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