Update: TubeChop’s website is currently inactive.
Here’s an Internet thing I hate: I’m reading a blog post about something excellent. And somewhere in the middle of the post, there’s an embedded video.
And right below the video, there’s a little note in italics. It reads something like, “The good part of the video starts at 2:17.”
I hate that.
Don’t get me wrong: I love YouTube. But it has a weakness, and that’s that you can’t be selective with individual sections from a video. If I want to show my readers a short clip from the middle of a seven minute video, I’m stuck.
But then I discovered this week’s tool, which fixes that gap in the YouTube sharing system.
TubeChop: A Slicer For YouTube Videos.
TubeChop is a brilliant little website that lets you cut down a YouTube video to only the part you really like.
Using TubeChop, you can easily trim a video down. All you need to do is indicate the start and stop points you want.
TubeChop gives you a link to share your chopped video, or you can grab the embed code and add the video to your story.
So that’s how you can take this YouTube video — a full 90 seconds of characters from “The Big Lebowski” saying “dude,” which, frankly, is kind of overkill — and turn it into a more manageable seven seconds of dude-related awesomeness.
TubeChop’s probably not something you’ll need every day. But it’s definitely worth bookmarking — soon enough, I bet you’ll be working on a blog post that demands it.
To get started with Tube Chop, click here — it won’t cost you a cent.
Now get out there and tell some great stories today!