Optimize a Video for YouTube Shorts (in 5 Easy Steps!)

At this point, you’ve probably encountered YouTube Shorts, the vertical video platform tailored for creators and artists who want to craft brief, catchy videos (under 60 seconds) all straight from their mobile devices. Essentially, it's YouTube's alternative to TikTok, seamlessly integrated into YouTube's search results.

But if you want to optimize a video for YouTube Shorts, you’ll need to make a few edits. Curious about how to effortlessly adjust your videos for this format? Stick around — we've got you covered! 

Optimize a Video for YouTube Shorts (in 5 Easy Steps!)

If you’re not a video editing pro (and let’s be honest, most of us aren’t), then you may think optimizing a video for YouTube Shorts is above your skill set. And we know you don’t want to waste time (and money) on complicated editing software.

That’s why we created Zubtitle — the best way to quickly and easily optimize videos for YouTube Shorts (and every other social media platform). The most important edits you need to make to your YouTube Short is making sure that it’s resized and cropped so that it looks good on that platform.

Luckily, our free, easy-to-use editing tool lets you resize and crop your video with just a few clicks, along with adding subtitles, animated progress bars, and much more, so that your video is perfectly optimized for YouTube Shorts.

Just follow the walkthrough below to get started!

Step 1: Log into your Zubtitle account

Don’t have a Zubtitle account? You can create a new one for free.

Step 2: Upload your video

Just click the yellow Add New Video button located on the right-hand side of the screen.

Step 3: Select the “Resize” option

You’ll find it at the bottom of the grey menu bar on the right-hand side of the screen.

Step 4: Resize your video

In the Resize menu, you’ll find four different options to choose from: 1:1, 9:16, 4:5, and 16:9. Just select 9:16 (vertical) and you’re ready to move on to the final step!

Step 5: Crop your video

If you need to crop your video, you can do it easily by using the Zoom slider. Just navigate to the Canvas option on the right-hand menu. Check out the gif below to see exactly how it works! Once you've cropped as much as you like, you’re ready to render your video! Just use the Download symbol to render a new video and download it to your computer or device.

Do you want to optimize a video for YouTube Shorts (in 5 easy steps)?

Sign up for a free Zubtitle account today to get started! With our free Bootstrapper plan, you can create two videos per month. To create up to 10 videos per month (and remove the Zubtitle watermark), check out our Guru plan.