Create YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts

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

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

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

Create a Short

Creating a Curt with YouTube's brusk-form video cosmos tools allows you to record one or more clips that add upwards to 60 seconds. While recording with the Shorts camera, utilise 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 short 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 15 in a higher place the tape button to record upwardly to 60 seconds (sixty).
    Note: 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 information technology to start recording then over again to terminate.
  5. Tap disengage to remove the previous video prune you recorded or tap redo to add together it dorsum.
  6. Tap close and then choose to First over or to Save equally draft and get out the camera.
  7. Tap done" " to preview and heighten your video.
  8. Tap dorsum to render to the record screen. You can besides tap back subsequently y'all've made edits to Discard edits or to Relieve as typhoon and exit the editor. Saving a draft at this point saves any edits you've made.
  9. Tap NEXT to add details to your video. From this screen, add together a championship (max 100 characters), and choose settings, like video privacy.
    Annotation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged thirteen–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin can alter this setting to make their video public, individual, or unlisted.
  10. Tap Select audienceand then "Yes, it's made for kids" or "No, information technology'south not made for kids" to cull your audition. Learn more than well-nigh fabricated for kids.
  11. Tap UPLOAD to publish your Short.

Enhance your Shorts while recording

Add music or other audio

Accompany your Shorts with a song or other audio clip. The music and sounds plant in our library are free to use, merely just for personal, non-commercial use, unless you have the appropriate licenses.

To find our Audio Library when you're ready to record, tap Add sound. Make your selection and so tape up to 15 seconds.

Accommodate recording speed

Tap Speed to speed up or tiresome down recording.

Record with a timer

Tap Timer to set the countdown to record hands-gratuitous and choose when to automatically stop recording.

Utilise filters

Tap Filters  to pick from a selection of artistic and contrasting filters that let you change the vibe of your Curt.

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

Marshal frames

Tap Align  to line upwards your side by side clip using a transparent overlay of the last frame you captured.

Add text & sound after you record

Add sound

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

To add a song or other audio bite afterward you record, tap Sound. Brand your selection and then tape upward to xv seconds.

Add text

Tap Text to put text on your video after you tape. Place multiple letters over your video and alter the color, mode, and alignment on the screen.

You can as well use Timeline  for even more control.

Adjust timeline

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

Drag the starting time and cease points of a text clip to control when text shows in your Curt and when it disappears. Employ this characteristic to trigger different messages at unlike times in your video.

To reorder text clips, tap and concur them. Movement clips from top to lesser to command the front to dorsum order your text is shown.

Upload Shorts

Y'all tin upload short videos you created without YouTube's curt-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 aspect ratio:
    1. Videos up to threescore seconds will prove a trim editor. Elevate the sides of the bar to modify the video'south commencement and terminate times. Annihilation non in the box won't testify in the Curt.
    2. For videos longer than 60 seconds, tap Edit into a Short to trim your video to 60 seconds or less.
  3. Tap NEXT to go to the editor screen where yous tin can add text, filters, music, or other sound to your Short.
    Notation: Audio picked from our library is limited to fifteen-second clips.
  4. Tap Next to add details to your video, such as a title (max 100 characters) and the privacy settings.Annotation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you lot're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin can modify this setting to brand their video public, individual, or unlisted.
  5. Tap "Select audience" and select "Yeah, information technology'south made for kids" or "No, it'south not fabricated for kids" to choose your audience. Acquire more than about made for kids.
  6. Tap UPLOAD to publish your Short.

If you lot upload a short video you've created elsewhere, make sure that any copyright-protected material you've used is canonical for your use on YouTube. Using copyright-protected textile could lead to you getting a Content ID claim. Too if a copyright owner sends us a valid and complete copyright takedown notice against your short video, information technology may be removed, and you could get a copyright strike.

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