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MAKE A CINEMATIC PORTRAIT REEL
Make yourself the focus of a short film from your photos and everyday clips. Choose a mood, bring your music and shape the sequence around your real expressions and movement.
Try a prompt
Choose a reference for your edit.
How can I make a short cinematic Reel centered on me?
Choose portraits and clips where you are clearly visible, then describe whether the film should feel confident, reflective or playful. Shorty can assemble those moments into a first cut using your material. An optional reference helps communicate the rhythm. Review the selection, crop and expression before sharing.
What to upload
- Clear portraits and short recordings of the person the film should follow.
- A few related everyday moments with different views, expressions or natural movement.
- An optional music file, editing reference and any exact words you want displayed.
Choose moments that belong to the same portrait
Pick a small set of clips with a recognizable mood or setting. A close view can introduce the person, a wider shot can show what they are doing, and a final expression can give the film a natural ending. Remove repeated poses or unrelated scenes before using extra effects to connect them.
Keep the person central through selection and framing
Tell the brief which person the film follows. Prefer source shots where that person is already easy to identify. When a group fills the frame, choose a different clip or request a crop only when there is enough room. A portrait edit should not depend on inventing a new face or making other people disappear.
Let expression and movement set the pace
Allow a glance, smile or gesture to finish before the next shot. Alternate closer and wider views without cutting away so quickly that the viewer loses the person. For a quieter mood, hold fewer strong moments; for a confident introduction, use concise cuts around deliberate movement.
Bring the sound that makes the memory yours
Upload the music you want used and explain whether the original speech should remain audible. Keep a supplied vocal track in its original language unless you specifically provide a replacement. Check the music entry, ending and balance against any spoken moment. A song title alone does not supply the recording.
Check the portrait before sharing
Watch the face, hands and frame edges in the first cut. Confirm that the sequence still feels like the real person and does not change what a recorded gesture or sentence means. Use revision chat to request a different opening, a longer expression or simpler text when needed.
Review and revise the next version
Use the revision chat to explain what should change and what should stay. Select an editable element when available; objects inside a flattened clip may not be separate layers. Check the next render before delivery.
Common questions
Can I mix portrait photos and video?
Yes. Include clear stills and useful moving moments. Give photos enough screen time to read, and let the video clips carry the action and expression.
Can the edit focus on one person in a group recording?
Identify the person and select shots where they are visible. Review any crop carefully. Supply a solo shot when a crowded frame cannot show that person clearly without losing the action.
Do I need professional camera footage?
You can use your own recordings and describe the mood you want. Source focus, lighting and framing still affect the result; the workflow does not guarantee new detail that was absent from the recording.
Will this make my Reel popular?
The workflow helps shape the supplied footage into a personal film. It does not guarantee views, followers or a particular audience response.
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What Shorty is
Shorty is a browser-based, reference-driven AI video editor for creators, marketers and social teams. It analyses your raw video clips and either a reference video or a written editing brief, creates a shot plan, applies cuts, reframing, captions, transitions and colour treatment, then cloud-renders a downloadable MP4. If a reference contains music, its analysed soundtrack may be carried into the render.
Shorty is built primarily for social and creator video: TikTok, Instagram Reels and Feed, YouTube Shorts, YouTube, LinkedIn and X. It supports 9:16, 4:5, 3:4, 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 and cinematic 21:9 canvases.
The application is named Shorty and is published at shortyedit.com. It is operated by Tools Products FZ-LLC. Questions: Help.
How Shorty works
- Set the direction. Upload a short reference video when you want a specific editing style, pick a reference from Discovery, or describe the desired cuts, pace, captions, mood and destination in words. A reference is optional.
- Add your footage. Upload the video clips Shorty should cut from. Shorty scans them for usable moments, faces, speech, motion and visual relationships to the reference.
- Get the finished video. Shorty builds the edit plan, processes the footage and delivers a downloadable MP4 in the canvas you select, including vertical, portrait, square, landscape and cinematic formats.
Which AI video editing workflow should you use?
Shorty is most useful when you have footage plus a clear visual target. Other editing workflows solve different jobs; the right choice depends on where the creative decisions should happen.
| Workflow | Best starting point | Choose it when |
|---|---|---|
| Shorty | Your footage plus a reference video or written brief | You want the system to infer the editing grammar and deliver a finished cut. |
| Timeline editor | Footage and a blank sequence | You want precise, frame-by-frame control over every cut, layer and effect. |
| Transcript editor | A spoken recording and its transcript | The words drive the edit and you want to cut by editing text. |
| AI clipping tool | One long recording | You want several short highlights extracted from a podcast, interview or webinar. |
| Template editor | A predefined layout or trend template | You want a repeatable design that you can customise manually. |
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Shorty product facts
- Editing modes
- Reference video, built-in reference, or written brief
- Reference upload
- MP4, MOV or WebM; up to 256 MB
- Source media
- Video clips up to 1 GB per uploaded video, or supported photos; selected videos can also come from an accessible shared Google Drive folder
- Revisions
- Follow-up instructions and targeted changes to editable elements in supported compositions
- Output
- Cloud-rendered, downloadable MP4
- Canvas options
- 9:16, 4:5, 3:4, 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 and 21:9
- Account
- Required to upload, save projects and render
Shorty AI video editor — common questions
Can I revise the finished video?
Yes. Request a follow-up revision and, in supported editable compositions, select an editable element for a targeted change. Review the new version before sharing. Objects flattened into source footage are not automatically separate editable layers.
What is Shorty?
Shorty is a browser-based AI video editor for creators, marketers and social teams. It analyses raw footage plus an optional reference video or written brief, builds an edit plan, and cloud-renders a finished MP4.
Do I need a reference video to use Shorty?
No. You can upload a reference video when you want Shorty to match a specific editing style, or describe the cuts, pace, captions, mood and output you want in a written brief.
What does Shorty copy from a reference video?
Shorty analyses visual editing characteristics such as shot structure, pacing, cuts, captions, transitions, colour treatment and aspect ratio. It creates new visuals from your footage rather than reusing the reference's video frames. When the reference contains music, its analysed soundtrack may be used in the rendered output, so you must have permission to use that audio.
Which video aspect ratios can Shorty export?
Shorty supports 9:16, 4:5, 3:4, 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 and 21:9 canvases for destinations including TikTok, Instagram Reels and Feed, YouTube Shorts, YouTube, LinkedIn and X.
How is Shorty different from a traditional timeline editor?
A traditional timeline editor gives you manual, frame-by-frame control. Shorty is reference- and brief-driven: it analyses the inputs, makes editorial decisions, and renders the finished cut. Use a timeline editor when precise manual control is the priority.
Is footage uploaded to Shorty private?
Uploaded media is stored privately to your account. Shorty uses AI service providers, including Google Gemini and Anthropic, to process reference media, footage, derived media samples, analyses and instructions as needed to plan and render the requested edit. Shorty does not use customer content to train general-purpose AI models without notice and any consent required by law. Read the AI and media processing policy.
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 account's private storage and is processed to operate, secure, support and improve the service. Shorty does not use your content to train general-purpose AI models unless it first tells you and obtains any consent required by law. You can remove uploaded assets in Shorty and request account deletion at any time through Help.
Read the full Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.