seconds of the first video and then in just a second there we go so guys now I will go ahead and do the second one now guys it doesn't feature any you know really in-depth you know like uh transitions or anything like that but you know for home movies and for basic stuff it's pretty decent so guys now we have our rough video but let's say we want to spice it up a little bit let's say we want to add some music so guys you can go ahead and add any music that is in the audio swap so all you have to do is come up to the audio Tab and and you can go through the pretty decent library of audio swap music so let's say we want this one so just click it and drag it down to the audio now guys I will mention that by doing uh using audio swap music usually you will have ads on that video so you know just something to keep in mind and of course if you're a partner you don't want to do this but I'm not going to publish it so it's not a big deal let's go ahead and play it and see now and guys so you actually can't hear it right now but I'm P I'm pumping out to some pretty good techno music instead of listening to my voice so guys it works really well um once you're done with that you can go ahead um of course you can swap audio as much as you want and then just punch in the title of your new video so let's say it's just going to be new video and then we can go ahead and hit publish then you'll be all set so guys I figured that' be a really helpful video for a lot of you guys I know I'm going to probably start trying to use this of course I use my normal video editor on my computer but you know for something like this you know if you're just need to cut a little bit out or for whatever reason you know the video is not right this is a perfect way to do it especially I mean I could even see maybe editing home movies um you know if you had a vacation trip or something this could be pretty handy for you anyway guys hopefully this helped you out if you're interested in learning more and actually testing it out go ahead hit the link in the description you can go ahead and open it up and do the whole thing it's pretty cool anyway guys thanks for watchingokay guys so if you like to make YouTube videos as I obviously do then this new feature will be excellent for you and it is the YouTube video editor so guys now you can go ahead and have all of your videos that you have on YouTube you can now edit them seamlessly on the site itself so it's really guys with this it's feasible to go ahead and instead of you know editing a bunch of stuff before you get it um especially if you have a slower computer I Know video Ed editing can be really really bad so guys all you have to do is just upload your videos to the site and you can do you know any kind of videos you want you can mix and match the videos and then you guys you go ahead use a YouTube video editor put them all together and you'll be good to go now guys before we begin I will note it's not an super in-depth editor um you know I mean it's it's good for just cutting and pasting and adding some music to it but beyond that you're not going to be able to be doing a lot of you know really in-depth stuff so you don't be throwing away Sony Vegas or anything yet so guys let's go ahead and just start so as you you can see here um the video editor is pretty basic um all of your videos will be automatically added or well most of them I've got more videos than that but hopefully yours is in the first you know 15 20 videos they show so guys let's go ahead and just make a video so guys I have two videos I'm going to combined today I've got one which is about the Xbox 360's uh connect so I'm go ahead and drop that in down here to the timeline then go ahead and do the video that I made after it came out explaining everything about it so we ahead and drop this one down so guys now I have my two videos um I will note guys even if you're have an older account that can put videos up longer than 10 minutes or you are a partner you can't actually do it in the video editor so let's go ahead and like add like 11 minute video and as you can see guys total duration is too long remove or shorten a video clip so not a big deal just keep your videos short under 10 minutes so guys we have these two videos but I don't want to just do put two videos together I want to go ahead and edit them so we go ahead and just click the uh scissors and we go and open it up so guys the video editing is actually pretty smooth um you can actually pan pretty much anywhere you want and it goes really well normally does it's a little bit laggy here but it got it's not like you're having to wait for a whole video to buffer or anything you can pretty much skip around and it will load it up pretty smoothly as you can see guys the quality is not very high but it's not a big deal it's just for the preview so let's go ahead and back up um let's see here let's go ahead and go to where is this uh I'm going to keep skimming along here till I find it um let's Point here it doesn't really matter this is just a test so we're at 31 seconds so now we come down here and let's grab this trim handle and drag it to about 31 seconds so right about that looks good so guys this is where our video will begin so now let's go ahead and uh say we want to end it 38 seconds let say we just want to use a small clip from this video so we just drag the second handle drag it back to right there that looks good so guys now we're going to be we're getting rid of all this video except 7 seconds so that's no big deal so now we have 7 Seconds now let's come to the second video clip and uh of course in the first one we already talked about a lot of the stuff that we talked in the second so let's go ahead and just scrub all the beginning out till right here okay so that looks good then let's leave the rest of the video in okay so guys now you can come over here to this preview window and go ahead and hit play so give it just a moment that's going to show the first few seconds of the first video and then in just a second there we go so guys now I will go ahead and do the second one now guys it doesn't feature any you know really in-depth you know like uh transitions or anything like that but you know for home movies and for basic stuff it's pretty decent so guys now we have our rough video but let's say we want to spice it up a little bit let's say we want to add some music so guys you can go ahead and add any music that is in the audio swap so all you have to do is come up to the audio Tab and and you can go through the pretty decent library of audio swap music so let's say we want this one so just click it and drag it down to the audio now guys I will mention that by doing uh using audio swap music usually you will have ads on that video so you know just something to keep in mind and of course if you're a partner you don't want to do this but I'm not going to publish it so it's not a big deal let's go ahead and play it and see now and guys so you actually can't hear it right now but I'm P I'm pumping out to some pretty good techno music instead of listening to my voice so guys it works really well um once you're done with that you can go ahead um of course you can swap audio as much as you want and then just punch in the title of your new video so let's say it's just going to be new video and then we can go ahead and hit publish then you'll be all set so guys I figured that' be a really helpful video for a lot of you guys I know I'm going to probably start trying to use this of course I use my normal video editor on my computer but you know for something like this you know if you're just need to cut a little bit out or for whatever reason you know the video is not right this is a perfect way to do it especially I mean I could even see maybe editing home movies um you know if you had a vacation trip or something this could be pretty handy for you anyway guys hopefully this helped you out if you're interested in learning more and actually testing it out go ahead hit the link in the description you can go ahead and open it up and do the whole thing it's pretty cool anyway guys thanks for watching