YouTube clip maker

1. Copy the video's link from YouTube (Share, then Copy) and paste it into the clip maker.
2. Set the start and end. Play to where the moment starts and press Now beside Start, then to where it ends and press Now beside End. You can also drag the ends of the bar, or type the times.
3. Play the clip to check it runs from the first word to the last.
4. Copy what you need: the link to send, the embed for a site, or the times for a description or a comment.

A link can open a video at a time, but YouTube has no way to make a link stop, so the video plays on after your clip.

An embed can do both: it starts and ends where you set it, in whole seconds, and plays just that part on any site. YouTube starts it at the nearest keyframe, so it can begin a second or two early.

YouTube's Clips were 5 to 60 seconds long and looped on the video's page. In April 2026, YouTube said sharing at a timestamp is replacing them, without a way to set an end; clips already made still play. The clip maker sets both ends, at any length, for any video that can play on other sites.

Chapters split your own video into named parts on its progress bar. Mark them as it plays with the YouTube timestamp generator, which checks the list against YouTube's rules for you.

A link or an embed plays on YouTube. To post a moment on TikTok, Reels or Shorts, you need the clip itself, as a file: vertical, at 1080 × 1920, with the speaker in the frame and captions people can read with the sound off. And if the video isn't yours, you need the owner's permission, which clipping campaigns give.

By hand, that's downloading, cutting, cropping to 9:16 with the vertical video converter and captioning every word, for every clip. Or paste the same link into Clyper: it finds the best moments of the whole video, frames each on whoever's talking and captions it, ready to download: see YouTube to Shorts with Clyper, or how to turn a YouTube video into Shorts by hand.