YouTube introduces video editor "your grandma could use"
- Wednesday, 16 June 2010 14:38
YouTube has begun rolling out a new video editor aimed at making it easier for users to piece together movies without desktop software. The editor is quite limited in its capabilities, but offers just enough functionality to be useful to a huge swath of YouTube users, the majority of whom don't have hardcore video editing rigs and a copy of Final Cut Pro lying around.
When you enter the video editor, you're presented with any clips that you have uploaded to your own account—sorry, you can't make movies out of other YouTube users' clips—as well as an empty timeline. Drag the clips into spots on the timeline in order to piece them together into a single movie, and drag them around to specify the order. You can watch a realtime update of your current progress by hitting the play button in the video player on the right:
