Turn long videos into Shorts
The problem: Finding the good moments in an hour long episode and reframing them to vertical takes forever
These tools find strong moments in a long recording, crop them to 9:16 with the speaker in frame, and add captions
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Real people doing this
Wrote a script on top of the MCP Bridge for Adobe Premiere Pro that builds a 45 second vertical Instagram Reels promo from a long interview episode: a new 9:16 sequence, 8 clips pulled by timecode, reframed, with chapter markers, while the master sequence stays untouched
durazgate-collab, GitHub user · GitHub pull request, Aug 2026
The maker of podcli renders vertical clips for the Deeptech Decoded podcast with it and fixes what shows up in those real renders, like the crop landing on a wall when a clip switches from full screen to split screen
nmbrthirteen, the maker of podcli · GitHub pull request, Oct 2026
“The biggest improvement came from giving it an actual editing brief”
Used Codex and FFmpeg to turn two How I AI recordings into 8 captioned vertical Shorts, then had it upload them in YouTube Studio after she approved each one
Claire Vo, host of How I AI · clairevo.com, Sep 2026
8 tools that help
Demo clippodcli
Solves Turning a long podcast episode into vertical clips with face tracking and captions
n8n: Viral clips from YouTube with Gemini + FFmpeg
Solves Pulling the best moments out of a YouTube video and cutting them into clips automatically
VideoKinocut (formerly mcp-video)
Solves Repurposing long videos into Shorts and Reels with quality checks before export
MCP Bridge for Adobe Premiere Pro
Solves Cutting pauses, building rough cuts and doing timeline busywork in Premiere by asking an AI
Demo clipffmpeg-skill
Solves Captions, 9:16 crops, silence removal and exports done on your own computer by an AI
Demo clipVideo & Audio Editing MCP
Solves Converting, trimming, adding overlays and making social versions of a video by asking
VideoVectCutAPI (CapCut/Jianying API)
Solves Making lots of CapCut videos with subtitles, voiceover and effects without editing each one by hand
Claude Video Vision
Solves Letting Claude actually watch a video so it can find moments and review cuts
Ideas to try
These are our ideas, not reports from real users. Know one?
- Give the agent shot rules: full screen face for punchlines, split screen for explanations, screen capture when the screen matters
- Pick the moments yourself and let the agent do the cropping, captions and export
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