Turn Long Videos into Short Clips
Drop in a long video and let AI find the moments worth clipping, then cut them into captioned clips for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts in vertical, square, or landscape, with auto-editing or full manual control.
Viral Clips turns one long video into a set of short clips. Drop in a full recording such as a podcast, interview, talk, webinar, or stream, and Voice Creator Pro analyzes it, surfaces the strongest moments, and cuts each one into a clip ready for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. Each clip comes with subtitles, a hook line, and suggested post captions. You can let AI auto-edit the pacing or take manual control, then export.
One long recording usually holds several self-contained moments. Viral Clips finds them and finishes them for you, so your time goes into choosing which clips to post.
Desktop needs an LLM
Finding the moments and making the auto-edit decisions are powered by an LLM. VCP Cloud has this built in, so there is nothing to set up. On the desktop app you connect your own LLM in Settings. See Connect an LLM.
How It Works
You provide one long video. Voice Creator Pro takes it from a full timeline to finished clips in a few steps.
1. Add Your Long Video
Open Viral Clips and drop a video onto the page, or click to browse. MP4, MOV, MKV, and WEBM files work. On the desktop app you can also paste a YouTube link, pick a quality, and click Import.
Long, talking-heavy videos clip best, so podcasts, interviews, talks, webinars, courses, and streams are the strongest source material.
2. Set Up the Run
A short setup walks you through five steps:
- Segment - Use the Entire video, or pick a Segment with a start and end time to only look for clips in that part.
- Clips - Set the Min length (s) and Max length (s) for each clip and the Max clips to make. Under Guide the AI, you can describe what matters most, such as a topic to focus on.
- Subtitles - Pick the subtitle style for every clip.
- Framing and effects - Choose the Aspect ratio, the Framing, the Hook text overlay, Auto edit effects, and whether to Cut silences and breaths and Cut filler words.
- Review - Check every setting before you start. Click Edit on any row to change it.
On the desktop app, the Review step also shows the AI model that will run the job, and its price per million tokens when the provider shares it. If no model is connected yet, click Edit on that row to open Settings.
3. Generate Clips
Click Generate clips. The video is transcribed, the strongest moments are picked, and each clip is framed, captioned, and rendered. A single upload can yield several clips, each built around one self-contained moment.
Each clip is tagged Insight, Storytelling, or Funny to show the kind of moment it holds.
4. Edit by Hand
Open any clip to change its hook, subtitles, words, framing, and effects. See Editing a Clip below.
5. Export
Export one clip, or use Export All to export every finished clip at once. See Exporting.
Choosing a Shape and Framing
Aspect Ratio
Every clip can be 9:16 (Vertical), 1:1 (Square), 16:9 (Landscape), or 4:5 (Portrait). Set it for the whole project during setup, then change it for a single clip in the editor.
Framing
Framing controls how the people on screen are placed in the clip:
- Auto - Picks the best framing for each scene.
- Speaker focus - Follows whoever is talking.
- Blurred background - Shows the full shot over a blurred copy of itself.
- Split screen - Stacks two speakers, one above the other.
- Cut between speakers - Cuts to each speaker as they talk.
- Three speakers and Four speakers - A grid with each person in their own box.
- Screen share - A screen recording with the speaker's camera beside it.
- Gameplay - Game footage with the player's camera beside it.
Blurred background crop sets how much of the original shot shows over the blur: Original, 4:3, or 1:1.
Editing a Clip
Open any clip to refine it in the editor. Across the top you switch between Hook, Subtitles, Transcript, and Effects, with a live preview and a timeline beside them. You can Dub, Export, or Re-render the clip at any time, and the undo and redo buttons step back and forward through your changes.
When you change something, the editor shows Changes not applied yet. Click Re-render to build the clip with your changes before you export it.
Hook
The hook is the attention-grabbing line shown over the clip, meant to stop the scroll in the first seconds. It is filled in with a suggested line that you can edit, and you control how it looks and behaves:
- Hook text - The words shown on screen.
- Hook style and Font - Pick from preset looks and choose the font.
- Position and Size - Place it at the top, center, or bottom, at a small, normal, or large size. You can also drag the hook up or down on the preview.
- Hook duration - How long the hook stays on screen, or the full clip.
- Entrance - Fade, slide up, bounce, or off.
- Style options - Fine-tune the corner radius, line spacing, padding, and drop shadow.
Subtitles
Voice Creator Pro generates subtitles for each clip from the speech, so the clip reads in a sound-off feed, where most short-form video is watched. You get the same captioning controls used across the app, including word-by-word highlighting. See the Subtitle Generator docs for the full set of styling options.
When two people talk over each other, both lines get their own caption, one above the other.
Transcript
The Transcript tab shows every line of the clip, grouped by speaker. Click any word to jump to it in the preview, then:
- Display as - Change how the word is spelled in the captions, for example to fix a misheard word.
