Mixing Videos

The mixer allows you to make new videos from your existing videos. It’s a great way to create one long video out of a bunch of smaller videos. Think of it as a kind of highlight reel of all your good stuff.

You can add as many videos as you like to the mixer. Edit them down to the good parts, reorder them if you’d like, and save your mix as a new video … which you can then share with friends and family.

The mixer has three main components:

1. The video list. The video list shows you the videos that are currently in your mixer. You can drag and drop the order of your videos, or remove videos from the mixer if you decide you don’t need ‘em.
2. The preview screen. The preview screen lets you play your mix-in-progress before publishing it as a new video. Feel free to make changes if you don’t like what you see.
3. The editing panel where you can trim the videos in your mix. All of the videos that you’ve put in the mixer will appear here as a series of thumbnail images. If you want to keep most of your video in the mix, you can adjust the start and end points of each video and save only what you want. If you just want to include a short segment simply click and drag to select the part of the video you’d like to include, and choose “trim to selection” from the menu.

Sure you can. Just copy your published mix and other videos to the mixer and edit away. You can then save this as a new video.

You can allow other people to mix any or all of your public videos. To make this your default setting, go to your settings page. You can change the privacy and mixing settings of any video on the site at any time. However, once someone else has added your video to a mix, you can’t take it back.

It’s easy! Just click on the “mixer” button above your video.

You can add as many videos as you want to a mix.

When you add a video to your mixer that is actually a mix of other videos, the mixer breaks them all out into their separate videos so that you have access to the original videos for editing.

If a user has chosen to allow others to mix his or her public videos, you’ll be able to add those to your mix. If you see the button on a video, you can mix it!

There are two ways to edit your videos. When you first come to your mixer, the selection handles will be situated at the beginning and end of each of your videos. You can drag them individually to new points in the video to edit the start and end times. As you drag the handles, you’ll notice that the footage falling outside of the selected area will gray out. The grayed-out areas of your video have been cropped out of your mix.

You can also edit by making a selection within the video. Drag your mouse to make a selection, and you will be prompted to “trim to selection” or cancel. If you select “trim to selection,” the non-selected area will be grayed-out and will not appear in your mix. If you select “cancel,” the clip handles will snap back to their previous locations.

Reorder your videos by dragging and dropping them in the video list panel. You can reorder videos before and/or after you’ve trimmed them.

To remove a video from the mixer, select it in the video list and click the “remove” button. To remove all videos from the mixer, click the dropdown arrow and select "remove all."

To preview a mix-in-progress, click the “preview” button in the video screen area at the top left of the mixer. The mix will begin playing wherever the play head is located. However, if the play head is located in an area you have already cropped, playback will begin at the next selected area.

Once you’re happy with your mix and want to publish it as a new video, click the "make mix" button. You’ll be prompted to give it a title, description, tags and permission settings. Your newly published video will be added to your video list, and you can do anything to it that you can do with any other video (share it, deep tag it, etc.).

You have several options, depending on what you really want to do:

1. You can remove all of your videos from the mixer and pretend like you never even attempted to create a new video.
2. You can click the “undo edits” button which will reset all of the start and end selection handles to their original positions.
3. You can click the “clear all changes” button, which will revert your mix-in-progress either to its original state (if you never saved a draft of your progress), or to its state after you clicked the “save for later” button.

If you’d like to save your progress but don’t want to publish your mix as a new video, just click the “save draft” button. It will save any changes you’ve made to your mix-in-progress without publishing it.

Tell us! Please use the feedback form if you come across anything that doesn’t seem quite right about the mixer … be it a bug, design issue, or suggestion for how we can improve it!

This is just the first version of the mixer, and we really want your feedback to help shape its future. So don’t hesitate to tell us what you think!

Of course we do! Please send all your suggestions, compliments, critiques and mixer anecdotes to us via the feedback form. We look forward to hearing from you!