Paste one long video — we transcribe it, score every moment, and hand back ready-to-post Shorts with burned-in captions. Free samples arrive by email; members track every cut in My clips.
No account and no payment needed. Your sample is cut by the same automated pipeline members use and emailed to you — most samples arrive within about 15 minutes.
One real job, unedited — the three clips SweetCutter cut from a single 10-minute dance-workout video, with the exact scores and titles the pipeline gave them, lowest one included.
More real samples ↓Produced end-to-end by SweetCutter from one real long video — “Dance Your Weight Away: 10-Minute Afro Dance Workout!” by Lady Emma on YouTube (13:22), shared under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Nothing was hand-picked or re-edited afterwards. Every score shows its breakdown — no black box.
Scored on hooks, emotion, pacing, complete sentences and transcript confidence — the same five signals behind every clip's score.
Honest note: YouTube served the demo source at 360p, so these clips look softer than output from your own full-quality uploads. SweetCutter picks moments by transcribing speech, so on a music-driven workout like this one the picks anchor on the coached, spoken stretches — timings and picks are exactly what the tool produced. Low scores stay visible, with their reasons.
The cutting pipeline — transcription, moment scoring with full breakdowns, burned-in captions in every export size — is live today, and so are the Studio editor, silence & filler removal, B-roll, brand templates and the API below. The few features still badged Coming soon are in active development for the beta: join at the locked founding price and they land in your workspace as they ship.
Wide footage is reframed to 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9 with the active speaker tracked and kept in frame — no manual cropping, no lost faces.
Animated captions highlight each word as it is spoken, in your video's own language, with styles you can restyle per clip or save as a brand template.
Translate captions into other languages, or dub the clip's speech with AI voice — one source video becomes a version per market.
Dead air, long pauses and filler words are cut from the transcript in one click, tightening pacing before you ever open the timeline.
Cutaway visuals are matched to what is being said and laid over the clip at the right moments, so talking-head footage never looks static.
Studio edits by text — delete a sentence and the cut follows — with a full timeline for trims, caption styling, watermarks and outros when you need frame-level control.
Hand any clip to Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve as an XML project — cuts, captions and timing intact — and finish it in your own editor.
A REST API with self-serve keys lets you cut clips from a spreadsheet, a form, or any pipeline you already run — submit and track jobs from your own tools.
Save caption styles, your logo, a watermark and an end card once; every clip from every video comes out on-brand automatically.
A talk, podcast episode, stream or tutorial — a YouTube link, in the box at the top of this page. Or upload your own file as a member.
Your video is transcribed and every candidate moment is scored on hooks, emotion and pacing. No black box: each clip comes with the reasons it was picked.
Vertical clips with big burned-in captions land in My clips and in your email — ready to download or upload to Shorts, TikTok or Reels.
Founding price — locked for beta members.
Subscribe monthly via Gumroad. Founding members keep the $19 price for as long as they stay subscribed.
| Export sizes | 9:16 at 1080×1920 · 1:1 at 1080×1080 · 4:5 at 1080×1350 · 16:9 at 1920×1080 · or a custom size (up to 4000 px) |
| Clip length | Every clip runs 30–60 seconds, with burned-in captions and no watermark |
| Source videos | Up to 2 hours long. YouTube videos are fetched at the highest quality available up to 720p; files you upload yourself are processed at their original quality — the export size is the canvas, not the source resolution |
| Monthly quota | 30 long videos per month, up to 3 Shorts from each. Unused video slots roll over for 1 month: your balance can build up to 60 (30 monthly + up to 30 rolled over). Rolled-over slots are used first and expire at the end of the month they land in; only unused base slots roll on — credit never compounds. |
| Captions | Burned-in captions in your video's own language — speech is auto-detected and transcribed (the transcription model supports 100 language codes; English is tested end-to-end, other languages depend on the source audio quality). Captions are not translated. Word-by-word animated caption styles are coming soon. |
| Translation & dubbing | Coming soon — caption translation into other languages and AI-voice dubbing are in development |
| Reframing | Every export size is available when you submit. Coming soon: speaker-tracked automatic reframing that keeps the active speaker centered |
| Editing | Studio text + timeline editor is live: delete a sentence from the transcript and the cut follows. One-click silence and filler cuts, B-roll and brand templates are included |
| Pro export | MP4 in every export size. Coming soon: XML project export for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve |
| Automations | A REST API is included with every subscription — create an API key in My clips, then submit jobs, poll their status and check usage programmatically (API docs). Zapier, Make and n8n integrations are in development |
| Delivery | Finished clips land in My clips and are also emailed; most samples arrive within about 15 minutes |
SweetCutter turns one long video into ready-to-post Shorts. It transcribes the video, then scores every candidate moment with explainable heuristics — opening hooks, emotion, pacing, whether the moment starts and ends on complete sentences, and transcript confidence. Every clip comes with its full score breakdown, so you can see why it was picked.
The founding beta is $19/month, subscribed via Gumroad, and the founding price is locked for beta members.
Yes. Use the free sample cut form at the top of this page: give your email and a link to one of your long YouTube videos, and one Short is cut from it with the same pipeline and delivered to your email. No account and no payment are needed.
Your clips are delivered to My clips and by email. The pipeline is automated and samples are picked up first — most arrive within about 15 minutes. Founding beta members get priority processing.
Yes. Every clip opens in Studio — a text + timeline editor where deleting a sentence from the transcript moves the cut — with one-click silence and filler cuts, B-roll and brand templates built in. If you don't touch it, every clip is still delivered finished and ready to post; XML project export for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve is the one editing feature still in development.
Not yet — caption translation and AI-voice dubbing are in development and will join the beta as they ship. Today captions stay in your video's own language; transcription itself supports 100 language codes, and quality depends on the source audio.
Subscriptions run through Gumroad, and you can cancel there at any time. After cancelling, your access continues until the end of the current paid period — Settings shows your exact status and end date.