Pick a video. Get story clips of the best bits. That's it.
Clips keep the shape of your video. Pick a 9:16 option to make them fill a phone screen.
The whole picture, upright, with black bars above and below — what YouTube Shorts wants. Put a caption at the top and it sits in the bar.
The preview shows how a clip will look. “+ Clip from here” makes one extra clip starting wherever the player is.
Want more control? Open Options to change the clip length and how many, make them 9:16 to fill a phone screen, add a caption, or pick your own moments.
No. Everything happens in your browser. The video never leaves your phone or computer.
Each clip is recorded as it plays, so five 15 second clips take a little over a minute. Keep this tab open while it works.
A standard MP4 — H.264 video and AAC sound, the same kind of file a phone camera makes — in the same shape as your video (up to 1920 pixels on the long side), or 1080×1920 if you pick a 9:16 option. YouTube, Instagram and TikTok all take it. A few desktop browsers can only save WebM; if yours does, open the page on your phone instead.
Yes — before you choose your video, tap “YouTube Shorts — portrait with bars”. The clips come out upright at 1080×1920 with the whole picture in the middle and black bars above and below, which is what Shorts expects. Already made your clips? Tap it anyway and they are made again in the Shorts shape.
Yes — “Download all” saves every clip in one ZIP file. Open it and the clips are inside, ready to upload.
On a phone, tap “Save” and pick “Save Video” to put the clip in your Photos, or pick Instagram to post it straight away. “Download the file” under each clip saves it to your Files or Downloads instead. On a computer, “Save” downloads it.
Instagram, TikTok and Facebook open links in their own built-in browser, which can’t save files. Tap the ⋯ menu, open the page in Safari or Chrome, and it works.