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Notes on turning long videos into Shorts

Product updates, editing guides and what we learn building a local-first clip editor.

Wrap the line, then burn it in locally. A caption website is optional, and for an unreleased cut it is the wrong place.

Opus Clip, Vizard, Klap, and Submagic upload the video. Clip Nugget cuts a file that stays on your computer.

Import the episode, keep the lines worth posting, reframe the speaker, and burn in captions on your own computer.

A center crop loses the speaker. Face tracking follows them. A free still tool only places one frame.

A desktop app that turns long recordings into vertical Shorts, rendered on your own PC.

The checklist we use when deciding which parts of a long video are worth turning into Shorts.