§ Long video in, vertical short video out
You highlight, we produce.
Paste a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook link and read the transcript like a manuscript. Mark the moment you want. We cut it to vertical 9:16, burn in timed captions, and hand it back — no watermark. An Instagram link gets you the transcript, not a cut. It is a long video to short video AI that is free to start — three clips on a free account, no card — and a long to short video converter you can finish a clip on in about a minute.
…and for two years I was convinced the only thing missing was reach.
I did not need a bigger audience.
I needed thirty people who actually cared.
That reframed everything I made afterwards.
Machine’s note in the margin: AI suggests 04:11–04:39. Take it with one click, or ignore it and mark your own.
Your clip · no watermark
Cut by us from Cross Key Lighting an Interview by Crimson Engine, CC BY
How to turn a long video into shorts without handing over the judgement: the machine never decides which short video gets made. You do.
I
Drop in a YouTube URL, or upload a video file. Captioned links can be longer; when we need to listen, the baseline covers 20 minutes. We pull the transcript so you can read the video instead of scrubbing it. No English-only restriction.
II
Drag across the lines you want, the way you would mark up a page. Every long video has a short video in it somewhere; this is where you say which one. AI suggests moments in the margin — take one with a click, or ignore it entirely.
III
Out comes a vertical 9:16 short video with timed karaoke captions, 720p, and nothing stamped across the corner. Ready for TikTok, Reels or Shorts.
Three promises we can actually keep.
No slot machine. The transcript is the interface: you read it, you mark the lines, that becomes the clip. AI suggestions sit beside your text as a proposal, never a decision.
Suggestions are optional and always editable.
You pay for finished clips. Bring a twenty-minute long video or a two-minute one — the short video costs the same; only an uncaptioned video past your plan’s listening limit costs extra, 1 credit per 20 minutes over. A render that fails never counts against you, and credits from a pack never expire.
Free to start: three clips on a free account, no card.
Nothing we export carries our name across it — not even on the welcome clips. With a free account your files stay available for 30 days instead of vanishing over a weekend.
Download anytime in that window.
No names. This is the pattern every auto-clipper shares, not one product.
Notes taken while testing nine long video to short video converters, one link at a time.
Four kinds of long video, and what the short video is for in each.
A long video episode holds three or four short videos and the rest is context. Going from long video to short video here means reading the transcript rather than scrubbing an hour — and because you mark the lines yourself, the cut lands on the sentence that actually paid off rather than the loudest twenty seconds.
A lesson is long by design. The short video you post is the one step that stands alone, and it has to start and end on an exact sentence — which is what marking a transcript gets you, and what an automatic long video to short video converter usually does not. Precision is the whole job when the long video is instructional.
Interviews and webinars are the hardest long video to short video job there is, because the good line is a reply buried nine minutes in. Search the transcript, mark the answer, take the short video. No timeline, no scrubbing.
The cheapest short video is one already inside a long video you published a year ago. Paste the link, read it back, and cut the part that still holds up — at 9:16 with captions, for the platform that did not exist when you filmed it.
§ 05 — In and out
In: a YouTube URL, or a video file you upload. Captioned links can be longer; the baseline listens to uncaptioned links and uploads for up to 20 minutes, in any language we can read or hear. Out: a 9:16 short video at 720p with captions burned in, sized for the three places short video actually lives. That is the entire long video to short video contract: one link in, one finished file out.
Priced per finished short video. Within your plan’s listening limit, the length of the long video you bring does not change the bill.
The free start
Free Three clips on a free account. No card, no watermark.
When three isn’t enough
from $0.23per finished clip, in packs that never expire. A render that fails is never charged.
Bigger packs cost less per clip. Mark up to 5 moments and cut them in one press; every finished clip is one credit. Studio adds 2K export and batches of 10; Pro adds 4K, includes AI Enhance, and takes batches of 20.
If an answer here is ever wrong, the answer changes — not the page.
To start, yes. A free account comes with three clips — no card, no watermark, up to 1080p. Reading a transcript needs no account at all, five a day. You can convert a long video to a short one and download it without handing over a card.
Three moves, and none of them is a settings page. Paste the link, read the transcript, and drag across the lines you want — the moment you highlight is the cut. We convert that long video to short video at vertical 9:16, burn in timed captions, and hand back a file. There is no timeline to learn and nothing to install; the transcript is the long video to short video converter.
Every finished short video is one credit — and credits also pay for transcripts past five a day, AI summaries and translations, and listening to an uncaptioned video past your plan’s limit. A free account starts with three of them — 720p or 1080p, no watermark, no card — so the first three short videos cost you nothing. Reading the transcript of a video somebody already pasted does not count against your five a day, since that answer is already cached, and is free unless it is an uncaptioned video longer than your plan listens to. Beyond the welcome credits, credit packs start at $3 and never expire. No trial that bills you on day eight, which is more than most free long video to short video AI tools will say.
No. Nothing we export carries a watermark or a logo bug — the welcome clips included. What you download is what you post.
A public link with a readable caption track has no source-length cap. If the video has no captions and we need to listen to it, the baseline covers 20 minutes, Studio 45 and Pro 60; past that, up to 60 minutes, it is 1 credit per 20 minutes over, priced before we start. Uploaded files use the same listening limits.
Yes — pasting a YouTube URL is the main way in, and what comes back is a vertical short. It is the same video to shorts converter for TikTok and Facebook links, and you can upload a file if the video is not public. An Instagram link gets you the transcript but not a cut, which the reel page says plainly. Caption tracks and speech recognition are not restricted to English.
A converter. There is no timeline, no track stack and nothing to render-preview: a long to short video converter should take a link and give back a file, and that is the whole of what this does. The transcript stands in for the editor — you mark the sentence, the cut lands on it.
Yes. Mark up to 5 moments in a single transcript and export them together, one credit each. It is the normal case when you go from a long video to shorts: an hour of podcast is rarely one short video, and cutting them in one pass beats pasting the same link five times.
Three clips on a free account: vertical 9:16 with timed captions, 720p or 1080p, no watermark, no card. The welcome credits are good for 30 days, and so are your files. A render that fails never spends a credit.
This is early access. Multi-clip export shipped — mark up to 5 moments in one transcript and cut them all in one press, one credit each. AI Enhance shipped too — an upscale pass that fixes soft sources for one extra credit, included on Pro. Everything described on this page is what v1 does — anything not described here does not exist yet.
Bring a long video. Leave with the part worth watching.
Paste a linkFree to start · No card · No watermark