# Long video to Shorts, with a review step

When to use it: You want an agent to pull vertical clips from a podcast, webinar or long YouTube video and you want to approve picks before anything renders.

Works with: [podcli](https://agentcut.dev/tools/podcli/), [n8n: Viral clips from YouTube with Gemini + FFmpeg](https://agentcut.dev/tools/n8n-viral-clips-gemini-ffmpeg/), [VectCutAPI (CapCut/Jianying API)](https://agentcut.dev/tools/vectcutapi-capcut-jianying-api/), [OpenChatCut](https://agentcut.dev/tools/openchatcut/), [ffmpeg-skill](https://agentcut.dev/tools/ffmpeg-skill/)

Save as: long-to-shorts.md

Download: https://agentcut.dev/prompts/md/agent-long-to-shorts.md

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Source: [FILE OR TIMELINE]. Goal: [5] vertical clips, each [20 to 45] seconds.

1. Transcribe the source with word timestamps.
2. Find moments that work with no context, start with a strong first line in the first 2 seconds, and end on a finished thought.
3. Give me a table: start, end, length, first line, last line, one sentence on why it works. Give me [8] options so I can choose.
4. Wait for my picks.
5. For each pick: cut frame accurate, reframe to 1080x1920 keeping the speaker's face in the upper third, add one line captions kept out of the bottom 20% of the frame.
6. Name files `short_<number>_<first three words>.mp4` and give me a list with a suggested title for each.
Do not promise views. Just tell me why each clip might hold attention.
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Original AgentCut prompt.

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