Your Guide to Making YouTube Clips
YouTube clips are shorter snippets created from longer videos. All clips include a link to the entire YouTube video. Any YouTube user can create clips from their own or other channels’ content.
Social Media Examiner contributor Anna Sonnenberg has published a comprehensive article on making YouTube clips.
She says, “In this article, you’ll learn how to create a YouTube clip to share across your business’ marketing channels.
Clips make great teasers for longer videos so they’re ideal for generating interest and driving YouTube views. Because they’re short snippets, they also let you highlight key takeaways or irresistible hooks from longer videos. Below, we’ll cover some specific use cases.
YouTube Clips Specs
YouTube clips have to be at least 5 seconds long and they can last up to 60 seconds. You can clip any 5- to 60-second segment you like and you can create multiple clips from the same YouTube video.
But you can’t clip every YouTube video. To be eligible for clips, videos must be at least 2 minutes long—making YouTube Shorts ineligible for clips. If your video is eligible for clips, you’ll see a scissors icon in the menu bar below the video.”
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