Youtube Shorts gets new features in October

Following the trend of short videos that is increasingly popular nowadays, YouTube announced a series of new features for its Shorts feature, and the most exciting of them is that they can now be longer.

From October 15th, it will be possible to make Shorts up to 3 minutes long, one of the most frequent demands from the community and creators. In addition, the company also revealed more new features coming with the update. Check it out!

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New features for Shorts make content creation easier

The update aims to renew and improve the YouTube Shorts feature, making it more attractive to new audiences, as well as improving the experience for those who already use it.

In addition to the increase in Shorts time, which is now up to 3 minutes, the company also revealed other new features. One of them was a change in the resource’s player interface, which was improved by simplifying the design and highlighting the creators’ content. According to them, the goal is to ensure that viewers can fully focus on what really matters: the content.

Furthermore, the Shorts creation process also gains more options to become more practical and fun. Users will be able to recreate videos they liked using templates, which makes it easier for everyone to follow the latest trends quickly.

It is also possible to combine clips with popular sounds, in addition to adding your personal touch, using a vast library of content from YouTube itself, whether with clips from music videos or others. This ends up bringing more possibilities for remixing and combining various video excerpts from the platform.

Another major advance will be the integration of “Veo”, Google DeepMind’s most advanced model for generating videos, into YouTube Shorts. With this technology, creators will be able to “add extraordinary video backgrounds and independent clips”, creating even more creative and captivating Shorts.

Youtube also improves community interaction

In addition to facilitating creation, YouTube is also investing in community interaction within the platform. To this end, one of the new features is the new Shorts trends page, which will be available on mobile devices and will help users stay up to date with what is trending in the country. This will make it easier for creators and viewers to get inspired and participate in the latest fashions.

They also announced that it will soon also be possible to preview comments directly in the Shorts feed, which allows users to get a sense of the conversations happening around each video before accessing the full comments section.

Source: Youtube