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TURN YOUR SAT EXPLANATIONS INTO WEEKLY TUTORIALS.
You teach the problem. Shorty edits your recording into a tutorial your students can replay. Upload a lesson, describe the edit in plain language, then review and share.
Shorty is an AI video editor for creators, agencies and small businesses: upload raw clips, describe the edit or paste a reference, get a rendered MP4. Plans start at $19 per month, or $13 per month billed annually. See pricing
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How can I make weekly SAT tutorials without learning video editing?
Start with the explanations you already record on a tablet, screen or camera. Tell Shorty which problem the video should cover and how you want it to flow. Review the first cut, ask for changes in chat and download the tutorial for your students.
What to upload
- A clear recording of you explaining a SAT practice problem: a screen recording, tablet walkthrough or camera pointed at your working.
- The original or permitted question and any passage, diagram or labels students need to follow it.
- Your complete spoken explanation, worked answer and final check. A reference video is optional.
Keep your attention on teaching
Start with one explanation from this week's lessons. Tell Shorty what to keep, what to cut and which labels to show in everyday language. Your normal lesson recording is enough to start; supply a clear question and complete answer.
Build a weekly tutorial routine
Choose the problems your students need to revisit. Make one tutorial per problem, review it and download the MP4. Copy the brief for the next recording and change the question, topic and labels. Submit and review each edit separately.
Give students a useful follow-up
Turn a recorded answer to a student question into a tutorial they can replay between lessons. Keep the reasoning and answer check intact. Share the reviewed MP4 through the course, classroom or messaging channel you already use.
Example: one algebra walkthrough
Show the question and identify the unknown. Keep each line of algebra beside the explanation that justifies it. Finish with your substitution check and one reminder about the common sign error.
Check the detail that matters
Keep minus signs, fractions and the final substitution legible. A vertical crop must still show both sides of the equation.
Review and refine your edit
Keep the source lesson alongside the first cut. Ask to hold a step longer, restore a missing explanation or use your exact replacement caption. Review the downloaded MP4 before publishing.
Common questions
Do I need editing experience or a reference video?
Describe the result in plain language and use your lesson recording. A reference is optional. Review the first cut and ask for specific changes in chat, such as holding a step longer or correcting a supplied caption.
Can I use the same approach every week?
Yes. Copy your brief for the next lesson and update the problem, topic and exact text. Make and review each tutorial, then download it and share it with your students through your usual channel.
Are these videos for my students or for promoting my tutoring?
This workflow starts with tutorials for your current students: complete problem explanations and lesson follow-ups. A promotional clip is a separate editing brief with a different purpose.
Does Shorty supply the teaching or mark answers?
You provide the lesson, solutions and feedback. Shorty edits your recordings; the tutor checks subject accuracy, complete reasoning and the final video.
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Your footage. Your reference. Your edit.
Bring separate clips from your shoot and give them one creative direction. Upload a reference for the pace and treatment, or describe the result. Create separate briefs for different versions, then request a focused change after the first cut.
- Show the style. Your own reference can guide the shot structure, pacing, transitions and colour.
- Direct each version. Reuse source material across separate briefs with different hooks, formats or endings.
- Shape the result. Request a revision; supported compositions also let you target an editable element.
Compare the workflows · See six clips, a first cut and one revision
Can AI turn my raw footage into a finished video?
Yes. Shorty assembles your own clips into an edited MP4 from a written brief or optional reference video. Upload clips from your device. Tell Shorty the story, format and captions you want, then review the result and request changes.
For a week of business content, prepare a separate brief and footage selection for each video. Use batch editing within your plan limits, review every output and publish the approved files. Folder import does not automatically monitor new files or publish videos for you.
Turn your exam lessons into tutorial videos
Bring your recorded explanation, choose a prompt and shape the edit. Start with a worked solution, speaking practice or a short revision lesson.
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
Prefer to work from an AI conversation? Connect Shorty MCP to your AI assistant, or follow the video editing tool documentation.
- 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. |
See how Shorty AI video editor works, with a real edit and alternatives
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
- Up to 150 video clips or supported photos per edit, 1 GB per uploaded video and 8 GB in total
- 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.