The Yuja platform includes a basic video editor that runs from your web browser, allowing you to make edits, add titles, and/or combine clips without downloading the videos. Note that these tools are rudimentary - more advanced editing involving multiple clips, sound editing, etc. would be better accomplished using a full-feature offline editor such as iMovie or Camtasia.

This article will demonstrate how to trim the start or end of a video (a task where it might make sense to edit using YuJa). Please see the bottom of this page for links to the vendor's full documentation, which provides a more thorough description of the YuJa editor tools available.

Launching the editor:

To follow these instructions, you'll need to be signed in at https://ualberta.yuja.com with your CCID. Once signed in, click "Manage media" at the top of the page.

When you hover your cursor over a video in your media library, clicking the Edit option will launch the Yuja video editor in your web browser:

Trimming the start and end from a video:

1. Drag the playback head to the point you’d like the video to start from, then select the “cut” button to make a new cut. Note that in the Yuja editor, a “cut” refers to a section omitted from playback:

2. Hover your cursor over the timeline again, and it will highlight a cut between the playback head and wherever you click in the timeline:

3. If you double click on the grey section (the cut) you can set precise in/out points. for this example, we’ll set the start time to 0:0:0 to make sure that the clip begins at 10 seconds with no frames from before:

4. To trim the end, we’ll repeat the process: Put the playback head where the cut begins, select the cut tool, then click on the timeline towards the end of the video:

5. Click the “save” button at the top to save your video, either as a new copy or replacing the original (the original goes to your recycle bin):

Links to vendor documentation:

Overview of Video Editor

Overview of Editing Features

Advanced Options for Video Editor