How to Make a YouTube Short on PC

YouTube has been one of the most popular video sharing platforms since its inception in 2005. It is known for its longer horizontal video content, where users can upload their own created videos and find their own kind of people. In 2021, YouTube officially launched a video type called YouTube shorts to the world. YouTube shorts operate in a similar form to short video platforms such as TikTok, where users can shoot, share and watch vertical short video content. YouTube shorts should be less than 60 seconds long.

With the popularity of YouTube shorts, more and more people want to make YouTube shorts. But many people don't know how to make a YouTube short yet, because they don't know much about this novel video form. Actually, there are many methods to do it. Here we will introduce some of them to you.

• Part 1: Make a YouTube Short Within YouTube
• Part 2: Make an Attractive YouTube Short on PC Offline
• Part 3: Polish a YouTube Short on PC Online

Before we make YouTube shorts on PC, the first step we should do is to shoot a video. It is the most convenient way to shoot a YouTube short on your mobile phone within YouTube. You can create a new video from the recording step or just upload the edited video to YouTube. But you short remember that the video you post as a YouTube short must not over 60s. Otherwise your video will not be classified as a YouTube short video.

Steps to shot a YouTube short on mobile phone:

Step 1: Open YouTube app on your mobile phone and click the ＋icon at the bottom of screen.

Step 2: Click Create a Short;

Step 3: Click the red button to start recording. By default, the most length of a short is no more than 15 seconds. But if you want to extend the timeframe, you can click the 15 number at the top right of screen to change it as 60s. You can add effects as your need using the tools at the right of screen when you record your video.

Step 4: If you are satisfy with your video, just click the white √ at the bottom right of screen. At this time, you can add background music to your video and preview the video.

Step 5: Click upload shorts and then you can check it on your account.

Although we cannot record a new YouTube short on PC, we can make a YouTube short more attractive on PC which was shoot before. VideMake Video Editor has a lot of editing features, such as cropping videos, merging videos, adding effect and animated text to videos and adding background music to videos, which cover all features you can think of. What is the most important is that if your purpose is to upload videos to certain popular platform, such as TikTok and YouTube, VideMake Video Editor can help you export the video as the target format which will be comparable with that platform.

How to make a YouTube short on PC with VideMake Video Editor?

Transfer the video that you have shot to your PC;

Download and open VideMake Video Editor;

Click Import to add the video; or you can just drag videos to the software;

Put mouse on each videos and click the yellow ＋ icon to add videos to timeline; or you can just drag the target video to timeline;

Adjust the total duration of the video to no more than 60 second; you can choose to adjust the video speed, orientation and size of the video screen directly above the timeline;

Select the desired function on the left side of the page, apply filters, toggles, text or music to the video, etc.;

After getting the satisfactory video, click the yellow button Export on the top right of the timeline;

Click Web on the left side of the pop-up window and select YouTube; set the video name, save path and resolution on the right side of the pop-up window; after completing the above operations, click Export in the pop-up window to save the video to your computer.