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So here's my situation. I found a great video on YouTube that I want to share with my students
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but the problem is is it's about a 50-minute video. Out of those 50 minutes, there may only
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be a few minutes that I want to show because that's what's relevant in the lesson. So rather
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than me trying to skim through the video and show this to my class in real time, one of the things
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that you can do with Edpuzzle is actually edit a video using some of the features. So what I'm
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going to do is open this video in Edpuzzle. Okay, here it is. And I'm going to use that first
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feature, which is cut. Now it will be helpful for you to go through and watch this entire video and
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pay attention to the time of the video segments that you want. Now by default, Edpuzzle does give
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you a way that you can trim the beginning and the end of a video. But in this case, I want to
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isolate several different segments to share with my students. So the first thing that you'll have
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to do is just click on this playhead. This will determine where you make the individual cuts. So
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let's say that the first segment I want is going to be about five from the five-minute mark to the
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seven-minute mark. I'm just going to position the start of the clip somewhere around five minutes
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Back it up a little bit. Here we go. And now what I'm going to do is just move my playhead to
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somewhere around that seven-minute mark. There we go. And I'm going to tap on this button that says
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Add Cut. And you'll notice that Edpuzzle has now sliced just that two-minute excerpt that I
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originally selected to be shown. And that's the first segment that I'm going to show my students
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This information that's in gray, these parts of the video, once I finish, that will all be deleted
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So the only thing that my students will now see so far is this two-minute clip and everything else
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that's over here. So let me just kind of move this down. Let's say I want to move it right
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around here to the 26-minute mark. I just have to move the start of the clip. There's 24. I just
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have to inch that down just a little bit. That's the seven-minute mark. There we go. This is a
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good spot. Let's say 26 minutes. And I want to do 26 minutes to about, let's say, 30. So it's a
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four-minute segment. Again, this is where I want the clip to end. I'm going to choose Add Cut. And
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now I have a second segment. So let's say that the last clip is going to be somewhere around the 40
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minute mark. Right around here. I can just move that here. And I'm going to use this from 40
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minutes to, let's just say, this spot, which is almost 43 minutes. I'm going to add a cut that
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will now split this clip. And let's say that I just want the final piece of this. I'm just going
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to extend this down. There I go. So I took this long 50-minute video, condensed it down to four
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different clips that I isolated. You'll notice that at the bottom, it's showing me that the
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total length of my revised video is now 12 minutes. If I thought that was a little bit too long, I
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could even trim some of these longer segments down a little bit. Kind of like that. Okay. And
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once I'm finished, I can just move to the next step, which is voiceover and questions. And now
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when I add those questions, you'll notice I'm not adding questions to that long 50-minute clip I
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originally started out with. It's now showing me that sub-minute clip, the final clip, is just
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going to be the first segment, then the second segment, the third and the fourth, all kind of
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pieced together without any interruption in between. Just one into the other, in the other
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It should make the process of viewing this video for students a little bit easier, because I'm
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really only showing them the most salient parts of this and the parts of this video that are most
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related to the lesson. So from here, all I have to do is click the finish button and share this
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video with my students. So this is a lot easier than some other means of editing down a longer
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video, such as maybe downloading the video when opening it into a different program, which you
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then have to do the editing, download it again, re-upload it. This is just a really quick way to
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take a longer clip on YouTube, bring it into Edpuzzle, trim it into segments, and then add
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some different questions and features in Edpuzzle to share with students. So again, if you've ever
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been intimidated by the process of video editing and you find videos that you want to share with
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your class in YouTube, I definitely recommend using some of the video editing features that
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are available in Edpuzzle. Thanks for watching, and if you enjoy these videos, please feel free
