Paste a link. AI finds the best moments. Edit in a pro timeline editor. Export a polished 9:16 short — captions, color grade, motion — all baked in.
No credit card · Runs locally · Your data stays yours
See it in action
Watch a real editing session — URL input, AI clip selection, timeline editing, export.
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Editor walkthrough · 2 min timelapse
Real results
These shorts were created entirely inside ShortsLab — AI clip selection, captions, color grade, export.
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Features
No Premiere. No CapCut. No subscription. A complete short-form workflow that runs on your machine.
Claude reads the full transcript and audio energy peaks to surface the moments most likely to go viral.
Drag to reframe, scroll to zoom, flip horizontal. Full creative control over every pixel of your short.
Animate pan and zoom across timestamps with 6 easing curves. Ken Burns, dolly-ins, reactive framing.
Whisper timestamps every word. Animated highlights, 13 fonts, 6 presets, pop/fade/slide animations.
Brightness, contrast, saturation, temperature, shadows, highlights, vignette — all in real-time preview.
FFmpeg renders 1080×1920 H.264. Every edit, caption, grade, and motion baked in — ready to upload.
How it works
Any video, any length. ShortsLab downloads, transcribes with Whisper, and maps audio energy peaks.
Claude scores every segment by emotional intensity, pacing, and quote-worthiness. You get ranked clips.
Reframe, caption, color grade, animate. Hit export — your polished 9:16 Short is ready in seconds.
Built on open tech
Paste a YouTube URL, pick your clips, export in seconds.
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