Mar 23, 2011 13:54 GMT  ·  By

Last year, YouTube introduced the Video Editor, a tool to enable users to adjust their videos, trim the parts they didn't want and stitch together several of them. In time, YouTube added new features slowly turning it into a pretty complete editor for regular users.

Now though, YouTube is introducing a couple of features that make the Video Editor much more than a basic tool, it now offers functionality not available in many so-called professional and paid for tools.

The first is image stabilization, which we previewed recently. The second is even more interesting, it enables users to create real 3D videos using whatever video recorder they have at their disposal and the software provided by YouTube for free.

"Nine months ago we launched our cloud-based video editor. It was a simple product built to provide our users with simple editing tools," YouTube writes.

"Although it didn’t have all the features available on paid desktop editing software, the idea was that the vast majority of people’s video editing needs are pretty basic and straight-forward," it explains.

Even after adding quite a few new features, such as transition effects, rotation, project saving, effects and so on, it was still a basic tool.

"We’re excited to unveil two new features that the team has been working on over the last couple of months that take unique advantage of the cloud," YouTube announced.

Image stabilization is self explanatory, the features enables users to restore shaky and jittery videos making them actually watchable. You can read more about it in our previous coverage.

YouTube is also introducing a 3D video editor. The easiest and cheapest way of filming 3D video is to simply use two cameras, preferably fixed to a mount of some kind, to capture two streams in parallel.

The hard part is merging the two streams for a true 3D video. There are no free tools for this, which is why YouTube is introducing the new 3D video editor.

Just load the two videos in the editor and either let it determine the timeshift needed for the two streams to be in sync and as well as the vertical alignment or provide values for both. The videos are then processed and are made available and viewable via the YouTube 3D player.