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How to edit a YouTube video: step by step.Seven takes, 33 minutes filmed on an iPhone, and a 9-minute film at the end. Let me show you how a YouTube video gets edited, layer by layer, with the real one.YouTube editing · October 29, 2026Font for captions: how to pick one that reads.Picking a font for captions takes a minute. Making it read on every shot takes four more choices. Let me show you both, with three real videos.Captions · October 29, 2026What editing software do YouTubers use: the names, and the jobs.Most YouTubers edit in DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro. But the name of the program is the easy part. Let me show you what it's actually used for, on four real videos.YouTube editing · October 29, 2026Jump cut: what it is and how to use it.A jump cut is the edit you can see: one shot, a piece taken out, and you jump forward in time. Let me show you how to use one, on a real video with 216 of them.Talking-head videos · October 29, 2026Cutaway shot: what it is, with real examples.A cutaway shot leaves the main action for a moment, shows something else, and comes back. Let me show you what that means in a video of you talking, with two real ones.Talking-head videos · October 29, 2026Lower thirds: what they are, with real examples.A lower third is the little card that tells you who's talking or where a fact comes from. Here's what goes in one, what makes a good one, and one card used 26 times in a real video.Motion design · October 29, 2026Faceless video: what it is and how to make one.You want to make videos, but you don't want to be the face of them. Fair enough. Here's what a faceless video is made of, the two ways to make one, and what YouTube actually pays for.Faceless YouTube · October 29, 2026YouTube video to podcast: three ways to do it.You already made the video. Now you want it on Spotify and Apple Podcasts too, without a second production. Here are the three ways, side by side, and what to cut so it still works when nobody can see it.Podcasts · October 29, 2026Video editing tips for YouTube: shown on a real film.Every list of YouTube editing tips says the same things, and shows them on nothing. So let's take one real 9-minute film and go through the decisions in it, one tip at a time.YouTube editing · October 29, 2026Video caption styles: six looks, and when to use each.Every page on caption styles shows you presets. Let me show you the six looks on real videos instead, and the one sentence that gets each of them on yours.Captions · October 29, 2026Text animation for video: the kinds, with real examples.Text animation is words that move on screen. In a video someone talks in, the trick is when they move. Let me show you the kinds, with real ones.Motion design · October 29, 2026Retention editing: what it is and how to do it.Everybody lists the moves. Nobody shows them on a finished video. So let's take one real 56-second short and go through it, move by move.YouTube editing · October 29, 2026