YouTube Shorts Will Let You Green-Screen Yourself Into Clips From Other YouTube Videos

variety.com:

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorYouTube has hatched a new way to spur content production for YouTube Shorts, its TikTok-like short form video feature: The video giant is launching Green Screen, which lets creators use clips from the billions of videos on YouTube as the background for their Shorts.With Green Screen, YouTube Shorts creators will be able to remix up to 60 seconds of video (or audio only) from any eligible on-demand YouTube video or other YouTube Short — as long as the original creator has granted permission to do so and the video isn’t flagged for copyright violations.The creative tool is YouTube’s latest effort to compete with TikTok, which popularized the short-form video format and counts more than 1 billion monthly active users.

YouTube Shorts has boomed in popularity and now averages more than 30 billion daily views, up more than fourfold from 6.5 billion a year ago, Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai told investors last month.

For now, YouTube isn’t compensating the original video creators if their material is remixed into a Shorts video. “While remixes of a source creator’s content will not earn them revenue at this time, it will bring new opportunities for their content to help find a new audience through the fresh and creative takes of the Shorts community,” a spokesperson told Variety.

Whenever a new Short is created from your own channel’s content, it will be attributed back to your original video with a link in the Shorts player.Currently, revenue shared with YouTube Shorts creators runs through the platform’s YouTube Shorts Fund, which pays out bonuses based on engagement.