# Shorts from long videos

> Taalcut turns one long video into a portrait short with captions and your branding, cut on whole sentences and scenes.

Page: https://taalcut.app/features/shorts/

Taalcut turns one long video into a portrait short with captions and your branding: it picks whole sentences and scenes for a hook, the context and the payoff, and checks the cut against the original before you see it.

- **From:** A video in your library, a file, or a YouTube link
- **Length:** 30, 60 or 90 seconds, or any length from 15 to 179. The cut may run shorter to keep the story whole
- **It picks:** Whole sentences and scenes: a hook, the context and the payoff
- **Before you see it:** A second check compares the cut with the original frames and fixes it, up to twice. If it still isn’t right, the short waits for your review

Choose a long video and a length. You get a short that starts strong and ends where the story does, with captions on.

## How it works

### Choose a long video

On a clip’s page, on a video in your library, or in a new chat, choose Make a short. A YouTube link works too, unless Local only is on.

### Choose the length

30, 60 or 90 seconds, or your own from 15 to 179. The AI reads what is said and shown, and picks whole sentences and scenes that tell the story.

### Finish it in the editor

The short opens on the timeline with captions, your branding and words for the post. Export with Smart reframe and the frame follows the person in each shot.

Taalcut is in a private build. [Join the waitlist](https://taalcut.app/waitlist/) for one email when the beta opens.