# Short clips from long videos (/shorts)

/shorts is a Claude Code skill in the Video & Motion section. It is maintained by AgriciDaniel and published under the MIT license. Pulls the best vertical clips out of a long video: transcribes, proposes segments, adds animated captions and exports for Shorts, TikTok and Reels.

- Web version: https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/s/shorts
- Section: [Video & Motion](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/video.md)
- Author: AgriciDaniel
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-shorts/tree/a369fad9d84287edbb8fa3ab515f268e770f683b
- Updated 10 Apr 2026

## Use it when

- You have a long video or podcast and want short clips from it
- You want to pick segments yourself from scored candidates
- You need vertical exports for YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels

## Not for

- Editing the long video itself
- Running unattended: the process is interactive and asks for your approval

## What you get

Vertical 1080x1920 MP4 files with animated captions, exported in variants for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram Reels.

## How to ask for it

- `Pull viral short clips from this long video for TikTok`
- `Turn this interview into several Reels with animated captions`
- `I need vertical clips from this video for YouTube Shorts`

## Install

macOS · Linux:

```
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.sh | bash
```

Windows:

```
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.ps1 | iex
```


## Author's description

Interactive longform-to-shortform video creator. Extracts viral-ready short clips from long videos using Claude as the orchestrator. Transcribes with faster-whisper (GPU), Claude scores and presents candidate segments interactively, user picks and adjusts, Remotion renders premium animated captions (Bold/Bounce/Clean styles), FFmpeg exports platform-optimized files (YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels). Use when user says "shorts", "short clips", "shortform", "extract clips", "tiktok from video", "reels from video", "vertical clips", or "create shorts".

## Questions about this skill

### Do I choose the clips?

Yes. Claude scores and presents candidate segments, and you pick and adjust which ones get rendered.

### Which platforms does it cover?

YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels, exported for a single platform or all three.

### Does it need a GPU?

It transcribes with GPU-accelerated faster-whisper and detects your GPU up front; if GPU encoding fails, the skill suggests falling back to CPU.


- [How we review this](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/methodology.md)