Hi just wanted to have a little rant on a new feature that's been introduced by YouTube For content producers like me, it's the N screen feature. Now this has been much requested and is solves a really annoying problem for us YouTube content producers and let me show you what I'm talking about here. you've probably seen at the end of videos for example, like mine and many content producers, Youtubers including myself have at the end of the video. You typically have these little windows here with videos that you can click on, little animated videos and you'll have other links like going to subscribe and things like that.

so you can subscribe to my channel or you can visit my eevblog website or you can support me on patreon and stuff like that and I've been doing this for a long time. It's a little bit annoying now to actually embed these types of videos because you have to bake them into your video you have to edit them in and it really is quite annoying like a recent one. For example, let me show you my one of my video editor here which is a Sony movie studio and you can see at the end of the timeline here: I Actually put in four separate videos here because I had other videos which might be which people might find interesting on exactly the same topic the oscilloscope there. So I've had to actually embed these videos in there and put the overlays on there and everything else and it takes a bit of work.

I haven't been I didn't do that a lot back In the early days, but in more recent times I have actually been going to the effort to do that because people do click on these things and anyway, you've got to embed these in your videos. And once you've done that and then you can use the annotation feature where it is a 10. it's now called in screen and annotation but it used to be just annotations where you can add. Anyone can do this.

Any Youtube producer is here we go. I Add in these different elements down in here, right? So this is annotation. so I can add specific annotations. Spotlights you can add speech bubbles, notes, titles, spotlights, labels, all that sort of thing anywhere in your videos and this is Annotations are a fantastic feature, especially for technical videos like mine where often old say something stupid, get something wrong I'll miss something or I want to add something after I've edited the video and uploaded it to YouTube because once you upload your video to YouTube that's it.

You cannot edit the video Well, you can edit like the start and the end, but you can't like chop out a bit in the middle or you can't add stuff in the middle yet basically cannot edit the video. you're stuck. Otherwise, you've got to actually delete the video, losing all your comments, all your views, everything else and you've got to edit it and then re-upload it from fresh and that's you know. I Very rarely do that, only in exceptional cases.

and annotations are great for adding little technical notes and things like that over the video. and they're also great for adding these types of little you know links to videos and subscriptions and support things and merchandise and all sorts of our stuff that Youtubers have to do full-time Youtubers have to do anyway to make a living from this thing and try and get the extra views and everything else and all that sort of jazz anyway. Ah, so that's great. But the problem with annotations is that here we go.

It actually tells you right here. It now actually warns you annotations don't work on mobiles. And of course, YouTube's really big on mobile content. like something like 30% or something or more of YouTube videos are actually watched on mobile devices now be it phones or tablets or whatever tablets.

and you know it's getting to be a big deal. My viewership actually has less on mobile devices because they're more I Don't know, You know, engineers all have computers. Real computers on their desktop. The name Gary a dinky little phones.

Anyway, it's an important thing. so what they've done is they're added this in screen tool which allows you to do all that stuff that we had to do in the editing before here. You can actually do this in YouTube so you don't have to do it in your video editor. So let's go and have a look at this feature.

Here we go. Annotations don't work on Marlboros Try cards or in screens I Won't go into cards but let's have a look at the in screen - I've got it in here somewhere. Where is it? Here we go. This particular video designed a bit of multi meter part - which is excellent by the way.

if you haven't seen it, I'm using the end screen the new end screen feature and basically it allows you to add elements in a similar sort of way. You can add videos or playlists. you can add subscription and stuff like that and their channels and that's exactly what I've done here. I've added these three elements.

One is a video up in the corner there which I can drag around and put it anywhere on that screen. So basically what I do is in my video editor now it only allows you to use the last 20 seconds. Here's the first really annoying thing about this: I can't scroll this timeline down here. I Can make a smaller or wider but this end screen only works in the last 20 seconds.

That's it. So to actually use this, I've got to put like a still image at the end here to use it for 20. That lasts for 20 seconds so that I've got something to that's in the background. So I put my image there and so yeah, this is great.

Okay you can add all these things. There's a link to my Patreon account, there's a link to my website which is, you know I don't. You can add custom images and stuff like that, but that fits in the hand nicely and it all looks. you know pretty well.

does that play? It's not even playing. Oh damn. Anyway, there we go. Is that better? Hmm.

Anyway, you can add all this stuff. fantastic right? until right? So if I go into one that's got annotations because a lot of my videos have annotations as I said, useful for putting stuff over the top of the videos anywhere in your video. So I can scroll this along the timeline anywhere here and I can just add a little note and things like that. you know, technical note overlaid on the video.

Yes, I don't work on mobiles, but they're bloody useful and they're fantastic. A sensual feature for any Youtuber These annotations. But if you go, if you want to add your end screen okay, you've added all your annotations. look what? What? What? My end screen elements and annotations cannot be used on the same video.

Why? I Know that annotations can't be used on mobiles? Fine, but why can't I have both? I Basically has to have to choose between having the nice new feature of 20 seconds at the end of my video. where I can add my little thumbnail videos and you know, links to my patreon and website and everything else. Or I can have annotations and choose to correct my videos afterwards. I can't have both.

Why: it's bloody ridiculous if I actually do this. Yes, Unpublish I Know, Go to annotations. Yes, unpublish annotations and create n Screen. It's like unbelievable.

so like it. Fantastic new feature right in screen. I Like it. It's a winner except for the fact that it's only the last 20 seconds.

But hey, I can live with that limitation. but then to not be able to use annotations is just ridiculous. Why? What is the technical reason why they can't have both? I I Don't know. like there must be a technical reason? Write it there.

there has to be. but I don't get it. If anyone knows, please leave it in the comments. But this is absolutely stupid.

So when this the N screen feature first came out I Thought fantastic. I'll do that. all my stuff don't have to do it in the video editor anymore I just do it in YouTube and I can change it a later point and the winning concept. but then I were and then it deleted all of my annotations that I added to the thing.

It's just insane. It's an absolutely insane limitation and so frustrating. So I've gone back now to just doing it the old way because I need annotation support in my videos. So I've just got back to doing it the old way with the video editor and everything else.

So there you go: I don't know I just wanted to have a rant about that n-screen feature is just that limitation is ridiculous. So if anyone knows or have had any comments from YouTube over this or if anyone else is frustrated by this, leave it in the comments. Catch you next time.