'We're excited to begin our testing of a clipping feature on YouTube starting today with a small group of creators while we start gathering feedback.'Īs the feature rolls out, you'll notice a new icon in YouTube's video player that looks like a pair of scissors.
'We've heard a lot of feedback from creators and viewers who have wanted an easy way to capture short segments of content and share moments from videos or streams,' reads a YouTube blog announcing the feature. The move gives video creators and their fans an easy way to increase a channel's visibility, and to grow. YouTube is adding a new clipping tool that lets viewers quickly create short, sharable clips of up to 60 seconds from longer video uploads, the platform announced Thursday. YouTube's new clipping tool is available now with select videos on Android and desktop, with iOS support coming soon.
