If you desire to share a specific part of a YouTube video with someone, the best thing to do is clip the video. It means yous don't need to give a time code or tell them when to stop watching—everything is contained inside the clip.

You can share these clips via social media or directly through methods like email and text. It'due south perfect for sharing a bite-sized portion of a longer video or stream.

Here's how to create a YouTube clip and how to share the clip with friends.

A clip is a short, looping role of a YouTube video, and can exist anywhere from five to sixty seconds long. Whatever clips you create are stored in your library and can easily be shared with others.

At the time of writing, the YouTube prune feature is just available to a select number of creators, and they need to enable the characteristic on their videos. As such, yous won't be able to clip every YouTube video.

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Here's how to create a YouTube prune and share it. These instructions work for both desktop and Android:

  1. Sign in to YouTube. You tin't create a prune otherwise.
  2. Go to the video y'all desire to clip.
  3. Beneath the video, select Prune.
  4. Give your clip a championship.
  5. Input a start and stop time for your prune. Alternatively, drag and slide the blue bar beyond the timeline.
  6. Select Share prune.
  7. Choose which social media platform to share your clip to. Alternatively, select Copy to take hold of the direct link to the prune.

Currently, y'all tin't create a YouTube clip on an iOS device. If and when you tin can, information technology'll be a very similar process to that for an Android device.

When someone views your clip, it will play on a loop. They can select Share clip to send it to someone else, orWatch total video to seamlessly leave the clip and head to the original video.

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To access your previously made clips, select Library > Your clips. For each clip, you can select the three vertical dots to open up the menu and then Share and Delete clip as needed.

If you clip a live stream, the clip will only remain available if the creator uploads the stream later on. You can't prune streams over eight hours.

Thanks to YouTube clips, sharing videos is easier than ever. Information technology'southward an efficient method that'south particularly benign for longer videos, since you can point people towards the nugget of gilded within.

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