The Shorts action rail as an edge overlay, with the subscribe badge taking the tap and flipping to a tick.
YouTube Shorts Rail lets a creator shooting landscape park the rail beside themselves and point at it. A soft ramp sits under the column so white icons survive a bright background. The real rail has no backing and would disappear against a pale wall. Set the like and comment counts to your own.
Set the like and comment counts to your own. The badge colour is the subscribe badge and can be red or your brand. The column has a soft ramp behind it so the white icons hold up on a bright wall; do not add a second backing behind it.
YouTube Shorts Rail is built at 640 × 360, a 16:9 landscape frame, the shape of a YouTube video, a stream layout and most editing timelines, and runs 3 seconds at 30 frames per second. It arrives in 0.7 seconds, holds for 1.3 and clears in 1.0, 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 the real rail sits on video that is usually dark, and it would vanish against a pale wall. The soft ramp keeps the icons readable wherever you park it.
Yes. It takes the tap and turns into a tick, which is what the real badge does under the avatar. The like and comment icons stay put.
