8 Ways YouTube Will Be Changing How You Create Videos
Professional YouTube video creators and amateurs alike will soon get new tools for refining their work and expanding audiences. YouTube may face some challenges as it moves toward the mainstream, but it isn't standing still on the technological side. Here are eight new tools for video creators YouTube execs Matthew Glotzbach and Oliver Heckmann—the site's director of product management and VP of engineering, respectively—previewed at the unofficial YouTube convention VidCon last week. A few are available now, but most are are still coming attractions. Keep your eyes peeled, YouTubers. 1. Sound Effects YouTube's Audio Library already featured hundreds of free songs; now it also includes an array of royalty-free sound effects—perfect for the creator who needs a blood-curdling scream or machine gun fire. The company is also adding more music tracks, though it didn't say how many. 2. 60 FPS Video Most YouTube videos play at the standard film-projection rate of