With YouTube Shorts, YouTube has started tapping into the shortened attention spans of the users. Almost all of the YouTubers are now switching to short-form content. If you are also a Youtuber, that has long-form content already published on the platform, you can use AI to convert the same video into multiple Shorts. You can keep publishing these Shorts at regular intervals to keep engaging the audiences while expanding your audience base. 

With the advent of AI, almost all work online has become easier. AI helps us do things quickly, with minimal need for manual intervention. You can also leverage AI to your use, as there are a few AI tools that can make the conversion of long-form videos into Shorts much easier by trimming, editing, and polishing the content without spending hours editing manually.

In this blog, we will explore the top 10 AI tools you can use to create YouTube Shorts from your existing videos.

Adobe Premiere Pro (Auto Reframe)

Adobe’s Premiere Pro is the most commonly used professional video editing software. Its Auto Reframe feature uses AI to reframe and resize videos for YouTube Shorts automatically. It helps by cropping and resizing your videos to fit the vertical format while making sure that the important elements stay in focus.

Lumen5

Lumen5 is an easy-to-use AI-powered tool for creating Shorts. It provides AI-powered video summarization and text-to-video conversion, and it also has pre-made templates from which you can choose the best one. Editing video through Lumen5 is as easy as making, or editing a PowerPoint presentation.

pictory.ai

pictory.ai is an easy-to-use tool, whose AI recognizes the key moments of the video, and thus makes it easier to convert your video into a Shorts. The auto subtitles generation and video summarisation features are very handy in extracting engaging snippets from long videos. You can add your logo, your own intro, and outro, and even apply your logo colours to the Shorts you are making.

Descript

Descript is a great tool foe beginners & individual youtubers due to its easy to use interface. You can use features of the AI such as improving clarity, removing filler words and retakes, and keeping your eyes focused, which help to better manage the conversion of your YouTube video into a Shorts. It can auto-transcribe your video, making it easier to edit, and it also offers to add AI voices to your videos.

Kapwing

Kapwing is an all-in-one online video editing platform. It has a dedicated section, ‘Repurpose Studio’ that helps you convert the YouTube video into YouTube Shorts with ease. The AI helps remove fillers and unrelated content. It also offers you different aspect ratios to choose from, so you can reuse the same Shorts on other social media as well.

Invideo

With various built-in templates and key moments identifier, Invideo is a good AI tool to convert your YouTube videos into YouTube Shorts. You can select the audience, the platforms, and the video appearance. The AI does the rest. It also offers to translate your video into 50+ global languages, further expanding your reach as a content creator.

Magisto

Magisto is an app that has AI-powered video editing features. You can choose from the different templates. It can help in capturing important snippets out of your existing video library by identifying key moments. The app has seamless editing & trimming features and can help you create a large number of shorts for your channel.

wave.video

wave.video has a vast library of templates that you can choose from. It gives you an option of video resizing for more than 30 video formats. This website has various video editing tools available, that you can use to turn your video into a Short, such as trimming, cropping, and resizing videos, removing image background, boosting or slowing down the video pace etc.

Animoto

Animoto offers easy drag-and-drop functionality for easy editing. You can add your logo, and adjust the colours of your video accordingly, using this tool. Animoto has more useful features, like a video commenting tool, that makes collaborating and taking feedback easy while editing your videos, stock library, voice-over option, etc.

Clideo

Clideo is a browser-based online video editor, that has various aspect ratio presets, from which you can choose the vertical preset for YouTube Shorts, supports most video formats and offers easy-to-use tools like adding text to the video, making picture-in-picture or split-screen videos, adjusting the volume, brightness and contrast of all the clips added, etc.

Finding the Perfect AI tool to create Shorts out of YouTube videos

With the advent of AI, everything has become easy. All of the above tools have tons of AI-based features to make the conversion of your pre-existing video into YouTube Shorts easy. You can choose the one out of these tools, that suits your needs the best. Where you want more manual control over editing, or you want AI to do the heavy lifting, be mindful of your content, genre & audience while picking the tool.

Good luck creating Youtube Shorts!