Top 5 YouTube Tips and Tricks

    YouTube is a wonderful website where you can watch and also upload videos. You may have spent a lot of time in YouTube but you may not know the full extent of the website. Through this article, you will learn a few tips and tricks that will enhance your YouTube experience.

1. Keyboard shortcuts

    Using the mouse is well enough to control different settings on YouTube but these keyboard shortcuts might come handy. So here is a list of keyboard shortcuts that you could use instead of dragging and clicking your mouse all the time.

J - Jump back 10 seconds.

K - Toggles play/pause.

L - Jump forward 10 seconds.

M - Mutes the audio.

The following shortcuts need the player to be clicked once:

Up/down arrows - Volume control.

Left/right arrows - Rewind or fast-forward 5 seconds.

Number keys 1 to 9 - Skip to 10%-90%.

Home - Go to beginning of video.

End - Go to end of video.

F - Fullscreen mode ON.

Esc - Fullscreen mode OFF.

2. Make video into GIF image

    Here is a neat trick to create any part of a video into a GIF image. You can do this by entering “gif” into the address bar just after “www”. An example: “www.gifyoutube.com/watchttt”. Once you type and press enter, you will be taken to a gif tool page, where you can choose the section of the YouTube video you want to convert.

3. Slow Motion

    You can slow down any video in YouTube by holding down the space bar. This will cause the video to play and pause continuously that it will make the video move in slow motion. If you head onto www.youtubeslow.com and enter your video URL, you can get advanced options, including slow motion, speed up the video, etc.

4. Specific start time

    If you want the video to start a video from a specific start time, all you have to do is enter #t=xxmxxs, where xx can be changed to numerical value to set the starting minute and second. So if you just want to share a certain portion of the video, you can use this trick.

5. Stats For Nerds

    You can also get additional nerd information about the video being played like bandwidth, frame details, delay, etc. you can get the Stats for Nerds by right-clicking on the video.

    I hope you found these YouTube tricks useful. So go ahead and use these tips to enhance your YouTube experience.

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Khurshid Kamar

    Khurshid Kamar is a student of Computer Science Engineering who has merged his
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