YouTube Shorts (60 seconds vs 3 minutes)
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How To Repurpose Content to YouTube Shorts.
Requirements:
- Your video must be square or vertical
- Your video must be 180 seconds (3 minutes) or less.
- Create a workflow in Repurpose and select "YouTube" as the destination and "Shorts" as the type.
60-second
Forcing your workflow to only upload 60 second (instead of 3 minute) videos to Shorts
- Visit your Workflow settings (gear icon)
- Scroll to the bottom and set the "Select Preferred YouTube Shorts Duration" to either 60 seconds or 3 mins.
Trimming longer videos
- Auto trimming the ends of longer videos - when your workflow is in "auto" you can enable the "auto trim" option inside your Workflow Settings (gear icon) if you videos to automatically be trimmed to fit the desired length (60 seconds or 3 mins based on your settings)
- When manually publishing or scheduling content from inside the "View Content" page of your workflow, a trimmer will appear forcing you to adjust the start time and end time of the video to fit the YouTube Shorts desired length (60 seconds or 3 mins based on your settings)
What happens to long videos?
- If your workflow is in "auto", any video longer than the YouTube Shorts desired length (60 seconds or 3 mins based on your settings) will be skipped.
- If you want to force all videos to auto trim (trim the end of the video automatically to the desired YouTube length), you can enable the "auto trim" option inside your Workflow Settings (cog icon)
- You can still manually publish or schedule the skipped videos from inside the View Content page by clicking the Schedule button. This will bring up a trimming tool to allow you to trim the video to the desired length for YouTube Shorts (60 seconds or 3 mins based on your settings)
How does copyrighted music affect visibility, reach, and monetization?
- Any Short up to 60 seconds in duration - your YouTube account, reach, and monetization on that Short is not affected
- Any Short between 61 seconds and 3 minutes - if your Short has an active Content ID claim of any type, including manual claims, will be blocked globally on YouTube. The video will not be playable or recommended on YouTube, and will not be eligible for monetization. There are no penalties to your channel. You may remove the claimed content from your videos. If you believe the claim was made in error, you can file a dispute. Once the claim is resolved, your Short will be viewable and eligible for monetization. More details can be found here.
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Updated on: 13/10/2025
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