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Link Buttons in YouTube To create link buttons in YouTube we use Annotations

**Creating or editing annotations**

The Annotations Editor is a creator tool that lets you layer text, hotspots and links over your video, thus enriching experience with information, interactivity and engagement. This is a basic overview of how to access and use the Annotations Editor. For a more advanced guide to help you get the most out of the Annotations Editor, look here.

To access the Annotations Editor in the simplest way: 2. Next to the video you wish to edit, click the **down arrow** (on the right of the **Insight**button) and select **Annotations** This will launch the Annotations Editor for the selected video. 3. This will take you to the 'Add Annotations Editor' 4. press the pause button to stop playback and drag the cursor through your movie until you reach the point you want to add your button. 5. Click the '+ Add annotations' button 6. Select 'Spotlight' 7. This will give you a box which you can drag around your first button Pull the top left white square to match the top left of your button image, and repeat with the bottom right square, so your button is correctly covered by the highlight box you have just created. Repeat the process (steps 5 to 7) and add annotations for all your other buttons.
 * 1. Sign in** to your YouTube account and click your **username** located in the top right corner of any page. From the drop down menu, select **My Videos **

8. You will notice that after each annotation is added, a blue bar is added to the timeline. This is the position in time the 'button' appears and duration of the animation that the annotation 'button' is on for. As we scrubbed through the timeline to the point we wanted the animation to appear, the blue bars start at the point in the timeline we require them already. We now just need to make sure they last for the duration of the animation from this point.



To do this - first select the annotation by clicking on it - this will give you some thick blue 'handles', then just 'grab' the right hand blue bar handle with your mouse and drag all the way to the end of the timeline

Alternatively, you can type in the start and end time using the type in boxes.

9. Next we need to link each of our annotation buttons to the respective videos. We do this by first clicking on one of the blue bars in the timeline. When you select one, the respective 'button' will be highlighted in the video window. Now click the 'Link' radio button to activate it.



10. This will allow you to add a link to another video. you now need to enter the url (address) of your chosen video.



This most likely will be another youtube video you have uploaded already.

11. To get the address, open a new window, go to youtube.com, select 'my videos' from the drop down list on your name in the top right

12. Click on the video you want to link to



13. when it loads, select and copy ('command + c' - mac, 'CTRL + c' - PC) the url from the address bar.



14. Go back to your annotations window and paste this address into the address bar.



15. Repeat this (steps 9 to 14) for all your other buttons. When you have finished, click 'Publish' and your work is done.



15. Now navigate to your main movie in YouTube and play the movie. At the end of the main movie - use your mouse to select one of your buttons and - if you did everything right - you will be taken to the correct link.

16. Have a cup of tea. You are now a non linear film producer. You have also earned a biscuit.