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AI YCT VIDEO EDITOR
A vocabulary lesson that connects a spoken word to a familiar object. Upload your lesson recordings, choose a prompt or add a reference, then shape the edit in chat.
Try a prompt
Choose a reference for your edit.
How can I turn my lesson recordings into YCT tutorial videos?
Bring your tutor-led object demonstration, cleared pictures and checked character-and-pinyin labels. Shorty edits the supplied material around your brief. Keep the teaching sequence clear, review the complete explanation and download your MP4 when it is ready.
What to upload
- Your tutor-led object demonstration, cleared pictures and checked character-and-pinyin labels.
- The exact question, labels, glossary or transcript you want on screen.
- A complete explanation and final check from the tutor.
Give the lesson a clear sequence
Introduce one object with the tutor's spoken word. Show the same word in your short recorded example sentence. Return to the object for the supplied practice cue and answer.
Check the detail that matters
Keep characters large and the pace gentle enough to follow. Use tutor demonstrations and clear any child recordings before publication.
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 a reference video?
A reference is optional. You can describe the sequence, pace and caption treatment using one of the prompts above.
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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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, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Questions: support@tools-labs.com.
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 by emailing support@tools-labs.com.
Read the full Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.