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YouTube clip maker

Give BeamTake a long YouTube video and get vertical clips ready for YouTube Shorts and your channel. Clips from a long video work both in the Shorts feed and as trailers for the full video.

No card needed30 free min/monthSource files deleted after 30 days
16:9YouTube
source · 16:9
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9aspect ratios
9caption styles
3platforms
4Kmax output
With this tool

What you get

How it works

YouTube clip maker: step by step

Try it free
01

Add your recording

Paste a link or upload a file.

02

Pick the moments

Tick the ones you want from the scored list.

03

Framing and captions

16:9 (long-form) · 9:16 (Shorts) face-tracking framing and one of nine caption styles.

04

Post or download

Connect your account to schedule from the calendar, or download as MP4.

How clip boundaries are chosen

Speech is transcribed with word-level timing, then BeamTake looks for parts that stand on their own: segments that start somewhere and end somewhere, with no outside context needed. So a clip never starts mid-sentence or leaves a thought unfinished.

Each candidate is scored by how likely it is to be watched. The ranking is a suggestion; pick what you want from the list, or type your own time range.

Settings for YouTube

Ratio16:9 (long-form) · 9:16 (Shorts)
Resolution1920×1080 · 1080×1920
LengthShorts up to 3 minutes
Hookthe first 15 seconds
Safe areaon Shorts the bottom ~180 px is covered by the title and channel name

How content travels on YouTube

Content on YouTube travels two ways: search and recommendations. Search keeps sending traffic for years, recommendations spike in the first hours and fade. The Shorts feed sits in between: it spreads through recommendations but is also fed by search.

Practical notes for YouTube

  • In the Shorts feed the title sits on the bottom strip, so keep captions in the lower-middle third of the frame.
  • YouTube is the second-largest search engine: put the phrase people actually search for in the clip's title and description.
  • Chapters of a long video are rarely good clip boundaries; where a thought ends is not where a chapter ends.
  • When a Short links to the full video, don't cut the clip mid-sentence; finish the thought.

Captions and framing

The frame follows the speaker's face and the movement is smoothed; in two-person recordings it moves to whoever is talking. Captions are burned into the video, because a separate subtitle file doesn't show in short-video feeds.

There are nine caption styles and the font size scales with the export ratio, so the same style carries the same weight in a 9:16 clip and a 16:9 video.

Posting schedule

Posting all five or six clips from one long YouTube video on the same day usually doesn't work. Give each clip a day and time on the calendar, and if your account is connected, let BeamTake post them for you.

FAQ

How many clips come out of one long YouTube video?

It depends on how dense the conversation is; a forty-minute recording typically gives 6–10 candidates.

Can I set the clip length?

Yes. Use the suggested ranges or type your own start and end times.

Which languages are supported?

Transcription and captions work in 16 languages, with English and Turkish first-class. Titles and descriptions are written in the video's language.

Is there 4K export?

Yes, on the Studio plan. A lower-resolution source isn't artificially upscaled; the real resolution is shown.

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