Shortshort
Summary
Cutting a two-hour conference recording into a dozen shareable clips by hand burns an afternoon — and the clips still come out wrong-framed and uncaptioned. Shortshort automates that cut.
Drop a long video, set a target clip count and duration, and the tool identifies quotable passages, reframes to 9:16 around the speaker, and burns word-timed captions — all without touching a timeline. The workflow is five steps: upload, generate, review framing, pick a caption style, download. Where it breaks: free-tier outputs land in a public community gallery unless you are on a paid plan, which matters if your content is embargoed or client-facing. There is no API, no integration layer, and no batch-upload path for teams processing dozens of recordings a week — every video goes in one at a time.
Bottom line: Shortshort earns its place in a solo creator's or small events team's post-production stack; it hits its ceiling the moment you need private outputs on the free tier or programmatic access to feed a content pipeline.
Pricing Plans
Subscription- Free Tier
- 60 credits (1 per minute of video), 3 shorts per video
Free
60 credits on signup, 3 shorts per video
- 60 free credits
- 3 shorts per video
- Manual editor
Starter
EUR per month
- 5 shorts per video
Creator
EUR per month
- 10 shorts per video
Studio
EUR per month
- 20 shorts per video
- Server processing
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Moment detection scans the full audio and selects complete, quotable passages automatically, so you are not scrubbing a two-hour timeline to find the three clips worth posting.
- Speaker-tracking reframe crops the 16:9 source to 9:16 and follows the active speaker throughout the clip, which means you avoid the common failure of a speaker walking out of a static center crop mid-sentence.
- Word-level caption timing with four style presets ships in the same render pass, so you are not running a second tool or paying a transcription service to add captions after the fact.
- The manual frame editor lets you override the AI crop on any segment without re-running the full generation, which means a wrong-framed clip does not force you back to the start of the queue.
- Browser-based with no install, so an events team can hand a recording link to anyone on the team and get clips back without provisioning software or local hardware.
Cons
Sign in to edit- Free-tier outputs are published to the public community gallery automatically — there is no opt-out on the free tier. A team editing client presentations, pre-launch product demos, or embargoed recordings cannot use the free tier at all; they must pay before the first clip is private.
- There is no API and no batch input. A marketing team or agency processing five to ten recordings a week uploads each file individually through the browser and waits per-video. At that volume, teams move to a tool with programmatic intake — or build a manual handoff to a contracted editor — because the one-at-a-time queue becomes the bottleneck.
- Background server processing — so you can close the tab and collect clips later — is described as a paid-plan capability. On the free tier, the docs instruct you to keep the studio tab open during generation, which is a real constraint for longer source files.
About
- Platforms
- Web
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-09-21T08:17:15.425Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Podcasters
- Course creators
- Speakers and events
- YouTube creators
- Sales and marketing teams
What it does well
- Podcasts into multiple clips per episode
- Webinars into short highlight reels
- Online courses into one-idea shorts
- Conference talks into post-event clips
- YouTube long-form into Shorts
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Sign Up to ContributeFrequently Asked Questions
- Is Shortshort free?
- Shortshort has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades. You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is Shortshort open source?
- No — Shortshort is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- What platforms does Shortshort support?
- Shortshort is available on: Web.
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Long-form video — podcasts, webinars, course sessions, conference talks — produces far more usable moments than anyone has time to find manually. Shortshort takes a single file (up to 3 hours, up to 2 GB, MP4/MOV/WebM), listens to the full audio, and surfaces passages it judges quotable and complete. You set how many shorts you want and how long each should run; one minute of source video costs one credit. The output is 1080×1920 MP4, ready to post.
The differentiating feature is the reframing step. Rather than center-cropping a 16:9 frame to 9:16 and calling it done, the tool tracks the active speaker and pans the crop to follow them across the clip. Slides and wide shots stay full-frame. You can override the framing manually — move the crop window or lock it — on any segment. Captions are timed word-by-word on the audio, with four style options ranging from a karaoke-style highlight to a minimal subtitle treatment.
The tool fits creators and small event teams who have a backlog of long recordings and need clips fast without hiring an editor. It breaks down in two specific situations: teams needing private outputs must be on a paid plan, because free-tier shorts are published to a public community gallery automatically; and teams processing high volumes of recordings have no batch input or API to automate the intake. Every video enters the queue individually through the browser studio. For background processing without keeping the tab open, that capability is described in the docs as a paid-plan feature.
The manual frame editor is accessible without an account. The AI processing — moment detection, speaker tracking, caption generation — requires a free account. The starting credit allocation covers roughly one hour of source footage, after which additional credits must be purchased.