Create YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts is a fashion for anyone to turn an thought into a chance to connect with new audiences anywhere in the world. All you lot need is a smartphone and the Shorts camera built right in the YouTube app.

The latest Shorts cosmos tools make information technology fast, fun, and piece of cake to be a creator on YouTube.

The Shorts photographic camera in the YouTube app is non available on tablets correct now.

Create a Short

Creating a Brusque with YouTube'due south short-grade video cosmos tools allows you to tape i or more than clips that add up to 60 seconds. While recording with the Shorts camera, apply the progress bar at the peak of your screen to come across 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 fifteen seconds, tap xv above the record push to record upward to threescore seconds (threescore).
    Notation: Recording with music from our library or the original audio from other videos is express to 15 seconds.
  4. To record a clip, hold the capture button  or tap it to starting time recording then once again to stop.
  5. Tap disengage to remove the previous video prune you lot recorded or tap redo to add it back.
  6. Tap close and then choose to Start over or to Save as draft and exit the photographic camera.
  7. Tap done" " to preview and raise your video.
  8. Tap back to return to the tape screen. You tin also tap dorsum after you've made edits to Discard edits or to Save as draft and leave the editor. Saving a draft at this point saves whatsoever edits you've made.
  9. Tap Side by side to add together details to your video. From this screen, add together a title (max 100 characters), and choose settings, like video privacy.
    Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you're xviii or older, your default video privacy setting is gear up to public. Everyone can change this setting to brand their video public, private, or unlisted.
  10. Tap Select audienceand then "Yes, it'south made for kids" or "No, information technology's not fabricated for kids" to choose your audience. Acquire more than about made for kids.
  11. Tap UPLOAD to publish your Short.

Enhance your Shorts while recording

Add together music or other audio

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

To find our Sound Library when yous're ready to record, tap Add audio. Brand your selection and then tape up to xv seconds.

Accommodate recording speed

Tap Speed to speed up or boring down recording.

Record with a timer

Tap Timer to prepare the inaugural to record hands-free and choose when to automatically stop recording.

Apply filters

Tap Filters  to option from a choice of creative and contrasting filters that allow you change the vibe of your Short.

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

Align frames

Tap Align  to line up your next clip using a transparent overlay of the concluding frame you captured.

Add text & sound subsequently yous record

Add together sound

Accompany your Shorts with a vocal or other audio clip. The music and sounds found in our library are free to use, but just for personal, non-commercial use, unless you lot accept the appropriate licenses.

To add a song or other sound seize with teeth subsequently you record, tap Sound. Brand your option and then record up to 15 seconds.

Add text

Tap Text to put text on your video after you record. Place multiple messages over your video and change the color, fashion, and alignment on the screen.

Yous tin can as well use Timeline  for fifty-fifty more control.

Accommodate timeline

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

Drag the start and stop points of a text clip to control when text shows in your Brusk and when it disappears. Apply this characteristic to trigger different messages at different times in your video.

To reorder text clips, tap and agree them. Move clips from tiptop to bottom to command the front end to back order your text is shown.

Upload Shorts

Yous tin upload curt videos you created without YouTube'due south brusque-video cosmos tools.

To upload a Short from your device:

  1. Tap Createand thenUpload a video.
  2. Select a video with a square or vertical attribute ratio:
    1. Videos up to 60 seconds will bear witness a trim editor. Elevate the sides of the bar to modify the video'south start and cease times. Annihilation non in the box won't show in the Short.
    2. For videos longer than 60 seconds, tap Edit into a Short to trim your video to threescore seconds or less.
  3. Tap Next to get to the editor screen where y'all tin can add text, filters, music, or other audio to your Short.
    Note: Sound picked from our library is limited to 15-second clips.
  4. Tap Next to add together details to your video, such as a title (max 100 characters) and the privacy settings.Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is individual. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is fix to public. Everyone can change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.
  5. Tap "Select audience" and select "Yes, it's made for kids" or "No, it'southward not made for kids" to choose your audience. Learn more near fabricated for kids.
  6. Tap UPLOAD to publish your Curt.

If you lot upload a short video you've created elsewhere, brand sure that whatsoever copyright-protected material you've used is approved for your use on YouTube. Using copyright-protected material could lead to you getting a Content ID claim. As well if a copyright possessor sends us a valid and complete copyright takedown notice confronting your brusk video, information technology may be removed, and you could get a copyright strike.

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