Remix One of Your Existing Videos into a YouTube Short
Channel: Stateless Code
Date: 21/04/2023

YouTube now allows you to take one of your existing videos and remix it into a YouTube short. If you are a creator you can do this with your own videos to potentially increase your reach. In this video we just get a basic clip of one of our own videos edited into a short with no bells and whistles. 

Once you get the basics down, you can add text to the timeline after choosing your clip and remix it together with other video clips. We show an example from @WizNugs that uses more of these features at the end.

The current state (March/April 2022) of YouTube has some limitations that made it hard to record a video of this. You can currently only do this in the mobile app. To complicate matters attempting to record a mobile app from a desktop for a screencast is a frustrating endeavor. (See the "frustrated Mike outtakes" chapter for some of the problems.) If you look at 0:12:27 or 0:19:24 you will see our brief homage to Little Mac and the Game Over screen from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out.

You can probably skip to the part where we just record it on a physical iPhone if you don't want to see Mike muddling through bad user experiences.

This video covers:
00:00:00 Introduction, try to perform the task on Android emulator
00:01:24 Select a video to edit into a short
00:02:22 Version of YouTube app being emulated does not support Remix
00:08:21 Try on a later Android API version. Unable to get it working.
00:12:27 Get frustrated and switch to Mac with AirPlay
00:13:53 Try to remix into a short with AirPlay, but it keeps going to full screen and doesn't work
00:19:24 Get frustrated with Mac and AirPlay and switch to just taking a video of holding a phone
00:19:49 Open the video and hit the Remix and Edit into Short buttons
00:20:34 Select and adjust the length of clip for the short
00:22:29 Click next and review clip
00:23:12 Caption the short and hit Upload Short
00:23:49 Find the uploaded short
00:24:54 Show an example from the WizNugs channel of a short that uses captioning and remixes in another video clip
00:26:32 Frustrated Mike outtakes

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See other related StatelessCode videos:
- Install an Android Emulator on Ubuntu 22.04 https://youtu.be/riC8PJfAAhw
- Getting Started with Rails 7 22: Broadcast Comment Changes to the Article with Turbo https://youtu.be/NykaB6QCmmw (extracted into short outside of video)
- Broadcasting Comments from Conall and Donall https://youtube.com/shorts/5X1mbaRMeRs?feature=share (extracted from Broadcast Comments video)
- Why Do Your Own User Experience Research? https://youtu.be/OTUNVF8D1z8 (extracted into short in the video)
- I Will Show You a Liar https://youtube.com/shorts/DDuayRqTmWA?feature=share (short extracted from UXR video)

Shout-outs to other YouTubers:
- WizNugs: https://www.youtube.com/@WizNugs
- WizNugs Friends short: https://youtube.com/shorts/sQ7nt-bKejg?feature=share
- LutheranSatire: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLutheranSatire
- St. Patrick's Bad Analogies by @TheLutheranSatire @ https://youtu.be/KQLfgaUoQCw

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