YouTube Shorts can now be watched on smart TVs from 2022

YouTube Shorts is a tool on Google ‘s video platform that allows optimized content to be viewed quickly, especially on mobile phones – but as of today (08), they can also be viewed on TV, by updating YouTube apps. YouTube for the most diverse smart TVs.

The process for YouTube Shorts to arrive on TV

YouTube videos of less than 60 seconds are displayed vertically, which made the process of getting them compatible with TVs a little more work than many might think, as recounted by developers on YouTube  official blog .

According to the blog, the product management, engineering, design and research teams at Shorts on YouTube TV (a division focused on the platform’s smart TV app) had to think hard about how to do this process while preserving the experience in a similar way. visible on your cell phone.

Doing a survey of the public, the division realized that there were advantages in Shorts on TV: easier to watch content in groups, and a more comfortable experience thanks to the large screen of the devices – but the issue of verticality of videos in widescreen screens continued to exist.

Three models were then tested: displaying Shorts in the conventional video player; customizing empty spaces on the sides of a widescreen ; and the “ Jukebox ” model, where multiple Shorts are displayed simultaneously. However, in public feedback, the first and last options were not well received.

As a result, YouTube opted for custom borders, as the template offers a clean design while taking advantage of the extra space on TV screens, allowing for the display of comments, Like buttons, channel subscription, and related videos.

Availability of YouTube Shorts on TV

Starting today, with updates to the YouTube apps for Smart TVs, users will be able to watch Shorts content on TVs. The platform is also committed to constantly improving the feature, so that everyone can always have the best possible experience watching videos.

Source: YouTube

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YouTube Shorts currently has an appearance smoothing retouch feature, a lighting feature to enhance dark environments. Also released is a tool that aligns the subject of the last frame of a video with a new video, a text editor and timeline to add messages about top videos.

Before the green screen, YouTube Shorts received a cropping tool , which is what effectively made it possible for all content posted on the platform to be turned into an original Shorts material.

Just like the crop tool, green screen can also be used with any public YouTube video, with a few exceptions. Music and other videos that include copyrights from YouTube partners and that contain other visual claims may not be used.

Shorts will be directed to the original

As with cuts, videos created using the green screen will also include a link to the video that was used as the basis. According to YouTube, the goal is to give proper credit to content creators.

YouTube announced this Wednesday (11) the launch of the “Green Screen”, a feature that, as the name suggests, inserts a kind of green screen in the videos of YouTube Shorts . The tool allows any video posted to YouTube to be the background for a new original Shorts video.

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The green screen is yet another tool introduced by YouTube to make its short video platform more like TikTok . In addition to it, Shorts also has a series of features that allow the production of large-scale videos, with easy editing.