Turn long videos into short clips for social media automatically

Watches a folder for new videos and turns them into ready-to-post short clips in multiple formats.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per one per highlight moment found.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Social Media ManagementSpreadsheet & Database OpsFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google DriveGoogle SheetsOpenAIRenderIO

The problem it solves

Repurposing a long video into short clips for TikTok, Reels, and other platforms means scrubbing through footage to find the best moments, then cutting and resizing each one by hand. It eats up hours you could spend on new content.

Who it fits

YouTubers and social media managers who want to repurpose long-form video into shorts without manual editing.

How it works

  1. A new video landing in a watched Google Drive folder starts the process.
  2. The video's audio is extracted and transcribed.
  3. AI reads the transcript and picks out the best highlight moments with timestamps.
  4. Each highlight is rendered into three social-ready formats and uploaded back to Google Drive.
  5. Every clip and run is logged in a Google Sheet.
What you get

Clips cut and ready to post

You get short, platform-ready clips pulled from your long videos, organized and logged for your team.

What you get

A set of short, correctly-sized video clips in Google Drive, plus a Google Sheet log of every clip produced.

What you need

A Google Workspace account, an OpenAI API key, and an account with the cloud video rendering service.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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