Share clips

Select and share a minor portion (prune) of a video or live stream with others by clipping information technology. Clips can be shared on social channels or via direct communications (for case, email or text).

Note: Clipping videos is turned on by default. Learn how to plow 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'southward watch page.

  1. Sign in to YouTube. Y'all 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 show upwardly.
  5. Select the section of the video you'd like to prune. You can increase (maximum of threescore seconds) or decrease (minimum of 5 seconds) the length of your selection by dragging the slider.
  6. Requite the prune a title (max 140 characters).
  7. ClickSHARE CLIP.
  8. Choose an option for sharing the prune:
    • Social networks: Click a social network icon (for example, Facebook or Twitter) to share the video there.
    • Embed: Click the Embed push to generate a code yous can use to embed the video in a website.
    • Email: Choose the electronic mail icon to send an e-mail using the default email software on your computer.
    • Re-create the link: Click the COPY push button to copy a link to the video that yous can paste somewhere else, similar in an email message.

Don't allow viewers to clip your content

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

Cake someone from creating clips

You lot tin block someone from creating clips of your video or live stream by adding them to your channel's "Hidden users" list.

Block words from descriptions of clips

Add together words to your blocked words lists to prevent them from showing upwardly in clips of your videos and live streams.

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

Learn more most Clips

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

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

  • Be signed in.
  • Create a clip from an eligible and opted-in channel. A channel may likewise turn off prune creation on their content.

Clips can't be made from:

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

Why are the Clips I created no longer available?

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

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

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

Clips volition prove upwards subsequently the live stream has finished and is uploaded as a video. You can't create Clips from live streams without DVR or alive streams over eight hours long.

Why are there ads on the prune I created?

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

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