What Shorty is

Shorty is an AI-powered video editing application for creators, marketers and social teams who publish short-form video. You bring the raw footage; Shorty does the editing work that normally takes hours in a timeline editor — choosing the strongest moments, cutting them to the beat, writing and styling captions, matching a colour grade, and exporting the finished video in the shape your reference is actually cut in — vertical 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, or 4:5, 1:1, 3:4, 4:3, 16:9 and cinematic 21:9 when the edit calls for them.

The application is named Shorty and is published at shortyedit.com. It is operated by The Interactive Company of Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Questions: marketing@shorty.ai.

How Shorty works

1. Choose a reference. Pick one of the example edits above, or upload a short clip whose style you want to copy. Shorty analyses its pacing, captions, transitions and colour grade and turns them into an editing spec.
2. Add your footage. Upload your own videos. Shorty scans them for usable moments, faces, speech and motion; the soundtrack comes from the reference.
3. Get the cut. Shorty builds the edit plan, renders it, and gives you a finished vertical video to download and post.

Accounts and sign-in

You need a Shorty account to save projects and render videos. You can create one with an email magic link, or by choosing Continue with Google. The Google consent screen shown during sign-in identifies the same application, Shorty, at this domain. When you sign in with Google, Shorty receives only your basic Google profile information — your name, email address, profile picture and Google account ID — and uses it solely to create and authenticate your Shorty account. Shorty does not request access to Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, Contacts or any other Google service data, and never sells or shares your Google account data with third parties for advertising.

Your uploaded footage stays in your own account's private storage and is used only to produce the edits you ask for. You can delete your projects and request account deletion at any time by emailing marketing@shorty.ai.

Read the full Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

The Dan Mace editing style, decomposed

The Dan Mace style treats the edit as a voice of its own: the soundtrack sets the pulse, images rhyme through match cuts, and rough handheld texture is a feature, not a flaw. It is the style behind some of YouTube's most emotional storytelling, and it is hard to fake because it is built in the sound first — the picture is cut to serve a rhythm that already exists. A reference edit inherits that rhythm and maps your own footage onto it.

• RhythmThe music leads and the picture follows — cuts, whips and reveals land on the beat, not near it.
• CutsJump cuts and match cuts used expressively, compressing time and rhyming images across scenes.
• TextureHandheld movement, real locations and imperfect frames kept for their energy.
• TitlesBold, confident title cards that chapter the story like scenes in a film.

How to edit like Dan Mace with Shorty

1. Start from the brief above. The composer is already filled in with a Dan Mace-style editing brief — tweak it, or upload a short reference video in the style you admire and Shorty analyses its pacing, captions, transitions and colour grade.
2. Add your footage. Upload your own videos and images, plus an optional music track. Shorty scans them for usable moments, faces and speech; your files stay private to your account.
3. Get the finished video. Shorty plans, edits and renders the cut in the reference's own format — vertical 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts through cinematic 21:9 — ready to download and post.

Editing like Dan Mace with AI — common questions

More editing styles

Shorty is an independent AI video editing tool. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Dan Mace. The name is used only to describe an editing style the way editors and tutorials commonly refer to it. Videos are always built from footage you own.