Below the expectations

YouTube Studio experience

Are you a mobile video enthusiast or a YouTuber then this post will be more relatable for you.

YouTube is integral part of our mobile video content needs. Many of us are content creator as well apart from just watching YouTube videos.

With smartphones it is ever so easy to shoot a video spontaneously and upload it to YouTube.

But the real task is to edit the video with appropriate graphics and music so that the video makes sense to others, and not just to you.

This is where the flow is interrupted. YouTube expects you to use their Website or Web app for even very basic video trim and let you use their free sounds library. And here that seamless user experience is broken.

Scenario1:

If you have a good configuration smartphone and are apps savvy you will somehow find an app to edit and will manage your video shoot, edit and upload with in the phone.

Scenario2:

If you are a professional or a pro computer and phone user you will find ways to edit and do whatever you wanted to add in your video anyways.

But you will be doing a lot of unproductive tasks such as bringing the phone footage to your laptop/desktop or switching different apps to accomplish your desired video output.

Though, finding copyright free music, still be a concern. Internet is full of crass websites claiming to give you free stock sounds and music.

Why Google wants it’s YouTube users to get back to desktop for accessing it’s free sounds library?

When everything is on a smartphone app?? Microsoft successfully brought it’s desktop applications to mobile so has Adobe done a lot of advances in bringing it’s applications on mobile phones.

A Google Play store search for YouTube will bring you 3 Apps YouTube, YouTube Kids and YouTube Studio. As a video creator you will think this YouTube Studio is the app you were looking for all this while.

Wow, a Google made YouTube Studio! and expectations start building up. People who have used their YouTube Studio web version will dream of using trim and edit features…custom thumbnail and music library etc.

You install the app and open it… what?

Where are the video edit features ? The music libraries?? Where are the bonus features which are possible in a mobile application these days???

This is analytics app… a YouTube Channel statistics. Only you can view your channel stats. If anything you can edit here is just the text items like: title, description and add tags… otherwise it’s a ‘read only file’ 😆

YouTube Studio is not a video editing tool.

May be they have given a wrong name to the app? 🤔

If you are a creator you will know how eager a creator is to see people’s response after you have uploaded your video on YouTube… views, like, comments etc. in more details than this app is for you.

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Maybe Google has designed this app for Business or Media houses to monitor their videos. If so, there is no boost video type feature either as Facebook has ad creation and boost post features for Facebook page.

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