PandaStudio

Long video to Shorts

An AI clip maker that edits the clips too

PandaStudio finds the moments worth clipping in your podcast, lesson or YouTube video, turns each one into a vertical Short with your face in frame, and edits it in a style that holds attention. It all runs on your computer, so there are no upload waits and no per-minute credits.

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Raw clip in, finished Short out

The same moment before and after PandaStudio. Left is the raw vertical clip; right is the edited Short.

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Edited

Watch it clip a three-person conversation

A real run: the agent transcribes the video, surfaces four clip-worthy moments, then cuts the best one into a 9:16 Short that follows whoever is speaking, shot by shot.

How it works

  1. 1

    Edit and export the long video

    Record or import it, cut by transcript, remove fillers and silences. The Shorts inherit those cuts, so the clean-up only happens once.

  2. 2

    Generate Shorts

    In the Exports library, click Generate Shorts. The on-device model suggests 3 to 5 self-contained moments with a title and a score.

  3. 3

    Open each moment as a vertical project

    Each pick becomes its own 9:16 project with the face kept in frame. The 16:9 graphics are dropped so nothing lands in the wrong place.

  4. 4

    Apply a Shorts style and export

    Pick a recipe (captions, zooms, hook, cutaways) or ask the agent to edit it. Export at 1080x1920 and publish to YouTube or Instagram.

Shorts styles you can apply in one step

Auto-generated clips usually look auto-generated. These are edit recipes built from how top Shorts creators actually cut, applied to your clip.

Storytime with a turnHook pinned at the top, jump cuts, and a push-in on the turn.
Hard-truth one-linerHuge two-word captions and a punch-in every other sentence.
Split-screen with B-rollYou on the bottom half, B-roll that follows what you say on top.
Warm educatorSerif hook, pill captions and quick cutaways while you stay centered.

Or let your AI agent do the clipping

Type one line to the built-in agent, or to Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Codex connected through PandaStudio's MCP server:

"Make three Shorts from my latest podcast episode in the storytime style, with captions, and publish the best one to YouTube."

The agent reads the transcript, picks the moments, makes a vertical project for each, applies the style, checks the frames and exports. Setup guides: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex.

Who it's for

  • Podcasters. Clip every episode without uploading hours of audio and video to a cloud service. See how The Diary of a CEO edits its clips.
  • YouTubers. Turn each long video into a week of Shorts that point back to it.
  • Course creators and coaches. Cut your lessons into teaser clips for Reels and Shorts that bring students in.

Questions

How does PandaStudio pick the clips?

After you export a long video, open it in the Exports library and click Generate Shorts. A language model that runs on your computer reads the transcript and suggests 3 to 5 self-contained moments, each with a title, a short description and a score from 1 to 10. You choose which ones to turn into Shorts.

Does my video get uploaded to find the clips?

No. Transcription and clip finding both run on your machine, so a long podcast or a client recording never leaves it. Nothing is uploaded unless you publish to YouTube or Instagram yourself.

Is there a limit on video length or minutes per month?

There are no processing minutes or credits. Because the work happens on your own computer, a two-hour podcast costs the same as a five-minute video. Long files just take longer on slower machines.

What happens to my 16:9 video when it becomes a Short?

Each clip becomes its own 9:16 project. PandaStudio keeps the cuts you already made (removed fillers, trimmed silences), crops to vertical and centers the speaker's face so it doesn't slice through the middle of the frame. For interviews and talk shows, active-speaker reframe follows whoever is on camera shot by shot.

Can Claude or Codex make the Shorts for me?

Yes. Tell the built-in agent 'make three Shorts from this video in the storytime style', or connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Codex through the PandaStudio MCP server or CLI. The agent reads the transcript, picks the moments, makes a vertical project for each, applies a Shorts recipe and exports.

Can I post to Instagram Reels and TikTok too?

The exported MP4 is a standard 1080x1920 vertical video, so it works on Shorts, Reels and TikTok. PandaStudio can publish directly to YouTube and Instagram (see the Instagram Reels editor page); for TikTok you upload the file yourself.

Compare before you choose

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