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hi I'm Josh Lewin s'en with cnet.com and I'm going to show you how to use YouTube's Video Editor to make a video out of several clips well a little basic when compared to software based video editing tools YouTube's Video Editor works right in your browser and does all the hard work on Google servers meaning you can edit HD video on just about any computer as long as it as an internet connection the first thing you're going to want to do is head over to youtube.com slash editor here you'll see a list of all your uploaded YouTube videos on the left hand side a story board on the bottom and a preview of the finished product on the right one thing to note right up front is that you cannot actually upload videos to the editor itself your videos need to be on YouTube first if you're just dumping a few clips from your digital camera our advice is to upload them as unlisted this sends them to YouTube but they won't show up two people have subscribed to your YouTube channel or in the services search engine in case you don't recognize one of your uploaded videos you can play it just by hitting the little arrow that shows up when you mouse over the clip this opens up in a pop-up window when you found something you like you can simply grab it and drop it down to the storyboard or hit the little plus icon in the top right hand corner of each clip once the videos are on the storyboard you can rearrange them freely the storyboard is also where you do all the editing to start an edit just mouse over any clip in your storyboard and click the scissors icon this will open up a video in a pop-up window where you can drag and change at the beginning and end point to get a finer level of control over these in and out points you can click the small arrows on the top and bottom of the clips timeline YouTube is calling these nudges since they can only change the length of the clip one way or the other by a fifteenth of a second to see your changes after making a nudge or two just hit the play button it's worth noting YouTube currently does not let you split a clip so if you want to use a different part of the same clip or just repeat something again you drag the video into the timeline multiple times and trim it down to just the parts you want if you want to add some audio to your projects you can just pick a track from YouTube's audio swap library in the audio tab on the top left just like videos you can preview these before adding them to your work then drag them down into the storyboard keep in mind that adding an audio track to your movie will wipe out all the sound that was there before and after you've done this there's no way to go back without starting a new project when you've got your clips in the right place and added the music you want you just give it one last look by hitting the play button in the preview module on the right if everything looks good you just give it a name hit the publish button and YouTube does the rest once the server is finished processing your new movie it will show up in your my videos list for everyone to enjoy I'm Josh Lowen soon and this has been a how-to on using YouTube's Video Editor happy editing