A panel runs an hour, the microphone changes hands every minute or two, and the moment worth posting belongs to whoever happened to be holding it. shortshort reads the transcript, puts the 9:16 frame on the panellist who has the floor and switches when someone else takes it, so one roundtable produces a clip for every name on the programme.
60 free credits, no cardUp to 3 hours per videoMP4 · 1080 × 1920
Face tracking places the vertical crop on the panellist speaking and moves it when another voice takes over, instead of drifting across the empty chairs in between. A shot of the whole row, or the screen behind it, is kept whole rather than cropped, because a vertical slice of four chairs keeps one person and loses three.
Your plan sets the ceiling per video: 10 shorts on Creator, 20 on Studio. Ask for 10 on a five-person roundtable and every panellist leaves with a pair to post to their own following, from a recording you uploaded once.
Clip boundaries are decided on the written words, not on a stopwatch. The AI will stretch or trim by up to 25% of the length you asked for rather than leave a claim on screen with the answer missing: ask for 45 seconds and a clip can land at 56 if that is where the reply ends.
A 58-minute roundtable is charged 58 credits, and that figure does not move whether you ask for 3 clips or 20. Signing up comes with 60 credits, enough for a first panel with change left over, and the 800 credits on Creator cover thirteen panels a month.
Five steps. About two minutes of your time.
Suggested captions: Spotlight. A panel hands the floor back and forth, and the frame goes with it. The lit word keeps the eye in place at the instant another face arrives.
Upload the panel as a single file, inside the 3-hour and 2 GB limit, in MP4, MOV or WebM, then pick how many clips you want, from 1 to 20, and a target length between 15 and 90 seconds. shortshort transcribes the panel, keeps the passages that form complete sentences, crops each one to 9:16 on the person speaking and times the captions to the audio. You are charged one credit per minute of source whatever the number of clips, and each export comes back as a 1080 x 1920 MP4.
The vertical crop sits on the face of whoever is talking and hands over at the change of speaker, rather than hovering between them. A wide shot that holds all five, or a slide on the screen behind, is held whole with black bands above and below, since cropping it vertically would remove people from the picture. Any framing keyframe can be corrected by hand afterwards.
Yes, and that is usually why you would ask for ten or more. The ceiling per video is 3 clips on the free tier, 5 on Starter, 10 on Creator and 20 on Studio, so a five-person panel on Creator gives every speaker two. Exported shorts join the public gallery by default; every paid plan lets you keep a panel out of it before you send the files to the speakers.
Cross-talk is rarely picked, because the selection keeps passages that read as finished sentences and a sentence spoken over someone else is not one. If a passage does carry two voices, the framing can hold the whole row instead of jumping between faces, and the in and out points stay editable in the studio before you render again.
It works. The vertical frame is taken inside that wide image and lifts the zoom as far as x1.6 on the panellist speaking, which is what brings a distant row of chairs to a size worth watching on a phone. If the source is low resolution, or a zoom lands beside a face, each keyframe can be moved or pinned by hand.
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.