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# Turn your YouTube videos into YouTube Shorts

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 YouTube Shorts** Each clip comes out vertical and inside the Shorts length limit, with captions on screen and a title and description written for you. Publish from Cliphi or download it.

## 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.
- **Keeps working after you post** A written title and description help a Short get found in search and on the Shorts shelf, so it can keep pulling views weeks later instead of dying in a day.

## 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.

## Sized for the Shorts shelf

Shorts has its own rules. A clip has to be vertical and under three minutes, and the first couple of seconds decide whether someone watches or swipes away. Cliphi opens on the moment, keeps the framing tall, and burns in captions so the clip reads even on mute.

YouTube leans on text more than other platforms, so Cliphi writes a title and a description too. That matters because a Short can show up in search and on the shelf long after you post it, and it sits right next to your long-form videos, which makes it an easy way to send people back to the full upload.

Shorts also leans on volume, so a batch of clips from one upload gives you something to post most days without filming anything new. And because the export is clean with no watermark, it does not get quietly pushed down as a repost.

## 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 can a YouTube Short be?

Up to three minutes. Cliphi keeps clips inside that limit and trims to the strongest part, so you are not relying on a slow opening to hold attention.

## Related

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

## About Cliphi

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