Shorts & Reels Maker

Pick a shorts folder first — every short is written there as its own sub-folder holding an ordinary Video Editor project, with the exports and cover frames beside them, and the footage stays where it is. Add recordings or a finished export, or open a Video Editor project folder: its recordings come in as trimmed and graded, with its LUT and its music, and the editor's last project is one click away. Add a music track and its beats are read from the samples alone — the tempo, every beat, the downbeats and the drop. In Plan choose the platforms (each chip names its limit: YouTube lists any square or vertical upload up to 3 minutes as a Short; Instagram takes reels up to 20 minutes but says one over 3 minutes reaches fewer new viewers; TikTok's figures are the commonly reported ones), the length, a look (the editor's ten — teaser cuts, cinematic, punch zoom, mono, colour pop, retro film, glitch, spotlight, hyper-lapse, clean — or the footage as graded), the order (the liveliest moment first, as they happened, or building to it), the cut (every beat, every two or four, or a mixed pattern; even scenes without music), a loop-friendly ending, camera sound under the music, the hook line, and how many shorts to make across the drive. Make plans each short from its own stretch of the drive: a few frames are decoded at every candidate moment and the liveliest kept (quick with proxies or 4K footage; 8K without proxies is slow, so the maker offers 360p proxies first or spaces the moments evenly), scenes are lifted around them with lengths that land every cut on a beat, the music starts on a downbeat at the first frame or with the drop as the hook ends, and the hook shows for the first two beats. Cut shows the scenes as a strip: make one a beat shorter or longer, slide it through the recording, change its speed, reorder or remove it, or plan the short again. Frame sets the layout — the window alone, the whole picture over a blurred copy or black, or stacked above or below the window — and places each scene's window: across, up and down, zoom, a pan over the scene, Auto-centre on where the picture moves most, and Apply to all; the preview is a phone with the platforms' own buttons and captions ghosted over it. Text & sound holds the hook and its style (outline, pill or box), captions added at the playhead or from quick lines, a JSON template an LLM can fill in, the music's level, fade and start, camera sound, and Measure loudness with Match to YouTube's −14 LUFS. Export & post runs the pre-flight — the frame, the length against each platform, the frame rate, the size, a missing hook, a late first cut, no sound, plus the editor's own checks — then writes the file (H.264 1080×1920 at 12 Mbps by default, or a vertical 4K master), optionally a second version without music for adding a trending sound in the app, all the shorts in one go, the Video Doctor's quick check on each, a cover frame as a 1080×1920 JPEG, and the title, description and hashtags to copy, with each platform's posting notes. Any short opens in the Video Editor for finer work.