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Best AI tools to turn videos into shorts

Turn long videos or gameplay into captioned vertical clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Ranked by real usefulness, updated Nov 15, 2026.

The ranking

  1. #1
    OpusClip ↗

    Best for: Automatically finding the best moments in a long video and cutting them into captioned shorts.

  2. #2
    CapCut ↗ Free plan + paid

    Best for: Hands-on editing with auto captions, templates and effects for short-form video.

  3. #3
    Descript ↗ Free plan + paid

    Best for: Editing video by editing the transcript, with an AI co-editor.

  4. #4
    Submagic ↗

    Best for: Eye-catching animated captions and quick edits for shorts.

How we rank (ranking v1, updated Nov 15, 2026)

Ranks are Milo's editorial judgment (v1, Nov 15, 2026), based on each tool's official documentation, product pages and public pricing pages, all checked on that date. Each tool is scored on four questions: (1) Does it finish the job end to end for a non-expert? (2) How good and reliable is the result? (3) How cheap is it to get started? (4) How mature and widely used is it? Hands-on tests and reader reports will be added weekly, and ranks will move when they show something new. Sponsors cannot buy or change a rank. Pricing tier is shown only when we confirmed it on the tool's official pricing page; 'freemium' means a free plan plus paid plans, 'paid' means no free plan (a trial or starter credits may exist).

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Turn podcast archives into social clips automatically

The host of a tech show built three OpenClaw skills that find trending moments on X, scan long YouTube videos, and dig up 'on this day' moments from 15 years of episodes to make social clips.

Source: This Week in AI ·

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Watch this long video: [URL]. Find the 3 moments most likely to work as standalone 30-60 second clips (strong opinion, surprise, or a clear takeaway). For each, give start/end timestamps, a hook headline, and caption text. Explain briefly why each one should work.
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