Free Tool
Short-Form Video Maker
The gap between a two-hour recording and a posted short is mostly tedium. This closes it.
No credit card required
Features
URL In, Posted Clips Out
You submit a link and the next thing you touch is the posting queue. Nothing to install, no project file, no export settings to get wrong.
Moment Selection You Can Check
Each clip carries a virality score with a transparent 5-criterion breakdown, so when you disagree with a pick you can see what it was reacting to instead of guessing.
Vertical Framing That Tracks the Speaker
Clips come out 9:16 with the crop following whoever is talking. 1080×1920 on Starter and Pro, 4K on Scale.
Extras That Make a Clip Watchable
Pro adds AI B-roll, background music, sound effects, and spoken hooks — the additions that stop a talking-head clip from dying in the first second.
How It Works
Submit a long-form video
Paste a public YouTube, Twitch, or Kick URL. Sources up to 2 hours on Starter, 5 on Pro, 10 on Scale.
AutoClip builds the clips
It picks the moments most likely to hold a scrolling viewer, cuts around them, reframes to vertical, and burns in word-synced captions.
Publish or schedule
Send them to TikTok, Reels, Shorts, Facebook Reels, and other connected destinations, spaced across the week.
Frequently Asked Questions
What counts as short-form, and why bother?
Roughly anything under 60–90 seconds built for a vertical feed. It matters because those feeds push content to people who do not follow you, which long-form largely does not — a clip from a video nobody watched can still find an audience.
How long does it take?
About 10–15 minutes for a typical video. Longer sources take proportionally longer — a five-hour stream is not going to finish in the same window as a 40-minute podcast. Scale includes priority processing.
Do I need editing skills?
No. Cutting, reframing, and caption timing are handled. What still helps is taste: knowing which of the nine clips is worth pushing, and writing a caption that gives it a reason to be watched.
Can it run without me checking in?
Yes — channel monitoring plus auto-posting means new uploads become posted clips with no involvement. Watch the first batch before you trust it unattended; that is when you will find the caption style or clip length you want to change.
How does this compare to editing in CapCut?
CapCut gives you complete control and costs nothing, and for a single hero clip you care deeply about, it will beat this. The tradeoff is time: an hour of source needs to be watched, marked, cropped, and captioned by hand. This is built for volume — around 9 clips per video, hands-off — not for perfecting one.
Is there a free tier?
The free plan gives watermarked trial clips and 2 connected accounts. Starter at $19.99/mo covers 10 videos and 200 credits a month with watermark-free export, channel monitoring, and scheduling.
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