EDITING AND ENHANCING VIDEO IN YOUTUBE Editing, Image Stabilization and Correction, Hotspots and Highlight Annotations, Captions and Transcripts

Toolbar and Categories

• Info and Settings (sometimes Edit Info)• Enhancements• Annotations• Captions (sometimes at pulldown to the right)

Info and Settings• New “Edit Info” not as useful as old “Info and Settings”

• Trick YouTube into showing old toolbar by clicking Captions• Title, Description• Tags are important

• Spend some time writing down descriptive, accurate and specific tags

• People will search for your video via tags• Choose an accurate, compelling thumbnail • In general keep settings as open as is reasonable

• Choose Public in privacy settings• Allow comments (you can add approval if you are worried about

trolls)• CAN’T use Creative Commons reuse license for CSU materials

Enhancements• All the good stuff is in Quick Fixes• Trim

• Use brackets to set start and end points• Whole video is saved, so you can change these later

• Stabilize• To get rid of camera shake

• Basic color/light correction tools at right• More tools in Effects tab

• Audio tab lets you put a free music track behind it

Annotations• Add titles, notes,

labels, spotlights• Most of these tools

allow you to create a hotspot for another video or video channel• Check the Link

checkbox• Cut-and-paste in the

URL of the video

Captions• Two methods

• Auto transcript• Make sure you check it!• Download, re-edit, and upload if there

are mistakes• Manual upload of transcript

• Caption file (.sbv file)• Includes time codes• >> indicates new speaker• [music] indicates something aural

happening• Transcript file (PDf works well)

• WAY easier• YouTube is good at matching words to

audio

0:00:03.490,0:00:07.430>> FISHER: All right. So, let's begin.This session is: Going Social

0:00:07.430,0:00:11.600with the YouTube APIs. I am Jeff Fisher,0:00:11.600,0:00:14.009and this is Johann Hartmann, we're presenting today.0:00:14.009,0:00:15.889[pause]