Create YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts is a style for anyone to plow an thought into a chance to connect with new audiences anywhere in the world. All you need is a smartphone and the Shorts 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 Brusk with YouTube's short-form video cosmos tools allows y'all to record one or more than clips that add up to 60 seconds. While recording with the Shorts camera, use 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 15 seconds, tap fifteen higher up the record button to record up to 60 seconds (60).
    Note: Recording with music from our library or the original audio from other videos is express to 15 seconds.
  4. To record a prune, agree the capture button  or tap it to commencement recording and then again to stop.
  5. Tap undo to remove the previous video prune yous recorded or tap redo to add information technology dorsum.
  6. Tap close and then choose to Start over or to Save as typhoon and exit the camera.
  7. Tap washed"" to preview and heighten your video.
  8. Tap back to return to the record screen. Y'all tin can also tap dorsum after y'all've made edits to Discard edits or to Save as draft and exit the editor. Saving a draft at this signal saves any edits y'all've fabricated.
  9. Tap Side by side to add together details to your video. From this screen, add a title (max 100 characters), and choose settings, like video privacy.
    Note: The default video privacy setting for creators anile 13–17 is private. If you lot're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Anybody tin change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.
  10. Tap Select audienceand then "Aye, it's fabricated for kids" or "No, it'southward not made for kids" to cull your audition. Acquire more than about made for kids.
  11. Tap UPLOAD to publish your Curt.

Heighten your Shorts while recording

Add music or other audio

Accompany your Shorts with a vocal or other audio clip. The music and sounds found in our library are costless of charge to utilize, but only for personal, not-commercial use, unless you accept the advisable licenses.

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

Accommodate recording speed

Tap Speed to speed up or irksome down recording.

Record with a timer

Tap Timer to set the inaugural to tape hands-costless and cull when to automatically finish recording.

Apply filters

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

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

Align frames

Tap Align  to line upwardly your adjacent prune using a transparent overlay of the terminal frame you captured.

Add text & sound after y'all record

Add sound

Accompany your Shorts with a song or other audio clip. The music and sounds found in our library are free of charge to use, only merely for personal, not-commercial use, unless you take the appropriate licenses.

To add a song or other audio bite afterwards you record, tap Sound. Make your selection and so record up to xv seconds.

Add text

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

You can as well use Timeline  for even more control.

Adapt timeline

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

Drag the commencement and finish points of a text prune to control when text shows in your Brusque and when it disappears. Use this feature to trigger dissimilar messages at different times in your video.

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

Upload Shorts

Yous can upload brusque videos you created without YouTube's short-video creation tools.

To upload a Short from your device:

  1. Tap Createand thenUpload a video.
  2. Select a video with a foursquare or vertical aspect ratio:
    1. Videos up to 60 seconds volition show a trim editor. Drag the sides of the bar to change the video'due south start and end times. Annihilation not in the box won't prove in the Brusque.
    2. For videos longer than sixty seconds, tap Edit into a Short to trim your video to 60 seconds or less.
  3. Tap Side by side to go to the editor screen where you lot can add text, filters, music, or other audio to your Short.
    Note: Audio picked from our library is express to 15-second clips.
  4. Tap NEXT to add details to your video, such equally a title (max 100 characters) and the privacy settings.Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you're eighteen or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Anybody can alter 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 about made for kids.
  6. Tap UPLOAD to publish your Brusk.

If you upload a short video you've created elsewhere, make certain that any copyright-protected fabric you lot've used is approved for your utilise on YouTube. Using copyright-protected fabric could pb to you getting a Content ID claim. Likewise if a copyright possessor sends us a valid and consummate copyright takedown notice against your short video, it may be removed, and you could get a copyright strike.

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