How to Upload a YouTube Short from a Laptop Computer


Question: Can I upload a YouTube short from my personal computer?

As long as you have a video file less than 60 seconds long and of appropriate (i.e. vertical phone or 9:16) aspect ratio on your computer, then you can upload it to YouTube as a short by simply going through the normal upload process. YouTube will then recognize it as a short from the time and aspect ratio.

You can also put “#shorts” in the description, although this is not strictly necessary anymore as the YouTube algorithm is now smart enough to identify shorts without the hashtag.

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In college, Ricky studied physics & math, won a prestigious research competition hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, started several small businesses including an energy chewing gum business and a computer repair business, and graduated with a thesis in algebraic topology. After graduating, Ricky attended grad school at Duke University in the mathematics PhD program where he worked on quantum algorithms & non-Euclidean geometry models for flexible proteins. He also worked in cybersecurity at Los Alamos during this time before eventually dropping out of grad school to join a startup working on formal semantic modeling for legal documents. Finally, he left that startup to start his own in the finance & crypto space. Now, he helps entrepreneurs pay less capital gains tax.

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