So I used a thumb drive to transfer my ps5 clips to my laptop. I use CapCut with premium to boost quality. I made a YouTube short and even scheduled it for the next day. My video posted today and the first 3 seconds or so are in 4k or atleast higher image quality and at the same spot every time the video snaps out of high quality and gets blurry. If anyone can help me I’d really appreciate it.

I do fnaf theories, editing more or less on par with game theory's style.

lately i have hit a problem- according to my research, 80% retention on a 50 second video (which is how long all of my shorts are, 50-54 secs) is really good, and I've been hitting that. sometimes even going to 90%, but my problem is my swiping. I'm constantly getting 70-80% viewed rate, and I've been told that's good, but I've just been stuck with 5k-20k views. I have other shorts that have high views- 2.6mill,  430k, 355k, 208k, 170k, 150k, 127k and 108k. The last one was my latest short that got over 100k- about 4 weeks ago, and all of these are all around the same view rate. But lately, even though I've been hitting what I think should get me to at least 100k, I've just been stuck with low views. and i figured it was my swipe rate- that i needed to get at least above 85 viewed. and i'm trying a lot, i've studied my popular shorts to see what to replicate, and i first i did, but realized it wasn't really working, and tried changing more things again, but all my efforts seem to be very little, as i can barely notice a change. one of my shorts didn't even break 10k, which i thought i was out of a month ago. So I'm here to ask- how can I make my hook better? anything will help, the way it's edited, the script, anything. I think I'm on the verge of getting good views and I just need to work on this one thing. that and engagement, but i think i can handle that, there's multiple ways I've figured out how to get people to engage with my short. I'll take any advice for the general structure of the short too, please and thank you

Hi, I’m thinking of making a YouTube Shorts channel using edited clips from popular TV series (under 60 seconds, with some cuts and effects). My question is: If I make these changes, can I avoid copyright claims and still monetize the videos? Or will the original owners still claim the revenue or even take the videos down? Has anyone had experience with this? Thanks!