You can continue to edit the video as you see fit, adding more trims if you wish. The split section of the video will now be shaded out, and you can preview how your video is going to look on the video player above. To create the actual split, you will need to click the Preview button at the bottom of the screen. Now a really important point next, this X button does not execute the split, it cancels the split you have just created. The playhead line will thicken, at which point you can click and drag to create a split of content that you wish to remove from your video. When you have your starting point, click the split button at the very bottom of the screen. You can still click and drag the playhead if you wish. Note that when you do this, the editor seems to zoom all the way out again, so you may need to zoom back in. Place the playhead at the starting point of where you want to trim, and click the trim button to the left. Please watch the video above for visual instructions. And over to the right-hand side, you have your zoom slider, so you can focus right in on the spot where you need to trim your YouTube video. You've got the Undo and Redo buttons on the top left, discard and save options in the top right, along with a quick keyboard shortcut guide.

Click on this, and it will take you to the YouTube video editor, which at the time of recording, seems to default to dark mode, like this:.

The video editor is one of these new options.

Once you're in the video details page, you may notice some new options down the left-hand side.

When you mouse over any video in this list, a few icon options will appear, and you want to click on the edit video icon (the one that looks like a pen).

This will display the main studio dashboard screen, and from here, you want the videos section from the left-hand navigation panel. Click on your profile picture in the top right-hand corner of the screen, and then go to the YouTube Studio.

We will start, as always, on any YouTube page.

How to Trim Videos with YouTube's Video Editor If you've uploaded a video to YouTube, but you realize you've made a mistake, and you need to trim something out, this is the quickest and easiest way to do it without having to re-upload the entire video.

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