There’s a free online way to improve the quality of your videos so that they look halfway decent. You can use desktop video editing software, but you usually have to spend money, use up computer resources or waste time learning the interface and features of a new piece of software.
YouTube has generously provided its billions of users with a free tool to enhance videos that does a pretty good job. To access this tool, you first have to upload your video. After that, click on your picture at the top right and click on Creator Studio. ..
Now under Enhancements, you’ll see a list of all the video enhancements that you’ve added to your videos. Click on the little down arrow next to the Add button and add a new enhancement. For example, if you’ve added a watermark to your videos, then click on the little down arrow next to the Add button and add a watermark enhancement.
You can now make some simple yet useful adjustments to your video. You can click on Auto-fix and the lighting and color will be automatically adjusted. You can also manually control the fill light, contrast, saturation and color temperature of the video.
YouTube’s stabilization feature is really awesome and works way better than I would have expected. If you have any kind of shaky video, you should definitely run it through the YouTube enhancer.
The first screen allows you to add slow motion to your video up to 8x. However, the effect applies to the entire video, which can be a bit annoying. You can click on the Trim button to remove parts from the beginning or end of the video.
If you click on Filters, you can apply one of many filters to your video. You can only apply one filter to the video at a time and the filter will apply to the whole clip.
In Special Effects, you can blur all faces in a video. This is a pretty neat feature. As of now, that appears to be the only special effect you can apply to your videos. Hopefully, they’ll add more at a later point.
When you use the YouTube Video editor, you can combine multiple clips into a single video. This is a great way to create a more professional video.
To add a video clip to your story, first drag it from the Media Library to the video strip at the bottom of your story. You’ll see some of the same fixes with a few additions. Here you can pan & zoom, which was not there under enhancements. ..
To add text to your video, click on the Text button in the Media toolbar. You can then adjust the font family, size, color, position and more. ..
Audio is a basic audio adjustment tool found under the “Settings” tab. You can adjust the volume, pan, bass and treble to make the audio sound better. ..
The free YouTube tools help fix some of the biggest and most common problems with videos taken by consumer and smartphone cameras. If you have more serious issues with your video, you’ll probably have to purchase a professional video-editing program. If you have any questions, post a comment. Enjoy!
