Shorts builder

Turn a long video into a vertical short

The hard part of a short is not the crop. It is deciding which forty seconds of a forty-minute video can stand alone with no setup.

Part of Um Out Plus. Included in the 7-day trial.

It picks the moment first

Um Out ranks candidate moments on whether they make sense cold: a complete thought, a reaction with a cause in shot, a claim that does not need the ten minutes before it.

You see the ranking and the reasoning, and you choose. A short built from the wrong forty seconds is a wasted upload however well it is framed.

Then it builds the sequence

The chosen moment becomes its own 9:16 sequence in your project, ready to review and adjust rather than a finished file you have to accept.

Everything in it is ordinary Premiere media on an ordinary timeline, so retiming, recropping, and adding captions all work the way they normally do.

Questions people ask

Does it reframe automatically to follow a speaker?

Not yet. It builds the vertical sequence and you frame it. Automatic reframing needs to understand the picture, not the transcript, and that is a different kind of feature.

Can I get more than one short from a video?

Yes. The ranking gives you several candidates and you can build each one.

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