Get 100 free creditsLong Video to Short Video AI
Turning long video into short video is a strategy question before it is an editing question. A three-hour livestream, a recorded course, and a podcast episode all hide their best short-form moments in completely different places — and a tool that treats them identically will miss most of them.
Recapo's long-video-to-short AI adapts to the source. It transcribes and understands the full recording, then applies a clipping strategy that fits: reaction peaks for streams, self-contained takeaways for lessons, quotable exchanges for conversations. What comes back is a ranked clip set, each ready for captions and a 9:16 crop.
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Livestream replays: clip the reaction peaks
Streams are flat for long stretches and electric for seconds at a time. The AI looks for the spikes — raised voices, laughter, sudden scene changes, the moment the plan goes wrong — and skips the waiting-room stretches. A replay nobody will rewatch becomes the handful of moments everyone actually remembers from the live chat.
Courses and tutorials: cut by takeaway
Educational footage clips best when each short carries exactly one idea a viewer can use without context. The strategy favors self-contained explanations with a clear start — 'here's the trick' — and a clean resolution, rather than mid-lesson fragments that assume the previous chapter. One recorded course can seed weeks of single-tip shorts.
Podcasts and interviews: lead with the quote
Conversation clips live or die on a single line — the bold claim, the punchline, the story beat. The AI hunts for complete, quotable exchanges and trims them so the strongest sentence lands early. Since talking heads carry little visual information, captions do the heavy lifting; every clip comes out with an editable, styleable subtitle track.
How to use the Recapo long video to short video ai
Three steps, fully in the cloud — nothing to install.
Step 1: Import the long recording
Paste a link to a replay or upload the file. Multi-hour recordings are the expected input here, not an edge case.
Step 2: Match the strategy to the source
Choose the angle that fits — stream highlights, course takeaways, or conversation quotes — and the AI scores moments against that strategy.
Step 3: Caption, crop, ship
Take the ranked clips into captions, vertical cropping, and covers, then export a set of shorts from a single long source.
Frequently asked questions about the long video to short video ai
Can it handle multi-hour recordings?
Yes — long sources are the core use case. Import replays by link to skip giant uploads, and use the generated transcript and summary to navigate the recording without rewatching it.
My video is just two people talking. Will it find clips?
Talking footage often clips best. Selection is transcript-driven, so strong statements and complete exchanges surface even when the visuals never change.
Do the short clips come with subtitles?
Each clip gets its own ASR captions, regenerated for the clip's exact boundaries. Edit the text, style it, then burn it into the video or export SRT/VTT alongside.
Does it automatically crop the clips to vertical?
This tool focuses on finding and trimming the short segments out of your long video. For reframing to a vertical 9:16 shape and burning in captions, you continue into Recapo's cropping and caption tools as the next step.
How long are the clips it produces?
You're aiming for short-form lengths that fit Shorts, Reels, and TikTok, so the cuts pulled from your long video are meant to land in the short-clip range rather than stay full-length. Recapo is still in active development, so exact length controls are being refined.
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