Create YouTube Shorts

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

The latest Shorts creation tools make information technology fast, fun, and easy to be a creator on YouTube.

YouTube Shorts

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

Create a Short

Creating a Short with YouTube's short-grade video creation tools allows you to tape one or more clips that add upwardly to 60 seconds. While recording with the Shorts photographic camera, employ the progress bar at the superlative of your screen to see how many segments you've recorded, and the length of each.

To create a brusk video on YouTube:

  1. Sign in to the YouTube app.
  2. Tap Createaddition signand then""Create a Curt.
  3. To make your Short longer than 15 seconds, tap 15s in the upper-right corner to tape up to 60 seconds (60).
  4. To record a prune, hold Capture or tap it to showtime recording and then again to stop.
  5. Tap Disengage to remove the previous video prune you lot recorded or tap Redo to add information technology back.
  6. Tap Close and then cull to Start over or to Save every bit draft and exit the camera.
  7. Tap Done"" to preview and enhance your video.
  8. Tap Dorsum to return to the tape screen. You can also tap Back after yous've made edits to Starting time over or to Relieve as draft and exit the editor. Saving a typhoon at this point saves any edits you've made.
  9. Tap NEXT to add together details to your video. From this screen, add together a title (max 100 characters), and cull settings, similar video privacy.
    Note: The default video privacy setting for creators anile 13–17 is individual. If you're xviii or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Anybody can change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.
  10. Tap Select auditionand then "Yes, it's made for kids" or "No, it'southward not fabricated for kids" to choose your audience. Larn more about made for kids.
  11. Tap UPLOAD SHORT to publish your Short.

Enhance your Shorts while recording

Add music or other sound

Accompany your Shorts with a song or other sound clip. The music and sounds found in our library are complimentary of accuse to use, but only for personal, non-commercial utilise, unless y'all have the advisable licenses.

To observe our Audio Library when yous're ready to record, tap Add sound. Make your selection and and then record up to xv seconds.

When you use content from our library or sample content from another video, you lot may see a "Shorts library with third-party content" brake in YouTube Studio. If yous use copyright-protected content in your Shorts outside of YouTube's cosmos tools, your video may go a Content ID claim or be removed due to a copyright removal request.

Adjust recording speed

Tap Speed to speed up or tedious down recording.

Record with a timer

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

Employ filters

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

Add different filters to each segment every bit yous record, or employ them in the editing screen afterward you record. We'll continue to bring more filters and effects over the coming year.

Add a groundwork

Align frames

Adjust segments

Tap Trim to choose the perfect starting point or trim video segments that are a function of your Short.

Import segments

How to quickly make Shorts with videos & photos from your camera gyre

While in the record screen, tap the gallery button in the lower-left corner to import clips into your Short or select a longer video to trim to threescore seconds or less.

Navigating the import feel is piece of cake:

  • For videos over 60 seconds, employ the slider to apace jump to the desired moment in your video.
  • Tap and drag the handles on the video filmstrip to choose where the video starts and ends.
  • Tap the elapsing (15 seconds or 60 seconds) in the upper-right corner to change the length of your Short.

Add text & sound after you record

Add audio

To add a song or other sound bite after you lot record, tap Sound. Make your selection and then record upward to 15 seconds.

Use Bookto control the rest between the original audio track and the other audio.

When yous employ content from our library or sample content from another video, you may encounter a "Shorts library with third-party content" restriction in YouTube Studio. If you utilise copyright-protected content in your Shorts exterior of YouTube's cosmos tools, your video may get a Content ID claim or be removed due to a copyright removal request.

Add text

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

You can too utilise Timeline  for fifty-fifty more control.

Adjust timeline

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

Drag the showtime and stop points of a text clip to control when text shows in your Short and when it disappears. Utilize this characteristic to trigger unlike messages at different times in your video.

To reorder text clips, tap and concord them. Move clips from elevation to lesser to control the front to back guild your text is shown.

Create Shorts from Clips

Turn clips of your videos into Shorts to share more moments with your audition.

To transform your clip into a Brusk:

  1. Notice a prune of a video or live stream that belongs to yous.
  2. Nether the video, click Create  to open up the clip in the Shorts creation feel.
    Note: Some clips may be restricted from existence turned into a Short if the source video is restricted.
  3. Pan left or right to adjust the crop of your video.
  4. Drag the sides of the timeline bar below the prototype to adjust the prune'southward showtime and cease times and then tap NEXT.
  5. Add together other optional creative touches, such as text and then tap NEXT.
  6. Add together details to your video and then tap UPLOAD Brusque.

Only yous can create Shorts from your clips, but others may still sample your other content to create Shorts. Learn more about sampling content to create Shorts.

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