YouTube Shorts
YouTube Shorts are 1080 × 1920 pixels in 9:16. Keep text clear of about 290 pixels at the top, 360 at the bottom and 140 on the right.
- Covered or cropped by the app
- Safe zone edge
- Subtitles in the video
9:16
1080 × 1920 pixels
- Recommended
- 1080 × 1920 pixels
- Minimum
- Not published
- Frame rate
- 25 frames per second
- Subtitles
- Burned into the video
- Safe zone
- About 940 × 1272 pixels
- File size
- Up to 256 gigabytes
The top is covered by search and menu, the bottom by the title, channel name and subscribe button, and the right side by the buttons.
Sources disagree on the exact numbers, so we use careful ones.
We place subtitles centered just above the bottom area, no wider than about 800 pixels.
Use the arrow keys to switch format.