Create YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts is a fashion for anyone to plough an idea into a take chances to connect with new audiences anywhere in the earth. All y'all need is a smartphone and the Shorts camera built right in the YouTube app.

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

The Shorts photographic camera in the YouTube app is not available on tablets correct at present.

Create a Brusque

Creating a Short with YouTube's short-form video creation tools allows you to record one or more than clips that add together up to threescore seconds. While recording with the Shorts camera, apply 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 Curt.
  3. To make your Short longer than 15 seconds, tap 15 above the record button to tape upwardly to threescore seconds (60).
    Notation: Recording with music from our library or the original sound from other videos is express to 15 seconds.
  4. To record a clip, hold the capture button  or tap it to start recording and then again to stop.
  5. Tap disengage to remove the previous video prune you recorded or tap redo to add it back.
  6. Tap close and then choose to Outset over or to Salve as draft and exit the camera.
  7. Tap done" " to preview and raise your video.
  8. Tap dorsum to return to the record screen. Y'all can besides tap dorsum afterwards you've made edits to Discard edits or to Save equally draft and exit the editor. Saving a typhoon at this point saves any edits you've made.
  9. Tap Side by side to add details to your video. From this screen, add a title (max 100 characters), and cull settings, similar video privacy.
    Note: The default video privacy setting for creators anile xiii–17 is individual. If you lot're eighteen or older, your default video privacy setting is fix to public. Everyone can change this setting to make their video public, individual, or unlisted.
  10. Tap Select audienceand then "Yes, it's made for kids" or "No, it's not made for kids" to cull your audience. Learn more most made for kids.
  11. Tap UPLOAD to publish your Curt.

Raise your Shorts while recording

Add together music or other audio

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

To find our Audio Library when you're fix to tape, tap Add sound. Make your pick and then record up to xv seconds.

Adjust recording speed

Tap Speed to speed up or boring downwards recording.

Record with a timer

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

Apply filters

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

Add different filters to each segment as you tape, or apply them in the editing screen after yous record. Nosotros'll go on to bring more filters and furnishings over the coming yr.

Align frames

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

Add together text & sound after you lot record

Add sound

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

To add together a vocal or other sound seize with teeth after yous tape, tap Sound. Make your selection and then record upward to fifteen seconds.

Add text

Tap Text to put text on your video after you record. Identify multiple letters over your video and change the color, style, and alignment on the screen.

You can also utilise Timeline  for even more control.

Adjust timeline

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

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

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

Upload Shorts

You lot tin upload short videos yous created without YouTube's curt-video creation tools.

To upload a Curt from your device:

  1. Tap Createand thenUpload a video.
  2. Select a video with a foursquare or vertical aspect ratio:
    1. Videos upwards to 60 seconds volition bear witness a trim editor. Drag the sides of the bar to alter the video's outset and end times. Anything not 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 lx seconds or less.
  3. Tap NEXT to go to the editor screen where you 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 details to your video, such as a title (max 100 characters) and the privacy settings.Notation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is individual. If yous're eighteen or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone can change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.
  5. Tap "Select audience" and select "Yes, information technology'south made for kids" or "No, it'due south not fabricated for kids" to choose your audience. Acquire more than almost made for kids.
  6. Tap UPLOAD to publish your Brusque.

If yous upload a brusque video you've created elsewhere, make certain that whatsoever copyright-protected cloth you've used is approved for your apply on YouTube. Using copyright-protected material could atomic number 82 to you getting a Content ID merits. Also if a copyright possessor sends u.s. a valid and consummate copyright takedown observe confronting your short video, it may exist removed, and you could get a copyright strike.

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