Guides to Turning Long Videos into Clips

How long Shorts should be, which moments work, how to go vertical and where captions go: short, sourced guides for every kind of video.

These guides answer the questions that come up when you turn a long video into clips: how long they should be, which moments to pick, how to go from horizontal to vertical without leaving anyone out, where to put text so the interface doesn't cover it and how often to post.

They're short and practical. Whenever they give a YouTube, TikTok or Instagram fact, they link the official page it comes from and the date we checked it, because those rules change often. Each one ends with the steps to do it with ClipMix on your phone, but the advice works with any tool.

They're grouped by what you want to do: Shorts, podcasts, TikTok, Reels, your channel, vertical framing or captions.

YouTube Shorts

Grow your channel

Podcast clips

TikTok clips

Instagram Reels

Horizontal to vertical

Auto captions

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