YouTube Adds Video Trimming Tool For Android

When it comes to videos, everything about the sharing process is more difficult than their photo brethren. The troubles with them have gotten easier over the years, but after shooting a video, any edits that the footage needs are a cumbersome process for those without video-editing software — and the trouble is amplified when the edits need to be made from a mobile device rather than a laptop. There are existing apps, of course, that try to simplify the process, but YouTube wants you to bypass those entirely.

At least, it wants Android users to bypass that cumbersome editing step. The site has recently announced the introduction of a new video trimming tool for its Android app, which makes it easier to trim off those wobbling beginnings and ends from your videos using a tap-to-slide trimmer.

Joining this new video trimming feature is the introduction of an in-line video preview available to view before the upload is made. YouTube boasts faster uploading in general with the app, as well, all of it working together to make the app a little more robust and easy to use for mobile YouTubers.

Those interested can grab the app now from the Google Play Store. This follows a quietly introduced (and limited, at the moment) feature that makes it easy to clip GIFs directly from existing videos, no third-party tool or apps necessary.

SOURCE: YouTube Creators