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.
60 free credits, no cardUp to 3 hours per videoMP4 · 1080 × 1920
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.
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.
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.
A credit is a minute of source, not a clip. A 47-minute recipe costs 47 credits whether you ask for the 3 the free tier allows, watermarked, or the 20 Studio allows. The 60 credits given at sign-up cover a first recipe with room to spare.
Five steps. About two minutes of your time.
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.
Upload the recipe video as it was filmed, up to 3 hours and 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.
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 whoever is speaking. If a scene is framed the wrong way, every keyframe can be changed in the studio and the clip rendered again.
From 1 to 20 per video, each between 15 and 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 Studio. 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 240 credits, five recipes of that length; Creator is €29 for 800 and Studio €79 for 3,000.
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.
Yes, on any paid plan. Exported shorts join the community by default; Starter, Creator and Studio 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.
Free to try with 60 credits. Your source video stays yours; the shorts you export join the community, and a plan keeps them out of it.