--- title: "YouTube to Shorts Converter, paste a link | Cliplala" canonical_url: "https://cliplala.com/tools/youtube-to-shorts" summary: "Paste a YouTube link, get ranked Shorts with captions, cut on sentences, cropped to the speaker. Queue back to YouTube and 10+ platforms. 60 min free." --- # 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. ## How do I use the YouTube to Shorts converter? Your own upload, or a video you have the rights to clip. No download step on your side. Moments snapped to sentence edges, cropped to 9:16 around you, captions burned in, ranked with reasons. Connect the channel in Schedulala once. The results page queues to Shorts, TikTok, Reels and 10+ platforms. Start at https://cliplala.com/tools/youtube-to-shorts: paste a youtube link, press "Convert to Shorts", and the first 60 minutes of video are free with no card. ## What are the steps? 1. **Paste the YouTube link.** Your own upload, or a video you have the rights to clip. No download step on your side. 2. **Shorts are cut, cropped and captioned.** Moments snapped to sentence edges, cropped to 9:16 around you, captions burned in, ranked with reasons. 3. **Queue back to YouTube, and everywhere else.** Connect the channel in Schedulala once. The results page queues to Shorts, TikTok, Reels and 10+ platforms. ## What does it do? ### 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?](https://cliplala.com/tools/youtube-clip-maker) ### 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. ### 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. ### 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](https://cliplala.com/#pricing) ## Who is it for? ### YouTubers: 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. ### Vloggers: A vlog's best line, to camera The picker weights what you said to the lens. The crop follows you through the walk and the captions make it readable muted. ### Podcasters on YouTube: Episode promos with both hosts Two hosts get a stacked frame, a close-up goes solo. Queue the promos to Shorts and the rest together. ## 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 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. ## Related tools - [YouTube clip maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/youtube-clip-maker): Paste a YouTube link, get ranked clips with reasons. - [YouTube to TikTok converter](https://cliplala.com/tools/youtube-to-tiktok-converter): YouTube link in, TikTok-ready vertical clips out, captions burned in. - [YouTube to Instagram](https://cliplala.com/tools/youtube-to-instagram): YouTube link to Instagram Reels, captioned and queued. - [AI shorts maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-shorts-maker): Long video to vertical shorts, ranked and captioned, posted to Shorts and more. - [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. Convert your last upload to Shorts 60 minutes free, no credit card. Queue back to your channel.