Publishing a video as a YouTube Short

Whether a video becomes a Short is your choice in the composer, not something inferred from the file.

Choosing it

In the YouTube tab, set YouTube type:

• Short — a vertical 9:16 clip that YouTube surfaces in the Shorts feed.
• Video — the regular 16:9 watch page.

When you pick Short, Postbean appends #Shorts to the title on upload. YouTube reads aspect ratio and duration to classify a video, and the tag makes the classification stick even when the metadata on a file is incomplete.

What YouTube expects from a Short

• Vertical, 9:16 or close to it.
• 3 minutes or under. Longer than that and YouTube treats it as a regular video no matter what you tagged it.

Postbean does not re-encode or crop your video. If you upload a 16:9 clip and mark it as a Short, YouTube gets a 16:9 video with a #Shorts tag, and will most likely file it as a regular video.

Checking how it was classified

The link Postbean records is the standard youtube.com/watch?v=… URL — YouTube serves the same video on both, so the link does not tell you which it became. To confirm, open YouTube Studio, go to Content, and look at the Shorts tab.