You don’t need a huge production budget to make YouTube videos.

Fortunately, YouTube itself has plenty of tools to help stand out and make videos worth watching.

Earn money:Advertising brings its own mess of complications.

Throwing a video on YouTube and randomly sticking ads isn’t as easy as it sounds.

If all of that sounds a little too much like a second job: good.

However, it can be a very involved process if you really want to make a job of it.

So before you get started, decide what key in of YouTube producer you want to be.

That will help inform which tools you need and how many of these lessons you could skip.

You don’t even need to manage your video library.

Simply upload your videos as private and you could start cutting them together.

Google has a basic guide to the editorhere.

If you don’t have a video editor, start with this one.

It’s also very handy if it’s crucial that you make quick edits to existing videos.

YouTube is particularly good about pulling down videos that contain copyrighted soundtracks.

However, YouTube is alsoa music service, so it has a special relationship with artists.

Thead-supported sectionof the library includes popular, recognizable songs that are available to use with certain conditions.

In some cases, your videos may be blocked from certain countries.

In most (if not all) cases, you may not be allowed to monetize your video.

There is also a section for sound effects it’s possible for you to import into your videos.

you’re able to mark sound effects you use as favorites so they’re easier to find later.

you could track traffic to your entire channel, or individual videos and see how it changes over time.

Of course, it doesn’t stop there.

This is Google after all.

Google collects data not just on how many times viewers watched, but how long they stayed.

Estimated minutes watched can show you which videos viewers are spending the most time on.

Playback sources:YouTube’s embedded player allows viewers to watch your videos without ever visiting your site.

However, when used properly, they’re a valuable asset to have.