--- title: "AI Shorts Maker: long video to YouTube Shorts | Cliplala" canonical_url: "https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-shorts-maker" summary: "Make YouTube Shorts from a long video. Ranked 9:16 shorts with captions, cut on sentences, queued to Shorts, TikTok and Reels together. 60 minutes free." --- # AI shorts maker that fills the Shorts shelf from one upload > Paste a link or upload the video. Cliplala cuts the moments that work alone into vertical shorts with captions, ranks them, and queues them to YouTube Shorts and every other platform from one screen. ## How do I use the AI shorts maker? A YouTube link is enough. Or upload the master file for the cleanest crop. Each moment is snapped to sentence edges, cropped to 9:16 around the person, and captioned word by word. Ranked shorts go into Schedulala with one click, for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Reels and 10+ platforms. Start at https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-shorts-maker: paste a link, or drop the video, press "Make shorts", and the first 60 minutes of video are free with no card. ## What are the steps? 1. **Paste the video.** A YouTube link is enough. Or upload the master file for the cleanest crop. 2. **Shorts are cut, framed and captioned.** Each moment is snapped to sentence edges, cropped to 9:16 around the person, and captioned word by word. 3. **Queue to Shorts, and everywhere else.** Ranked shorts go into Schedulala with one click, for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Reels and 10+ platforms. ## What does it do? ### Shorts that hold up on their own A short is watched by someone who never saw the long video. Each one is checked for exactly that: does it make sense with nothing before it? The ones that do not are dropped, so the shelf carries only clips that land. ### The crop stays on you A face tracker follows you through cuts and camera moves and picks one steady crop per shot. Product on the desk, hands in the shot, a walk to the window: the frame keeps the subject. [The same tracking on YouTube uploads](https://cliplala.com/tools/youtube-to-shorts) ### Captions for people watching muted Word-level captions with the current word lit, from ten styles. They are burned into the file, so every platform shows the same thing. [More on captions](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-caption-generator) ### 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](https://cliplala.com/#pricing) ## Who is it for? ### YouTubers: Feed the shelf from the back catalogue Videos that finished their long-form run still hold shorts. Run them through, queue a month, and the shelf posts itself while you make the next long one. ### Vloggers: Shorts from a day of footage The moments in a vlog are spread thin. The picker finds them, the tracker keeps you in frame while you move, and the check drops the shorts that need the setup you cut. ### Podcasters: Episode promos with both hosts A stacked layout keeps both people in the frame for the exchange; a close-up goes solo. Chosen about once a second from the picture. ## What is included? - **Link or file.** Paste a YouTube link, or upload the file straight from your machine. - **Bad cuts dropped.** A short that starts or ends mid-thought does not reach you. - **Face tracking.** The crop follows the person, through cuts and camera moves. - **Burned-in captions.** Word-level, active word highlighted, ten styles. Rendered into the file. - **Ranked with reasons.** Every short says why it was picked, so you can disagree with it. - **Queue to 10+ platforms.** Post from the results page. No export step. - **Priced on hours.** Metered on source video. From $14 a month for 4 hours. - **60 minutes free.** No credit card. The free clips carry a small watermark; paid plans have none. ## What does it not do? - 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. - A time. Long sources take longer; you see shorts as they finish. ## What else do people ask? ### How do I make YouTube Shorts from a long video? Paste the YouTube link or upload the file. Cliplala cuts the moments that stand alone into 9:16 shorts with captions, ranks them, and lets you queue them to YouTube Shorts and 10+ other platforms through Schedulala. ### Can I post the shorts to YouTube from here? Yes. Connect your channel in Schedulala once and the results page queues straight to it, along with TikTok, Reels and the rest. No download and re-upload. ### 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 shorts maker 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. ### What can I upload? A YouTube link, or a file: mp4, mov, m4v, mkv or webm. Uploads go from your browser straight to private storage, so a long file does not have to pass through a form. ### 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. ## Related tools - [YouTube to Shorts converter](https://cliplala.com/tools/youtube-to-shorts): Paste a YouTube link, get ranked Shorts, queue them back to the channel. - [Long video to short video converter](https://cliplala.com/tools/long-video-to-short-video-converter): Any long video in, ranked 9:16 shorts with captions out. - [Video to shorts converter](https://cliplala.com/tools/video-to-shorts-converter): One upload becomes shorts for Shorts, TikTok and Reels at once. - [AI clip maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-clip-maker): Ranked clips with a reason for each pick, cropped and captioned. - [AI TikTok video generator](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-tiktok-video-generator): TikToks cut from your own footage, opening on the hook. - [AI Reel generator](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-reel-generator): Reels from footage you already have, captioned and queued to Instagram. Make this week's shorts 60 minutes free, no credit card. Queue to Shorts and 10+ platforms.