Share clips

Select and share a small portion (prune) of a video or live stream with others by clipping it. Clips can be shared on social channels or via straight communications (for case, 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 5-60 seconds long and are played on a loop from the original video's watch page.

  1. Sign in to YouTube. You lot need to exist signed in to create a clip.
  2. Outset watching a video.
  3. Under the video, click the Clip. If you don't meet this, the video isn't eligible for clips.
  4. A create clip box will prove up.
  5. Select the section of the video you'd like to clip. You can increase (maximum of lx seconds) or decrease (minimum of 5 seconds) the length of your selection past dragging the slider.
  6. Give the clip a title (max 140 characters).
  7. ClickSHARE CLIP.
  8. Cull an option for sharing the clip:
    • Social networks: Click a social network icon (for example, Facebook or Twitter) to share the video in that location.
    • Embed: Click the Embed push button to generate a code you can utilize to embed the video in a website.
    • Email: Choose the electronic mail icon to send an e-mail using the default electronic mail software on your calculator.
    • Copy the link: Click the COPY push to re-create a link to the video that you tin can paste somewhere else, like in an email message.

Don't allow viewers to clip your content

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

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. Go to studio.youtube.com.
  3. From the left, click Settings.
  4. Click Channel.
  5. Click Advanced Settings, and under "Clips," uncheck Allow viewers to clip my content.

Block someone from creating clips

Yous tin cake someone from creating clips of your video or alive stream by adding them to your channel'southward "Hidden users" list.

Block words from descriptions of clips

Add words to your blocked words lists to forestall them from showing up in clips of your videos and live streams.

Clips that incorporate these words won't be created and cannot be shared.

Learn more well-nigh Clips

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

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

  • Be signed in.
  • Create a clip from an eligible and opted-in aqueduct. A channel may also plough off clip creation on their content.

Clips can't be made from:

  • Videos shorter than 2 minutes
  • Videos made for kids
  • Alive streams without DVR
  • Live streams over 8 hours long
  • Premieres while they're yet alive

Why are the Clips I created no longer available?

If the original video is deleted or set to private, the Clips will be unavailable. If the video is set to unlisted, the Clips will still be available.

If the original video violates our Community Guidelines, Clips created from that video will exist removed.

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

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

Why are there ads on the clip I created?

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

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