I have a 11 minute video on youtube in which I have used an audio track for around 40 seconds while demonstrating features of a music player. After more than an year, youtubes system identified the song and gave me a copyright notice. I still believe my usage falls within the fair usage of copyright law, but since I received the notice I thought I'll remove the 40 second audio out of the video. This can be done within youtube and you do not need any editing software for this.
To remove a song from a video with copyright notice, go to your video manager and locate the particular video. Right next to the video thumbnail, you have an edit button and a downward facing arrow/triangle. Click this down arrow and this opens a submenu with different options to perform on this video. Click on 'audio'.
This opens audio editing page for this video. The page prominently displays the message "We detected your video has copyrighted audio that may affect its availability...". Scroll towards the bottom of the video and you can see "Remove a Song'Beta" "one track found in your video"(or the number of tracks found). Below this, it will list the track name with a button "Remove this song". Click this button. The button immediately changes to "Undo song removal". Thats all you have to do, click the "Save" button on the page to save changes and thats it. The song will be removed and so is the copyright notice. You are safe now.
My video already has received more than 80,000 views and the "Save" button was not available. The only option I had was "Save As" button. It displays the message "You can't save these changes to this video because it has received too many views. You may save changes into a new video by using Save As". I had to use this since I wanted to remove the song.
The song is neatly removed from my video. The portion of the video has my voice over the song and my voice is preserved/retained perfectly without any loss in the saved video. I must appreciate how well youtube removed the song without effecting the voice over. My only gripe is that since my video has many views, it created a new video which now starts from 0 views, likes and comments. The old video was still available but I deleted it.
The song editing page also lists several featured tracks and you can search from other tracks available. When any of these tracks is selected, the whole audio in your video will be replaced. So in case you have voice over, it is best to use "Remove the song" rather than replace it with a track. Anyway, you have option to rever to original, so don't worry.
Update : As I said above, I had to use "Save As" which created new video which is a copy of the original video minus the song neatly removed. However, the annotations that were there in the original video were not recreated. I had to add all the annotations again. Apart from that, the new video also looses the search rankings.
To remove a song from a video with copyright notice, go to your video manager and locate the particular video. Right next to the video thumbnail, you have an edit button and a downward facing arrow/triangle. Click this down arrow and this opens a submenu with different options to perform on this video. Click on 'audio'.
This opens audio editing page for this video. The page prominently displays the message "We detected your video has copyrighted audio that may affect its availability...". Scroll towards the bottom of the video and you can see "Remove a Song'Beta" "one track found in your video"(or the number of tracks found). Below this, it will list the track name with a button "Remove this song". Click this button. The button immediately changes to "Undo song removal". Thats all you have to do, click the "Save" button on the page to save changes and thats it. The song will be removed and so is the copyright notice. You are safe now.
My video already has received more than 80,000 views and the "Save" button was not available. The only option I had was "Save As" button. It displays the message "You can't save these changes to this video because it has received too many views. You may save changes into a new video by using Save As". I had to use this since I wanted to remove the song.
The song is neatly removed from my video. The portion of the video has my voice over the song and my voice is preserved/retained perfectly without any loss in the saved video. I must appreciate how well youtube removed the song without effecting the voice over. My only gripe is that since my video has many views, it created a new video which now starts from 0 views, likes and comments. The old video was still available but I deleted it.
The song editing page also lists several featured tracks and you can search from other tracks available. When any of these tracks is selected, the whole audio in your video will be replaced. So in case you have voice over, it is best to use "Remove the song" rather than replace it with a track. Anyway, you have option to rever to original, so don't worry.
Update : As I said above, I had to use "Save As" which created new video which is a copy of the original video minus the song neatly removed. However, the annotations that were there in the original video were not recreated. I had to add all the annotations again. Apart from that, the new video also looses the search rankings.
Thanks for posting this. I have a copyright notice on one of my videos as was wondering whether replacing the audio would affect the voice over. I'm glad I found this post before selecting that option!
ReplyDeleteGlad this was of some help to you and hope you successfully removed the copyright notice.
ReplyDeleteGlad this was of some help to you and hope you successfully removed the copyright notice.
ReplyDeleteThanks i have remove it without save as. and i was 160,000 view but why they after 1 month identified song
ReplyDeleteI have a video blocked worldwide for a song match but this feature does NOT appear in the audio section, and this does not work because they won't give me the option. The video has no views and it won't even give me the option where every other site like this is telling me it should be. Why doesn't this work for everyone, and why is it not showing up for me on this video???
ReplyDelete