SAN BRUNO, Calif — While videos uploaded by camera phones to YouTube can be entertaining and authoritative, they can be awfully wobbly. A new tool from the YouTube allows video producers to smooth out the shakiness.

The improved stabilization feature is perhaps the most significant of the new set of online editing tools unveiled by YouTube last month.  (The first version of the stabilization tool was introduced in March.)

For an overview on the updated editing tools, we visited the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California last week for this interview with Jason Toff, Product Manager.

Andy Plesser