Youtube video editor? (yes, really)

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Greg_E

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As off the wall as this sounds, there is a method to this madness... Have any of you used the Youtube video editor? We were talking today about a general purpose video for non-majors course. Talk of sourcing material always comes up, and of course talk of editing that material. Rather than try to teach all these non-video centric students to use Media Composer or even Premiere, we started talking about the lowest common denominator. Thinking of using phones or tablets or whatever the student owns, and trying to teach them to make better video with what they have. Could always go with imovie or VideoPad (on iOS or Android respectively), but then I remembered that Youtube has an editor. Just spent some time flipping through the help pages and printing them into a "book".

So anyone have tips on this "editor" before I dive in to give this a try? I've done a little clean up work on some of our live events after they finish and it was a bit clumsy, but Youtube just rolled out new features (like full time live without creating an event) and are constantly updating things, so thought it was worth investigation. I know that mostly this place is filled with professionals and those that want to be professionals, figured it was worth asking, please don't mock me too badly and remember I said this would (might) be for non-majors as a general "how to make better videos with my own equipment" (probably their phones).

Trying to prevent V.V.S.! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA
 
A possible advantage to the Youtube editor is it will likely work better with non-pro grade streaming video codecs recorded by phones and low end consumer gear. Those cause all kinds of problems in pro level NLE's, especially when they record variable frame rates in non-standard formats.
 
Just a note... Youtube video editor is going away this Fall. They cite the reason as being that there are so many free video editors out that there is no reason for them to work on an editor. Not sure I fully agree, but they didn't seem to be putting the resources into it that would be needed to get it up to the tasks at hand.
 
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