Unlimited Long Video to Shorts

UseShorts can offer unlimited Auto Clipping because transcription and AI clip discovery can run locally on your own computer, without per-minute processing fees or conversion credits.

Premium captions are part of the normal workflow and use a required third-party caption service. At the current provider offer and pricing, new users receive $200 in free credits, while a typical 1-minute clip costs about $0.01 to caption. That is enough for roughly 20,000 one-minute clips, making premium caption usage effectively near-unlimited for most individual users.

Optional cloud AI for clip discovery is also available if you prefer it, with usage charged separately by your chosen cloud provider, estimated at around $0.01 for a typical 60-minute video using a low-cost AI model. Actual costs vary with video length, model, and usage.

Your full source video does not need to be uploaded to a cloud server when you use UseShorts' local processing options.

Local transcription, local AI clip discovery, framing, preview and export can run on your computer.

There are two exceptions to understand:

Premium captions: the audio needed for the selected clip must be sent to the third-party caption service so it can generate accurate caption timing.

Optional cloud AI: if you choose cloud AI for clip discovery, the transcript text required for analysis is sent to your configured cloud provider.

UseShorts does not require your entire source video to be uploaded just to find clips or create exports.

Yes. UseShorts runs Qwen3.5 locally and is tuned specifically for clip-moment discovery rather than general chat.

The recommended Best Quality option uses Qwen3.5-4B Q4_K_M, while the Faster option uses Qwen3.5-2B Q4_K_M. Both run through llama.cpp on your computer.

UseShorts analyzes each discovered moment and gives it a score, helping you focus on the strongest clip candidates instead of reviewing everything manually.

On supported Windows PCs, local processing can use NVIDIA/CUDA acceleration. On Apple Silicon Macs, the same local model/runtime approach is designed to use Metal acceleration.

That gives you fast, private local clip discovery with no per-minute AI fees, while optional cloud AI remains available if you want another analysis option.

UseShorts is designed to run on ordinary modern Windows PCs and Apple Silicon Macs. A dedicated GPU is not required, but faster hardware will reduce processing time.

Windows: Windows 10/11 64-bit, a modern 4-core Intel or AMD processor, 16 GB RAM recommended, and at least 10 GB of free storage for UseShorts and its local AI models, plus additional space for your videos and exports.

Mac: Apple Silicon M1 or newer, 16 GB unified memory recommended, and at least 10 GB of free storage, plus space for your videos and exports.

On Windows, an NVIDIA GPU with 6 GB+ VRAM can make Local AI substantially faster, but UseShorts can also run without a dedicated GPU. On Apple Silicon, local AI can use Metal acceleration.

Older or less powerful computers may still be usable, but transcription, AI clip discovery, framing and export will take longer. If speed matters, UseShorts also includes a smaller Faster local AI model that uses less memory and completes analysis more quickly.

For the best experience, we recommend 16–32 GB RAM and an NVIDIA GPU on Windows, or an Apple Silicon Mac with 16–24 GB+ unified memory.

UseShorts turns a long video into multiple shorts by transcribing the source, finding promising moments, preparing the framing and captions, and getting each clip ready for preview or export.

The workflow is:

Long video → transcription → AI finds best moments → framing and captions → preview or quick export.

You can let UseShorts automate most of the process while still reviewing clips before export when you want more control.

UseShorts automatically reframes long-form video for short-form layouts, reducing the amount of manual cropping and keyframing you need to do.

Depending on the scene, UseShorts can:

• track a moving subject;
• turn wide two-person conversations into Dual Crop framing;
• move between speaker-focused and supporting contextual views;
• preserve a wider view when seeing more of the scene is useful.

The result is a vertical short that adapts to what is happening in the source video.

UseShorts supports editable Static captions and Current Word captions.

Static captions display the caption text without highlighting each spoken word.

Current Word captions highlight the current word as it is spoken, creating the dynamic karaoke-style effect commonly used in short-form videos.

Both styles can be edited and styled before export.

Yes. UseShorts lets you preview prepared clips so you can check the selected moment, framing and captions before export.

If you prefer speed, you can instead use the quicker automatic export workflow and let UseShorts prepare and export clips as they become ready.

You choose between more review control and greater automation.

Yes. UseShorts helps you keep every short instantly on-brand—for your own business or for multiple clients.

Save reusable brand profiles with your preferred caption style, fonts, colors, watermark, logo and end-of-clip message.

When you work with different clients, simply switch profiles instead of rebuilding the branding for every export.