# When does the Youtube Video Editor recompress the video

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 9, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-the-youtube-video-editor-recompress-the-video/774300 "2016-12-09T20:15:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-the-youtube-video-editor-recompress-the-video/774300/1 "2016-12-09T20:15:08Z")

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Or recompile, or reprocess- you know what I mean.  
And thus degrade the quality?

Inserting new clips into the video?  
Cutting clips in the middle of the video?  
Stabilizing the video?  
Adding annotations?

I have a video up I’d like to modify, but don’t want to reupload and lose the comments nor degrade the quality.