YouTube just announced that the Video Editor and Slideshow creators will be retired, which is not too surprising. If you've used ...
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YouTube just announced that the Video Editor and Slideshow creators will be retired, which is not too surprising.
If you've used the YouTube video editor recently, you probably noticed it hasn't been updated in a long time. It uses Flash, which is on its way out, and frequently produces errors.
Enhancements will still be available, and you can use that to trim, selectively blur or add a filter to your video.
You have until September 20th to finish and publish your projects. Any videos published before then will not be affected.
The alternative is to download your videos and use the video editor of your choice.
If you are using a Chromebook, I haven't found any good free video editing options.
I've been trying out WeVideo, which seems to work well. But that does cost $60 per year to access most features. You can try it out for free, but the free tier only allows publishing 5 minutes of video per month, at 460p (so not HD), with the WeVideo branding.
Note that if you want to download your own videos, Google Takeout should let you retrieve them in the original file format. Downloading the MP4 from the YouTube Video Manager will only download in 720p.
Video sharing website YouTube is one of the most popular ways to listen to music and watch clips online. Created in 2005 by former PayPal em...
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Video sharing website YouTube is one of the most popular ways to listen to music and watch clips online. Created in 2005 by former PayPal employees, the site was bought by Google for $1.65 billion in 2006.
Psy's Gangnam Style is no longer the most-watched video on YouTube.
The South Korean gangnam style had been the site's most-played clip for the last five years.
The surreal video became so popular that it "broke" YouTube's play counter, exceeding the maximum possible number of views (2,147,483,647), and forcing the company to rewrite its code.
But the song has now been overtaken by another music video - Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's See You Again
The heart-wrenching ballad has now been streamed 2,895,373,709 times; beating Psy's current count of 2,894,426,475 views.
Adding it up, that means See You Again has been streamed for a total of 21,759 years.
If one person was to listen to each of those streams consecutively, they'd have to have started during the glacial peak of the last Ice Age.
"I joined YouTube in 2007 hoping to make a video that would reach 10,000 views," wrote Charlie Puth on Twitter. "Just heard about See You Again... Wow."
According to analysis by Midia Research, every stream on YouTube generates $0.001 for the music industry.
If accurate, that means Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's song has earned $2.9m (£2.2m) from YouTube - roughly the same amount it has made from 665 million plays on Spotify.
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