Auto-post YouTube Shorts: set the channel once, the queue posts

What auto-posting changes for a Shorts channel

A Shorts channel lives on consistency. YouTube gives no number, but advises a posting schedule you can maintain: “consistency is key”. To post often without filming more, its help center suggests turning clips of your long videos into Shorts. The audience is there: in June 2025, YouTube reported Shorts averaging over 200 billion views a day.

So the hard part is not editing a Short. It is posting one today, then tomorrow, then the day after, on every channel. YouTube Studio schedules one video at a time: you set it to private, then pick the date and time it goes public. Clipping tools post too, each in its own way. OpusClip schedules a batch of clips from a project, from the first clip’s date and a fixed interval. Klap has you pick the date and time Short by Short, in a calendar. Vizard auto-schedules a project’s clips, with a daily cap that belongs to that project.

Stratos·Clip handles it per channel, not per video. You set the channel up once: fixed time slots, or a number of posts per day. Every ready Short joins its queue, whatever long video it comes from, and the queue rotates between your sources. You stop scheduling videos: you keep the queue fed.

What it costs and what you get

Credits pay for analysis and rendering: 1 rendered Short = 1 credit, 10 minutes of analyzed video = 1 credit. Posting is not counted separately. At zero credits, Shorts already rendered keep posting, stats keep running and your channels stay connected; only new renders wait.

• Free: 30 credits a month, one channel, up to 2 posts a day, a watermark on clips, while seats are open.
• Starter: $29.90 a month, 180 credits, about 130 Shorts, 3 YouTube channels included.
• Pro: $69.90 a month, 500 credits, about 363 Shorts, 8 channels included; each extra channel costs $4.00 a month.

Unused credits roll over to the next cycle. For that price, each channel gets its queue, its runway shown in days, refused uploads moved to the next slot, and Shorts that go out with their title and description. This queue is no prototype: on our own channels it posts about 500 Shorts every week, per the October 2026 count.

Three problems with posting every day, and the answer

Rescheduling for every new video. When scheduling works per video or per batch, each new source needs its own, lined up after the last one so the channel never stops. With Stratos·Clip, the setting belongs to the channel. The scheduler runs every hour and draws from all of its ready Shorts. A video added on Tuesday sees its Shorts take the slots that already exist, with no new scheduling.

One video in a burst. The longest videos give up to 24 Shorts. Posted back to back, one a day, they fill the channel for 24 days with the same episode. The Stratos·Clip queue interleaves your sources and puts first the ones with nothing scheduled yet that day. It still never leaves a slot empty: if only one source has ready Shorts, that source posts.

A queue that runs dry, or a rejected upload. Each channel shows its runway, the number of posting days its queue covers: you see which one will run short before a slot goes empty. On YouTube’s side, the API caps the number of uploads per day. An upload refused by that quota moves to the next slot instead of being lost. And a pace that would go past your space’s daily cap is refused at setup, rather than failing later.

A month of posting, worked out

Take two YouTube channels, each set to two Shorts a day: a podcast channel at 9 am and 7 pm, a gaming channel at 12 pm and 9 pm. Over a thirty-day month, that makes one hundred twenty posts.

The sources are one-hour videos. Each gives about 16 Shorts for 22 credits, analysis included. Four videos per channel are enough: eight in the month, so about eight times 16 Shorts, a little more than the one hundred twenty slots. They use eight times 22 credits, which fits in the 180 credits of Starter at $29.90 a month, with 3 YouTube channels included. Leftover credits roll over to the next month.

Your work for the month comes down to two things: adding two videos a week, and checking each channel’s runway. Scheduled video by video in YouTube Studio, the same month would take one hundred twenty schedulings. With batch scheduling, you would line up eight batches one after another.

If a third channel joins, it stays within Starter. Past 3 channels, Pro includes 8 for $69.90 a month, or each extra channel costs $4.00 a month.

Paid plans open with online payment. Until then, the “Notify me at launch” button on the pricing grid records your email and the plan you want, and the free plan already posts to one channel, up to 2 Shorts a day.

Settings that matter

• Fixed times or continuous. With fixed times, a Short goes out at each chosen time, every day. In continuous mode, a Short goes out at each interval, from 10 minutes to 1,440 minutes, while a ready Short is waiting. Fixed times suit an audience with set habits; continuous spreads posts across the day.
• Posts per day. From 1 to 10 per channel, 2 at most on the free plan. YouTube publishes no ideal pace: pick the one your sources can sustain, and read the runway to check it.
• Your space’s cap. The channels of one space share a daily cap on uploads to YouTube. A pace increase that would go past it is refused when you save. Lowering it is always possible.
• Descriptions. The title and description go out with every Short. You can add text before and after every description (links, call to action, recurring hashtags) and credit the original YouTube video at the end of the description.
• Review. Auto-posting only draws from ready Shorts. Each one can be watched, removed from the queue or scheduled by hand.

How to launch

1. Create your space with your Google account, then click “Connecter YouTube” (connect YouTube). The channel connects through Google’s official sign-in, and Stratos·Clip only acts on the videos it posted.
2. Add a first long video, by its YouTube link or by importing the file. Its Shorts land on the channel once rendered.
3. On your YouTube channel’s row, open “Diffusion automatique” (auto-posting; the app’s labels are in French for now). Pick “Horaires fixes” (fixed times) or “En continu” (continuous), then the number of posts per day.
4. Tick “Activer la programmation automatique” (turn on auto-scheduling) and save. The scheduler runs every hour and fills upcoming slots with ready Shorts.
5. Add the next video before the channel’s runway hits zero: its Shorts take the existing slots.
6. Once posted, edit title and description, read comments and reply without going through YouTube Studio.

When another option is better

• You post a video now and then. YouTube Studio’s scheduling is enough: you pick the date and time it goes public, with no other tool. Our guide How to schedule YouTube Shorts gives the steps. A queue set up once only pays off when Shorts come in every week.
• You also post to TikTok or Instagram. Stratos·Clip posts to YouTube Shorts only. OpusClip Pro posts and schedules to nine networks; Vizard’s auto-scheduling also covers TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and X.
• Your clips are already edited. Stratos·Clip starts from long videos and does not import finished clips. A scheduler that posts ready-made files will serve you better.
• Your videos are not in French. The interface is in French, and detection and titles have only been measured on videos in French. Try one video on the free plan first.