Turn long YouTube videos into Shorts
Shorts are the cheapest growth surface a long-form channel has, but cutting them by hand costs an evening per video. ClipAI takes a YouTube link, finds the moments with the strongest hooks, and returns vertical clips with captions, ready to schedule back to YouTube and five other platforms.
How it works
- 01
Paste the link
Drop in any YouTube URL - no download or re-export needed.
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Pick from scored moments
Each candidate clip comes with a virality score and the reasoning behind it.
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Post natively
Schedule straight to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Threads, and Bluesky from one calendar (X coming soon).
What you get
Link-in, clips-out
Import directly from a YouTube URL; ClipAI handles download, transcription, and detection.
Hooks first
Scoring weights the first seconds heavily, because Shorts live or die on the swipe.
A/B variants
Render the same moment with different caption styles and hooks to test what your audience keeps watching.
Closed-loop scoring
Every clip gets a virality score that is checked against the real views it earns, so the scoring gets sharper with every post.
Questions
Can I make Shorts from a YouTube link without downloading the video?
Yes. Paste the URL into ClipAI and it imports the video, transcribes it, and proposes scored clips. You never touch a video file.
Will the Shorts be reframed to vertical automatically?
Yes - clips are auto-reframed to 9:16, and the crop follows the active speaker's face instead of staying locked to center frame.
Can ClipAI publish the Shorts to my channel?
Yes, YouTube is one of the six platforms ClipAI schedules to natively, alongside TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, and Bluesky.