Your channel already has the material. Upload one of your long videos, and the AI picks the moments that stand on their own and cuts them into vertical Shorts with captions and a title each.
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A YouTube Shorts generator is a tool that turns a long video into short vertical clips for the Shorts shelf. Here you upload the file of a video you made, 1 to 20 minutes long, and choose 2 to 5 Shorts. The AI transcribes it, reads the whole transcript and picks moments of 15 to 60 seconds that start and end on full sentences. Each one is cut, reframed to 1080×1920, captioned word by word if you like, and given a title.
Sign in and upload the MP4, MOV or WEBM of a video from your own channel, 1 to 20 minutes and up to 300 MB. Links aren't accepted; use the export from your editor or a download from YouTube Studio.
Pick how many Shorts you want, the reframe, and a caption style or no captions.
Press Make shorts. Each vertical clip is saved in My Videos with its title, start time and length, ready to upload as a YouTube Short.
The AI doesn't cut at random. It reads your transcript looking for a strong opening line, a clear tip, a surprising fact, a short story or a funny moment, the kinds of moments that work for someone who has never seen your channel.
Every clip runs 15 to 60 seconds and starts and ends on a sentence, so it fits the Shorts format and doesn't open halfway through a word. Clips never overlap, so each Short is new footage.
Most channel videos are 16:9. Choose Crop to the speaker for a full-screen vertical shot of the center, or Whole frame on a blurred background to keep everything you showed, like a screen recording or a product on a desk.
Word captions sit in the center in capitals, above the area the Shorts player covers with the title, channel name and buttons. Pick from six styles or turn them off.
Each result comes with a suggested title, its start time in your original video and a line on why the moment works. The start time makes it easy to add a related-video link back to the full upload.
Finding the good moments in a long recording usually means watching all of it. Here the AI reads the transcript and cuts the clips.
| Feature | Long Video to Shorts | Clipping by hand in an editor |
|---|---|---|
| Finding moments | The AI reads the full transcript and picks 2 to 5 | Watch or scrub the whole recording and note timestamps |
| Cut points | Start and end on full sentences, 15–60 seconds each | Set the in and out points by hand for every clip |
| Vertical format | 1080×1920 with a blurred background or a center crop | Reframe each clip on a 9:16 timeline |
| Captions | Word by word in 6 styles, timed for you | Transcribe and time the captions yourself |
| Titles | A title and a why-it-works line for each short | Written by you |
| Price | 245 credits for 3 shorts from a 10-minute video | An editor subscription and your time on every clip |
A sit-down video where you explain one topic to camera usually has four or five moments that make sense alone.
A 5-minute software or editing tutorial shows the screen most of the time. Cropping the center would cut off menus and buttons.
A video from last year still gets search traffic. Shorts from it can send new viewers to it.
Channels with dozens of long videos that have never been cut into Shorts.
People whose long videos are full of single tips that work as standalone Shorts.
Creators who talk over gameplay or footage and want the best lines as vertical clips.
Small teams with product videos and webinars on their brand's channel who need a steady flow of Shorts.
Upload the video file from your channel, choose 2 to 5 Shorts and press Make shorts. The AI picks the moments, reframes them to 9:16 and adds captions.
No. Upload the video file instead, for example the export from your editor or a download from YouTube Studio.
15 to 60 seconds each, set by where the sentences start and end.
1 to 20 minutes and up to 300 MB. For a longer video, trim it to the 20-minute section you want Shorts from.
15 credits per started minute of video, plus 30 per Short, plus 5. A 12-minute video cut into 4 Shorts is 305 credits.
Only with their permission. Use videos you made, or ones the owner has agreed you can cut.
Yes. Each one is a 1080×1920 vertical MP4 with the original sound, which is the size YouTube Shorts plays full screen.
No. The AI chooses them from the transcript. To cut a moment you already know, use Trim Video and then Resize Video.
Yes. Sign in with Google or email; each job costs credits from your balance, and the result is saved in My Videos.
If a job can't finish, the credits it used go back to your balance automatically.
AI finds the best moments in a long video and cuts captioned 9:16 shorts. from 80 credits, and the result is saved in My Videos.
