Podcast clips editing style
Edit like Steven Bartlett.
Skip the timeline.
Diary-of-a-CEO-style podcast clips: dark studio frames, speaker-locked cuts, clean bold captions and a hook pulled forward — the format that fills every feed. Shorty rebuilds it from your recordings.
Built for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.
FINDS YOU.
01 / THE STYLE
The Steven Bartlett editing style, decomposed
The Diary of a CEO clip format is the template of modern podcast marketing: a hook-first structure, cinematic studio darkness and captions that let the clip work on mute. Clipping a two-hour conversation into ten of these by hand is a full-time job — finding the quotes is half the work, formatting them is the other half. A reference-driven edit does both against your own recordings.
- HookThe most arresting sentence opens the clip; context comes after.
- CutsCamera changes track the speaker and reaction, never lingering.
- LookDark, premium studio grade with soft key light on faces.
- CaptionsClean bold sans captions, precisely timed, highlighting key words.
02 / HOW TO EDIT LIKE STEVEN BARTLETT
From your camera roll to a Steven Bartlett-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 Steven Bartlett 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 Steven Bartlett with AI — common questions
What do I upload from my podcast?
The full recording or rough segments — usable speech and moments are detected and the strongest quote becomes the clip.
One camera or two?
Both work; with multiple angles the edit cuts between them the way the reference does.
How many clips per episode?
Run several edits against the same footage to pull different quotes and angles.
SHORTY / READY WHEN YOU ARE
Your footage. The Steven Bartlett cut.
No timeline required.
Open Shorty
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 Steven Bartlett. 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.