YouTube to Shorts Converter

Most YouTube to Shorts converters were built for creators: paste your own video, download the clip, upload it manually. That workflow breaks down fast if you're running a clipping operation across multiple channels.

AutoClip is different. It clips any YouTube video — yours or anyone else's — and posts the Short directly to your YouTube channel without you touching a dashboard. Add a channel once and every new upload gets processed automatically.

The AI isn't guessing which moments to clip. It analyzes each video for the specific signals that predict Short performance: scene cuts, energy peaks, speech-rate spikes. In an analysis of 175 clips scored by AutoClip's pipeline, scene cuts and energy peaks accounted for 86% of detected virality signals. The median high-scoring clip was 37 seconds. That's the window the AI targets.

Here's what that means in practice: a 60-minute interview generates 3-5 Short candidates, each under 60 seconds, already reframed to 9:16 with captions burned in. If you've enabled channel monitoring, that happens on every new video from the channel without you lifting a finger.

Where most converters fall short:

OpusClip requires a URL submission for every video. There's no channel monitoring, so you check manually or automate it yourself. The credit system charges by upload duration, so a 90-minute podcast costs 90 credits before you know if any clip is worth posting.

2short.ai charges by analysis minutes (30 min/mo free, $19.90/mo for 15 hours). Fine at low volume but expensive once you're processing multiple long-form videos daily.

Klap is a solid tool for creators who want control over the edit. It isn't built for clippers posting at scale from channels they don't own.

AutoClip's flat-rate pricing means a 2-hour video costs the same as a 10-minute one. Channel monitoring means you set it up once. Auto-posting means the clip goes live on YouTube Shorts without a manual upload step.