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Turn YouTube videos into shorts

Find strong moments, add captions, and create vertical clips from an authorized source.

Here’s how

  1. Open Viral Shorts and paste a public YouTube URL you are authorized to download, edit, and publish.
  2. Load the video preview, then choose Auto or a fixed number of shorts and a clip-length range.
  3. Select a saved ad ending or create three image-ad options from your website. Confirm your source rights before Create viral shorts.
  4. Review the finished clips, then download or schedule each one.

How Auto and credits work

Auto uses your affordable high-quality clip limit; it is a maximum, not a promise that the source contains that many useful moments. The form shows the credits to reserve, and unused reserved credits are returned.

Processing can continue after you leave the screen. A recovery notification opens the specific saved job without automatically starting another paid request. The failure date is historical. Use Check current video access to test availability for free; a successful check does not start a render or guarantee publication.

Review the result

Completed shorts appear below the creator with download and scheduling actions. Download important copies before the normal media-retention cleanup runs.

A public URL is not proof of permission. Private, restricted, removed, or provider-blocked sources may fail to process.

Put it into practice

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