YouTube Clip Maker: Cut Any Video Into Shorts From a Link

Built around the link

The file never leaves YouTube. Neither do you.

Most clipping workflows begin with a download: pull the MP4 off your own channel with some sketchy site, wait, then push a two-gigabyte file back up to another tool and wait again. Two transfers and a stall before anyone has looked at a single frame.

Here the link is the input. GhostShorts fetches the video itself, transcribes it word by word, and goes straight to reading. By the time you would normally still be uploading, you are looking at a ranked shortlist of moments with the timecodes already attached.

And because the cut points come from the transcript rather than from a fixed interval, the clips start on a sentence and end on one. Nothing opens mid-word.

Watch, Shorts, live replay, and youtu.be links all accepted
Unlisted uploads work the same as public ones
Up to two hours of source per video, up to twenty clips out
Every cut point snapped to a real word boundary from the transcript
The first clip from your own video costs nothing and needs no card

Try It on One of Your Videos

A dark editing suite at night, a long ultrawide monitor glowing with a strip of colour

A long bar of light with many small upright glowing panels rising out of it — One source in. A batch of vertical clips out.

Word-level captions burned inVertical 9:16 framingMoments ranked best-firstDownload one at a time or as a ZIPClips are yours to post and monetize

No download, no re-upload

One paste replaces the export-download-upload loop entirely. Nothing large ever moves across your connection.

Search your own video

After processing, type a topic and pull extra clips about it out of the same transcript. Up to ten searches per video, no extra credits for any of them.

Captions that survive mute

Word-synced captions in seventeen styles, burned in, with the active word highlighted. Fix a mistranscribed name in place and the timing stays put.

Yours to post

Clean 1080x1920 MP4s at 30fps, no watermark, individually or as a ZIP. Post and monetize them anywhere you like.

How It Works

Link In, Clips Out

The URL is the whole input. Everything after that happens on our side.

Copy the URL

Watch links, Shorts links, live replays, youtu.be links. Public or unlisted, up to two hours of source.

The Transcript Does the Finding

Every word gets a timestamp, an AI reads the whole thing, and the passages that stand alone come back ranked against each other.

Adjust and Download

Retrim, recrop, restyle the captions if you want to. Then pull them down one by one or as a ZIP, clean 1080p MP4s with no watermark.

Simple Plans for Serious Growth.

Simple, but exceptionally powerful. Every feature you need now and as you reach millions of views.

✓ 25 GhostCredits monthly
✓ ~25 mins of AI voiceover
✓ ~50 AI-generated images
✓ ~100 mins of video rendering
✓ Access to growth tools
✓ Captions in 102+ languages
✓ Credits reset monthly

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✓ 70 GhostCredits monthly
✓ ~70 mins of AI voiceover
✓ ~140 AI-generated images
✓ ~280 mins of video rendering
✓ Access to growth tools
✓ Captions in 102+ languages
✓ Credits reset monthly

Get Started

✓ 150 GhostCredits monthly
✓ ~150 mins of AI voiceover
✓ ~300 AI-generated images
✓ ~600 mins of video rendering
✓ Access to growth tools
✓ Captions in 102+ languages
✓ Credits reset monthly

Get Started

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What Creators Are Saying

Real results. Real reach. Built with GhostShorts.

Made a Reddit story short in the middle of my chem class. 100K views before I got home.

@etherstories

Honestly thought this was just another overhyped AI tool. But it actually delivers and is super easy to use. I already created 10 shorts in 1 day.

@clip.lott

Tried a couple viral formats on the app. A month later... 10 million views. This app is stupid easy to use.

rakaii.fxx

Making edits CapCut felt homeworkish. GhostShorts is easy af, almost feels likes I am on autopilot.

@sturdylives

All I do is copy a Reddit post, paste it in, export, done. It's stupid easy.

@RedditBook

Used to doom scroll all night. Now I post the same type of videos I used to binge.

@tgpu

I run a few fake text story channels. Jesus I've hit over 5 million likes on just one of my channels alone. It's ridiculous.

@textsfella

GhostShorts saved me countless hours of editing time. Highly recommended!

@2ndchildhoodpodcast

I cut my content creation time by 80% after switching to GhostShorts. It's the only tool that actually keeps up with how fast I work.

@mcfreakery

Frequently Asked Questions

We are here to help you with any questions you may have. If you don't find what you need, please contact us at [email protected]

Copy the URL out of the address bar and paste it in. GhostShorts fetches the video, transcribes it with per-word timing, and an AI reads the transcript to find the moments that work on their own. You never download the file or re-upload it anywhere.

Standard watch links, Shorts links, live replay links, and youtu.be short links. Unlisted videos on your own channel work the same way as public ones. Links from other platforms are not supported yet.

Technically the tool accepts any accessible YouTube link, but what you are allowed to publish is a separate question. Clip your own uploads, or footage you have the rights to use. GhostShorts does not grant you rights to anyone else’s video.

Two hours of source per video. Paste something longer and the first two hours are what gets processed and charged, so split a marathon upload into parts if the back half matters.

Up to twenty, and fewer when the video does not honestly contain twenty good moments. Each clip lands between twenty and ninety seconds, which fits Shorts, TikTok, and Reels without further trimming.

It reads the transcript. The model looks for a passage that opens with something worth stopping for, holds one idea, and lands rather than trailing off, then the timestamps are snapped to real word boundaries so no clip starts mid-word.

A ranking of the clips inside your own batch, zero to a hundred, so the strongest sort first. It is not a view prediction. Open the breakdown and it explains itself across hook, story, value, engagement, and reach using the clip’s own words, and suggests hashtags.

Yes. Each clip opens in an editor with trim, split, delete, reorder, aspect ratio, a manual crop and focal point, seventeen caption styles, per-word caption fixes, and thumbnail export. There is no automatic speaker tracking — the framing is a crop you control, held for the whole clip.

The single strongest moment from the first six minutes of your own video, cut and captioned, playing in your browser. No card, one per video. Processing the rest of the video is the paid step.

A YouTube Clip Maker That Starts With
Just the Link