Close-ups
Show the detail you’re describing.
Turn your long video
into Shorts.
A useful moment from your YouTube video, lesson or solo podcast.
The same voice. A shorter story. Made for a vertical screen.
Add your own
B-roll.
B-roll is extra footage that plays while you speak. Import your own clips to show a product, place or process.
How to choose B-rollLocations
Show where your story takes place.
Demonstrations
Show each step as you explain it.
Import your clips
Add product footage, screen recordings or other videos you have filmed.
Match footage to your words
Describe a clip to find matching words in your transcript. Preview the suggested moment before adding it.
Make a clip that
makes sense on its own.
Pick one clear idea.
Read what comes before and after the moment you want to use. Keep enough for a new viewer to understand it.
Make it fit a phone.
Choose a vertical video shape. Keep the person in view and the captions easy to read.
Check the whole clip.
Watch from beginning to end. Does the opening make sense? Does the ending finish the point?
An invented example: “That changed everything” sounds dramatic but has no subject. Keep the earlier line—“I moved tomorrow’s first task onto a card”—and the following result so the Short tells a complete story.
Make more of your recording.
Read the long video to Shorts guide
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