Shorts & Vertical Video
Shorts template
Also called: Use this template, Shorts effect template
Tap the template option on a Short and YouTube opens the camera with that Short's timing, cuts and audio segments already in place. You drop your own clips into each slot. The finished Short credits the original, and your own Shorts can be reused the same way unless you switch the option off.
A format that spreads brings a trail of attribution back to whoever made it first, which makes templates a distribution play as much as a creative one. The cost is that your Short looks like every other Short using it.