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Turn any long video into short video clips without scrubbing through the footage. HeyGen's AI analyses your full recording, picks out the strongest moments, adds captions, and reframes them into vertical clips ready for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok.
Long video to short video features
Find every moment worth clipping
Upload one long recording and the AI reviews the entire file, then pulls the strongest moments into separate short clips. It reads speech, pacing, and emphasis to cut at natural boundaries, so each clip stands on its own instead of ending mid-sentence or trailing off.
Word-perfect captions, built in
Every clip comes back with animated captions timed to the speaker, styled from a preset library that you can customise for fonts, colours, and placement. Burned-in captions keep viewers watching on muted feeds, and the subtitle generator syncs them to each word.
Vertical, square, and wide formats
Set each clip to 9:16 for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok, 1:1 for feeds, or 16:9 for wide players, all from a single upload. Subject tracking keeps the speaker centred in the vertical frame, so nothing important drifts out of the shot as the framing shifts.
Filler-free clips with smooth, clean cuts
Tighten a rambling take before you clip it. Speech cleanup removes filler words, pauses, and false starts, then rebuilds the frames between cuts so the tightened clip reads as one continuous take with no visible jumps, unlike audio-only cleanup tools.
Generate avatar intros and outros
Clipping existing footage is only part of the job. Record a short branded intro, a call-to-action outro, or a missing line with an AI avatar that speaks your script, then stitch it onto any clip so the short opens and closes exactly the way you want.
A one-hour episode hides a dozen quotable moments. Run it through the clip generator and get a batch of short clips that attract new listeners to the full recording, without any manual scrubbing.
Stop letting old uploads sit idle. Point the tool at a long-form YouTube video, and it will generate vertical clips sized for Shorts, each linked back to the original video to send new viewers to your channel.
Reach every market with a single recording. The AI video translator converts each short clip into 175+ languages with lip-synced dubbing and the speaker's cloned voice, so one moment turns into a local post for every audience.
Prospects rarely watch an entire demo. Break a long walkthrough into short clips, each highlighting a single feature, so sales and marketing teams can insert the most relevant moment into an email or social feed.
Archive clips often look dated compared to native uploads. Run them through the AI video upscaler to rebuild detail up to 4K and smoothen motion before you post the short.
Long training runs lose attention. Clip each recorded session into short lessons that cover one topic, so employees can watch them between tasks, and update any clip by regenerating it instead of re-recording.
How to turn long videos into short clips
Turn a long recording into a batch of publish-ready short clips in four simple steps, usually in under five minutes.
Upload an MP4, MOV, or WEBM file up to 10GB, or paste a YouTube or Google Drive link instead.
The AI scans the entire recording and converts the strongest segments into separate short clips.
Add word-by-word captions, switch to 9:16, 1:1, or 16:9, and apply your logo and colours.
Download each clip, or publish directly to your social channels without any extra editing.
A long video to short video converter uses AI to scan a full recording, identify the most impactful moments, and turn them into short, captioned clips sized for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok. You upload once and get a batch of ready-to-post clips, instead of having to edit everything manually.
Paste the video link or upload the file, then let the AI detect the highlights and reframe them to 9:16. Review the set, keep the strongest ones, and export. The YouTube Shorts workflow sizes and captions each clip specifically for the platform.
The AI analyses speech, pacing, and emphasis to surface complete, self-contained moments, not random cuts, and returns them as a set for you to review. Keep the strongest ones, drop the rest, and adjust any clip’s in and out points in the editor before you export.
It depends on the length and density of your recording. A longer video usually gives you more clips, since the video highlight engine picks out every strong moment in the file and returns them as a set you can easily review.
You can upload MP4, MOV, or WEBM files up to 10GB, and process source videos up to two hours long. A 30-minute webinar and a 90-minute training session both work without needing to trim first. You can also paste a YouTube or Google Drive link.
Most repurposed clips end up between 20 and 60 seconds, short enough for one clear payoff and within the range that Shorts, Reels, and TikTok prefer. You set the target length before generating, so every clip comes back neatly trimmed to the duration you want.
Yes. Every clip comes back with word-by-word captions timed to the speaker, taken from a preset style library. Captions are burned in by default, which is important because most social video is watched on mute. You can restyle fonts, colours, and placement before export.
Yes. Beyond clipping existing footage, the AI video generator creates a branded intro, outro, or missing line with an avatar that speaks your script. You can stitch it onto any clip so the short opens and closes fully on brand.
Yes. After clipping, you can translate any clip into 175+ languages with lip-synced dubbing and the speaker's cloned voice, not just translated subtitles. One powerful moment becomes a natural-sounding post for every market you serve, without any re-recording.
Most clip tools stop after they cut and add captions. HeyGen keeps working: tighten raw takes so cuts stay invisible, rebuild low‑res footage up to 4K, and translate each clip into 175+ languages with dubbing — all in one workspace, with no downloads needed between steps.
Yes. Converting every webinar and recording into a batch of clips removes the per-clip editing bottleneck. Attention Grabbing Media reported content creation becoming 3x faster across campaigns with HeyGen's video tools.
Yes. You can convert long videos into short clips on the free plan without any watermark, and the paid plans add more languages, higher resolution, and higher volume suitable for teams. Pricing starts with a free plan and scales up to fully custom enterprise plans.
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