Three YouTube tricks that your children do not know

YouTube, whether we like it or not, is a platform that our children want madly. On this platform we can find all kinds of videos, from tutorials to information of all kinds, going through gameplays, cartoons, movies, episodes of series and anything else that comes to mind, as strange as it may seem, and sometimes not suitable for all audiences. In addition, it offers us a large number of options to customize our experience, tricks that our children probably do not know and will allow us to get even more out of this platform.

These tricks can also help our children get more out of YouTube, at least in the type of content that they really enjoy or that we want them to consume, although it is not an easy task.

Three YouTube tricks that your children do not know

Advance or rewind the video with the keyboard

Most of the users, when we want to advance a video until we reach the moment that interests us the most, we use the mouse to advance or rewind the video through the timeline. Although it is a very comfortable method, the best way to access the content of the videos without skipping what interests us most is to use the scroll arrows. Every time we click on the arrow to the right, the video will advance 5 seconds , the same time that the video goes back if we press the opposite key.

Add subtitles

When we need to consult information that is not in our language, something unlikely considering that Spanish is the third most used language in the world after Chinese and Hindi, if it is a video, we can use the function automatic translation of YouTube in videos where, natively, they are not present. We can find this function within the toothed wheel, clicking on Subtitles. This feature is also ideal for people who are hard of hearing.

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If the size of the subtitles seems small or too large, we can use the + and – keys to enlarge or reduce their size.

Check the video index

Videos that include some kind of tutorial usually include a table of contents at the bottom, in the video details. Through this index, we can access the exact moment of the video that interests us the most, skipping long introductions or steps that we are not interested in knowing. This type of index is only available if the user who uploaded the video has created it, so it is likely that we will not find it in all the videos.

Modify playback speed

One of the functions that very few people know about YouTube is the possibility of modifying the playback speed of the videos. YouTube allows us to increase or decrease the playback speed , in this way, we can enjoy with greater precision the details that really matter to us and that go unnoticed at normal speed. It also allows us to advance the videos at twice the playback speed until we reach the point of the video that most interests us without skipping any part. This function is available through the cogwheel, within the Playback Speed option.

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Share your favorite moments

One of the newest features added to YouTube, inspired by Twitch, is the ability to make clips of up to 60 seconds and share them with other people. This function is ideal for sharing video fragments where the most relevant information of the video we want to share is shown. The minimum duration of the YouTube video clips that we can share is 15 seconds and the maximum is 60. To create a clip, we must press the clip button represented by scissors and select the section and duration of the video.

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