Clip planning that starts with the hook
Turn long-form videos into a shortlist of viable shorts with structured prompts, clip grouping, and reusable edit ideas that stay close to the original footage.
Product
A creator OS for turning footage into finished shorts.
Shortsmith keeps planning, editing, metadata, and publishing in one production flow, without pretending the browser should be your render farm.
Shortsmith production stack
Web planning paired with local render and cloud publishing.
Planner
Hook ideas01
Clip windows02
Title rewrite03
Caption pass04
Render
Desktop export keeps subtitle placement, audio cleanup, and final encode close to the media.
Publish
Banked metadata, publish jobs, and per-platform status keep every short trackable after export.
Local rendering where the big files belong
The desktop companion handles FFmpeg, yt-dlp, and final 9:16 rendering locally so cloud costs stay controlled and creators keep full-speed access to their media.
One bank for metadata and publishing
Every finished short lands in a cloud bank with editable title, description, Instagram caption, hashtags, retention policy, and per-platform publish status.
Per-user publishing connections, not shared secrets
YouTube and Instagram connections are handled per creator account, with encrypted server-side token storage and publish jobs that track partial success instead of hiding it.