How to make YouTube Shorts from YouTube video


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So you are streaming to YouTube or even upload your full-length videos to YouTube and now want to turn clips of into YouTube Shorts, since they currently drive some viewership. How to make YouTube Shorts from YouTube video is a content production question that needs to be investigated. Let me save you some time and show what I do.

I live stream my podcast to YouTube. Once the stream is done, I can simply go to YouTube and grab the direct link to the video.

How to create YouTube shorts from YouTube video with the link

Then head over to Opus Clips, an AI platform that creates short-form video clips for you from longer form video.

Simply copy and paste the YouTube video URL into the platform.

Importing YouTube video into opus
The video then imports, and you can start the process to create shorter clips.

Opus clips processing

From there once everything has been processed, you can create your YouTube Shorts and download them and then upload them into YouTube.

Creating YouTube shorts in opus clips

So that is by far the easiest way to create YouTube shorts from existing YouTube videos. And then make sure you link those videos back to the original video for more views.

Finally, when people start commenting, make sure to reply with video replies it makes sense.when people start commenting, make sure to reply with video replies it makes sense.


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