--- title: "Video to Shorts Converter, every platform | Cliplala" canonical_url: "https://cliplala.com/tools/video-to-shorts-converter" summary: "Convert any video to Shorts, Reels and TikToks. 9:16 crop that follows the speaker, captions burned in, one queue to 10+ platforms. 60 minutes free." --- # 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. ## How do I use the video to shorts converter? A link or a file. Any length; the plan is metered on hours of source. The tracker follows the face and picks one crop per shot. Two people get a stacked frame. Captions are burned in. Ranked shorts go into Schedulala for Shorts, TikTok, Reels and 10+ platforms. Same file, every feed. Start at https://cliplala.com/tools/video-to-shorts-converter: paste a link, or drop the video, press "Convert to shorts", and the first 60 minutes of video are free with no card. ## What are the steps? 1. **Upload once.** A link or a file. Any length; the plan is metered on hours of source. 2. **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. 3. **Queued to every platform from one page.** Ranked shorts go into Schedulala for Shorts, TikTok, Reels and 10+ platforms. Same file, every feed. ## What does it do? ### Convert 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](https://cliplala.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker) ### 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](https://cliplala.com/#pricing) ## Who is it for? ### Podcasters: One episode, every platform The same ranked shorts queue to Shorts, TikTok and Reels together. You review once. ### Educators: Lessons into teachable moments A lecture holds dozens of half-minute explanations. The picker finds the ones that stand alone; the captions carry the point for people watching muted. ### Vloggers: Footage in motion still converts The tracker follows you through the walk and the check drops the shorts where the story does not survive the cut. ## What is included? - **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 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 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. ## Related tools - [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. - [AI shorts maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-shorts-maker): Long video to vertical shorts, ranked and captioned, posted to Shorts and more. - [YouTube to Shorts converter](https://cliplala.com/tools/youtube-to-shorts): Paste a YouTube link, get ranked Shorts, queue them back to the channel. - [AI Reel generator](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-reel-generator): Reels from footage you already have, captioned and queued to Instagram. - [AI TikTok video generator](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-tiktok-video-generator): TikToks cut from your own footage, opening on the hook. - [Podcast clip maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker): Turn a two-hour episode into ranked shorts with both hosts in frame. Convert one video for every feed 60 minutes free, no credit card. One upload, 10+ platforms.