How to clip your favorite YouTube streamers & videos Unsplash, Christian WiedigerWhile the Clip feature is currently in alpha form and it limited to a small, select group of people, some users and creators can finally snip sections of YouTube videos to be shared online. Here\u2019s how you can do it for yourself. For years, fans have been clamoring for YouTube to add in a Clip feature to allow users to grab small sections of longer videos that can be shared online. Given the fact that Twitch has had it for a while, it didn\u2019t seem like a huge leap but nothing of note was made available for the longest time. Now, on January 28, 2021, YouTube finally decided to appease these fans and announced that a Clips feature was in development and that it was, at least partially, available now. While the company is currently restricting the feature to certain users and platforms, the steps you need to follow to actually clip something are pretty straight forward. Restrictions on clipping as of January 28, 2021 Currently, the clipping feature is in alpha, meaning it\u2019s a bit restricted. Right now, it is only available for select creators, meaning only certain videos can clipped as of the time of writing. If you click on a video and there isn\u2019t an option to clip, then the video isn\u2019t clippable. In addition, there are going to be some general restrictions on what can be clipped, outside of the above limited release. According to YouTube, videos made for kids, live streams without DVR or over 8 hours long, and premieres that are still live can\u2019t be clipped. As for the alpha, there\u2019s no telling when YouTube will allow more people to jump into the program, although the company says they are hoping to make it available to everyone \u201csoon\u201d. Official YouTube clipping steps Today we are launching an experimental version of Clips on YouTube. Check out videos on the Creator Insider channel and test it out yourself! Clips are 5-60 sec, shareable, segments of content (Live\/VOD) that live on top of the original video. More info: https:\/\/t.co\/5fJyorxjrj pic.twitter.com\/DVWNQ2BoEx \u2014 Lester (@Chen) January 28, 2021 If you do end up finding a video that you can clip out, the steps in order to clip something are a bit tedious but easy to follow if you follow the instructions. Here\u2019s what you need to do, right from YouTube\u2019s official support page: Find an eligible video and start watching it (YouTube\u2019s own video on Clips currently has the featured enabled) – Click on the \u201cClip\u201d button, located in between the \u201cDislike\u201d and \u201cShare\u201d buttons – Drag the small box on the timeline found on the right side of menu to a section of the video you want and adjust the sides of it to make it longer – Alternatively to step 3, you can just type in the time codes of the clip you want into the boxes in the menu – Make a title for the clip – Select the \u201cShare Clip\u201d button – Select which platform you\u2019d like to share the clip to or copy the link provided – Remember, you can only make a five-to-60 second clip as of the time of this writing. That restriction might change in the future, or even by the time of feature\u2019s full release depending on feedback. Here\u2019s hoping that more videos and creators get access to the clipping feature soon, as fans have waited a long time for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How to clip your favorite YouTube streamers & videos Unsplash, Christian WiedigerWhile the Clip feature is currently in alpha form and it limited to a small, select group of people, some users and creators can finally snip sections of YouTube videos to be shared online. Here\u2019s how you can do it for yourself. For years, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}