Turn long videos into shorts, from one link to a scheduled week
A long upload already holds the clips your audience wants to watch. ShortsCreator reads every word of it, picks the moments that stand on their own and hands them back as vertical clips with captions, a title and a slot on your calendar. Here is the whole path, step by step, with nothing hidden between the link and the published Short.
Four steps from long video to posted Short
Every project follows the same route. You can stop after any step, come back later and pick up exactly where you left off.
- Paste or connect
- Review ranked moments
- Edit by transcript
- Schedule
Step one, paste or connect
Start with whatever you have. Paste a YouTube link (a regular watch page, a youtu.be short link, a live replay or a Shorts URL), upload an MP4 or MOV file from your drive, or drop in an MP3 of a podcast episode and we pair it with a still frame.
Prefer not to touch links at all? Connect your channel once. On Studio plans and above, channel autopilot watches it for you and every new upload is processed into a review queue without anyone pressing a button.
Before the analysis starts you choose two things: the target platform (YouTube Shorts, TikTok or Reels) and the clip length you want (15 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, or up to 90 seconds). The platform choice sets the safe zone for captions and the style of the suggested title.
- Public YouTube links, live replays and Shorts URLs
- MP4, MOV and MP3 uploads
- A connected channel for hands-off processing
Step two, review ranked moments
A speech recognition model writes a transcript with a timestamp on every word. A language model then reads that transcript the way an editor would, looking for a moment that opens with a hook, builds to a payoff and makes sense to someone who never saw the full video.
Each candidate comes back as a card. You see where it starts and ends, the exact quote, a suggested title and a virality score from 0 to 100. The score always carries a short reason, such as a strong opening question, quick pacing or a clear punchline, so you can judge it yourself instead of trusting a bare number.
The list is sorted from strongest to weakest. Keep the ones you like, drop the rest, and open any card to watch it in a vertical preview with the speaker already in frame.
Step three, edit by transcript
Trimming a clip here works like editing a document. Select words in the transcript to cut them, extend the selection to start a sentence earlier, and the video follows the text. There is no timeline to scrub through and no frame counting.
The same screen lets you swap the layout. A single speaker stays centred through face tracking; a two-person conversation can switch to a split layout with one face on top and one below. Captions animate word by word in a template you pick (word highlight, karaoke or minimal) and use the fonts and colours from your brand kit. Emoji stay off unless you turn them on.
Above the first frame you get hook text, and next to the clip a title, description and hashtags written for the platform you picked. All of it is editable.
- Cut and extend by selecting transcript text
- Switch between single speaker and split layout
- Change the caption template in one click
Step four, schedule and publish
Approved clips go onto a calendar. Drag them to the day and hour you want and they publish to YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels from one place. Agency workspaces add an approval step, so a client or a reviewer signs off before anything goes live.
Rather post by hand? Export each clip as a 1080x1920 MP4 at up to 60 fps with an SRT caption file, or download a whole batch as one ZIP.
An automatic clip maker for channels that publish every week
Doing the four steps by hand is quick. Not doing them at all is quicker. With channel autopilot, ShortsCreator works as an automatic clip maker: a new upload appears on your channel, the moments are found and cut, and the finished clips wait in your review queue with scores, titles and captions in place. Your part shrinks to approving and choosing dates.
Autopilot only reads your own connected channel and only cuts footage you published. It never invents scenes, never fills gaps with generated video and never posts without your approval in workspaces that require it.
If you want to compare this route with other ways of making clips, the pages on our youtube clip maker and our ai clip generator look at it from different angles, and video editing software for youtube shorts lists every control in the editor.
FAQ
Most videos are ready while you make a coffee. A long episode takes longer than a short tutorial, because every word is transcribed first. You see each stage on screen (fetching, reading the transcript, finding moments, scoring, framing) so you always know where it stands.
That is fine. Upload the file and we transcribe the audio ourselves. In the demo you can upload a file of up to 10 minutes or try one of three sample videos.
No. The list is a starting point. Keep two clips or twelve; the ones you skip simply stay in the project.
No. Minutes are counted on the source video you process in a billing period, so removing a finished clip does not add them back. Your allowance resets with each new period.
No. Your videos and transcripts stay private to your workspace and are not used to train any model.
See what your last upload is hiding
Paste the link to your most recent long video and watch the first ranked moment play in a vertical preview.