Edit your video settings with YouTube Studio.

 

Editing Videos

There are a few ways to edit your video settings with YouTube

Studio.

If you hover over a video on the Channel screen, you’ll see four

clickable icons: edit video details, access video analytics, review

video comments, and “more” (edit title or description, view on

YouTube, get a shareable link, promote, or download).

If you click on the check box beside a video, you can go to the top

of the page and edit the title, description, tags, visibility, community

contributions, audience, captions certificate, category, comments,

embedding, license, etc.

You can also add the video to a playlist. The “More Actions” tab at

the top allows you to download or delete the video. 

Remember that you can’t “un-delete” a video once you delete it!

If you’d like to edit in bulk, just select each one by clicking the box

next to each one you want to edit, then go to the top and click the

“Edit” tab.

You can also edit a video by clicking on the thumbnail image. This

will lead you to the Video Details page. You can then edit the title,

description, thumbnail, audience setting, and visibility.

You can also add the video to a playlist or add cards or end

screens to it.

Notice that there are a few other options for analyzing and editing

the video on the left side of the Video Details page. Click the

“Back” arrow to get back to the video list. 

From the Editor page, you can trim your video and/or audio

(removing anything you don’t want from the original file), add

free audio from your library of music and sound effects, and add

elements that overlay on the video (like links to other videos,

playlists, or channels).

You can also blur things like faces if you don’t want the person

recognized.

You can also add end screens to your video. Note that your video

must be at least 25 seconds long to add an end screen. You can

add up to four elements to your end screen with the editor

program.

These can be a video or playlist, where you can either feature

your latest video, have YouTube select a video from your channel,

or pick any video or playlist from either your channel or another

channel. 

Another type of element is the subscribed element, which

encourages your viewers to subscribe to your channel. You can

also promote another channel with a customized message.

To add an end screen, simply click “Add Element” (+) and choose

your end screen, then click “Save.”

If you choose a video element, you can either have your latest

video play, or choose the best video for that viewer (YouTube

picks), or a selected video from your channel.

You can choose when you want your end screen elements to play

on your video. By default, they will show at the same time, but

you can customize individual elements to show at different times.

Select an element by clicking on it in the end screen row in Editor.

Look to the left of the video and find the boxes with end screen

time. Update the start or end time of your element and click 

“Save.” You can also just use the arrows to drag the element to

the end screen row of the Editor.

Here are some “best practices” for creating end screens from

YouTube:

• Choose elements that are relevant to your video.

• Encourage your viewers to click using calls to action for

different end-screen elements.

• Custom images should be at least 300 by 300 pixels in size.

• Make sure to leave enough space and time at the end of

your video for your end screen (consider the last 20% of the

video when editing).

• Think about using different end-screen elements at different

times.

You can remove an element by clicking on it in the end screen row

in Editor. 

To the left of the video, click “delete the element.” If you wish to add

another element, click “add element” and add whichever you

wish. Remember to click “Save” when you are finished.

To change the placement of an element, select it by clicking on it

in the end screen row in Editor.

In the video player, drag the element to the desired position and

click “Save.”

Tip: Click the grid in the player to show a grid over the video

preview. You can also choose “snap to grid” or “snap to element”

for help with placing the element.

When you’ve got your end screen elements into position, click

the “Play” arrow to preview the video and see how they look.

Then, you can change anything that you don’t like and try again.