Use a day in the life Shorts template on your own footage. Upload or paste a link and AI cuts it into this format with matching captions, SFX and pacing.
Free account: 30 minutes of video and 10 exports.
How It Works
Paste a YouTube, Twitch, TikTok or other video link, or upload the file.
ShortsHero transcribes, finds the strongest moments and reframes them for vertical.
Tweak captions and timing in the editor, then export in 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
The Day in the Life Shorts Template is a free online tool from ShortsHero: the day in the life format, auto-applied. It runs in the ShortsHero app: paste a link or upload a video and the AI picks the moments, reframes them to 9:16 and adds captions. A free account includes 30 minutes of video and 10 exports, no card needed.
It runs inside ShortsHero, where a free account includes 30 minutes of video. The same project gives you the transcript, every clip and the captions to edit before you export.
Why Use This Tool
The strongest 30–60 second segments, ranked by how likely they are to hold attention.
Face tracking keeps the speaker in frame at 9:16.
Word-by-word captions in 36 styles, editable before export.
Export every clip at once, ready to post or schedule.
A free account includes 30 minutes of video and 10 exports, with a small watermark. Paid plans remove the watermark and add more minutes.
Uploads can be up to 2 GB, and links have no length cap. One credit covers one minute of source video.
YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Loom, Google Drive, Dropbox, Dailymotion and more — or upload the file directly.
ShortsHero turns long videos into short vertical clips with AI moment detection, face tracking and animated captions — and has free tools for subtitles, transcripts and video formats.
Upload once and ShortsHero finds the best moments, reframes them to 9:16 with face tracking, and adds animated captions — ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
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