Create YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts is a way for anyone to turn an idea into a chance to connect with new audiences anywhere in the world. All y'all need is a smartphone and the Shorts camera congenital right in the YouTube app.

The latest Shorts cosmos tools arrive fast, fun, and easy to be a creator on YouTube.

The Shorts camera in the YouTube app is not available on tablets right now.

Create a Short

Creating a Short with YouTube's short-class video creation tools allows you to tape one or more clips that add up to lx seconds. While recording with the Shorts camera, use the progress bar at the top of your screen to see how many segments you've recorded, and the length of each.

To create a curt video on YouTube:

  1. Sign in to the YouTube app.
  2. Tap createand thenCreate a Short.
  3. To make your Short longer than 15 seconds, tap fifteen above the tape push button to record upwards to 60 seconds (60).
    Annotation: Recording with music from our library or the original audio from other videos is limited to 15 seconds.
  4. To record a clip, concord the capture button  or tap information technology to kickoff recording and and then again to terminate.
  5. Tap undo to remove the previous video clip you recorded or tap redo to add it back.
  6. Tap close and then choose to Kickoff over or to Salvage as draft and get out the camera.
  7. Tap washed" " to preview and enhance your video.
  8. Tap back to return to the record screen. Y'all can also tap dorsum afterwards you lot've fabricated edits to Discard edits or to Save equally typhoon and get out the editor. Saving a draft at this indicate saves any edits you've made.
  9. Tap Next to add details to your video. From this screen, add together a title (max 100 characters), and cull settings, like video privacy.
    Notation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If yous're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is fix to public. Everyone tin change this setting to brand their video public, individual, or unlisted.
  10. Tap Select audienceand then "Yes, it's made for kids" or "No, information technology's non made for kids" to choose your audience. Learn more about made for kids.
  11. Tap UPLOAD to publish your Short.

Enhance your Shorts while recording

Add music or other audio

Back-trail your Shorts with a song or other audio clip. The music and sounds found in our library are free to use, only simply for personal, non-commercial use, unless you have the appropriate licenses.

To detect our Audio Library when you're ready to record, tap Add audio. Brand your option and so record up to 15 seconds.

Adjust recording speed

Tap Speed to speed upwards or slow downward recording.

Tape with a timer

Tap Timer to set the countdown to record hands-free and choose when to automatically terminate recording.

Utilise filters

Tap Filters  to pick from a selection of creative and contrasting filters that let you modify the vibe of your Short.

Add different filters to each segment as y'all record, or utilize them in the editing screen afterwards y'all record. We'll continue to bring more filters and furnishings over the coming year.

Align frames

Tap Align  to line upward your side by side clip using a transparent overlay of the final frame you lot captured.

Add text & sound after you record

Add sound

Accompany your Shorts with a song or other sound clip. The music and sounds found in our library are free to use, but only for personal, not-commercial utilise, unless y'all accept the advisable licenses.

To add a song or other sound bite later yous tape, tap Audio. Make your selection and then record upwardly to 15 seconds.

Add text

Tap Text to put text on your video subsequently you tape. Identify multiple messages over your video and alter the color, style, and alignment on the screen.

You can also utilise Timeline  for fifty-fifty more command.

Adjust timeline

Tap Timeline  to edit when text is shown in your Brusque.

Elevate the start and cease points of a text clip to command when text shows in your Short and when it disappears. Use this characteristic to trigger different messages at different times in your video.

To reorder text clips, tap and concur them. Move clips from top to bottom to command the front to back gild your text is shown.

Upload Shorts

You can upload short videos you created without YouTube's brusque-video cosmos tools.

To upload a Brusque from your device:

  1. Tap Createand thenUpload a video.
  2. Select a video with a square or vertical aspect ratio:
    1. Videos upward to 60 seconds will show a trim editor. Elevate the sides of the bar to change the video's start and end times. Anything not in the box won't show in the Short.
    2. For videos longer than sixty seconds, tap Edit into a Short to trim your video to sixty seconds or less.
  3. Tap Next to go to the editor screen where you can add together text, filters, music, or other audio to your Short.
    Notation: Sound picked from our library is express to 15-2nd clips.
  4. Tap Adjacent to add details to your video, such equally a title (max 100 characters) and the privacy settings.Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If yous're xviii or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Anybody can modify this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.
  5. Tap "Select audience" and select "Aye, it's made for kids" or "No, information technology'southward not made for kids" to choose your audience. Learn more than most made for kids.
  6. Tap UPLOAD to publish your Short.

If yous upload a short video you've created elsewhere, make sure that any copyright-protected textile you've used is approved for your use on YouTube. Using copyright-protected material could lead to you getting a Content ID claim. Likewise if a copyright owner sends us a valid and consummate copyright takedown notice against your short video, it may exist removed, and yous could get a copyright strike.

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