How do you edit YouTube videos

• How do you edit YouTube videos with a free YouTube editor?
  

• YouTube videos are more and more popular these days. You can find videos of any contents on that website. You may be interested in watch videos uploaded by other people, or upload your own videos for sharing. But have you ever thought of downloading your favorite YouTube videos, edit with your own ideas, and save it as a good memory or upload online again to show your talent on FLV editing. This article is to tell you the way to edit YouTube videos with a free YouTube editor.
  With this editor, you can even integrate YouTube downloading, editing, converting and uploading in to one.
  The program is called FLV Editor Lite. It is totally free with few limitations.
  First, you must download the YouTube videos for editing. You can use YouTube FLV Downloader, since you can launch the mentioned editor directly from the FLV downloader.
  
  Download YouTube for edit.
  To download YouTube videos, you can drag the thumbnail of the video to the floating window of the downloader, and start a download task. For videos from other video-sharing sites, you can follow the video tutorial, or steps below:
  
  
  
  Steps:
  1. Go to Capture section and enable “Capture” function (it’s enabled by default).
  2. Go to the webpage where the FLV video is playing. The downloader will help you capture FLV URL.
  3. Back to Capture section of the program, select the URL and click download button.
  4. Go to Downloading section to see the downloading process.
  5. While done, go to History or Library sections to find the downloaded FLV.
  6. Right clicking on the downloaded FLV in the program, you can watch it with no problem. Or you can select “Edit” to launch FLV Editor Lite.
  
  Edit YouTube with the free YouTube editor.
  This YouTube editor is totally free. You can trim FLV/F4V/MP3, cut FLV/F4V/MP3, merge FLV/F4V/MP3, rip FLV/F4V audio, add metadata and cue point, export SWF and HTML for uploading online, etc.
  
  It’s easy to use.
  1. Import FLV/F4V/MP3. You can click buttons on Toolbar to import the files from Media Library of YouTube FLV Downloader, IE Cache, or your computer. Multiple files can be imported to Resource List at one time (up to 5 for Lite version). Double-clicking a file on Resource List, you can play the video.
  
  
  
  
  2. Edit FLV/F4V/MP3. To edit the files, you must drag and drop a file from Resource List to Timeline and edit with buttons on Timeline Toolbar, right-click menu on Timeline, or short-cut keys.
  
  
  Real-time preview: You can click the play button on Preview Pane to real-time preview the editing effects.
  Trim the length of YouTube video. You can drag the edge of a clip on Timeline to trim the length.
  Cut YouTube video. You can also drag the pointer to the right position on Timeline and click the scissor button to cut. And then you can drag to rearrange the order or select and delete unwanted part. It’s quite flexible.
  Rip YouTube video and audio. To rip the YouTube FLV video and audio, you can select the clip on Timeline and click Unlink button. And then you can move or delete them separately. You can also replace the original audio with an MP3 file or another FLV/F4V audio. To join the video and audio together, you can select them with the help of “Ctrl” on your keyboard and click Link button.
  Undo and redo. It doesn’t matter if your previous setting goes wrong since you can click the Undo button or press Ctrl + Z. To cancel Undo, you can click Redo button or press Ctrl +Z.
  Add metadata and cue point to the YouTube FLV/F4V. Clicking the right button, you can enable the relative tab on Resource List. You can add up to 2 cue points to the clip on Timeline.
  
  
  
  Trim blank. If you don’t like the blank area among the clips, you can right click on the blank and select Trim Blank.
  Rename clip. If you’d like to rename a clip on Timeline, you can right click on it and select Rename selected clip.
  Insert a clip directly on Timeline. With right-click menu on Timeline, you can select to insert a video or audio clip to the desired blank. The inserted file will be placed on Resource List as well.
  Merge YouTube FLVs. All files placed on Timeline will be exported as a single FLV file.
  
  3. Export: This program keeps exactly the original quality while export (except F4V). You can select what direction or format to export the file.
  FLV to MP3. With this program, you can even export MP3 file from FLV as long as the original FLV audio is MP3. All you need to do is drag the FLV to Timeline, make some editing and click Export MP3 button on Toolbar.
  MP3 to FLV. With FLV editor, you can also import MP3 and export FLV, SWF, and HTML.
  Export SWF. With this program, you can export SWF with gorgeous player skins, preloaders, and special effects. For Lite version, this section has some limitations, but the Ultimate version is without any limitations and with more options.
  For detail information about the options, you can click here.
  
  
  
  After the exporting, you can upload the FLV, SWF, HTML, JPEG files to the same folder on your server, and then you can stream the FLV online.
  
  Export to FLV to video Converter: You can also export the file to FLV to Video Converter and convert to other formats, so that you can playback on your portable devices like iPod, iPhone, PSP, Pocket PC, Zune, Creative Zen, etc.
  
  In a word, you can do anything you like to YouTube videos with this editor. Now let’s find out your talent on FLV editing, and show it to the world!