PricingMusic is one of the things you’ve asked for most, and today Shorty can add it. Ask for a soundtrack in your brief or in a revision and Shorty finds or creates one. You can also bring your own track, and every finished cut with music now shows what’s playing.
Ask for Music
Write “add upbeat music” or “a calm, cinematic soundtrack” in your brief, or ask for music in a revision. Shorty looks for a matching track in its music library and, if none fits, creates an original instrumental for your edit.
On a new edit, the track is ready before the director starts, so the cut is built around it. Shorty only finds or creates music when you ask for it.
Bring Your Own Track
Add an MP3, WAV or M4A file with your clips in the composer, or attach one with the paperclip in a revision, and it becomes your edit’s soundtrack. Before it uploads, Shorty asks you to confirm you have the rights to use it in this video and wherever you’ll post it.
When You Name a Song
Shorty can’t fetch a song by its name. If your brief names one and also describes the feel, Shorty creates an original track in that mood, and the cut says so, along with how to use the real song: attach its audio file with a change.
Name a song in a revision and Shorty asks for its audio file, offering an original track in a similar mood instead.
See What’s Playing
A finished cut with music now shows its track: the name, the length and where it came from, marked Your track or AI-generated in Shorty. Press play to listen.
More in This Update
Clip names are understood
Named your files “Big_Tackle” or “Final_Try”? The director now reads the names you gave your clips as hints about what they show, and a revision like “you missed the try” brings the right clip back.
Your words set the format
Write “landscape,” “widescreen,” “16:9,” “vertical” or “9:16” in your brief and the format follows, unless you or your reference already set one.
Good to know
Does music cost extra?
A newly created track uses credits based on its length. Reusing a track that’s already in Shorty’s music library costs nothing extra.
Can I use a popular song?
Only if you have the rights to it. Attach the song’s audio file and confirm you can use it. Platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram may mute, claim or remove videos with music you don’t have the rights to.
Ask for the sound of your video, and hear it in the cut.
The Shorty Team
Give your edit a soundtrack.
Ask for music in your brief, or attach your own track.
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