Cliplala

YouTube to Shorts converter: paste the link, get the Shorts

Paste any YouTube link you have the rights to. Cliplala pulls the video, cuts the moments that stand alone into 9:16 Shorts with captions, ranks them, and queues them back to your channel and 10+ other platforms.

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

Went in

Two-host podcast, 28 min

Came out, ranked

#1 · 92
#2 · 89
#3 · 89

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. #1 · 92 · 27s

    YouTube Just Changed How They Count Views — And It Changes Everything

    Why. Immediately counterintuitive — the old system required 30 seconds; now it's instant. This fundamentally shifts how creators measure success and is a platform-wide policy change that stops the scroll.

  2. #2 · 89 · 37s

    YouTube Just DOUBLED the Partner Program Requirement — Here's What That Means

    Why. Clear, specific policy change with immediate consequences. The 10M-views-in-90-days requirement is a surprising threshold that will shock creators trying to monetize. Stop-scroll moment for anyone building on YouTube.

  3. #3 · 89 · 74s

    The #1 Mistake Creators Make: Building a Business on Platform Revenue

    Why. Direct, actionable framework from someone who's done it right. Creators at all levels need to hear this — platform revenue should never be your foundation. Applies immediately.

  1. 01

    Paste the YouTube link

    Your own upload, or a video you have the rights to clip. No download step on your side.

  2. 02

    Shorts are cut, cropped and captioned

    Moments snapped to sentence edges, cropped to 9:16 around you, captions burned in, ranked with reasons.

  3. 03

    Queue back to YouTube, and everywhere else

    Connect the channel in Schedulala once. The results page queues to Shorts, TikTok, Reels and 10+ platforms.

Which one is you

Pick the closest.

The back catalogue is a month of Shorts

Every long video you have published still holds Shorts. Paste the links, queue the results, and the shelf fills while you make the next long one.

Convert my catalogue

From the long video to the Shorts shelf in one paste

No save-to-disk, no re-upload. Paste the link and the engine fetches the video, transcribes it word by word, and starts picking. When YouTube blocks the fetch for a video, upload the file instead and the rest is the same. Need one specific moment instead?.

Paste a link

Shorts that survive without the long video

A Short is watched cold. Each one is checked for exactly that and dropped if it needs the minute before it. Cuts are padded to word boundaries, so nothing opens mid-word.

Convert a video

The crop stays on you and what you are holding

The tracker follows the face through cuts and keeps one steady crop per shot. A product on the desk, a screen you point at: the frame keeps the subject.

See the crop

Metered on hours of YouTube 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.

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What it does

  • 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 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 YouTube video to Shorts?

Paste the YouTube link. Cliplala pulls the video, transcribes it, cuts the moments that stand alone into 9:16 Shorts with captions, and ranks them. Connect your channel in Schedulala and queue them back to YouTube Shorts and 10+ other platforms.

Can I publish the Shorts to YouTube directly?

Yes. Connect your channel in Schedulala once; the results page queues to it and to TikTok, Reels and the rest. No download and re-upload.

Can I convert someone else's YouTube video?

The converter can process a public link, but you need the rights to post the result. For your own videos you have them. For someone else's, you need the copyright holder's permission.

What if the YouTube link will not fetch?

YouTube blocks some fetches. When that happens the page offers an upload instead; drop the file and the rest of the flow is identical.

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.

Is the YouTube 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.

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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