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YouTube Video to Shorts Generator
Paste the part of a YouTube video’s transcript with the point you want, or hand the composer the video’s link, and get a new narrated, captioned vertical short written only from what the video says.
01Give it the video. Put the video’s link in the composer’s Link tab and its captions are read for you. Here, paste the part of the transcript with the point you want.
02Read the script it writes. It comes back one line per scene, built only from what the video says. Check every claim and figure against the video before any picture is made.
03Render it and post it. A vertical short with a voiceover, captions and music, posted to YouTube Shorts, TikTok or Reels from the app.
Voice:
Eric
Captions:
Highlight
Music:
Uplifting
Format:
Vertical 9:16
What comes out
The settings this page ships with, and the shape they produce
Every example on this page is labelled with the exact configuration behind it, including the one that says it is a drawing.
Layout mock-up
So the biggest mistake I see new channels make is uploadin…
Style: Documentary
Voice: Eric
Captions: Highlight
Ratio: 9:16
A mock-up of the frame and caption layout at this page’s settings — TikTok, Reels and Shorts, uplifting music bed. It is a drawing, not a rendered video: we have no published render library to show you yet, and a stock clip dressed up as our output would be worth less than saying so.
Your input
“So the biggest mistake I see new channels make is uploading on a schedule before they have a single video that works. Find one video that gets more than its share of views, then make the next five about the same question from a different angle. Don't chase a calendar. Chase the thing your viewers already told you they wanted by watching it to the end.”
Plus this page’s brief, verbatim
The text below is part or all of the transcript of a YouTube video the user made or may talk about. Turn the video's single strongest point into a new short narrated video: open on its sharpest claim or question, keep the speaker's own phrasing where it still sounds natural read aloud, one idea per scene, and end on the video's own conclusion or call to action if it has one. A transcript is spoken language: drop filler, false starts and repeats, and never say "in this video". Use ONLY what the text says: add no fact, number, name, quote, price, product feature or claim that is not in it, and if something is unclear, leave it out. If the text is only a web address or a file name with no words from it, do not guess what it says: say only what the address or name itself makes certain (the site's name), and nothing about what it offers. Each scene describes one frame that shows the idea in its line — a person at a desk, a kitchen table, a city street, a phone in a hand — with no text, numbers, charts, logos, screenshots or writing in the frame and no one speaking to camera.
That string is not marketing copy — it is the instruction the script writer is given before it reads a word of yours, and it is the only thing separating this page from the other forty-seven.
The shape that comes back
Scene 1 — the hook
One line that works with no context, because the viewer arrived mid-scroll.
Scenes 2–6 — the body
One idea each, one or two spoken sentences, each with its own image prompt and its own duration.
Final scene — the close
A line that lands the point rather than asking for a follow.
Per scene — the shot
The exact image prompt the model would receive, with this page’s style suffix already appended.
This is the structure, not a saved example. The box at the top of the page writes the real one — with your wording, in about ten seconds.
5–8 scenes
each with its own line, its own frame and its own length
Under 60s
cut to the narration, not to a fixed per-scene timer
Word-timed
captions burned from the voice model’s own alignment
1080-class
vertical, square or landscape — no watermark on any plan
01
A new short about the video, not a clip cut from it
Many people who search for “youtube video to shorts” want a clipper, which cuts a minute out of the footage, or a downloader. This is neither. Nothing at the link is downloaded, converted or re-uploaded, and a YouTube video’s own footage never appears in what you make. What comes back is a new short, narrated and captioned, written from what the page says. It does not find a moment in your footage, crop it to vertical or reuse your face or voice.
That makes it the right tool when the idea matters more than the footage: a talk-heavy video, a tutorial, a podcast on YouTube, a long explainer whose best point deserves its own minute. It is the wrong tool if you want the actual clip of you saying it, and we would rather say so before you pay. Every video is made on a plan: Mini is $7 a month, and the first payment on any plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee.
