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Join over 100K of YouTubers who are using Kapwing to edit YouTube videos online—no credit card required.

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Start editing YouTube videos 10x faster

Kapwing's online YouTube video editor equips you with every tool you need to edit YouTube videos. From start to finish, you are in control of your own editing process until you publish directly to YouTube.

100+ video editing tools for you to use without a learning curve

Our team consistently updates each of our video editing tools so you can always edit YouTube videos without struggling to find the feature or relearning the entire tool. Quickly find highlights and get the best video clips from your video in seconds or automatically remove silences for your talking head videos.

Turn one YouTube video into social media posts in seconds

Easily repurpose one video into several pieces of video content so you can keep every platform active. With features like “Magic Create,” you can turn clips into social-ready videos in just a few clicks. Kapwing’s YouTube Video Maker makes it easy to find and trim clips completely online—no credit card or downloads required.

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How to Edit YouTube Videos

  1. Upload a video

    Upload the video file you want to edit for YouTube. You can upload multiple video files or paste a URL from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and more

  2. Edit video for YouTube

    Spruce up your video and add subtitles, background music and sound effects, and transitions. Explore 100+ of Kapwing’s video editing tools to speed up your creative process while still being as creative as possible. 

  3. Download and upload to YouTube

    When you’re finished, click “Export project” to download a file for your video. Then, upload your new video to your YouTube channel. If the video file is too large, we suggest using our video compressor to reduce the file size of your YouTube video. 

The YouTube Video Maker for over millions of creators and teams

Creating and editing a great YouTube video should be free and accessible for everyone. Kapwing can help you make your first YouTube videos, enhance content, and grow your subscriber count on YouTube with high-quality videos. Make an SRT file, add jump cuts, filter, insert an intro, design a thumbnail, and combine videos together in just a few clicks.

Video editing can make your YouTube videos stand out from the pack and get attention on the YouTube Discover page. Upload or a video from your device or use a link to a video you find online and start editing immediately for free. Great for beginners, gamers, influencers, fitness stars, and anyone else just getting started on YouTube.

Kapwing works on any computer, tablet, or phone, including Chromebooks, iPads, Windows, Mac, Android, and feature phones. No installs required. Finally a YouTube video editor that actually works.

Discover even more features on Kapwing
Add Subtitles
Generate and customizable captions that automatically sync to your video. Use our AI-powered tool to create a transcript of your video, and then customize your auto-synced subtitles to make them perfect for your content creation needs. Resize, swap out fonts, or add in professional animations and transitions - all your edits will instantly be applied to the entire video.
Smart Cut
Smart Cut automates your video editing process by detecting and removing silences from your video in a matter of seconds. You'll be saving hours of editing time and completing your rough cut faster than ever for talking head videos, recorded presentations, tutorials, vlogs, and more. Editing has never been so seamless.
Resizer
Repurpose videos faster and make them look more professional with our Resize Canvas feature! In just a few clicks, you can take a single video and adjust it to be the right size for every other platform, whether it's for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, or somewhere else.
Background Remover
With Kapwing's smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Upload your content, select the Remove Background tool, and use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you.
Clean Audio
Enhance your project’s audio in seconds with Kapwing. In one click, Clean Audio automatically removes background noise, corrects loudness, and helps reduce popping sounds in your audio and videos. To use it, simply upload a video or audio file, then select Clean Audio on the right side.
Collaborative editing
Work with your team directly in Kapwing. Create and edit content, then send it to share and collaborate with your teammates. Make team workspaces, comment in the editor, and work on videos together in real time or asynchronously.
Trimmer
Edit the length of your video clip by dragging the timeline handles or by using the Split tool. It’s never been easier to cut out silences, rearrange clips, or adjust the length of your audio to fit your video.
Waveforms
Kapwing's customizable waveforms let you bring your audio or podcast content to life. Our Waveform tool creates an automatically-generated, animated graph showing the frequency and amplitude of your audio over time. Choose between a classic waveform style and a stacked “bars” style to bring your own touch to your project.
Unlimited Overlays
Make your content pop with image overlays, emojis, progress bars, and audio waveforms. Then simply resize and position them to customize your project. With unlimited overlays, the possibilities are endless.
Stock Assets
Browse hundreds of royalty-free images, GIFs, videos, sound effects, and music clips directly in our editor. Curate assets that will bring your project to life, then edit them the way you want to all in one place.
Templates
Get inspired by hundreds of trendy video templates made to unleash your creativity. Select the template that best suits your project, and then make it your own with custom videos, images, or text. Making professionally designed videos or memes has never been faster.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Out of all YouTube video editors, what do YouTubers use?

There are countless video editing software that YouTubers use, ranging from Adobe Premiere Pro to iMovie or Final Cut Pro X. A common issue YouTubers have with using a traditional video editing software is that you have to have a strong computer that can handle large file sizes and also pay for a subscription with strict commitments. 

The best video editing software that many YouTubers are starting to use is the YouTube Video Maker by Kapwing. You can edit any video on Kapwing directly from your web browser on any device— no downloads, no installations, and no commitment required.

How do you edit YouTube videos faster?

To edit YouTube videos faster, you can either hire a freelance YouTube video editor or use an editor with AI and smart tools to speed up your process. There are several online video editors online you can use to edit videos more quickly, like Kapwing. Kapwing has 100+ video editing tools You can access Kapwing directly in your web browser and use their smart video-editing tools like the automatic video editor, scene finder, automatic background remover, and many more.

Where can I edit YouTube videos for free?

While there are many free video editing softwares, Kapwing is the best free YouTube video editor you can use without putting in any credit card information. If you use Kapwing with a free account and decide you want access to their premium features, you can opt-in for Kapwing Pro to edit YouTube videos faster and more efficiently with AI-powered tools like Smart Cut, Scene Finder, Automatic Background Remover, and many more.

What's different about Kapwing?

Easy
Easy
Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.
Free
Free
Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.
Accessible
Accessible
Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.
Online
Online
Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.
No spam or ads
No spam or ads
We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.
Powerful
Powerful
Kapwing works hard to help make the content you want, when you want it. Get started on your project today.
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Best online video service ever. And a miracle for deaf people.
[Subtitler] is able to autogenerate subtitles for video in almost any language. I'm deaf (or almost deaf, to be correct) and thanks to Kapwing I'm now able understand and react on videos from my friends :)
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Kapwing is probably the most important tool for me and my team. It’s always there to meet our everyday needs in creating scroll-stopping and engaging videos for us and our clients. Kapwing is smart, fast, easy to use and full of features that are exactly what we need to make our workflow faster and more effective. We love it more each day and it keeps getting better.
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As a housewife at home looking to start a YouTube channel for fun with absolutely zero editing experience, it was so easy for me to teach myself via their YouTube channel. It takes the tediousness out of editing and encourages creativity. As long as Kapwing is around, I will be using their software.
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[It] works perfectly for me. Have been using Kapwing for a year or so, and their automatic subtitle tool gets better and better every week, it's rare that I have to correct a word. Keep up the good work!
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