A Complete Guide On YouTube Tips and Tricks

It wouldn’t come across as a surprise to anyone if I say that today the word Video has become synonymous with YouTube. Think tutorials, music videos, movie trailers, game-plays, gadget reviews YouTube has a Pandora’s Box of videos to provide to everyone’s liking. It has even changed the lives of some people over time, ask PSY or Justin Bieber for that purpose.

The third most visited site on the Internet after Google and Facebook; over the years, YouTube has amassed over 1 billion users with an awe-inspiring 300 hours of videos being uploaded to the site every minute. I find it, perhaps the most productive way of being unproductive and killing time. So how about discovering some YouTube tips and tricks to add a completely new dimension to your YouTube experience.

Common Keyboard Shortcuts:

We begin our YouTube tips and tricks article with the basic keyboard shortcuts which I hope almost everyone will be aware of:

Space-Play/Pause
F-Fullscreen
Esc-Exit Fullscreen
↑-Increase Volume
↓-Decrease Volume
←-Go back 5 Seconds
→-Go forward 5 Seconds

In fact you can even skip parts of the video without mouse-clicking on the time slider by simply pressing the number keys on your keyboard. Pressing the 1 key skips 10% of the video, the 2 key skips 20% of the video and so on. Pressing the number 0, takes you back to the start of the video.

Specific Start Time:

This is one handy YouTube trick which allows you to start a video from a specific time instead of having to tell people the specific time where the boring introduction gets over or point to the part of the video where the real fun begins.

Here is how it works. Consider the following YouTube URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0pLbTXPHng
Now to jump to a 1:23 in the video just simply add #t01m23s to the linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0pLbTXPHng#t=01m23s
It would look like this:

One more way you could do this is to use the Get Video URL at current timeby right clicking the mouse on the time slider at the desired time and clicking on the Get video URL at current time option.

A dialog box containing the link will be generated. Just copy the link and use it to you like.

Turn any video into a GIF:

The next addition in YouTube tips and tricks articles is my favorite.

Who doesn’t like a funny old GIF! Well good news for you, it is pretty simple to create a GIF out of a YouTube video. All you need to do is add the word ‘gif’ just after the ‘www.’ in the URL.

For example: Consider this YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q4qzYrHVmI#
You just have to modify it like this: https://www.gifyoutube.com/watch?v=9q4qzYrHVmI#

It shall redirect you to a page where you can make a GIF as per your required specifications in a matter of minutes. In fact you can even enter captions in your GIF image through this tool.

YouTube Tips and Tricks – GIF

Repeat The Complete Video or Parts of it Automatically:

There are times when we stumble upon a video which no matter how much we try we can’t resist watching again and again. It could be a music video, a funny prank or perhaps an awe-inspiring stunt scene from some movie. To repeat certain portion of the video or the complete video all you need to do is to add the word ‘repeater’ after ‘youtube’ in the URL.

For example: Consider this YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6DFLNa6MBA
Just change it to: https://www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=D6DFLNa6MBA

It shall redirect you to a page where you can loop the required portions of the video.

YouTube Leanback:

Watching YouTube videos on your TV using the normal YouTube desktop version can be a cumbersome experience. That’s where the YouTube Leanback feature comes in, it is basically a simplified UI version enhanced for TV which recommends videos for you to watch according to those that you have watched before and can be controlled simply using arrow keys.

All you need to do is go to youtube.com/tv , leanback and enjoy the viewing experience.

In fact you can even pair you smartphone or tablet for having a hassle free experience. 

Bypass Regional Restrictions and Blocks:

YouTube Tips and Tricks – Bypassing Location Restriction

I am sure almost all of us would have encountered the irritating experience of opening up a pretty hyped video only to stumble across a block which prevents us from playing the video. YouTube tips and tricks isn’t complete without this.

In order to bypass this restriction, simply change the format of the link from this: https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=dD40FXFhuag
To this: https://www.youtube.com/v/dD40FXFhuag

Download YouTube Videos:

Wish to download a YouTube video so that you can watch it sometime later. All you need to do is add ‘ss’ after ‘www.’ in the URL of the YouTube video.

For example: Consider this YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eisKxhjBnZ0
Just change it to: https://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=eisKxhjBnZ0

You will be redirected to a page from where you can download the video in the desired quality and format.

YouTube Tips and Tricks – Video Downloading

Just be careful that downloading the video doesn’t infringe the copyrights of the owner.

Accurate Keyword Searching:

Finding the exact video that you want to watch on YouTube can prove to be a time-consuming experience provided the fact that there are billions of videos on the site with more and more being added every day. To refine your search and reduce the time involved in finding your desired video try using theallintitle keyword.

Doing so will return you results which have all the chosen keywords.

Other Common YouTube Tips and Tricks That You Might Have Overlooked:

Autoplay- In case you do not want to play the suggested video after the one that you are watching currently, just disable the autoplay feature found towards the right corner of the page.

Speed- You can alter the speed of the video and play it faster or slower to your like. Just click on Setting on the time slider, go to Speed and then choose the speed that you prefer.

