TC 00:08:00:00 — SHORTS
YouTube Shorts Clipping Guide
Shorts live inside a search engine. That single fact changes how you cut: the clip has to work for a swipe audience today and keep making sense to a searcher in six months.
Format
- Vertical 9:16, up to three minutes. Most podcast moments still land best under a minute.
- The title is part of the clip. Shorts titles carry topic and guest, the way an episode title does. Write it like one.
- Link the full episode as the related video wherever the clip came from one. Shorts are the trailer; the episode is the film.
Cut self-contained stories
A Short that ends mid-thought trains viewers to swipe away from your channel. Cut the whole arc: the claim, the evidence, the turn. Podcast gold for Shorts is the complete two-minute story buried inside a ninety-minute conversation, tightened until every sentence pulls weight.
Captions
Burned-in captions, proofed. YouTube’s own auto-captions help search but the viewer reads yours. Keep them high, large, and clear of the Shorts UI at the bottom.
Start a pilot Shorts from your next episode