Turn your long YouTube videos into Shorts

Paste a link, get clips back

Instead of re-uploading footage you've already published, paste the YouTube link directly. Extract Shorts pulls the video, transcribes it, and returns a ranked set of candidate Shorts — reframed to 9:16 and captioned — so you can decide what's worth cross-posting without scrubbing back through your own upload looking for the good part.

Two ways to repurpose a video

If your video has several distinct standalone moments — a long tutorial, a multi-topic vlog, an interview — Extract Shorts gives you several separate clips to choose from. If it's more of a single narrative arc and you want one Short that samples the strongest moments across the whole timeline instead, Smart Short is built for that.

How it works

1. 1

   Paste your YouTube link

   No need to find and re-upload the original file — a public or unlisted link works.

2. 2

   Choose Extract Shorts or Smart Short

   Multiple standalone clips, or one highlight reel covering the full video — pick based on how the source video is structured.

3. 3

   Download and cross-post

   Clips come out captioned and vertical, ready for Shorts, Reels, or TikTok without a separate editing pass.

Where to start in your back catalog

Start with the videos that already did well: their topic and hook are proven, and a Short is a cheap way to send new viewers back to them. Then work through the formats that split naturally into standalone moments: tutorials with distinct steps, interviews, list videos, and commentary on a single news story.

Older videos are worth it too. A good explanation from two years ago reads as new to someone who has never seen your channel.

A steady rhythm beats a burst: clipping one long video a week and posting a Short a day from it keeps the Shorts feed and your long-form uploads feeding each other, instead of dumping twenty clips at once and going quiet. Because every clip comes back ranked, the daily pick is already made for you.

Formatting that works on Shorts

Pick a clip length before you run the job: about 30 seconds, 30 to 60, or anything under 90. Each clip opens with a short title card drawn from the moment, so a scrolling viewer knows what it is about before the first line lands.

Captions are placed above the Shorts buttons and caption area rather than behind them, and you can choose the look: word-by-word Hormozi-style captions, Beast-style pops, or a Karaoke look where the spoken word lights up.

When you post, link each Short to the full video it came from, so the Short does its real job: finding viewers for the long one.

What a video costs

A 20-minute video is four 5-minute blocks. On Free that is 32 of your 50 monthly credits, enough to try this on a real upload; on Starter it is 24 credits, so the plan's 300 cover about 12 videos that length a month. Cost scales with length, so an hour-long tutorial is 72 credits on Starter, and your Shorts get made from the whole hour, not just its first few minutes.