How to use YouTube Clips

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The YouTube clips are a fragment of a video, which lasts from 5 to 60 seconds, and is created to be shared on other social networks and promote the complete content.

They are similar to Twitch Clips and can be useful to show a teaser of your content - if, for example, it is the launch of a brand or product - or a key moment from the video you have created for YouTube, as a teaser.

Any user with an active session on YouTube, content creators, fans and subscribers can use the clips, as long as the original video has no restrictions such as whether the author has limited the ability for others to make clips with their content or has deleted them. Of course, these short fragments cannot be generated in children's videos or in live broadcasts on YouTube.

If you are interested use these clips to promote YouTube contenthere are the steps to follow and what you should know about them.

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  1. Steps to create and use a YouTube Clip
  2. How to delete a YouTube clip you created

Steps to create and use a YouTube Clip

-Go to YouTube and log in to your Gmail account. Locate a video for which you want to create the clip and tap on the "more" button identified with three horizontal dots located at the bottom of the video.

Button to see more settings of a YouTube video

-Touch the "Trim" button identified with the scissors icon, go to the right side of the screen and select the fragment you want to use from the video.

Button to trim the video into a 5 to 60 second clip

-Move the bars from left to right until you select the Clip to use, check the duration, add a title and once ready, touch the "Share clip" button.

Setting up your YouTube clip to place a title and share it

-A window will be displayed with all the platforms where you can share the YouTube Clip directly. They can be social networks such as Facebook or

Youtube clip sharing options window

How to delete a YouTube clip you created

-Go to YouTube and log in to your account using your Gmail credentials. Tap the settings icon located in the upper left corner of the screen identified with the three horizontal bars icon.

Settings menu button

-Scroll the menu in the "You" section, tap on "show more" and enter "clips."

Clips saved from your YouTube account

-All the clips you have started will be displayed, press the three vertical dots at the bottom of the clip to be deleted, and press the "delete trim" button.

Button to delete cuts or clips saved in your YouTube account

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