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Create YouTube Shorts from Long Videos

Paste a long YouTube video. Get vertical, captioned Shorts back in about 10–15 minutes — and let them post to your channel on their own.

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Features

Finds the Moments Worth Cutting

A 90-minute upload has maybe six minutes of Shorts material in it. AutoClip scores every moment for how likely it is to hook someone in the first two seconds, so you stop scrubbing a timeline looking for them.

Vertical Reframe to 9:16

Horizontal footage is reframed to Shorts' vertical format with the speaker kept centered as the shot moves — no manual keyframing, no heads cropped off at the top of the frame.

Word-Synced Captions

Captions land word by word, in sync, burned into the clip. Styles include karaoke, pop, and bounce, and emoji render correctly. Most Shorts viewers scroll with sound off, so this is not optional.

Posts to YouTube for You

Connect your channel once and Shorts upload on the schedule you set, spaced out rather than dumped all at once. Write your own title, tags, and description, or start from a generated draft and edit it.

How It Works

Paste the long YouTube video URL

Interviews, lectures, podcasts, stream VODs, commentary — any public video works, and it does not have to be your own channel.

AutoClip picks the Short-worthy moments

You get around 9 clips from a typical video, ranked, each with a 5-criterion score breakdown you can read before you post anything. A typical video is done in about 10–15 minutes; a multi-hour upload takes proportionally longer.

Shorts go live on your channel

Approve everything, approve some, or leave it on autopilot. Clips upload as Shorts without you touching the upload button.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I turn someone else's long YouTube videos into Shorts?

Yes. Paste any public YouTube URL. Plenty of people run Shorts channels built entirely on highlights from creators, athletes, or podcasters they don't work with — that's the main way clip channels grow.

What's the ideal length for YouTube Shorts?

30–60 seconds is the range most Shorts perform in, and that's what AutoClip targets by default. If your niche does better at 15 seconds or at a full 3 minutes, set your own target length and clips get cut to it.

How does AutoClip decide which moments become Shorts?

It looks for the things that make a clip work on its own: a strong opening line, a spike in energy, a quotable claim, a reaction, or a clean topic change that gives the clip a beginning and an end. Every clip ships with a 5-criterion score breakdown, so you can disagree with it and pick differently.

Can I automatically turn every new upload on a YouTube channel into Shorts?

Yes. Add the channel to monitoring and new uploads get picked up automatically, usually within minutes of going live, then clipped and queued for posting. Starter monitors 1 channel, Pro 3, Scale 10.

Does AutoClip write titles and descriptions for Shorts?

It drafts titles, descriptions, and hashtags for each Short. Treat them as a starting point — a 10-second edit usually beats the draft, especially if you have a recurring format or series name.

How many Shorts can I make per month?

Volume is set by credits, where 1 credit equals 1 minute of source video. Starter is $19.99/mo with 200 credits and up to 10 videos / 50 clips, Pro is $39.99/mo with 500 credits and 25 videos / 200 clips, Scale is $79.99/mo with 1200 credits and 50 videos / 500 clips. A typical video returns around 9 clips.

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Go from YouTube video to posted clip — no manual steps, no stitching tools together. AutoClip handles the entire pipeline.