#Annotation edit freeze youtube pro

#Annotation edit freeze youtube pro

We linked our Note annotation to a landing page, so we chose to link to an 'Associated Website.' Pro tip: Use tracking tokens on the website URL to gauge the success of this annotation using your own marketing software. Choose exact start and end times for the annotations. To add a link, tick the checkbox next to 'Link' and choose what type of page you'll link to. Step 4: Add text, choose your font, size, background color, and transparency. Here's what a Label looks like when your mouse is not hovering over it:Īnd here's what the same Label looks like when your mouse is hovering over it: The configuration options are also a little different from Spotlight, so test both of them out and see which one works best for your needs. Labels are quite similar to spotlights, except they have a slightly different look: The text appears within the frame you defined, instead of underneath it. Here's what a Spotlight looks like when your mouse is not hovering over it:Īnd here's what the same Spotlight looks like when your mouse is hovering over it: Spotlights are linkable, and they're useful for making specific areas of the video frame clickable to other websites, YouTube videos, and so on. When the viewer moves the mouse over the box, a text box appears underneath it. Spotlights highlight a specific area in a video, defined by you, with a dark grey box. The title annotation is useful if you didn't put a title in your video before uploading it to YouTube. Titles are text overlays used to title your video. You can choose the font size, font color (limited to black and white), and background color of your Note. Notes are pop-up boxes containing text, which you can use to add on informative information. They're also linkable - we'll talk about links in the next step. You can move the 'point' of the Speech Bubbles to face any direction you'd like.

Speech bubbles are pop-up speech bubbles containing text. For this tutorial, we chose the note option. Step 3: Click 'Add Annotation' to add a new annotation, and choose from the five annotation types in the pull-down menu: Speech bubble, Note, Title, Spotlight, or Label. Click the arrow next to 'Edit' and choose 'Annotations' from the drop-down menu. Step 2: Find the video you want to add annotations to using the search bar. Step 1: Log in to YouTube, click into your channel page (by clicking 'My Channel' in the left-hand navigation bar), and go to your Video Manager. Before you begin, make sure the video you'd like to annotate is already uploaded to YouTube.