Frequently asked questions

Clip-Short is a set of AI video tools for short-form video: AI clipping (long videos into short clips), auto captions, reframing (changing a video's shape), an AI Agent that makes a whole video from an idea, and a video editor in the browser.

Creators, podcasters, streamers, social media managers and anyone who wants short videos without spending hours editing, including faceless channels that tell stories with pictures and a voice.

No. Clip-Short (clip-short.com, with a hyphen) is a different product from a different company.

You download a video file and post it wherever you like. Videos come in four shapes: 9:16 for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and Facebook Reels, 4:5 and 1:1 for posts, and 16:9 for YouTube.

Paste a YouTube link or upload a video. The AI watches and listens to it, picks the moments most likely to hold attention, and scores each clip. Every clip is prepared vertical with captions, and you can trim it, change its framing, fix its captions and export it.

MP4, MOV, WebM and most other video files, or a YouTube link.

A video uses as many of your plan's minutes as it is long, so the limit is the minutes you have left: the free plan has 60 a month, and each Pro bundle 300. Reframe takes videos up to 30 minutes long.

Captions come from speech recognition, so they are only as good as the audio: clear speech with little music comes out best. You can fix any word before you export.

Captions are written in the language spoken in the video; they are not translated. English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian and Arabic among others. The AI Agent narrates videos in 30 languages.

Yes. Pick one of the caption templates, and in the editor change the font, colours, size and position.

Changing a video's shape, for example from 16:9 to 9:16, by moving a crop through it. The AI follows faces and the most important things in each shot so they stay in frame.

A 9:16 frame shows about a third of a 16:9 picture, so something is always left out. The AI chooses what to keep shot by shot; where it chooses wrong, you can move the crop for that shot yourself or split the frame between two people.

Yes. On the Auto Caption page, and in a clip's Captions tab, you can download the words with their times as an SRT file, a VTT file or plain text. The file is made in your browser.

It makes a whole video from an idea: it writes the script, makes the pictures, records the voiceover and adds captions and background music. You can change any scene before you export.

Stories (horror, legends, history, kids' stories), facts and explainers, top-5 countdowns, quizzes, "would you rather" videos, chat stories and POV videos.

Yes. Every narrated video comes with instrumental background music from our own library of more than 70 tracks in 15 moods, picked to fit the video's topic. You can change the track, turn the volume down or switch it off. The music can only be used inside the videos you make here: there is no download of single tracks.

Yes, as scenes: describe one moment and get one animated shot of 8 seconds, with its own sound and voices that say your lines, in about a minute. Each scene uses one of your plan's AI videos. For a longer video told scene by scene, make a narrated video instead.

Yes. Draw a character once, from a description, a drawing, a pet or a photo of yourself, and every picture that shows them is made from that portrait, so the face, hair and clothes carry over. Up to 3 characters in a video, 6 in a series and 12 in your account.

Yes to both. On paid plans you record one sentence and the AI narrates videos of up to 3 minutes in a voice that sounds like yours, in any of 12 languages. Any finished AI Agent video can also be made again in another language, with the same pictures and the same voice.

Pro is sold in bundles of US$19 a month. Each bundle gives 5 hours of video processing and 10 AI Agent videos, and you can take 1 to 10 bundles and change the number anytime.

Yes, for clipping. Every account gets 1 hour of video processing a month for AI Clipping, Auto Caption and Reframe, free, with a small clip-short.com watermark. AI Agent videos are paid: they come with Pro.

You can add bundles anytime, or wait for your next billing period. On Pro, what you did not use carries over to the next period, up to one period's worth.

Yes. You keep your plan until the end of the period you paid for.

No. Clip-Short runs in the browser, on a computer or a phone.

It depends on the video's length: the AI Agent makes a video in a few minutes, and a long video takes longer to clip. You can close the page; we email you when a project is ready.

Your videos are stored in Google Cloud Storage and only your account sees them, unless you share one. To do the work, they are processed by the AI services we use. We do not sell or publish your videos, and you can delete a project at any time.