YouTube’s Clips Tool Turns Podcast Episodes Into Shorts via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
YouTube has expanded the video clips tool in YouTube Studio to Shorts, so creators can turn segments of long-form videos, such as podcast episodes, into vertical Shorts. TeamYouTube announced the change Nov. 12 in a YouTube Help Community post aimed at podcast creators.
In an April post, YouTube said it would be “rolling out Video Clips to Shorts” later in the year. The tool’s help page has described the Shorts option since at least Sept. 10, according to an Internet Archive capture.
The help page explains that each Short created using this tool has the original video as its related video. A clickable link of the source video will be located underneath the channel handle. However, if the Short is either private, unlisted or Made for Kids, then the tool won’t add the link.
The automatic link gives teams with a video podcast or webinar series a way to send viewers from a Short back to the whole episode.
When they are in YouTube Studio, creators open one of their pre-existing long-form videos. On the left-hand side of the screen is a list of options including Clips and Shorts. If they choose Short, they have two ways to create the Short.
Here’s an example from YouTube’s demo showing the Short creation option in Studio.
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