in this video i show you how to create YouTube shorts in Shotcut
hi everyone my name is Joe and welcome to Ubitronics on this channel i show you
how to use open source software today we're looking at YouTube shorts and how to create
#Shorts in Shotcut so the first thing we want to do is open Shotcut and give it a name i'm
going to just call it test short in the video mode this is the important part here we click
onto video mode and you may have any one of these selected or a custom one what we need to do is go
to custom and add a new custom field give it a name i'm going to call mine YouTube shorts
you can call yours anything you'd like to and then effectively down here for the resolution
we're going to swap 1920 and 1080 around so we're effectively swapping the horizontal aspect ratio
for a vertical aspect ratio that's 1080 and that's 1920 same for the aspect ratio here 9
by 16. frames per second you can leave that at 25 or you can change that i usually have mine at 30
so i'm going to put mine at 30 there now this video format will qualify for a YouTube short
and just so everyone's aware you can have a square aspect ratio and square resolution so
if these numbers here and these numbers here are the same so you could have 1080 by 1080
and then your aspect ratio would be one by one whatever you wanted it to be as
long as they all match up then you can have a square box as well and that will also qualify
as a short i'm going to leave mine as a full size phone resolution and then click ok
now click start and now we need to drag our video clips into our playlist there's an interesting
thing that happens here so we've just set the canvas to a certain size and now when we drag
in a video but it hasn't done it on this time for me but it can reset the size of the video
if that happens come up to settings go to video mode go to custom and then click onto
your YouTube shorts effectively what it can do here is forget that you just created a new one
and go back to your old version so whenever you're on before say you're on 1080 it will look
like that when you load it up we obviously don't want that on this occasion so go to your settings
video mode custom and then YouTube shorts for me if you use a different name it will
be called whatever you named it that will set it back to the size that you actually want it to be
now if we drag it into the timeline that will save as we expect we can drag multiple videos in
and onto the timeline we can have multiple tracks and etc and now you can use Shotcut in
exactly the same way as you would usually for this kind of video i would suggest we either
want to have some writing up here or actually zoom into the video so it looks much larger
to do that select the timeline clip go into your filters add
on your video filter search for size position and rotate and then in your zoom section here
you can zoom in to however big you want it to be now obviously you're not going to see the full
video but you can move it around exactly where you want it to be you can also continue to add tracks
and text as you would usually in the Shotcut video editor now for it to qualify
as a YouTube short you do need to make sure that the video is under one minute in length
and recognize that right now YouTube are allowing anything to be under one minute as a YouTube short
but on the app that they've released which i don't have access to yet but
loads of people do and they've they've explained this in other YouTube videos they can only record
for 15 seconds on the YouTube app so it might be that you want to re consider reducing your YouTube
short to about 15 seconds that seems to be the times that YouTube are promoting and therefore
they may restrict it at a later date but right now that is all hypothetical and you can go for up to
one minute as a YouTube short anything longer will just qualify as a standard video in YouTube
finally we need to make sure when we come to exporting the video in Shotcut that the export
settings are correct so click onto your export button and then go over to your advanced tab
make sure you're on form as mp4 that works well with YouTube and your video is set to the same
resolution as you had it in the original settings that we set up if they are all set as you would
expect then you can click export file navigate to the location you're going to save your file to
and in the jobs that will start to export once that has completed you can go to your
folder location it was saved as and then open it up and you can see that that's saved in a
vertical video format which is now compatible with your video shorts so i hope that's been helpful
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