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.

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The Fern editing style, decomposed

Fern's style turned the internet mystery into prestige documentary: the screen goes dark, a document slides under a spotlight, and the score does the storytelling between narrated reveals. The effect depends on discipline — long holds, tiny movements, type that never decorates. From a reference, that restraint is measured and rebuilt over your own material, so your story inherits the dread instead of a template's noise.

• AtmosphereNear-black frames, spotlit documents and negative space — the darkness is the set.
• MotionSlow deliberate zooms and drifts over maps, files and stills — nothing moves fast.
• TypeMinimal white or mono type on black, labelling places, names and dates.
• SoundAn eerie, score-driven pace where the music carries the tension between reveals.

How to edit like Fern with Shorty

1. Start from the brief above. The composer is already filled in with a Fern-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 Fern 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 Fern. 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.