Preview and review changes

When using the YouTube Studio Editor, it's crucial to preview all your changes before saving and review your published video in the watch page afterwards. YouTube Studio Editor does not offer an option to revert your video to its original, pre-edited state after changes are saved.

Preview your edited video

To preview video edits before saving:

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
2. From the left menu, select Content .
3. Click the video that you'd like to edit.
4. From the left menu, click Editor .
5. Continue with one of the desired edits.
6. To review the changes:
   • For Trim & cut, click Preview and review the edited video.
   • For Audio, wait for the preview to refresh after you select a new track and press the play button.
   • For Blur, wait for the preview to refresh after you add a blur, and press the play button.
7. If you are happy with the changes, click Save.
   • If you want to cancel or start over, click Discard changes.
8. Carefully read the acknowledgements and select “I acknowledge that these changes are permanent.”
9. Click Confirm changes.

If you use YouTube Studio Editor to remove claimed content from your video, you can do the following to review the changes before publishing:

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
2. From the left menu, select Content .
3. Click the filter bar Copyright.
4. Find the video that you're interested in.
5. In the Restrictions column, hover over Copyright.
6. Click See Details.
7. Under the Content used section, find the relevant claim and click Take action Trim out segment, Replace song, or Erase song.
8. Continue with one of the desired edits.
9. To review the changes:
   • If you selected Erase song, after selecting changes toggle Preview and wait for the new preview to generate, then review it.
   • If you selected Replace song, after changes wait for the preview to generate and press play under the video.
   • If you selected Trim out segment, after selecting changes toggle Preview and wait for the new preview to generate, then review it.
10. If you are happy with the changes, click Save.
    • If you want to cancel or start over, click Discard changes.
11. Carefully read the acknowledgements and select “I acknowledge that these changes are permanent.”
12. Click Confirm changes.

Review changes after editing videos with multi-language audio

For videos with multi-language audio tracks, YouTube Studio Editor currently does not have the preview option for the secondary language tracks. You can preview only the video with the primary audio track. If you edit a video with the multi-language audio track uploaded manually, we will apply the same edits to all manually uploaded secondary audio tracks. We strongly encourage you to review the secondary tracks in the watch page after the edit is saved and published, and the secondary tracks are processed.

If the newly processed multi-language tracks do not meet your expectations, you can replace them with your own manually edited tracks to better match the new video.