AI Reel generator that works from your footage, not a prompt

Upload a talk, an episode or a vlog. Cliplala cuts the moments that stand alone into 9:16 Reels with captions, keeps you in the frame, ranks them, and queues them to Instagram and 10+ other platforms.

60 minutes free. No credit card. Shorts never expire.

Went in

Get ready with me, 30 min

Came out, ranked

#1 · 85

#2 · 78

#3 · 72

Rank and score, as the engine returned them.

What came out of this one

Real shorts from the source above, in the order the engine ranked them, with the reason it wrote for each.

#1 · 85 · 56s
How I made a friend when I had zero in my class
Why. Relatable mini-story with a clear turn: isolation → simple action → friendship. The callback to her earlier advice makes it land harder. Viewers see the framework working in real time.
#2 · 78 · 27s
Why curly hair is actually better than straight hair
Why. Counterintuitive take on a beauty topic her audience cares about. She flips the narrative that straight hair is the goal, backed by practical reasoning.
#3 · 72 · 51s
How many days of school she actually skips
Why. Self-deprecating, specific admission that feels honest and relatable. The social proof ('anyone would say') makes it funnier and more human.

01
Upload the long video
Link or file. It is transcribed word by word, which every later step reads.
02
Reels are generated from real moments
Snapped to sentence edges, cropped to 9:16 around the person, captions burned in. Clips that need context are dropped.
03
Queue to Instagram
Connect the account in Schedulala once. Reels queue there and to 10+ platforms from the results page.

Which one is you

Pick the closest.

The line to camera, as a Reel

The picker weights what you said to the lens; the tracker keeps you in frame through the walk.

Generate from a vlog

Reels framed for Instagram's overlay

Instagram lays its controls over the right edge and the bottom of a Reel. The crop keeps the face clear of those bands and the captions sit where they stay readable in the feed.

Generate Reels

Nothing invented

Prompt-to-video tools make footage up. This generator only ever cuts what you filmed, with the sentence each Reel was picked for attached. What you post is yours. The same rule on any footage.

Generate from my footage

Captions for a muted feed

Word-level captions with the current word lit, from ten styles, burned into the file. More on captions.

Pick a caption style

Metered on hours of video

Cliplala meters the video you upload, not the shorts it makes. Lite is $14 a month for 4 hours; Pro is $78 for 25. Every plan posts to 10+ platforms, and every plan from Starter up includes seats for a team. The first 60 minutes are free, with a small watermark on the clips; paid plans have none. Full pricing.

See pricing

What it does

Burned-in captions. Word-level, active word highlighted, ten styles. Rendered into the file.
Face tracking. The crop follows the person, through cuts and camera moves.
Bad cuts dropped. A short that starts or ends mid-thought does not reach you.
Ranked with reasons. Every short says why it was picked, so you can disagree with it.
Link or file. Paste a YouTube link, or upload the file straight from your machine.
Queue to 10+ platforms. Post from the results page. No export step.
Never used for training. Your uploads make your shorts and nothing else.
60 minutes free. No credit card. The free clips carry a small watermark; paid plans have none.

What it does not promise

Footage that was not filmed. Nothing is generated from a prompt; every frame is yours.
A fixed number of shorts. De-duplication and the coherence check drop shorts on purpose; a tight talk yields more than a rambling one.
A score that predicts views. Every short gets a rank and a written reason, and you can disagree with it.

Claims on this page come from what ships today. If a row above says it, the engine does it.

Questions

Is this a text-to-Reel generator?

No. Cliplala only cuts Reels from video you upload or link. Nothing is generated from a prompt; every Reel is a real moment from your footage.

How do I generate Reels from a long video?

Upload the video or paste a link. Cliplala transcribes it, cuts the moments that stand alone into 9:16 Reels with captions burned in, crops them around the speaker, and ranks them. Connect Instagram in Schedulala and queue them there and to 10+ other platforms.

Can it post the Reels to Instagram?

Yes. Connect the account in Schedulala once and the results page queues Reels to it on your schedule. The same file can also go to TikTok and Shorts.

How many shorts do I get from one video?

It depends on the video. The engine keeps the moments that stand on their own and drops near-duplicates and cuts that start or end mid-thought, so a tight talk can return more usable shorts than a rambling one. You can set a target count and a clip length before it runs.

How long are the shorts?

Between 15 and 90 seconds by default, snapped to sentence edges so nothing is cut mid-word. You can set the range before the run.

Can I change a short before posting?

Yes. You can fix a caption, change the caption style, swap the layout, or drop the clip. Then queue it, or download it.

Is the AI Reel generator free?

Your first 60 minutes of source video are free with no credit card. Those shorts carry a small Cliplala watermark. Paid plans start at $14 a month for 4 hours of video and have no watermark.

Is my video used to train anything?

No. Your uploads are used to make your shorts and for nothing else. Source files are deleted after 30 days; the shorts stay.

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