Turn long videos into shorts.

Make a six-second short you can check.

Use the free podcast demo to practise a 9:16 crop and SRT import without signing in or buying a pass. These two caption lines are original practice text, not a transcript of speech.

1. Open the sample. In the free demo gallery, choose Edit the podcast demo. Wait for its suggested cut to appear.
2. Supply the captions. Download the practice SRT captions. In the editor, open Have captions?, choose the downloaded file and select Find moments again. The file contains the two lines shown below.
3. Set the cut and frame. Keep just one moment selected. Set its start to 00:01 and end to 00:07. Choose Portrait · 9:16, Fill the frame (crop edges) and Rose captions. Start with the crop position at Center, then check what stays visible.
4. Create and download. Select Create selected video and keep the tab visible. Watch the result, then use Download video and Download captions (.srt). The video format is MP4 or WebM according to your browser.

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Keep one clear idea.

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Give it room to breathe.

The short animation lets you check framing, captions and export on your device. For a long recording, choose your own meaningful start and end times and matching subtitles. Editing your own footage requires sign-in and an active Creator pass with remaining edit time; review Creator passes before buying.

Your first short, step by step.

1. Choose a video or try a demo

   Open Video to Shorts. Pick a podcast, travel or everyday-story sample to explore the editor, or sign in with an active Creator pass and choose your own file. The original file stays unchanged.

   The samples are animations made from AI-generated still images, with music and authored text. They demonstrate editing and framing; their captions are not a speech transcript.

2. Ask for a few possible moments

   Choose a target clip length and number of suggestions, then select Find moments. The tool samples visual changes. If you add matching SRT/VTT subtitles, it can use their text and your topic words as well.

   Start with a small number so you can review each one carefully. A visual change might be a camera cut or slide change; it does not establish the best part of the story.

3. Keep one complete thought

   Play a suggested moment and adjust its start and end. Include the context needed to understand the opening, and finish the sentence or action. Select one moment for a short, or several to join in the order they happened.

   For example, in a cooking video, keep the step and its result together. In an interview, include enough of the question for the answer to make sense.

4. Choose the frame

   Select portrait 9:16, square 1:1, landscape 16:9 or the original shape. Choose Keep the whole picture to preserve the full image, or Fill the frame to crop its edges. With cropping, move the crop position left or right.

   Watch the full cut for hands, faces, slides and anything moving out of view. The crop stays fixed; it does not follow a person automatically.

5. Add and check your captions

   Import your video's timed SRT or VTT file, then choose Classic or Rose styling. Check names, spelling, timing and whether the text covers anything important. Choose No captions if you do not want text burned into the video.

   This mode uses the captions you provide. It does not automatically transcribe, translate or dub speech.

6. Create, watch and download

   Select Create selected video. Keep the page visible while the browser renders your cut at approximately playback speed. Play the finished preview, then download the video. A matching SRT download is also available when captions are present.

   For separate short files, select and export one moment at a time. Selecting several moments creates one joined video. Download your work before clearing the project or closing the page.

Give the moment the right frame.

Portrait framing often suits a single speaker or a close-up. Landscape can preserve a conversation, wide scene or slide. If cropping hides the action, keep the whole picture or shorten the cut to a part that fits.

Illustrative crops of AI-generated artwork. Use the finished video preview to check your actual export.

Bring the subtitle file that matches.

An SRT or VTT file contains text and the times when it appears. Use a subtitle export from the same version of your source video. If you trimmed the source elsewhere, an older subtitle file may no longer line up.

A simple SRT cue looks like this:

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Let the onions cook until soft.

In this example, the line appears from two to five seconds into the source. The editor adjusts the downloaded caption timing to the selected output. Check that words start and finish with the speech.

You can supply text in your own language, including Telugu, Hindi, Tamil or Kannada, but the browser and selected font must render those characters correctly. Imported text support is different from automatic transcription accuracy.

Know what this browser mode does.

Start with a short file to check your device. If your browser cannot export, the editor recommends current desktop Chrome or Edge. A responsive mobile page does not guarantee that every phone can render a large video.

One last watch before sharing.

• The opening makes sense without the full original video.
• The cut keeps the speaker's meaning and finishes the action or sentence.
• The important person, object and text remain visible throughout.
• Captions are accurate, timed correctly and readable on a small screen.
• The downloaded file has the expected sound, shape and ending.
• You have permission to share the footage, music and people shown.