> Canonical: https://www.cliphi.com/tools/youtube-to-tiktok

# Turn your YouTube videos into TikToks

Drop in any YouTube video or livestream. Cliphi finds the best moments, crops them to vertical, and adds the captions and music for you.

## How it works

1. **Paste your YouTube link** Drop in any video, long or short, or a livestream. A two-hour upload is fine. Cliphi watches the whole thing and finds the moments worth posting.
2. **AI finds and reframes the moment** Cliphi scores each moment on how likely it is to travel, then crops the best ones to vertical and keeps whoever is talking in frame.
3. **Post to TikTok** Each clip comes out vertical with the captions already on screen and a caption written for you. Post it to TikTok from Cliphi, or download it and upload it yourself.

## Why Cliphi

- **Any length, any topic** Podcasts, interviews, tutorials, gameplay, vlogs. Paste a long video and Cliphi pulls a batch of clips out of it, each one ready to post.
- **Speakers stay in frame** Active speaker detection follows whoever is talking and cuts between people, so interviews and panels look edited rather than cropped.
- **Looks native in the feed** No watermark and no Cliphi branding, captions on by default, and a caption written for TikTok, so the clip looks like something you made, not something you reposted.

## Get a week of clips out of one YouTube video

Most channels are sitting on a back catalogue of long videos that never get a second life. Each upload has a handful of moments that would do well as a short, but finding them means scrubbing the whole thing, then cropping to vertical, cutting between speakers, and captioning each clip by hand. That is hours of work for content you already made, so it usually does not happen.

Cliphi does that pass for you. Paste any YouTube link, long or short, and it watches the whole video, scores the moments most likely to travel, and turns the best ones into finished vertical clips. You are choosing from a ranked shortlist instead of guessing which forty seconds to cut. Captions track the speech, the framing follows whoever is talking, and a music bed gets matched to the moment.

It works on livestreams too, and can process them in real time, so a highlight from a live broadcast can go out while the stream is still running. One long video turns into a steady run of posts for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, without re-editing anything.

## Cut for the way TikTok gets watched

TikTok decides fast. If the first second is a slow intro, people are already gone. Cliphi opens on the moment instead of the build-up, puts the captions on screen so the clip works with the sound off, and keeps everything inside the frame so nothing important sits behind the buttons on the right.

You have room to breathe on length. A clip can run seven seconds or a couple of minutes, and TikTok will take up to ten. The caption and hashtags come written for TikTok, so you are not rewriting them every time you post.

There is no watermark and no Cliphi branding on the export, so the clip looks made for TikTok rather than lifted from another app. Pull a handful of clips from one long video and you have enough to post every day, which is the cadence the For You page tends to reward.

## FAQ

### Can I make shorts from a long YouTube video?

Yes. Paste the video link, even a two-hour one, and Cliphi finds the strongest moments and turns each into a vertical clip with captions and music.

### Does it work with YouTube livestreams?

Yes. Cliphi can process a livestream in real time, so clips can go out while the stream is still live.

### How many clips do I get from one video?

It depends on the video, but a long one usually yields a batch. Each moment is scored on potential so you can post the strongest first.

### How long should a TikTok be?

TikTok allows up to ten minutes, but the clips that tend to do well are short and start on the moment. Cliphi trims to the part that matters, so you are not padding with a slow intro.

## Related

- [YouTube → Shorts](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/youtube-to-youtube-shorts.md)
- [YouTube → Reels](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/youtube-to-instagram-reels.md)

## About Cliphi

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