Free tool

YouTube Shorts size and aspect ratio

1080 × 1920, 9:16, up to three minutes. Drop a clip below to see whether YouTube will treat it as a Short — and what Instagram and TikTok would do with it.

Checked against

  • YouTube Short9:16 · 3m
  • Instagram Reel9:16 · 3m
  • TikTok Video9:16 · 10m

This reads your clip and reports — it does not re-encode it. Converting video in a browser means a very large download and a long wait, which is worse than the problem. Use your editor to change the shape, then check it here.

What the platform wants

Resolution
1080 × 1920
Aspect ratio
9:16
Maximum length
3m

Three minutes since late 2024. Anything longer is published as a normal video rather than a Short.

Questions people actually ask

Then post it

Once the clip qualifies as a Short, your assistant can post it everywhere

Say what to post and when — it goes out on time to every account, without you opening a tab.

Paste this into your client

{ "mcpServers": { "viewprinter": { "type": "http", "url": "https://viewprinter.tech/api/mcp" } } }