shortshort
ZOOM RECORDING TO CLIPS

Turn a Zoom recording into short clips.

Zoom leaves an MP4 in a folder after every recorded call, and that file is the input the shortshort studio expects. Same product as the rest of the site: it transcribes the call, keeps the passages that finish their point and frames the person on screen, with one piece of advice below about gallery views.

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

Zoom recording to clips: the short answer

shortshort turns the MP4 Zoom saved after a call into 9:16 clips aimed at 15 to 90 seconds: complete passages, the crop on the face, shared screens kept whole.

Example with shortshort: a 47-minute recorded customer call becomes 5 shorts of about 40 seconds, for 47 credits on the Starter plan.

Shorts per video
3 on the Free plan, 5 on Starter, 10 on Creator, 20 on the Studio plan
Cost
1 credit per minute; 30 free, then plans from €12 a month
Source video
A file or a YouTube link, up to 2 GB
Clip length
Aimed at 15 to 90 s, within 25% to end on a sentence

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Why the studio fits this job

The rules of the studio that matter most here.

An MP4 in, vertical MP4s out

Zoom's recording is an MP4, one of the three formats accepted, and up to 2 GB fit in one upload. Each short is an MP4 you can upload to LinkedIn as a native video, in 9:16 at 1080 x 1920 or 4:5 at 1080 x 1350, and the 9:16 file also goes to YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Reels.

Screen shares survive

When someone shares a screen, the studio detects it and keeps the full frame; when the camera is back, the 9:16 crop follows the face.

The whole call is transcribed

Every word is transcribed on the audio before selection starts, and the selected passages are timed again word by word for captions.

How to do it

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

  1. 01Find the MP4 Zoom saved on your computer, or download it from Zoom's cloud, and upload it
  2. 02Set how many clips you want and a length between 15 and 90 seconds
  3. 03Check the crop on each clip, especially where the gallery view shows several people
  4. 04Download the clips as separate 1080 x 1920 MP4s

What this page does not promise

What the search term usually implies, and the studio does not do.

No Zoom integration: the studio does not connect to your Zoom account or pull cloud recordings; you upload the file.

No audio cleaning: the call's sound goes into the clip as recorded, with no noise removal and no silence trimming.

On a real video, in the same studio

A published transformation from the community: the original on top, the shorts it became below, with the transcript of each short.

Frame of the original video (12:14)12:14 · original6 MOMENTS

3 of 6 shorts shown · The Override That Saved Humanity · watch it in the community, with the transcript of each short

Demo footage: Tears of Steel © Blender Foundation, licensed CC BY 3.0. Cut, cropped and captioned by shortshort.

Questions people ask

Which Zoom recording layout works best?

Speaker view, where one person fills the frame: the 9:16 crop is placed on the face on screen and moves with it, and scene detection resets it when the recording cuts to another shot. A gallery view with several tiles is kept full-frame rather than cropped to one tile; there is no manual framing to move.

Does it work with Teams, Meet or Webex recordings?

Yes, as long as the file is MP4, MOV or WebM. The studio does not care which software made the recording; it works on the file.

How much does a one-hour Zoom call cost to clip?

60 credits, since shortshort counts 1 credit per minute of recording. A new account receives 30 free, enough for a call of up to 30 minutes; beyond that, Starter gives 480 credits a month for 12 EUR and Creator 1,600 for 29 EUR, before VAT.

Are shared screens readable?

Yes. A shared screen is detected as a screen and kept as the full image inside the vertical frame, so a spreadsheet or a slide is not cropped through the middle.

Will an internal call end up public?

Only if you export a short and leave it in the community, where it goes by default with the source video and the transcript of the short. Every paid plan lets you keep shorts out of the community for the whole account, and any account can withdraw a published short.

Can I post these clips on LinkedIn?

Yes. Download the MP4 and upload it from your LinkedIn profile or company page; shortshort does not post to LinkedIn for you.

Is this a Zoom app or a separate tool?

Neither. It is the shortshort studio in the browser, with a page written for people who have a Zoom file and want clips from it. Nothing is installed in Zoom.

A 47-minute recorded customer call on Starter, 5 shorts, one upload.

Free to try with 30 credits. 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.