Video to shorts converter: one upload, every vertical feed
Upload the video once. Cliplala converts it into ranked 9:16 shorts with captions and queues them to Shorts, TikTok, Reels and the rest from one screen. No per-platform exports.
60 minutes free. No credit card. Shorts never expire.
Went in
Test kitchen, 19 min
Came out, ranked
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 · 79 · 62s
One-Pan Spicy Creamy Pasta That Finishes in 20 Minutes
Why. Actionable time-saving hack that appeals to lazy-cooking audiences. One-pan simplicity + quick finish time is a direct value proposition that stops scrollers looking for weeknight solutions.
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Upload once
A link or a file. Any length; the plan is metered on hours of source.
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Converted to 9:16 around the person
The tracker follows the face and picks one crop per shot. Two people get a stacked frame. Captions are burned in.
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Queued to every platform from one page
Ranked shorts go into Schedulala for Shorts, TikTok, Reels and 10+ platforms. Same file, every feed.
Which one is you
Pick the closest.
One episode, every platform
The same ranked shorts queue to Shorts, TikTok and Reels together. You review once.
Convert an episodeConvert to vertical without cropping people out
A wide frame loses two thirds of its width on the way to 9:16. The engine tracks the face and keeps the crop on it through cuts and moves, so the person who was talking is the person in the short.
Two people, one 9:16 frame
When both are talking the frame stacks them. On a close-up it goes solo. Chosen about once a second from the picture, so a cutaway does not send the short to letterbox. Built for podcasts.
Every short ends on a sentence
Cuts are padded to word boundaries from the transcript, and each short is checked to make sure it reads alone. Failing shorts are dropped before you see them.
Metered on the video you convert
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.
What it does
- Queue to 10+ platforms. Post from the results page. No export step.
- Face tracking. The crop follows the person, through cuts and camera moves.
- Layout per moment. Solo, stacked or split, chosen from what is on screen about once a second.
- Burned-in captions. Word-level, active word highlighted, ten styles. Rendered into the file.
- 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.
- 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 it does not promise
- 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.
Claims on this page come from what ships today. If a row above says it, the engine does it.
Questions
How do I convert a video to Shorts?
Paste a link or upload the file. Cliplala finds the moments that stand alone, converts each to a 9:16 short with the speaker in frame and captions burned in, ranks them, and queues the ones you pick to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Reels and 10+ platforms through Schedulala.
Do I need a different export for TikTok, Reels and Shorts?
No. All three take 9:16 video, and the shorts are made once. Schedulala posts the same file to each platform with its own caption and schedule.
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 video to shorts 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.
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.
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60 minutes free. No credit card. Shorts never expire.