YouTube Shorts
A stylised Shorts screen with the action rail, where a tap flips the subscribe pill and the rail badge follows.
- Duration
- 4s
- Frame
- 1080 × 1920
- Export
- MP4, GIF, MOV (alpha)
- Resolution
- Up to 4K
A stylised Shorts screen with the action rail, where a tap flips the subscribe pill and the rail badge follows.
YouTube Shorts is a vertical full-frame comp for cross-posting, tutorials and anything aimed at a phone. There is no cursor. The press is a tap ripple, which is what the surface actually gets. Set the caption, handle and rail counts to your own; the numbers are what make a mock screen believable.
Set the handle, the caption and the sound line to your own, and put real-looking like and comment counts on the rail. Those numbers are what make a mock screen believable. The button goes from Subscribe to Subscribed in sentence case, which is how Shorts writes it.
YouTube Shorts is built at 1080 × 1920, a 9:16 portrait frame, the shape Reels, TikTok, Shorts and Stories fill from edge to edge, and runs 4 seconds at 30 frames per second. It arrives in 1.0 seconds, holds for 1.8 and clears in 1.2, so cue it a beat before the moment it labels. Export it as an MP4 for a timeline or a feed, a GIF where video will not embed, or a MOV with an alpha channel to lay it over footage with nothing behind it. Renders go up to 4K, and the free plan exports at 720p with a watermark.
Because a phone has no pointer. The press is a tap ripple on the pill, which is what the real surface shows, and the rail badge flips to follow it.
Yes. It is 1080 by 1920, which is the frame both use. The layout imitates Shorts, so on Instagram it reads as a screenshot of YouTube, which is often the point of a cross-post.