Tech reviews editing style
Edit like MKBHD.
Skip the timeline.
Matte black frames, red accents, impossibly crisp b-roll and calm authoritative pacing — tech review editing at its cleanest. Shorty rebuilds this precision from your footage.
Built for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.
MATTE. PRECISE.
01 / THE STYLE
The MKBHD editing style, decomposed
MKBHD's style is the gold standard of tech content: restraint, precision and a frame so clean it feels engineered. The look depends on disciplined colour and lighting more than tricks — which makes the grade and shot selection the hard part. In a reference-driven edit, your product footage inherits that discipline: the palette, the b-roll rhythm, the calm cut.
- B-rollSlow, perfectly lit product moves — every shot could be a wallpaper.
- PaletteMatte blacks with a single accent colour, applied with total discipline.
- PacingUnhurried, confident cuts — clarity over hype.
- GraphicsMinimal, precise overlays for specs and comparisons.
02 / HOW TO EDIT LIKE MKBHD
From your camera roll to a MKBHD-style cut.
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Pick a reference in this style
Upload a short video whose pacing, captions and look you want to match — any edit in the MKBHD style you admire. Shorty analyses how it is cut, captioned, graded and scored.
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Add your footage
Drop in 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.
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Get the finished video
Shorty plans, edits and renders the video in the reference's own format — vertical 9:16, 4:5, square, 16:9 or cinematic 21:9 — ready to download and post.
03 / QUESTIONS
Editing like MKBHD with AI — common questions
Can phone footage look this clean?
With decent light, yes — the grade and pacing carry most of the signature.
Is this style good for review shorts?
Excellent — a calm, crisp vertical review cuts through feeds full of shouting.
Will it add spec overlays?
Overlay behaviour follows your reference; clean minimal text is part of the look.
SHORTY / READY WHEN YOU ARE
Your footage. The MKBHD cut.
No timeline required.
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04 / MORE STYLES
Other editing styles to try
Shorty is an independent AI video editing tool. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by MKBHD. 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.