02
What is read from the video
For a YouTube link the composer reads the video’s captions, preferring a human-made track in the language you ask for, and falls back to its title and description when captions cannot be read. A long video is read from its opening, up to 8,000 characters of the transcript, so for a point near the end, paste that part of the transcript instead. On the Link tab this page’s own brief steps aside: the script writer is given the source itself and told to use only what it says. The look, the voice, the captions and the music this page starts on stay as they are.
The composer’s Link tab reads a public link for you: an article or a product page (its title, its headings and the first 6,000 characters of its text), a YouTube video (its captions, or its description), a post on X, a Reddit thread and its top comments, a public LinkedIn post, or a PDF at a link. From a TikTok or an Instagram post it can read only the caption. A page behind a login or a paywall, one that returns an error, or one that shows nothing until JavaScript runs cannot be read, and the composer tells you why rather than guessing; paste the text instead.
03
Only what the video says, and what is on screen
The script is written from the words you give it and told to use only what they say: no fact, figure, price, name, quote or claim that is not in your text. It is still a language model, so read the script before any picture is made: the box here shows it one line per scene, and in the composer, Show me the script first holds the visuals until you approve it. That matters for a channel: a Short that adds a statistic you never said, or a promise you never made, is a claim made in your name.
Each scene is one generated frame made from its own line of the script, so the video is a sequence of independent pictures joined by cuts, not one continuous shot. On a paid plan each frame is set in motion by default with a short camera move (138 credits for a five-scene video), or choose Stills in the composer and the same video is 13 credits, as pictures with a slow pan. Or switch the composer to Stock footage: real Pexels clips matched to each line, on every plan, which suits a subject that exists — a street, a kitchen, a handshake — better than an idea. The page starts on the composer’s Documentary look, vertical, with a steady narrator and word-by-word captions.
The video that already did well, as a Short that makes its best point in a minute and sends people to the full version.
Coaches and consultants
The talk or webinar on your channel, one point per short, in your own words.
Small businesses
A how-to or product walkthrough on your channel, cut to the one tip a customer can use today.
Podcasters on YouTube
An episode’s most useful answer, as a narrated short for people who will not sit through the hour.
Compared
What this replaces
Six things somebody has to arrange to make one short, and who arranges them.
Input
The usual way: Watch the whole video again to find a moment worth a Short.
With Veedio: The link in the composer’s Link tab, or the part of the transcript pasted.
Visuals
The usual way: Crop the footage to vertical and hope the framing survives.
With Veedio: A frame generated per line, or real stock clips; none of your footage is reused.
Voiceover
The usual way: Whatever was said in the take, filler and all.
With Veedio: A steady narrator by default, 20 voices to choose from, a changed line re-read on its own.
Captions
The usual way: Auto-captions that mishear names, fixed by hand.
With Veedio: Captions from the script you approved, timed to the voice that reads it.
Turnaround
The usual way: An evening per video, so most videos never get a Short.
With Veedio: A script in moments and the video right after it, so older uploads get a Short too.
Changing it
The usual way: Re-edit the timeline.
With Veedio: Fix the one line in the script and render again.
The usual way
With Veedio
Input
Watch the whole video again to find a moment worth a Short.
The link in the composer’s Link tab, or the part of the transcript pasted.
Visuals
Crop the footage to vertical and hope the framing survives.
A frame generated per line, or real stock clips; none of your footage is reused.
Voiceover
Whatever was said in the take, filler and all.
A steady narrator by default, 20 voices to choose from, a changed line re-read on its own.
Captions
Auto-captions that mishear names, fixed by hand.
Captions from the script you approved, timed to the voice that reads it.
Turnaround
An evening per video, so most videos never get a Short.
A script in moments and the video right after it, so older uploads get a Short too.
Changing it
Re-edit the timeline.
Fix the one line in the script and render again.
Related tools
Same engine, different preset
Twenty more pages over the same pipeline. Each one is a different brief, a different look and a different page — and each one prints its brief the way this one does.
Hand the composer a link to an article, a product page, a YouTube video or a PDF, or paste the page’s text here, and get a new narrated short written only from what the page says.
