AI footage selection and story sequencing

Shorty analyses uploaded video clips and photos, selects source moments and builds an edit plan from your brief. It renders the chosen sequence into an MP4 you can review and revise.

When to use it

For travel and lifestyle creators turning a shoot into a story, brands cutting a product demonstration, and agencies preparing a first cut from client footage.

Inputs, decisions and output

AI footage selection and story sequencing — what happens
PartDetails
You provideYour source clips or supported photos, a story or message, and any moments that must appear. A reference is optional.
Shorty handlesFootage analysis, selection of usable source intervals, shot order, cuts, pacing and rendering. The available material determines which story beats the edit can show.
You controlThe audience, opening idea, must-keep moments, intended ending, duration, aspect ratio and requests such as hard cuts only or no captions.
You receiveAn edited MP4 assembled from the supplied material, with follow-up revisions available in the existing edit.

How to use it

  1. Add the footage for one story or campaign to the editor.
  2. Describe what the viewer should understand or feel, plus any required opening or ending.
  3. Choose a format and duration, then submit the edit.
  4. Watch the selections and sequence; request a specific change in the revision chat.

Example instruction

Adapt this instruction to your footage and review the result.

Make a 30-second travel story from these clips. Build anticipation during the journey and save the destination reveal for the end. Choose the strongest source moments and keep the candid reactions with my friend. Use clean cuts and no captions.

What to check

Review chronology, complete actions and the meaning of spoken passages. Footage analysis uses sampled evidence; do not assume every frame receives exhaustive review.

If a shot or action must appear, identify it in the brief. Add missing source material when the story needs a moment you did not supply.

Questions, answered.

Do I have to choose every shot?

No. Shorty can select moments and plan the sequence from your footage and direction. You can still specify required shots, their order or a moment to preserve.

Can it select B-roll for a talking-head video?

Supply the spoken recording and supporting footage, and explain which demonstrations or details should illustrate the speaker. Review the relevance of the chosen shots and continuity of the dialogue.

Take this page into your chat.

Open it in ChatGPT or Claude with the page already loaded, or read the plain-Markdown version.

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Bring the footage. Tell us the idea. Shape the edit.

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