YouTube Shorts
How Shorts work with Epic Saaz. What uploads become Shorts and what becomes regular videos.
Good news: you don't have to do anything special to post Shorts. Our YouTube blueprints publish whatever video you drop in the queue folder, and YouTube figures out for itself whether it's a Short or a regular video. You just need to know which videos become Shorts.
What becomes a Short
YouTube treats your upload as a Short when both of these are true:
- Vertical shape — 9:16, like a phone held upright (1080×1920 pixels is the sweet spot)
- Short enough — 3 minutes or less (180 seconds)
What becomes a regular video
- Anything wider than 9:16 (e.g. 16:9 landscape recorded on a camera)
- Anything longer than 3 minutes, even if it's vertical
Both formats are fine — they just show up in different places on YouTube. Shorts land on the Shorts feed; regular videos on your channel's main feed.
Do I need to tag it #Shorts?
No. That was an old YouTube recommendation — it's not required anymore. YouTube looks at the actual video file (how it's shaped, how long it is) and decides for itself. Including #Shorts in your description doesn't hurt, but it doesn't change whether YouTube treats it as a Short.
Can Epic Saaz crop my horizontal video into a Short?
Not in the YouTube Content Publisher blueprint (yet). If you want to turn a horizontal recording into a 9:16 Short, you'd need to crop it yourself first (Canva, CapCut, or similar), then drop the cropped version into your queue folder.
Does it count differently for my plan credits?
No. A Short and a regular video both cost the same amount of execution and AI credits in Epic Saaz. From our side, publishing is one action regardless of format.
Can I pick which format in the blueprint settings?
No toggle needed. Whatever you drop in the folder goes up as-is, and YouTube classifies it. If you want 100% Shorts, just upload vertical, short clips. If you want 100% long-form, upload horizontal longer clips. If you mix, both work — they just land in different parts of YouTube.