Trim and cut video
Cut mistakes, awkward pauses, or anything you don’t need. Trim clips by dragging, or delete a sentence from the transcript to cut it from the video.
YouTube Video Editor
Built for YouTube video editors, YT Create offers a professional-grade timeline where you and AI agents work together to shape your cut, refine sound, grade colour and add captions and effects in one place.
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Everything you need in a YouTube video editor
Crop and resize video
Resize your video vertical for TikTok, square for Instagram, or fit any other aspect ratio using safe zone presets.
Speed up or slow down video
Speed up dull moments or slow down key ones with smooth playback.
Add subtitles and captions
Add captions automatically and keep them synced as you edit. Choose a preset style, edit the text, or use your own fonts.
Add music and voiceover
Add music, record your voice, or use an AI voiceover.
Swap video backgrounds
Change the image, video, or scene behind your subject. Use AI to replace backgrounds without a green screen.
Merge and combine clips
Bring videos, photos, music, and other media into one edit. Arrange, trim, and layer them on the timeline, or ask AI to do it for you.
Stabilize shaky footage
Stabilize shaky footage for smoother, steadier shots.
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Complete YouTube video editing toolkit
Create and edit YouTube videos with everything you need in one place, from AI generation and timeline editing to captions, audio, effects, and resizing.
Edit Youtube videos collaboratively
Edit together on the same timeline, like a Google Doc. Share a link, make changes in real time, and leave comments at exact moments, without sending files back and forth.
YouTube video editing, on the go
Edit across your laptop, tablet, phone, or multiple screens. Your project stays synced, so you can pick up right where you left off.
Edit Youtube videos with AI
YT Create's AI agents handle the busy work while you focus on the creative direction.
Log the footage
AI agents analyze and log every take by dialogue, actor, prop, and camera angle, so you can find any moment without scrubbing through hours of footage.
Rough cut
Filler, silences, and flubbed takes are removed as AI assembles the best takes into a first cut on your multitrack timeline.
Cut to the beat
Mark the first few beats, and AI carries the pattern through the track, cutting your shots to the music.
Match a reference
Share an edit you admire, and AI applies its pacing, structure, and style to your footage.
Bring your own agents to edit YouTube videos
Connect the agent you already use to YT Create's editor. It trims, grades and mixes on your timeline while you watch every change land.
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Youtube video editor with Pro Features
Keyframe-level control
Animate anything on any clip, frame by frame. Transform, zoom, position, rotation, crop, opacity, effect parameters.
Video transitions library
Build titles, transitions, and effects on the same timeline, animated with the same keyframes. Full effects and transitions libraries, text, dynamic captions.
Color grading suite
Grade the way a colourist does, beside the cut. Wheels, tone curves, hue and sat curves, qualifiers, LUTs, waveform scope.
Digital audio workstation
Mix and master without leaving the project. Voice, music, and effects on their own tracks, buses, dB faders, loudness metering.
Export controls
Export from 720p to 4K, choose 24, 30, or 60 fps, and adjust the bitrate to balance video quality and file size.
Audio only exports
WAV, AAC, or Opus when the mix is the deliverable.
A Youtube video editor built for collaboration
Edit on your tool
Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, or DaVinci Resolve. Cuts and layers intact.
Sharable review links
Anyone can scrub the finished cut in the browser and leave frame-accurate comments. The agents can pick the notes up from there.
How to edit YouTube videos?
Editing publish-ready video in a few simple steps
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Upload your footage
Add your video clips, B-roll, music, voiceovers and graphics to YT Create Editor. Organise them yourself or let the agent sort them for you.
2
Create your first cut
Tell the AI agent what kind of video you want. It selects the best takes and builds a first cut on your timeline.
3
Refine the edit
Trim clips, adjust colors, balance audio, add captions, text, music, effects, and transitions.
4
Create Shorts and clips
Turn moments from your video into vertical Shorts, highlight clips, or chapters for YouTube.
5
Export and publish
Export in up to 4K and publish to YouTube. You can also continue editing in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, or DaVinci Resolve.
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YouTube video editor FAQs
What is the best free video editor for YouTube?
It depends on the edit. YT Create gives you a multitrack timeline in the browser with team access and a free 1080p export with no watermark. DaVinci Resolve offers deep colour grading as a local install. If the video needs more than one editor or AI footage, YT Create covers both without a subscription.
How do I edit YouTube videos without downloading software?
Open YT Create in any browser. Import footage, edit on the timeline, add captions, grade colour, drop in chapters and export. The project saves to the cloud.
What format does YouTube recommend for uploads?
MP4 with H.264 at 1080p minimum. YT Create exports in MP4 by default at up to 4K, matching YouTube's spec.
How do I add chapters to a YouTube video?
Drop chapter markers on the timeline where the topic changes. Timestamps export formatted for YouTube — paste them in the description. First chapter must start at 0:00 with at least three total.
Can I make Shorts from a long-form video?
Yes. Branch a 9:16 version from your long-form edit. Reframe tracks the subject through the vertical crop. Trim to under 60 seconds and export.
Can a team edit the same video at the same time?
Your whole team works in one project simultaneously. No file locking, no waiting. Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve limit collaboration to review tools or shared drives.
Is YT Create good enough for professional YouTube production?
The timeline supports layers, keyframes, speed ramps, colour grading and audio mixing. It differs from Premiere or Resolve in delivery: browser-based, cloud-saved, with AI models on the timeline. Nested sequences and node-based colour grading still favour a desktop editor.
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