Turn a Video Into Shorts

One long video cut into shorts, each with a hook, a caption and a title.

You start withA long video, such as a podcast episode, a webinar or a talk
You end withCaptioned shorts, each with a hook, a caption, a title and a description ready to post
Step 1

Use OpusClip

Finds the strongest moments in a long video and cuts them into captioned vertical clips.

Open OpusClip

Save it as subtitles.srt. On the result page open More, click Download Subtitles (Pro or its free trial) and give the .srt to your agent.

Step 2

Give your agent the Copywriting skill

Has your agent write each clip's hook and caption from what is really said in it.

The skill is in this folder, at skill/copywriting. Copy it into your agent's skills folder, or install it from its maker:

npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill copywriting

Save it as shorts-copy.md. For each clip, paste its part of shorts-copy.md into {{Video summary or script}} and your viewers into {{Audience and search terms}}.

Step 3

Run the YouTube Title and Description prompt

Gives each short title options and a description whose first lines work on their own.

Any capable chat assistant writes good titles from a real summary; YouTube tools such as vidIQ or TubeBuddy add search data on which terms people use.