shortshort
FOR FOOD CREATORS

Turn cooking videos into shorts.

You cook the whole thing in one take, forty or fifty minutes with the camera running, and the moments worth posting are buried between the kneading and the washing up. shortshort reads what you said, keeps the steps that are explained from start to finish, holds the top-down shots whole and captions what you say word by word, so one recipe fills a week of posting.

30 free credits, no cardUp to 2 GB per videoMP4 · 9:16 or 4:5

shortshort for cooking videos: the short answer

Cut a recipe filmed in one take into vertical shorts, one step per clip: top-down shots stay whole, and every word is captioned in time with your voice.

Example with shortshort: a 47-minute recipe filmed in one take becomes 8 shorts of about 35 seconds, for 47 credits, from the Creator plan.

Shorts per video: Free · Starter · Creator · Studio
3 · 5 · 10 · 20
Cost
1 credit per minute of source
Source video
Up to 2 GB
Plans
Free, then €12, €29 or €79 a month, before VAT

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Why it fits cooking videos

The top-down shot is kept whole, not sliced to a strip

A board or a skillet shot from above fills a wide frame, and a 9:16 crop takes a strip out of the middle: half the ingredients leave the picture. A wide scene like that is fitted whole inside the vertical frame, with space above and below, and the 9:16 crop is used when you look up and talk to the camera.

A clip that stops mid-instruction is a bad recipe

Passages are chosen from the transcript, on complete sentences. A clip opens where a step is announced, salting the water, folding the butter in, and closes once that step is done; the target duration bends by up to 25% rather than cut an instruction in half.

Grams, minutes and degrees, in bold

Impact captions put one bold word on a line at a time, each timed on the audio. What lands in bold on a recipe is the quantity, the oven temperature, the resting time: the figures a viewer scrolls back for. They have to be spoken to be captioned, so say them while you work.

Twenty clips on the Studio plan cost the same as three

A credit is a minute of source, not a clip. A 47-minute recipe costs 47 credits whether you ask for 3 shorts or the 20 allowed on the Studio plan. The 30 credits given at sign-up cover a first recipe video of up to 30 minutes.

How it works for cooking videos

Five steps. About two minutes of your time; the processing itself runs on our servers and depends on the length of the video.

  1. 01Drop the recipe exactly as you filmed it, MP4, MOV or WebM
  2. 02Ask for 8 clips of about 35 seconds, one per step
  3. 03Every step explained from start to finish becomes one clip
  4. 04Top-down and wide shots stay whole, the crop finds you when you look up
  5. 05Download the vertical MP4s, or publish the set next to the whole recipe

Suggested captions: Impact. A recipe is remembered by its figures: the weight, the oven, the resting time. Impact sets that figure alone in bold on its line, where nobody can miss it.

Questions people ask

How do I turn my cooking videos into short clips?

Upload the recipe video as it was filmed, up to 2 GB, then set a number of clips and a target length for each. The recording is transcribed, the passages where a step starts and finishes are kept, top-down and wide shots stay whole while the 9:16 crop follows you, and every word is captioned. You get MP4 files at 1080 x 1920, ready for Reels, TikTok and Shorts.

Will my overhead shots of the pan get cropped?

No. A top-down shot of a board or a pan is a wide scene, and a wide scene is fitted whole inside the vertical frame, with space above and below, so none of the ingredients leave the picture. The 9:16 crop is used when a person is the subject, and it follows the face of the person on screen. If a scene is framed the wrong way, shorten the clip or pick another passage; framing itself is automatic.

How many shorts can I get from one recipe video, and what does it cost?

From 1 to 20 per video, each aimed at 15 to 90 seconds, with the ceiling set by your plan: 3 on the free tier with a watermark, 5 on Starter, 10 on Creator, 20 on the Studio plan. The price is one credit per minute of source whatever you ask for, so a 47-minute recipe costs 47 credits. Starter is €12 a month for 480 credits, ten recipes of that length; Creator is €29 for 1,600 and the Studio plan €79 for 6,000.

Do I have to say the quantities out loud?

Yes, if you want them in the clip. The cut and the captions both come from the transcript, so a quantity that only appears as text on screen is never transcribed, never captioned, and gives the AI nothing to hold on to. Saying the two hundred grams of flour while you tip it into the bowl gives the cut a sentence to land on and the caption a figure to set in bold.

Can I keep my recipes out of the public gallery?

Yes, on any paid plan. Exported shorts join the community by default; Starter, Creator and the Studio plan each include the setting that keeps your videos and your shorts out of it, applied to what you have already exported as well as to what comes next.

A 47-minute recipe filmed in one take, 8 shorts, one upload, from the Creator plan.

Free to try with 30 credits and up to 3 shorts per video. Your upload stays private until you export; exported shorts join the community with their source video by default, and any paid plan can keep them out.