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SHORTS PLANNER
Find the Shorts hiding in your long video
Every long video you have already published contains several Shorts. The problem has never been cutting them — any editor does that in a minute. The problem is deciding which forty seconds are worth cutting, out of forty minutes you are too close to judge.
This tool reads the transcript of a video you already made and finds the moments that stand on their own. For each one you get exact timestamps, a reason it works without the surrounding context, and a rewritten first line — because the original opening was written to follow something, and cold it almost never lands.
It does not touch your video. You get a plan you can act on in whatever editor you already use, with links that jump straight to each moment so you can check the call before you cut.
● HOW IT WORKS
Paste the link to a video you already published
Read the moments it found, with timestamps and a rewritten hook
Cut them in whatever editor you already use
Runs on credits. Every account starts with a free balance, and you only spend on a generation that succeeds.
A clip lifted straight out of a long video starts mid-thought. That is fine in context, where the viewer has had eight minutes of setup, and fatal in a feed, where they have had none and will give you about a second and a half.
So every moment comes back with a new opening line written in the same voice as the rest of the video. Not a summary and not a caption — the actual sentence to say first, so the clip earns the next three seconds instead of asking the viewer to catch up.
The rest of the moment stays exactly as you said it. Only the entry point changes, because that is the part the original was never written to do.
A clip needs one complete idea: a claim and its payoff, a question and its answer, or a story with an ending. A moment that depends on a setup twelve minutes earlier is not a clip, however good it was in the video.
The moments that travel are usually one of a few shapes — a counterintuitive claim, a specific number or result, a moment of real disagreement or admission, a compressed how-to, or a story beat with a turn in it. Sponsor reads, throat-clearing and callbacks to something you said earlier are not.
Each moment comes back with a sentence explaining which of those it is and why, quoting what is actually said. If the reasoning does not convince you, skip that one — the point is to make the call faster, not to make it for you.
A YouTube Short, an Instagram Reel and a TikTok have different length ceilings, and a clip that runs over gets rejected or truncated by the platform rather than by you. Pick where it is going before you run it and every moment comes back inside that limit.
Clips are also checked against each other, so you do not get the same strong moment returned twice with slightly different framing — which is the usual way a tool like this pads a list out to a round number.
Timestamps in both readable form and seconds, a title for each clip, the rewritten opening line, the transcript text the moment covers, and a link that opens the video at exactly that second so you can watch it before committing.
There is a CSV export as well, because the cutting itself happens in whatever you already edit in. This is the deciding step, not a replacement for your editor.
It needs captions. The whole thing reads the transcript, so a video with subtitles turned off has nothing to work from — and you will be told that immediately rather than after a charge.
It also works better on some videos than others. A talk with clear beats, a tutorial, an interview with real disagreement in it: plenty to find. A long uncut monologue with no structure: honestly, not much, and it will say so rather than invent something.
● QUESTIONS
No. It tells you exactly what to cut and where, with timestamps and a rewritten opening line, and you make the cut in whatever editor you already use. The deciding is the slow part; the cutting takes a minute.
Then there is nothing to read and the tool will say so straight away, before charging you anything. YouTube auto-generates captions for most uploads, so this is usually a matter of checking they are switched on for that video.
Long videos are fine, and they are the ones with the most in them. Very long recordings are read up to a limit and you are told when that happened, so a plan drawn from the first hour never reads as if it covered all three.
They come from the transcript's own timings rather than an estimate, and anything pointing past the end of the video is discarded before you see it. Every clip carries a link that opens at that second so you can check in one click.
You can plan from any public video with captions, which is useful for studying what travels in your niche. Publishing someone else's footage is a separate question and one you should answer before you cut anything.
Automatic clippers cut first and let you judge afterwards, which means watching everything they produced. This does the judging first and hands you a short list with reasoning attached, so you only open the editor for moments you have already decided are worth it.