YouTube Launches Green Screen Feature In Shorts For IOS Users

YouTube is adding a new feature for Shorts that will open up new creative options in the app. (photo: Doc. YouTube)

JAKARTA - Currently, the popularity of short videos continues to increase, that's why YouTube added a new feature for Shorts which will open up new creative options in the application.

YouTube is expanding the current Green Screen option in Shorts, where content creators can use eligible YouTube videos or Shorts as the background for their Shorts clips.

“You can create using audio + video or just video if you choose to mute the audio. To use a Green Screen, simply select Create select Green Screen in the options menu under the video you are watching or press the three-dot menu in the Shorts player and select Green Screen. The maximum length you can create is 60 seconds," YouTube said in its post.

Initially, the Green Screen feature was added in October last year. This is an option also available on TikTok and Instagram.

But when it was released, Green Screen on YouTube only allowed creators to upload content from their camera gallery to use as a background image.

Citing, TechCrunch, Thursday, May 12, now, creators will have a much wider set of content to choose from and embed in their Shorts background, with the original creator attributed via the source link in the Shorts view.

This feature also incorporates a number of other effects now available to Shorts creators, including a Retouch feature which refines the appearance of a Lighting feature to enhance dark clips, an Align feature which aligns the subject from the last frame of the video with the new video, a text editor and a timeline for adding a message on top. top videos, various video filters and, most recently, Cut, a tool that effectively allows all public YouTube content to become Shorts material.

As with Cut, YouTube says its new Green Screen remix feature can be used with any public YouTube video unless the creator has opted out. The only exceptions to that are music videos that include copyrighted content from YouTube partners or others with visual claims.

YouTube continues to see strong performance with its Shorts option, with Shorts clips in the app now seeing more than 30 billion views per day, a fourfold increase in the past year. For information, the new Green Screen feature started rolling out on iOS today and will be coming to Android soon.