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How to take youtube videos and splice them?

by Sparhawke
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I am going to have to admit one day that I will never make a good article writer since it is not something that appeals to me, I have a form of autism that makes it difficult to convey emotion in words and hence I can never seem to get anyone to buy and why do something that is never going to be something that you love or even begrudgingly detest on a level as white chocolate infused dog food?...I like reading much more and have since developed a forum writing style that is far more visual rather than buyer orientated, you're thinking about the dog food aren't you? lol

To this end I reaslise finally I need to change tack, since I hate writing so much and am reasonably creative and come up with ideas for videos I have considered this and would like to try putting some funny videos together that will reel in the punters but there is an small issue, I do not know how to do such a thing as taking 10 pre-existing youtube videos, some music and splicing them together...to create a dinner of such exquisiteness that Gordon himself would have to eat the dog food himself to stop from dying on the spot from pure awesomeness.

Can anyone point me to a good font of knowledge?
#splice #videos #youtube
  • Profile picture of the author Kate Davies
    Hello Sparhawke

    I don't like to rain on your parade, but unless you have permission from the owners of the videos, you can't just take peoples videos and chop them up to recreate something new.

    If you have the right permissions, then you'll need a video editing package - there are free ones such as Windows Movie Maker (on PCs) and imovie (on macs), that come pre-installed on computers. I'm sure you can find tutorials for both on YouTube.

    But BEWARE against stealing somebody else's material. It could be construed as copyright infringement. Not only can you run the risk of prosecution but it's not good for your business image as an internet marketer!

    Don't be shy though. If you find something that you want to use, you can always ask the owner; they may say yes or they may ask for a royalty.

    Hope that helps a bit.

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  • Profile picture of the author Valdor Kiebach
    If you are using a Windows operating system then a free video editor you should consider is wax:
    Wax - [ Homepage ]

    or if you are using Windows, Linux or Mac then Blender has a very capable video editor:
    blender.org - Home

    And for source material to mess with then check out the internet archive:

    video: Download & Streaming : Moving Image Archive : Internet Archive
    Music: http://www.archive.org/details/audio
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  • Profile picture of the author absolutelee
    You can do this by downloading the videos and then using software to recreate the new video, but that's copyright infringement. So, if you start making real money with this, someone's going to come down on you like a ton of bricks. Here's what you can do, however. Hire someone (or many someones) on Fiverr to create a few videos for you. That way, you'll own the rights to the videos.
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  • Profile picture of the author JimMichael
    Just to make it clear -

    I recently had a broadcaster rip one of my videos and use it without permission. The legal options available to me are extensive.

    Don't risk it. Copyright infringement is taken very seriously by the victims. If you're using the stolen material to make money - expect the victim to proceed through the courts for many, many times the profit you'll make.
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  • Profile picture of the author Valdor Kiebach
    Regarding copyright on youtube it can be confusing:
    http://www.youtube.com/t/terms
    8. Rights you licence

    8.1 When you upload or post Content to YouTube, you grant:
    1. to YouTube, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence (with right to sub-licence) to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that Content in connection with the provision of the Service and otherwise in connection with the provision of the Service and YouTube's business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats [and through any media channels];
    2. to each user of the Service, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such Content to the extent permitted by the functionality of the Service and under these Terms.
    8.2 The above licenses granted by you in Content terminate when you remove or delete your Content from the Website. The above licenses granted by you in textual comments you submit as Content are perpetual and irrevocable, but are otherwise without prejudice to your ownerships rights, which are retained by you as set out in paragraph 7.2 above.
    and here is the mentioned 7.2
    7.2 You retain all of your ownership rights in your Content, but you are required to grant limited licence rights to YouTube and other users of the Service. These are described in paragraph 8 of these Terms (Rights you licence).
    So this implies that you can take any work posted on youtube and make a derivative work from it.

    Also when a video is uploaded to youtube the uploader has the choice of 2 licenses:
    Standard YouTube Licence:- User grants only YouTube a licence to the content via the Terms of Service (of which the above quote is a part of)

    or
    Creative Commons Attribution licence (reuse allowed)
    http://www.youtube.com/t/creative_commons
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  • Profile picture of the author Sparhawke
    Thanks guys, of course I am not going to steal content and claim it as my own, but on one of my sites it is intended for give full credit where it is due too?

    I suppose this would be the same as taking an excerpt of someones article and linking to the full one, and this is legal? lol
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  • Profile picture of the author Kate Davies
    Fine, but you would still need to ask my permission to use my material, even if you do give full credit.
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  • Profile picture of the author dms321
    Copyright could indeed be confusing.

    But I would advice to make an effort to read and understand it. While there are hundreds of duplicated content videos on Youtube, for example, you could suddenly become a victim.

    So I would not recommend it...

    In terms of software, as digileaf mentioned, Windows Movie Maker and iMovie are free and pre-installed on PCs and Macs.

    Of cause, if you have an option to buy (or to try for a month) Camtasia - that would be an excellent choice, I think.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sparhawke
    I found some creative commons videos that allow you to reuse them, so problem fixed

    Bad Singing 1...
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