Paste one long video — we transcribe it, score every moment, and hand back ready-to-post Shorts with burned-in captions. Free samples arrive by email; members track every cut in My clips.
No account and no payment needed. Your sample is cut by the same automated pipeline members use and emailed to you — every submission is covered by the 24-hour delivery guarantee.
Preview — what the member workspace looks like after sign-in: clips, scores and quota in one place.
Your usage is tracked here — up to 3 Shorts from each video · unused slots do not roll over
See founding beta — $19/monthProduced end-to-end by ShortsCutter from one real long video — “Dance Your Weight Away: 10-Minute Afro Dance Workout!” by Lady Emma on YouTube (13:22), shared under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Nothing was hand-picked or re-edited afterwards. Every score shows its breakdown — no black box.
Scored on hooks, emotion, pacing, complete sentences and transcript confidence — the same five signals behind every clip's score.
Honest note: YouTube served the demo source at 360p, so these clips look softer than output from your own full-quality uploads. ShortsCutter picks moments by transcribing speech, so on a music-driven workout like this one the picks anchor on the coached, spoken stretches — timings and picks are exactly what the tool produced. Low scores stay visible, with their reasons.
The cutting pipeline — transcription, moment scoring with full breakdowns, burned-in captions in every export size — is live today. The finishing features below are in active development for the beta: join at the locked founding price and they land in your workspace as they ship.
Wide footage is reframed to 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9 with the active speaker tracked and kept in frame — no manual cropping, no lost faces.
Animated captions highlight each word as it is spoken, in your video's own language, with styles you can restyle per clip or save as a brand template.
Translate captions into other languages, or dub the clip's speech with AI voice — one source video becomes a version per market.
Dead air, long pauses and filler words are cut from the transcript in one click, tightening pacing before you ever open the timeline.
Relevant stock and AI visuals are matched to what is being said and laid over the clip, so talking-head footage never looks static.
Studio edits by text — delete a sentence and the cut follows — with a full timeline for trims, caption styling, watermarks and outros when you need frame-level control.
Hand any clip to Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve as an XML project — cuts, captions and timing intact — and finish it in your own editor.
A REST API plus Zapier, Make and n8n integrations let you cut clips from a spreadsheet, a form, or any pipeline you already run.
Save caption styles, fonts, logos and outros once; every clip from every video comes out on-brand automatically.
A talk, podcast episode, stream or tutorial — a YouTube link, in the box at the top of this page. Or upload your own file as a member.
Your video is transcribed and every candidate moment is scored on hooks, emotion and pacing. No black box: each clip comes with the reasons it was picked.
Vertical clips with big burned-in captions land in My clips and in your email — ready to download or upload to Shorts, TikTok or Reels.
Founding price — locked for beta members.
Subscribe monthly via Gumroad. Founding members keep the $19 price for as long as they stay subscribed.
| Export sizes | 9:16 at 1080×1920 · 1:1 at 1080×1080 · 4:5 at 1080×1350 · 16:9 at 1920×1080 · or a custom size (up to 4000 px) |
| Clip length | Every clip runs 30–60 seconds, with burned-in captions and no watermark |
| Source videos | Up to 2 hours long. YouTube videos are fetched at the highest quality available up to 720p; files you upload yourself are processed at their original quality — the export size is the canvas, not the source resolution |
| Monthly quota | 30 long videos per month, up to 3 Shorts from each; unused monthly video slots do not roll over |
| Captions | Burned-in captions in your video's own language — speech is auto-detected and transcribed (the transcription model supports 100 language codes; English is tested end-to-end, other languages depend on the source audio quality). Captions are not translated. Word-by-word animated caption styles are coming soon. |
| Translation & dubbing | Coming soon — caption translation into other languages and AI-voice dubbing are in development |
| Reframing | Every export size is available when you submit. Coming soon: speaker-tracked automatic reframing that keeps the active speaker centered |
| Editing | Coming soon — Studio text + timeline editor, one-click silence and filler cuts, AI B-roll and brand templates are in development |
| Pro export | MP4 in every export size. Coming soon: XML project export for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve |
| Automations | Coming soon — a REST API, plus Zapier, Make and n8n integrations, are in development |
| Delivery | Finished clips land in My clips and are also emailed; every submission is covered by a 24-hour delivery guarantee |
ShortsCutter turns one long video into ready-to-post Shorts. It transcribes the video, then scores every candidate moment with explainable heuristics — opening hooks, emotion, pacing, whether the moment starts and ends on complete sentences, and transcript confidence. Every clip comes with its full score breakdown, so you can see why it was picked.
The founding beta is $19/month, subscribed via Gumroad, and the founding price is locked for beta members.
Yes. Use the free sample cut form at the top of this page: give your email and a link to one of your long YouTube videos, and one Short is cut from it with the same pipeline and delivered to your email. No account and no payment are needed.
Your clips are delivered to My clips and by email. The pipeline is automated, so it is usually much faster; every submission is covered by a 24-hour delivery guarantee. Founding beta members get priority processing.
Not yet. Studio — a text + timeline editor where deleting a sentence from the transcript moves the cut — is in development, together with one-click silence and filler cuts, AI B-roll and XML project export for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Today every clip is delivered finished and ready to post.
Not yet — caption translation and AI-voice dubbing are in development and will join the beta as they ship. Today captions stay in your video's own language; transcription itself supports 100 language codes, and quality depends on the source audio.
Subscriptions run through Gumroad, and you can cancel there at any time. After cancelling, your access continues until the end of the current paid period — the account panel shows your exact status and end date.