Publishing to YouTube Shorts
Publishing to YouTube Shorts
EzClap publishes your finished vertical clips directly to YouTube as Shorts — either automatically through StreamSync / DailyDrop, or as polished downloads you upload yourself. This page covers the connected-channel flow.
Connecting your YouTube channel
- Open the auto-publish page and find the YouTube card under socials.
- Click the Google sign-in button and authorize EzClap to upload to your channel. This is a separate authorization from your Twitch login and only covers YouTube uploads.
- Once connected, the card shows your channel name and avatar. Use the × on the channel pill to disconnect at any time (a confirmation dialog protects against accidental disconnects).
Configuring upload defaults
With the channel connected, the YouTube card exposes your publishing defaults:
- Enable Posting — the master switch. Automation only uploads to YouTube while this is checked; the card's status badge shows posting enabled/disabled at a glance.
- Default Description — a description template applied to every upload. Keep your social links and a call to action here so every Short carries them (see the metadata guide). The
#{category}token works here too: EzClap replaces it with the clip's game as a hashtag (a Valorant clip gets #Valorant), so your descriptions stay accurate when you switch games. - Privacy — Public, Unlisted, or Private. New connections default to Private so you can verify the pipeline safely before going public.
- Notify Subs — whether uploads ping your subscribers. A personal tip: I recommend unchecking this for Shorts — it nudges the YouTube algorithm to push your video to new viewers instead of just your subs.
Click apply settings to save.
Where the title comes from
Each clip's upload title is set per clip: open the clip in the caption editor and use the title field at the top ("Set your YT / tiktok video Title"). If you never set one, the clip's filename is used — so a 10-second title pass while captioning is worth it. One rule: don't put hashtags in the title — that's what the description template is for.
The publish flow
- Curate clips into your Spotlight queue.
- When your engine mode's schedule fires (a stream segment for StreamSync, the daily time for DailyDrop), EzClap takes the next queued clip and uploads the final rendered video — layout, branding, and burned-in captions included — to your channel with your defaults applied.
- The published clip drains from the queue and is marked released; the activity feed on the auto-publish page logs the run.
Vertical 9:16 uploads are treated as Shorts by YouTube automatically — no special flag needed on your end.
Verifying safely
A common first-week setup: leave privacy on Private or Unlisted, run one DailyDrop cycle, check the upload on your channel (title, description, caption quality), then flip privacy to Public once you trust the output.