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Blocked sources

Keep footage from chosen YouTube channels and videos out of your videos — for your whole account, for one planner channel, or for your whole team.

Some footage you never want in your videos: a competitor's uploads, a channel that re-uploads other people's work, or one particular video. Put them on a block list and VidNext never takes clips from them. Open the account menu in the top-right corner and pick Blocked sources Show me in the app ↗.

Settings → Blocked sources: the paste box and the account's blocked channels and videos — Settings → Blocked sources: paste channel or video links; the channels and videos already blocked are listed below.

Block a channel or a video

All my videos Show me in the app ↗ is the list for your whole account. It applies to every video you make: on the create page, in the Planner, with Autopilot and through the API.

Paste one link or many Show me in the app ↗ — channel links, @handles or video links, one per line — and press Block Show me in the app ↗. A video link blocks just that video. To block the whole channel that uploaded it, set Video links block Show me in the app ↗ to Its whole channel. VidNext looks each channel up on YouTube, so the list shows its name and picture. A line it can't read stays in the box with the reason, so you can fix it and press Block again.

A list holds up to 500 channels and videos. Remove Show me in the app ↗ takes one off the list, and Undo puts it back.

A list for one channel

A planner channel can have its own list too, for footage that's wrong for that channel only. Open the channel's Settings and go to Blocked sources Show me in the app ↗. It works like the account list and saves as soon as you add or remove something. The channel's competitors are listed above the box: one click blocks a competitor's footage Show me in the app ↗ for this channel.

A video made for the channel skips both lists: the channel's own and your account list. Planner channels Show me in the app ↗ on the Blocked sources page shows how big each channel's list is, with a link to it.

The channel editor, Blocked sources: competitors one click away, the paste box and the channel's own list — The channel editor's Blocked sources: competitors one click away, the paste box and the channel's own list.

Block a clip from the editor

In the editor, select a clip: under its preview you see the video it comes from — and its channel, when VidNext knows it. The ⋯ menu next to them Show me in the app ↗ has Never use clips from this channel and Never use this video. Choose All my videos or — for a video of one of your planner channels — just that channel, then press Block Show me in the app ↗. The clip itself stays until you swap it, and Find a different clip opens right there.

A clip's source line with its ⋯ menu open: never use clips from this channel, or this video — The ⋯ menu on a clip's source line: block its channel or just the video, for all your videos or only this channel.

Your team

A team owner can share their account list with the team: turn on Blocked sources Show me in the app ↗ in Team → Sharing, and the list applies to every member's videos as well. Members see it on their own Blocked sources page under From your team Show me in the app ↗, but only the owner can change it.

How it works

VidNext skips blocked channels and videos whenever it looks for YouTube footage: for a new video, when you redo a step, and when you search for a clip in the editor.
A change counts from the next search. Clips already in a finished video stay until you swap them in the editor.
A link you paste yourself in the editor is always used. If it comes from a channel on one of your lists, the editor says so.
The lists cover YouTube footage only. Stock video and your own uploads aren't affected.
The same footage uploaded again by another channel isn't caught. Block that channel too.