Turn long videos into Shorts that drive views and subs.
Your channel has 50 long videos. Each one contains 5-10 moments that could perform as Shorts and bring you new subscribers. But manually clipping each video takes 3-5 hours. So they never get made.
YouTube Shorts has 70 billion daily views in 2026. It's the largest discovery surface on the internet. But most YouTubers ignore it because creating Shorts means another full production cycle. Clipping existing long videos is the workaround — and it's where AI tools shine.
Paste any YouTube URL — your own or a guest interview — and HaikuClip generates 10-15 Shorts in the right format with AI titles optimized for YouTube search. Each clip comes with a proposed Shorts title in the first 40 characters (the searchable part) plus hashtags.
Each clip gets a title optimized for the Shorts feed AND the YouTube search bar. Keyword-rich, under 100 characters.
No need to download your videos first. Paste the URL, HaikuClip fetches it directly.
Data shows 30-55s outperforms 60s on Shorts. HaikuClip targets that sweet spot, not the 60s max.
Algorithm scores the first 2 seconds of every potential clip separately. Strong hooks score higher.
"Tried OpusClip, Submagic, Vizard. HaikuClip has the best clip detection and half the price."
— Sarah K., YouTuberYes for content with commentary or dialogue. Pure gameplay without voice doesn't work as well — the AI relies heavily on speech detection. Stream highlights with reactions and chat → great. Silent speedruns → less so.
Only if you have permission or the content is licensed for repurposing. Don't use it on copyrighted content you don't have rights to — that's a YouTube strike risk regardless of the tool used.
YouTube's editor is for creating from scratch. HaikuClip is for extracting from existing long videos. You'd use both — HaikuClip to get 10 Shorts from a 60-min video, YouTube's editor for spontaneous Shorts.
HaikuClip doesn't add background music — your original audio is preserved. If your source video has copyrighted music, that risk transfers to your Shorts. Use videos with original or licensed audio.