Video Repurposing Studio: Shorts, chapters, a blog outline and posts
Turn one video's transcript into Shorts clips, chapters, a description, a blog outline, posts and quotes.
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About the Video Repurposing Studio
Paste a transcript with timestamps, or open the video's SubRip (.srt), WebVTT (.vtt) or SubViewer (.sbv) caption file, and add the title, link and your business name. You get up to five suggested Shorts clips with their times, hook line, working title and caption files re-timed to start at zero; chapters and a description draft; a blog post outline with an FAQ from the questions asked in the video; LinkedIn, Instagram, X and WhatsApp Status drafts within each platform's limits; and the five most quotable lines. It uses word counts and templates, not AI, and runs in your browser.
How it works
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Step 1
Paste the transcript with its timestamps or open a caption file, or click "Try an example".
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Step 2
Add the video's title, link and your business name, and the video length if you know it.
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Step 3
Go through each tab, edit the drafts in your own words, then copy them or download the files.
How the clips are chosen
Our measure, not YouTube's: the transcript is split into sentences, and every stretch of 15 to 60 seconds that starts and ends on a sentence is scored for questions, numbers, action words such as "start", "avoid" or "add", and how often it uses the video's main topic words. Clips that open with a question or a number score higher; clips that open mid-thought ("and", "so", "it") or run into the next chapter score lower. The five best that do not overlap are shown, each with the reason. YouTube Shorts can be up to 3 minutes, in a square or vertical shape; 15 to 60 seconds is our suggestion for a clip.
Limits it works within
YouTube titles up to 100 characters and descriptions up to 5,000, and chapters as YouTube needs them: at least three, the first at 00:00, in ascending order, each at least 10 seconds long. LinkedIn posts up to 3,000 characters. Instagram captions up to 2,200 characters, from Meta's developer documentation, and up to 5 hashtags on a post, from Instagram Help. X posts up to 280 characters, with each link counted as 23. WhatsApp does not publish a length for a text status, so that draft only shows its count.
What this tool cannot do
It only reads the words and times in your transcript. It does not watch the video, so it cannot tell whether a clip looks good or will work in a vertical frame. Times in a plain transcript are only as exact as its timestamps, so check every cut in your editor. The drafts come from templates: rewrite them in your own words, and check facts and any health or money advice before you post.
Frequently asked questions
How do I get a transcript of my video?
If your video has captions, you can download them in YouTube Studio: open Subtitles, choose the video, select Edit next to the language, then Options and Download subtitles. Viewers can also open the transcript of a video with captions by selecting Show transcript in its description. Paste the text with its times here, or open the downloaded file.
How long should a Short cut from a long video be?
YouTube allows Shorts of up to 3 minutes in a square or vertical shape. Our suggestion for a clip cut from a longer video is 15 to 60 seconds: long enough to make one point and short enough to stay on it. WhatsApp says a video status can be up to 90 seconds, so these clips fit there too.
What are the clip caption files for?
Each clip comes with a SubRip (.srt) and a WebVTT (.vtt) file holding only that clip's words, re-timed so the first caption starts at 00:00 and split into lines of about 42 characters, which is our checklist. Use them in your editing app, or as the clip's subtitle file. YouTube accepts both formats, and SRT files must be plain UTF-8.
Are the social posts within each platform's limits?
Yes. The LinkedIn draft stays within 3,000 characters, the Instagram caption within 2,200 characters and 5 hashtags, and the X post within 280 characters, counting each link as 23 as X does. When you edit a draft, its count updates as you type. X Premium subscribers can post longer, but the draft keeps to 280 so it works for every account.
Does it use AI to write the drafts?
No. It picks sentences from your transcript by our measure (questions, numbers, action words and topic words) and puts them into fixed templates, so the words are yours. That also means it cannot summarise or rephrase: read each draft and rewrite it for the platform before you post. Nothing you paste leaves your browser.
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