YouTube Video Editor is still available via a URL.

Recently I uploaded video to YouTube but after decided I wanted to trim the beginning of the video. Uploading the video took a while and I knew I could trim the video and then upload the video again, but I wondered if I could use YouTube's video editor instead. 

I'd not used YouTube's video editor before so I went looking for the video edit option and there wasn't one. A bit of searching on the internet revealed the YouTube video editor appears to have been removed in 2017. That's a pity I thought. Now don't ask me why, but I wondered if the video editor still existed and worked, but just not shown in the menus.

As it turned out the YouTube video editor still lives. You just have to access the video editor using a URL. The format of the URL is as followings.

https://studio.youtube.com/video/your video ID/editor

You can find "your video ID" in the video details or as part of the shareable link. In my case the video ID was gsTZzvCP2NA and the resulting URL was the following. The video is a real time drive from Kingsbury to Templestowe. I felt the initial section through the back streets wasn't needed.

https://studio.youtube.com/video/gsTZzvCP2NA/editor

The final video is located at https://youtu.be/gsTZzvCP2NA.

Once I had learnt what I need to use the editor through trial and error (each editor has their quirks), I trimmed the video and saved. I don't know how long it took for the trimmed video to be processed, but it was some time. Once the video was processed viewers of the video would now see the trimmed version of the video.

Knowing the URL for the video editor is still available certainly saved some data by not having to upload the video again.

Kelvin Eldridge

Real-time drive videos

Backspace in Microsoft Outlook appeared to delete files from inbox.

Ever had something that happened in your computer that freaked you out? We've all been there. Today was one of those moments.

I was looking for a contacts email address so I did a search of their name for messages in the inbox. I must have clicked on one of the messages. Thinking I was still in the search field I pressed the backspace key a number of times to change the search criteria. You know, you tap a key fast because who backspaces slowly. But just as I was hitting the backspace I noticed a number of message in my inbox disappeared. What the heck just happened I thought. How will I ever find those emails.

I checked the trash folder but there was nothing there that looked like something I'd keep in the inbox., just trash. Now I couldn't help feel who in the world would make the backspace key delete mail items. REALLY!!!!

As it turns out it wasn't as bad as I thought, actually it could be considered a feature. The backspace key sends the mail items to the Archive folder. So there all the mail items were sitting in the Archive folder.

I don't use the Archive folder as I store messages I want to keep in folders I've created. However using the backspace key on mail items I'm not 100% sure I want to delete, may be a good way to send the files to Archive as a temporary location for me to later delete. In any case I had accidentally stimbled on a feature of Microsoft Outlook that I never knew existed. I'm sure others will probably do the same and freak out when they think they've deleted their mail items. Now at least you'll know to check the Archive folder.

Kelvin Eldridge

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