Get started with YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts is a mode for anyone to connect with a new audience using just a smartphone and the Shorts camera in the YouTube app. YouTube's Shorts creation tools makes it easy to create short-grade videos that are up to threescore seconds long with our multi-segment photographic camera.

Learn more than nigh Shorts

How do I record a Brusk?

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 xv seconds, tap 15 above the tape button to tape upwardly to 60 seconds (lx).
    Note: Recording with music from our library or the original audio from other videos is limited to 15 seconds.
  4. To record a clip, hold the capture button  or tap it to start recording and and then again to stop.
  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 Relieve as draft and leave the photographic camera.
  7. Tap washed"" to preview and heighten your video.
  8. Tap back to return to the tape screen. You can too tap back after you've made edits to Discard edits or to Save as draft and exit the editor. Saving a draft at this point saves whatever edits yous've made.
  9. Tap NEXT to add together details to your video. From this screen, add a championship (max 100 characters), and cull settings, similar video privacy.
    Annotation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If yous're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Anybody can alter this setting to brand their video public, individual, or unlisted.
  10. Tap Select auditionand then "Yeah, it's made for kids" or "No, it's not fabricated for kids" to choose your audience. Learn more about fabricated for kids.
  11. Tap UPLOAD to publish your Short.

Get creative with Shorts!

Enhance your Shorts with various creative features in the YouTube app – Learn how.

How will viewers notice my short videos?

Nosotros're e'er testing new means to deliver content to viewers. This is peculiarly true for Shorts.

Right at present, viewers may notice your Shorts by borer Shorts  at the lesser of the YouTube app. They may also find Shorts:

  • On the YouTube homepage.
  • In their notifications.
  • Checking their Subscriptions.
  • Featured on your channel homepage. Learn how to customize your aqueduct layout.
  • One time they tap into a Short, viewers tin can ringlet to lookout more short videos.

Wherever they find them, subscribers gained from watching your Shorts count toward Creator Awards Program milestones.

Include#Shorts in your short video's title or description to help our system recommend your Shorts across YouTube.

For more info on hashtags on YouTube, become to Add together hashtags to your video.

Can I earn coin from my short videos?

Short-course video creators practice not share acquirement from advertisements played in the Shorts player correct now. We've instead started the YouTube Shorts Fund, a $100M fund for creators who assistance u.s. build the time to come of short-grade video on YouTube.

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