Share clips

This feature is an experiment that'due south simply bachelor to a pocket-size number of creators. We're working to allow more creators participate in the time to come.

Select and share a small portion (clip) of a video or alive stream with others by clipping it. Clips tin can exist shared on social channels or via directly communications (for example, email or text).

Note: Clipping videos is turned on by default. Acquire how to turn it off.

YouTube Clips

Create and share a clip

Clips are between 5-lx seconds long and are played on a loop from the original video's lookout folio.

  1. Sign in to YouTube. Yous need to be signed in to create a clip.
  2. Start watching a video.
  3. Under the video, click the Prune. If you don't see this, the video isn't eligible for clips.
  4. A create clip box will bear witness upwardly.
  5. Select the section of the video you'd similar to clip. You can increase (maximum of lx seconds) or decrease (minimum of 5 seconds) the length of your selection by dragging the slider.
  6. Give the clip a title (max 140 characters).
  7. ClickSHARE CLIP.
  8. Choose an pick for sharing the clip:
    • Social networks: Click a social network icon (for case, Facebook or Twitter) to share the video in that location.
    • Embed: Click the Embed button to generate a code y'all can use to embed the video in a website.
    • Email: Choose the email icon to send an email using the default email software on your computer.
    • Copy the link: Click the COPY push button to copy a link to the video that you can paste somewhere else, similar in an email message.

Don't allow viewers to prune your content

Creators can prevent others from making and sharing clips of their videos on YouTube. Here's how:

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. Go to studio.youtube.com.
  3. From the left, click Settings.
  4. Click Channel.
  5. Click Avant-garde Settings, and nether "Clips," cheque Don't allow viewers to clip my content.

Learn more nigh Clips

I don't see how to create Clips on YouTube.

To make clips from a video or live stream on YouTube, you must:

  • Be signed in.
  • Create a clip from an eligible and opted-in aqueduct. Currently, we're testing this feature with a modest number of channels. We hope to expand this feature to more channels in the time to come. A channel may also turn off prune creation on their content.

Clips tin't exist fabricated from:

  • Videos made for kids
  • Live streams without DVR
  • Live streams over 8 hours long
  • Premieres while they're yet live

Why are the Clips I created no longer bachelor?

If the original video is deleted or set up to private, the Clips will be unavailable. If the video is set to unlisted, the Clips will all the same exist available.

If the original video violates our Community Guidelines, Clips created from that video volition be removed.

I created a prune from a live stream that's not working.

Clips will bear witness up after the live stream has finished and is uploaded as a video. Yous can't create Clips from alive streams without DVR or live streams over 8 hours long.

Why are at that place ads on the clip I created?

Ads are eligible to show up on Clips as long equally the original video has ads.

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