How to Make a YouTube Short - Complete Beginner Guide

if you make content on this platform it is impossible to ignore YouTube shorts and so in this video we're going to give you the complete guide on how to make them in just five minutes here are the basics YouTube shorts must be 60 seconds or less in length as for aspect ratio will viewers watch YouTube shots on one of these so it's vertical portrait videos aim for an aspect ratio of 9 by 16. you can go as wide as a square format but the more you do this the bigger these black bars at the top

and the bottom are which is wasted space absolutely anyone can create YouTube shows zero views zero subscribers start your Channel today and get creative you can make shorts through the dedicated tool on the YouTube mobile app or create them using your own video editor say on a computer when you upload the video to YouTube it will automatically detect that the video is a short there are loads of ways to access YouTube shots these days such as on the home page under the short section in the subscription feed on a Channel's home page by searching on

YouTube for shorts on a specific topic by typing in hashtag shorts in the YouTube search bar and in the dedicated shorts tab beside the Home tab at the bottom of the YouTube app and many of these are replicated in the desktop experience of YouTube reports over 50 billion shorts are watched every single day so for creators that's a big opportunity to create a shop within the app tap on the plus button at the top of the screen and then create short this big red button obviously records footage and as you do this a red meter

fills at the top of the screen this is how much record time you have left you can record as many Clips as you want and if you need more than 15 seconds tap here to give yourself 60 seconds of recording time this undo button will remove the last clip you recorded and over on the right hand side you have tons of creative features such as timers green screens effects and filters YouTube are constantly adding to this so play around with it you can have popular music and sound to your shorts through this button at the

top of the screen you can search for what you need preview it and then add it directly to the footage as you record it if you use this feature your short will not receive any copyright claims which means that you can monetize the shot once you're in the YouTube Partner program you can also add clips from your phone to the YouTube show but if these clips have licensed music in them they may get copyright right claimed because you didn't add them through YouTube's built-in tools this x button will allow you to delete the shot completely

or save for later and a tick in the bottom right hand corner will take you to the next stage where you can do a bit more editing for example if you want to add text to the short you can type it out here and then tap on timeline to drag and trim the text so that it displays only when you need it to there are a couple more features you can play around with here but ultimately you'll be tapping on next in the top right hand corner of the screen to take you to the upload

page starting with a title this is perhaps the most important part of your shorts SEO so make sure it's searchable or incredibly intriguing and keep it to 40 characters or less if you can that will stop the title from getting cut off when people see on YouTube next to this is an image with a pencil icon this is where you can kind of select a thumbnail it will allow you to scrub the timeline of a shot and choose a single frame that represents your thumbnail what you can't do is upload a custom thumbnail unless you

use this cheeky hack linked in the top right on corner the screen shorts remixing allows any Creator to use the audio from your video and the video too if you agree to it we'll come back to that later and we always recommend uploading any content to YouTube unlisted or private just so that YouTube can process it properly and you can check it when you're ready it's time to upload so those are the very basics of how a Creator makes a YouTube shot and if you find in this tutorial viable make sure to subscribe but what

about the viewers perspective how do they interact with a YouTube shot well the truth is very very quickly users can swipe through a lot of shorts because it's so easy to do you can also do all of the usual stuff such as likes comments and shares the description box is hidden away a little bit behind three dots at the top right hand corner of the screen and an extra tap so as a pro tip make sure to use the pin comments to add your own calls to action this box in the bottom right hand corner

is the audio source for the YouTube show if the add sound feature was used that we showed earlier then it will be listed here otherwise it's original audio from the YouTube shot that anyone can take take and use on their video or use a remix tool and potentially use the audio and video as part of their own YouTube shot for traditional creators protective of their content this might seem a little scary but everybody who makes YouTube shorts agrees to these rules analytics do exist for YouTube shorts and they have their own dedicated section in the

YouTube Studio it's a pretty comprehensive collection of data and you can view it both on desktop and on mobile and now for the only question that really matters can you make money from YouTube shots yes yes you can if you only make shorts on YouTube your requirements are 1 000 subscribers and 10 million YouTube shorts views over the last 90 days you don't need to track watch hours at all having said that if you do get 4 000 watch hours from long form content you can monetize YouTube shorts as well but here's a catch cpms

are tiny for shorts compared to long form content you will need tens of millions of views to earn hundreds of dollars [Music] time in if you found this video useful don't forget to subscribe to vid IQ because we talk about YouTube shots all of the time such as these 36 hacks that are proven to get you tons of views