YouTube is Updated video editor shorts To better compete with people like Tiktok and Instagram Reels and tease some AI-powered features that may stand out later this year.
The new and improved editor will allow users to “precisely adjust and edit the timing of each clip, and use zoom and capture, as well as the usual choices to rearrange and delete your footage. YouTube says you can also add music and timed text anytime and preview videos at any time when editing.
At some point in the future, the editor will gain the ability to automatically sync clips to songs. YouTube says that “later this spring,” the editor will be able to create stickers from photos in the image gallery or from built-in AI image generator. As part of this update, the process of using templates has also been simplified. Now, when anyone uses their work, the creator of the template will now automatically be recorded, and the template itself can include things like image overlays and filter effects.
YouTube obviously tries to achieve some sort of parity with creative tools provided by Tiktok and Instagram. Tiktok’s editing tools and standalone Capcut video editor have long been the gold standard for creating videos on mobile phones. In view of Tiktok’s future in the United States is uncertainit makes sense to make YouTube shorts a more attractive option. This is not the first time YouTube has drawn inspiration from Tiktok. YouTube added a Robot, text-to-voice narrative function Shorts, apparently inspired by the popular version of Tiktok, were in 2024.
