Create YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts is a mode for anyone to turn an idea into a take chances to connect with new audiences anywhere in the world. All yous need is a smartphone and the Shorts photographic camera congenital right in the YouTube app.

The latest Shorts creation 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 Brusk

Creating a Short with YouTube's short-grade video creation tools allows you to tape 1 or more clips that add upward to 60 seconds. While recording with the Shorts camera, use the progress bar at the peak of your screen to see how many segments y'all'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 Brusk.
  3. To make your Curt longer than 15 seconds, tap fifteen above the tape button to record upwardly to sixty seconds (lx).
    Notation: Recording with music from our library or the original audio from other videos is limited to 15 seconds.
  4. To record a clip, agree the capture button  or tap information technology to commencement recording and and so again to end.
  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 Start over or to Save as draft and exit the camera.
  7. Tap washed" " to preview and enhance your video.
  8. Tap back to render to the record screen. You tin can also tap back afterwards y'all've made edits to Discard edits or to Relieve as draft 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 a title (max 100 characters), and choose settings, similar video privacy.
    Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If y'all're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is gear up to public. Everyone can change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.
  10. Tap Select audienceand then "Yes, information technology'due south fabricated for kids" or "No, information technology's not made for kids" to choose your audition. Learn more almost 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, just only for personal, non-commercial use, unless you have the advisable licenses.

To find our Audio Library when you're ready to record, tap Add together audio. Brand your selection and then tape upwards to 15 seconds.

Accommodate recording speed

Tap Speed to speed up or slow down recording.

Record with a timer

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

Employ filters

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

Add together different filters to each segment as you lot record, or employ them in the editing screen after you lot tape. Nosotros'll continue to bring more than filters and furnishings over the coming year.

Align frames

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

Add text & sound after yous record

Add sound

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

To add a song or other sound bite subsequently you record, tap Audio. Make your selection and then record up to 15 seconds.

Add text

Tap Text to put text on your video after y'all record. Place multiple messages over your video and modify the color, style, and alignment on the screen.

You can also use Timeline  for even more control.

Arrange timeline

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

Elevate the start and stop points of a text prune to control when text shows in your Short and when it disappears. Use this feature to trigger different letters at different times in your video.

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

Upload Shorts

Yous can upload short videos you created without YouTube'southward curt-video cosmos tools.

To upload a Brusk from your device:

  1. Tap Createand thenUpload a video.
  2. Select a video with a square or vertical aspect ratio:
    1. Videos up to 60 seconds will show a trim editor. Drag the sides of the bar to change the video's start and end times. Anything not in the box won't show in the Brusque.
    2. For videos longer than 60 seconds, tap Edit into a Short to trim your video to lx seconds or less.
  3. Tap Side by side to become to the editor screen where you tin add text, filters, music, or other audio to your Short.
    Annotation: 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.Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged thirteen–17 is private. If you're xviii 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, information technology's made for kids" or "No, it's non made for kids" to choose your audition. Learn more about made for kids.
  6. Tap UPLOAD to publish your Short.

If you upload a curt video you lot've created elsewhere, make certain that any copyright-protected fabric yous've used is canonical for your use on YouTube. Using copyright-protected cloth could atomic number 82 to you getting a Content ID claim. Also if a copyright owner sends us a valid and complete copyright takedown notice against your short video, it may be removed, and y'all could get a copyright strike.

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