Type a topic or paste your episode notes and get a podcast-style video — one host’s voice talking it through, a scene for every point and captions on every word.
Upload a PDF in the composer, or paste a section of it here, and get a narrated, captioned short that explains the document’s main point in plain words.
Questions about the YouTube Video to Shorts Generator
Does it cut clips out of my YouTube video?
No. Nothing at the link is downloaded, converted or re-uploaded, and a YouTube video’s own footage never appears in what you make. What comes back is a new short, narrated and captioned, written from what the page says. If you want the actual footage of you cropped to vertical, a clipping tool is the right one.
Can I paste a YouTube link?
Yes, in the composer. The composer’s Link tab reads a public link for you: an article or a product page (its title, its headings and the first 6,000 characters of its text), a YouTube video (its captions, or its description), a post on X, a Reddit thread and its top comments, a public LinkedIn post, or a PDF at a link. From a TikTok or an Instagram post it can read only the caption. A page behind a login or a paywall, one that returns an error, or one that shows nothing until JavaScript runs cannot be read, and the composer tells you why rather than guessing; paste the text instead. On the Link tab this page’s own brief steps aside: the script writer is given the source itself and told to use only what it says. The look, the voice, the captions and the music this page starts on stay as they are. The box on this page takes pasted text only. The box on this page writes from text you paste — up to 1,200 characters, about a long paragraph — and it never opens a link or reads a file. In the composer the same Prompt tab takes up to 20,000 characters, so a whole post fits, and a long one is condensed to the length you pick rather than cut off.
What if the video has no captions?
The composer falls back to the video’s title and description and writes from those. If neither can be read you are told why instead of being handed a guess; paste the transcript instead.
How much of a long video is read?
The opening, up to 8,000 characters of its transcript. For a point later in the video, paste that part of the transcript on the composer’s Prompt tab.
Will it add facts the video does not have?
The script is written from the words you give it and told to use only what they say: no fact, figure, price, name, quote or claim that is not in your text. It is still a language model, so read the script before any picture is made: the box here shows it one line per scene, and in the composer, Show me the script first holds the visuals until you approve it.
Can I use somebody else’s video?
Only one you have the right to talk about. The short is new and written from the video’s words, but check what you may say about anyone else’s work before you post.
Can the Short be in another language?
Yes. Pick the language in the composer and the script is written and narrated in it. There are 20 stock voices, most of them recorded in American English, with 4 British and 1 Australian among them. There is no Irish voice, and voice cloning — your own voice — is on Pro and Studio only. The narration and captions can be in any of 29 languages — French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish among them — chosen in the composer; the voices read them, but a native listener may hear an English-speaker's accent, so listen to the first one before you post a series.
What does it cost, and how long can a video be?
Plans are monthly: Mini $7 (200 credits), Starter $19 (600 credits), Pro $49 (2,000 credits), Studio $149 (7,500 credits). A five-scene short in pictures costs 13 credits; with AI motion in every scene it costs 138. You see the price before you generate, and the first payment on any plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee. Mini ($7 a month, 200 credits) covers about 15 five-scene shorts in pictures, or about 1 with AI motion in every scene. Every paid plan makes videos of 30 seconds, one minute, 90 seconds or three minutes; a longer video has more scenes and costs more credits, and you see the price before you generate. You own the videos on every plan and can use them commercially, paid ads included. There is no watermark on any plan, the export is 1080p, and the music beds are licensed for commercial use with no attribution.
Do I have to sign up to try this?
Yes, and pick a plan: Mini is $7 a month, and the first payment has a 7-day money-back guarantee. On a plan, the box at the top writes the script and the shot list for no credits — that is the part that decides whether the video is worth making.
Do I own the videos, and is there a watermark?
You own them, on every plan, and there is no watermark on any plan, no resolution cap and no platform withheld. Four things do follow the plan, because they are what a video costs to make: AI motion and sound effects need Starter, and a presenter avatar and the choice of video model need Pro. Everything else — every voice, every language, every caption style, every aspect ratio — is the same on all of them.