--- title: "Long Video to Short Video Converter | Cliplala" canonical_url: "https://cliplala.com/tools/long-video-to-short-video-converter" summary: "Convert a long video into ranked 9:16 shorts with captions. Cuts snap to sentences, bad cuts are dropped, then queue to 10+ platforms. 60 minutes free." --- # Long video to short video converter, cuts that end on a sentence > Paste a link or upload the file. Cliplala reads the transcript, picks the moments that stand on their own, crops each one to 9:16 around the person talking, and burns in captions. You get a ranked list and post the ones you like. ## How do I use the long video to short video converter? YouTube link or a file from your machine. Length is not a limit; the plan is metered on hours of source. It transcribes, scores the moments, snaps every edge to a word boundary, and checks that each short still makes sense alone. Then it crops to 9:16 and follows the face. Each short comes with a reason. Fix a caption, swap a layout, then queue the good ones into Schedulala for 10+ platforms. Start at https://cliplala.com/tools/long-video-to-short-video-converter: paste a link, or drop the long video, press "Make shorts", and the first 60 minutes of video are free with no card. ## What are the steps? 1. **Paste a link or upload the file.** YouTube link or a file from your machine. Length is not a limit; the plan is metered on hours of source. 2. **The engine finds the moments and cuts them.** It transcribes, scores the moments, snaps every edge to a word boundary, and checks that each short still makes sense alone. Then it crops to 9:16 and follows the face. 3. **Review the ranked shorts and queue them.** Each short comes with a reason. Fix a caption, swap a layout, then queue the good ones into Schedulala for 10+ platforms. ## What does it do? ### Long to short without losing the sentence A converter that cuts on a score alone leaves you with clips that open mid-word. This one pads every cut to the nearest word from the transcript and drops the shorts that still do not stand on their own. You review fewer clips, and all of them are postable. ### The crop follows the person, not the centre of the frame A wide 16:9 frame has to lose two thirds of its width to become 9:16. The engine tracks the face through cuts and camera moves and keeps the crop on it, so a walk across the room does not walk out of the short. [How it handles a game and a face cam together](https://cliplala.com/tools/gaming-clip-maker) ### Captions rendered into the file Word-level captions with the active word lit, in one of ten styles. They are burned into the video, so they look the same on every platform and never depend on a viewer turning them on. [More on captions](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-caption-generator) ### Metered on hours of video, not on clips 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: Your back catalogue is a month of shorts Every long video you have already published has moments that work alone. Run the catalogue through and the shorts shelf fills itself, without filming anything new. ### Podcasters: Episodes into promo clips, both hosts in frame Two people talking get a stacked layout; one on a close-up goes solo. The layout is chosen about once a second from what is on screen. ### Vloggers: The vlog is already shot. Get the shorts out of it. Roaming footage is the hard case. The tracker follows you through the walk, and the coherence check drops the shorts where the story does not survive the cut. ## 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. - **Shorts never expire.** Source files are kept 30 days. The shorts you made stay. ## 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 convert a long video into short videos? Paste the link or upload the file. Cliplala transcribes the video, finds the moments that stand on their own, cuts them to 9:16 with the person in frame and captions burned in, and shows them ranked. You review, then queue the ones you like to 10+ platforms through Schedulala. ### 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. ### Does it work on a 16:9 video with more than one person? Yes. When two people are on screen it stacks them; when one is on a close-up it goes solo. The choice is made about once a second from what is on screen, not once per clip. ### Is the long video to short video converter 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. ### Can I post the shorts straight to TikTok, Reels and Shorts? Yes. The results page queues them to 10+ platforms. You do not download and re-upload anything, though a download is there if you want it. ### 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 - [AI clip maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-clip-maker): Ranked clips with a reason for each pick, cropped and captioned. - [AI shorts maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-shorts-maker): Long video to vertical shorts, ranked and captioned, posted to Shorts and more. - [Video to shorts converter](https://cliplala.com/tools/video-to-shorts-converter): One upload becomes shorts for Shorts, TikTok and Reels at once. - [YouTube to Shorts converter](https://cliplala.com/tools/youtube-to-shorts): Paste a YouTube link, get ranked Shorts, queue them back to the channel. - [Podcast clip maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker): Turn a two-hour episode into ranked shorts with both hosts in frame. - [AI caption generator](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-caption-generator): Word-level captions, active word lit, rendered into every short. Convert your longest video 60 minutes free, no credit card. Every cut ends on a sentence.