Convert any video into YouTube Shorts with our AI agents
With StoryLab™, video content from any source is instantly repurposed into multiple YouTube Shorts, perfectly clipped and reframed. Let our AI identify your highlights, reframe to portrait, and add animated captions.
Powering YouTube Shorts clipping & conversion
for hundreds of video marketing and editing teams
Go from long-form to shorts in record time
Imaginario is used by everyone from prolific YouTubers to Hollywood studios to clip and convert their long-form content into YouTube Shorts, increasing audience engagement and reducing manual editing work by orders of magnitude.
Warner Bros. Discovery saw a
70%
Time reduction in
multi-platform editing workflows
Import from any source
We fit into your existing workflows. Use our direct integrations with cloud storage, MAM and DAM systems and editing tools, or upload files in up to 4k UHD resolution.
Let StoryLab™ do the rest
Our AI will analyze the objects, actions and topics of your videos to understand them like a human. Then it will recommend highlights to convert into YouTube Shorts, create clips, reframe to the correct size, and add animated captions.
Export, post to YouTube Shorts and watch your engagement skyrocket!
Want a deeper dive? See how StoryLab turns long videos into single clips, ready for YouTube Shorts.
Want fine-grained control over your Shorts? No problem!
Create custom clips by editing frame-by-frame in the timeline, or highlight text in your video transcript to automatically clip that section and reframe for YouTube Shorts.
Discover our multimodal AI models
Developed entirely in-house, our models are built from the ground up to enable video understanding at scale. All training data is responsibly sourced, and the content you upload is never used to train future models.
Beyond tagging: human-level understanding of every shot
Tags tell you a video has a person in it. Imaginario understands who is speaking, what they say, what is on screen, the mood and how the story unfolds. Every video gets this treatment automatically, in more than 100 languages.
For Enterprise customers, we can create custom models based on your footage and map outputs to your own vocabulary or editorial taxonomy.
See what else you can do with Imaginario AI
Frequently asked questions
Should I use the official YouTube Shorts app?
We love the YouTube Shorts app, and it’s perfect for posting quick hits to your YouTube channel and keeping the conversation going with your subscribers. But you should consider using Imaginario AI if:
- You have a large back-catalog of video content or a lot of raw footage which you want to search and repurpose
- You manage other social channels (such as TikTok or Instagram), and want to efficiently create content for each channel
- You speak with an accent, use lots of technical language, or otherwise find YouTube’s captioning isn’t accurate for your content
- You want to save time manually reviewing content and prefer AI-powered highlights as a starting point
What video format do I need for YouTube Shorts?
YouTube is famous for its long-form, landscape (also known as horizontal or 16:9) videos, but Shorts are specifically designed to be mobile-first, snackable videos leaning on the portrait (also known as vertical or 9:16) format pioneered by Snapchat and TikTok. So, if you are creating YouTube content in landscape format it will need to be reframed for use in your Shorts.
Specifically, YouTube accepts square (1:1) and vertical (9:16) videos in MP4 format, with a length of up to 60 seconds.
How many Shorts can I generate per month?
All our paid plans can export unlimited repurposed videos per month in HD (1080p), and a limited number in UHD (4k), in MP4 format.
Full details on our pricing page.
Can I re-edit my Shorts?
Yes! All the clips you create within Imaginario AI are saved within your account, and you can open them to re-edit at any time.
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