AI TRAVEL VIDEO EDITOR

Upload the places, people and moments from your trip. Describe the travel video you want, or add a reference. Shorty makes the cut from your footage.

Try a prompt

How do I turn travel footage into a destination Reel?

Upload your travel clips to Shorty and describe a simple route or experience: arrival, a few connected moments and a closing scene. It can assemble and render a first cut from that footage. Review the locations, chronology and framing before publishing the MP4 as a travel Reel or destination recap.

What to upload

  • An arrival or establishing view of the actual destination.
  • A few connected experiences, landscapes or local details.
  • A closing scene that completes the same day, place or journey.

Pick one experience from the trip

A walk through one neighborhood, an afternoon at a landmark or a day outdoors can be clearer than squeezing an entire holiday into one Reel. Choose footage that supports that small story. Tell the brief where the story begins and ends, and which moments need enough time for viewers to understand them.

Use a reference to describe the rhythm

If you have a reference, explain whether you want its relaxed observation, quick montage or transitions between wide views and close-ups. The result uses your source clips. A reference cannot supply a drone view, sunset or hotel room that was not part of your footage, so choose a sequence that the available shots can actually support.

Check places and expectations

Review location names and avoid combining places in a way that implies they are the same attraction. Tourism teams should check that an edit represents the current visitor experience. Watch the vertical crop for hidden landmarks or faces and make sure the ending connects naturally to the story rather than repeating an unrelated shot.

Common questions

Do I need a travel video reference?

No. A written brief describing the route, mood and output format is enough to direct the edit.

Can Shorty generate missing destination shots?

No. Supply the footage you want to include; this workflow does not create new travel scenes.

Can a tourism team use this workflow?

Yes, when the team has suitable source footage. Review location names, factual claims and the current visitor experience before publication.

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, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Questions: support@tools-labs.com.

How Shorty works

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

WorkflowBest starting pointChoose it when
ShortyYour footage plus a reference video or written briefYou want the system to infer the editing grammar and deliver a finished cut.
Timeline editorFootage and a blank sequenceYou want precise, frame-by-frame control over every cut, layer and effect.
Transcript editorA spoken recording and its transcriptThe words drive the edit and you want to cut by editing text.
AI clipping toolOne long recordingYou want several short highlights extracted from a podcast, interview or webinar.
Template editorA predefined layout or trend templateYou 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
Footage upload
Video files; up to 1 GB per file
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

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 by emailing support@tools-labs.com.

Read the full Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.