Subtitles- You can even enable subtitles for a video in YouTube. Head to settings on the time slider and then click on Subtitles and turn them on! Although, this feature is not available for some videos.

YouTube Tools – Most people might not be aware but YouTube also provides certain tools so as to help the user in creating new content. There are a variety of tools from Analytics to the Video Editor which you should definitely try using at-least once.

YouTube Tips and Tricks – YouTube tools

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This YouTuber Created His Own Version Of Goku’s Flying Nimbus

A YouTuber posted a video of himself dressed like Goku and zooming through the Taipei streets on his self-made Flying Nimbus. He managed to gather public attention through his cosplay stunts and also uploaded a behind the scenes video in which he explained how he made it.

We have been familiar with Hoverboards ever since we started playing Subway Surfers and then the real hoverboards came like the Robot Butler announced by Intel, they don’t really fly by the way. But no one would have ever envisaged these hoverboards could help people with their Anime fascination.

In a YouTube video posted by Yes Ranger, he was hovering in the streets of Taipei, Taiwan on a Flying Nimbus or Somersault Cloud, as it is said. The same magical golden cloud Goku uses in Dragon Ball series, but I’m doubtful that the Flying Nimbus really chose him for a ride, was he worthy enough?

Later in the video, he flew upon some skyscraper or something else. After which he entered into a combat with a burger eating pedestrian using Goku like powers.

He also posted another video in which he described how he made the hoverboard look like the Flying Nimbus using an insulation layer. In the same video, he featured his inspiration behind the idea who was a cosplay Aladdin on a flying carpet in NYC. The Aladdin in that video was Jesse Wellens and he used electric skates for imitating Aladdin’s magic carpet. Jesse and his girlfriend Jeana Smith are well known YouTube celebs who post prank videos on their channel PrankVsPrank.

Watch the Flying Nimbus in Action:

Google Finally Launches YouTube Gaming, A YouTube Dedicated to Gamers

Google has finally rolled out its Twitch-killer website YouTube Gaming. It’s a website dedicated to gaming videos and livestreaming that will feature more than 25,000 pages for different gaming titles.

Earlier this year, Google announced that it will be playing a bigger role in the gaming market. To complete with Amazon-owned Twitch, the company announced a new YouTube spinoff called YouTube Gaming. Today, on August 26, the company has launched the website that will feature more than 25,000 pages for different games.

This stand-alone website of YouTube Gaming was expected to make the official appearance this summer. However, in the US and UK, the website is now live. It should be noted that last year Google made failed attempts to buy Twitch.

YouTube’s head of gaming Ryan Wyatt said, “Gaming is so big now. We’re doing billions of hours of watch-time a month, with hundreds of millions of users. It’s astonishing.”

Even though Twitch has a complete dominance over the game live streaming for some time now, YouTube Gaming has the potential to become a serious threat to Twitch’s dominance. The service will also have iOS and Android apps.

As the website is dedicated to gaming, typing a phrase won’t give suggestion from movies and songs. About the new service, Wyatt said: “We want to make live simple. We’ll definitely explore other opportunities to see how we can make live easier for people on consoles and phones, both for streaming and capturing content.”

During livestreams, the viewer can also chat with others and the creators can monitor the comments from the app. Each gaming stream will have a custom and easily-shareable URL and the videos will stream at 60fps.

What is Google’s New and Upcoming Service Called “YouTube Red”?

According to the recent reports, Google is rebranding its Music Key subscription service asYouTube Red. Apart from the subscription service, YouTube Red could be an amalgamation of more services based on ad-free subscription model.

Do you remember YouTube’s very own music-focused subscription based service called Music Key that was launched about a year ago? Well, it didn’t perform well against the competitors like Spotify, Apple Music or Rdio. However, the company is aiming to rejuvenate things by rebranding it.

Interestingly, Google has recently updated its YouTube app that includes a text describing a product called YouTube Red. It’s a service that enables background and ad-free music playback, a feature that was absent in the Music Key subscription service.

For the fossBytes readers who don’t know, Music Key is a paid music subscription and streaming service operated by Google.

This was spotted by Android Police, that writes that the rebranding is shown as a notification only when you are leaving a video playing in the background and you switch to another app. This is also shown as a pop-up when you re-open YouTube later.

Take a look it in the screenshots below. To see these changes, you must be having the latest version the Android app on your device.

It should be noted that Music Key still has the “beta” tag associated with it and Google could be planning to relaunch the service as YouTube Red. It’s possible that Google aims to do a lot more that music with YouTube Red and this possible rebranding is just the first step.

The next week, on September 29, Google is holding an event and it’s expected to launch heavyweight products like new Nexus phone as well as Android Marshmallow. We can also witness the launch of much-awaited YouTube ad-free subscription service and new Chromecast.

It’s expected that YouTube Red will be playing a bigger role in the upcoming Google Movie.

What do think about this rebranding? Did you like the name YouTube Red? Tell us in the comments below.