YouTube to Shorts Converter
Paste a YouTube link. EzClip's AI finds the moments worth posting, reframes them to vertical 9:16, and hands back Shorts with titles and hashtags written for you.
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A YouTube to Shorts converter takes an existing long-form video — a podcast episode, a stream VOD, an interview — and turns it into vertical short-form clips ready for the Shorts feed. The hard part was never the cutting; it's knowing which 30 seconds out of an hour deserve to be a Short, and reframing widescreen footage so the subject actually stays in frame.
EzClip does the whole chain from a single link: the AI scores every moment of the video by engagement potential, picks the strongest ones, crops each to 9:16 with the subject tracked, and writes a ready-to-post title and hashtags. No downloading the source file, no timeline editing, no manual keyframing.
It's also the easiest way to test an AI clipper at all: new users get one free trial clip from any YouTube link under 2 hours — no credit card, no editing skills required.
HOW THE YOUTUBE TO SHORTS CONVERTER WORKS
Drop in the URL of any video you have the rights to clip — your own uploads, your podcast, your streams. EzClip fetches it directly; nothing to download.
Every moment gets scored by engagement potential, and the top scorers become clips — each with a virality score and the reason it was chosen.
Each clip comes back vertical 9:16 with the subject centered, plus an AI-written title and hashtags. Download individually or as a ZIP.
WHAT EVERY CONVERSION INCLUDES
No screen recording, no downloading source files. Paste the URL and the converter handles fetching, clipping, and reframing in one pass.
Widescreen YouTube footage gets cropped to vertical with the subject tracked and centered — no beheaded speakers, no manual keyframes.
Clips are ranked by predicted engagement, and each shows why it was picked — so you post the strongest moments first instead of guessing.
Every Short ships with a ready-to-post title and hashtags matched to the language of the source video. Copy, paste, post.
Want something specific? Tell the AI what to pull — “find every moment about pricing”, “show me the funniest exchanges” — and it clips to your brief.
The same converter takes direct uploads too: MP4, MOV, AVI, or MKV up to 2 GB and 3 hours.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED.
How do I convert a YouTube video to Shorts?
Paste the video's URL into EzClip's AI Clipper, let the AI score and select the best moments, and download the resulting 9:16 clips. Each comes with a title and hashtags, so the only remaining step is uploading to YouTube as a Short.
Is there a free YouTube to Shorts converter?
EzClip gives every new user one free trial clip from any YouTube link under 2 hours — no credit card. There's also a free reframe tool that converts existing clips up to 2 minutes to 9:16 — one short a day on a free account, no card.
Can I make Shorts from other people's YouTube videos?
Only if you have the rights: your own uploads, content you've licensed, or material whose owner gave you permission (many podcasts run official clipping programs). Re-uploading other people's content without permission risks copyright strikes and demonetization — and Shorts over 1 minute with an active Content ID claim get blocked entirely.
What size do the Shorts come out as?
Vertical 9:16 at platform-optimized resolution, with the subject tracked and centered — the 1080×1920 format the Shorts feed expects, where anything square-or-taller up to 3 minutes qualifies as a Short.
How long can the source video be?
YouTube links and uploads up to 3 hours (2 GB for files). The free trial clip works with links under 2 hours. A 60-minute video typically processes in about 3 minutes.
Do I have to edit anything myself?
No — the clips arrive cut, cropped, and titled. If a moment deserves different framing, the free reframe tool gives you a second pass with subject tracking.
STOP EDITING. START POSTING.
Upload a video, get ready-to-post clips back in minutes.
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Last updated 2026-07-20.