YouTube to Shorts Converter
Paste a YouTube link to convert a YouTube video to Shorts — AI finds the best moments and previews each one right on the page. No upload, no download. Free.
Turn a moment into a finished short
Bitcut for iPhone auto-cuts the clip, reframes to vertical, adds beat-synced animated subtitles and exports in HD.
How it works
Paste a YouTube link
Drop the URL of any YouTube video that has captions — a podcast, interview, talk or vlog.
AI finds the best moments
We read the transcript and pick the most engaging, self-contained segments, each with a hook and title.
Preview each short
Play any suggested short right here — it plays just that moment from the original video. Nothing is uploaded.
Make the real thing in the app
Open Bitcut on iPhone to auto-cut, reframe to vertical, add animated subtitles and export in HD.
How to convert a YouTube video to Shorts
The converter reads the video's captions and returns a ranked list of moments, each with a start and end timestamp, a title, a hook line and a preview you can play right on this page. Nothing is downloaded or uploaded: the preview streams the original video from YouTube for just that time range.
It works on source videos up to 3 hours long, up to 12 conversions per hour and 50 per day, and returns up to 8 moments per video. Turning a moment into a finished vertical clip — cut, reframed to 9:16 (face tracking on Pro), animated subtitles and HD export — happens in the Bitcut app. For a longer walkthrough, see how to turn a long video into Shorts on iPhone.