- Highlight this word - Give it its own color, size, and rotation, or turn on Move freely to drag it anywhere on the video.
- Delete word - Cut the word out of the video. Deleted words stay in the transcript, crossed out, so you can click one and choose Restore word at any time.
Click the Caption style button at the end of a caption line to change how that one caption looks. Reset to original puts the transcript back the way it was transcribed.
Effects
The Effects tab controls how the clip is shaped, framed, and paced:
- Aspect ratio and Framing - Change the shape and framing for this clip only. See Choosing a Shape and Framing.
- Who each shot follows - If the framing follows the wrong person in a shot, pick the right face, or choose Wide to show the whole shot.
- Cut pauses and breaths - Keep the natural pauses, or Cut them to tighten the pace.
- Cut filler words - Keep or Cut "um", "uh", stutters, and false starts. Every cut word shows crossed out in the transcript, so you can click it to bring it back.
- Effects - Choose None, Keep current, or Re-pick with AI. When you re-pick, choose which effects the AI may use.
The effects you can place are Punch in, Color pop, Black and white, Flash, and Vignette. AI auto-edit also highlights key words in the subtitles.
Timeline
The timeline under the preview shows the clip's video as a filmstrip, its audio waveform, and its effects in the Zoom and Color lanes.
- Zoom - Scroll the mouse wheel over the timeline, or pinch on a touchpad or touch screen. Hold Shift while scrolling to move sideways.
- Trim the clip - Drag the Clip start or Clip end handle in to shorten the clip, and back out to undo it.
- Cut a section - Drag across the video or audio lane to highlight part of the clip, then click Cut. Click a cut mark and choose Restore to bring it back.
- Add an effect - With Effects set to Keep current, click an empty spot in the Zoom or Color lane and pick an effect.
- Change an effect - Drag an effect to move it, or drag its edges to change its length. Click it to type exact times or remove it.
Handles and effects snap to words and scene changes as you drag. Hold Alt while dragging to place them freely.
Keyboard Shortcuts
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Space | Play or pause |
| Left / Right arrow | Step one frame |
| Shift + Left / Right arrow | Step one second |
| Home / End | Jump to the start or end |
| Ctrl + Z | Undo |
| Ctrl + Y or Ctrl + Shift + Z | Redo |
On a Mac, use Cmd in place of Ctrl.
Dubbing
Click Dub to send the clip to Video Dubbing and give it a spoken version in another language, so one recording becomes clips for several language markets.
Exporting
Click Export on a clip, or Export All on the results page, to open the export menu.
By default, each clip exports as a folder named after the clip, holding:
- The finished clip video.
- A Premiere Pro XML timeline that rebuilds the clip from your original footage, plus a copy of the source video it links to.
- Two SRT subtitle files, one for the clip and one for the whole recording.
Tick Export only video to save just the clip video. On the desktop app you can also set the Quality, Resolution, and Format (MP4, MOV, or MKV) of the video. On VCP Cloud you pick the Quality and Resolution in the Review step before generating, and the files download one at a time.
Exports keep running if you leave the screen, so you can come back to the result later.
Post Captions
Click Captions on a clip to copy a ready-made TikTok caption, Instagram caption, and YouTube title for posting.
More Clips
On the desktop app, Generate more looks for new clips in the same video, and Regenerate discards the current clips so you can change the settings and start again.
Notes
- Free plans on VCP Cloud render one clip per run, with a watermark. The Premiere Pro XML export is on paid plans.
- Max clips goes up to 15 per run.
Use Cases
YouTube and Long-Form Creators
Repurpose long videos into Shorts and vertical clips without re-editing each one from scratch.
Podcasters
Cut episode highlights into captioned clips to promote each new episode on social.
Talks and Webinars
Pull the strongest moments from a talk, webinar, or course session into shareable clips.
Streamers and Gamers
Turn long streams into highlight clips, with the game and the player's camera side by side.
Marketing Teams and Agencies
Get more out of every recording by turning it into a batch of captioned clips per channel or per client, in the shape each channel needs.
Next Steps
- Connect an LLM - Connect an LLM so Viral Clips works on the desktop app
- Subtitle Generator - Full details on captioning and subtitle styling
- Video Dubbing - Dub your clips into another language
- Transcribe Audio - Turn a recording into text with timestamps
Subtitle Styles
Pick from about 60 ready-made subtitle styles or build your own, with word highlighting, shadows, background boxes, word animations and motion, then save it to reuse on every video.
Connect an LLM
Voice Creator Pro uses an LLM for Viral Clips, audiobook casting, and AI Cut. VCP Cloud includes it, and on the desktop app you connect your own provider, pick a model for each feature, and set reasoning and OpenRouter provider order.