Notes on short-form video
How-to writing about the craft, not announcements. If a post does not tell you how to do something, it should not be here.
Is there a free AI video clipper with no watermark?
What free AI clipping tools actually give you — checked against two tools' own pricing pages rather than assumed — and where genuinely watermark-free output does and doesn't exist.
Read →Soft Clipper's one-time Pro licence, explained
What the one-time Pro licence actually includes, what counts as one licence, and what happens when a new major version ships later.
Read →How to auto-reframe a video in Premiere Pro
Applying Auto Reframe to a sequence or clip in Premiere Pro, what it actually tracks, and the situations where it needs a manual fix afterwards.
Read →Can you add text to a video in YouTube's editor?
What YouTube Studio's built-in caption and subtitle tools actually cover, where they stop short of a real text-overlay editor, and when that gap matters.
Read →How to resize a video for TikTok, Instagram and YouTube
Which aspect ratio actually fits each platform, why a basic resize crops off the wrong things, and how to convert a video without losing the shot.
Read →How AI video clippers actually work (and how to choose one)
What an AI video clipper does under the hood — transcription, moment detection, reframing, captioning — and the questions that actually separate the good ones from the bad ones.
Read →How to add captions to a video (and why burned-in beats uploaded)
The difference between burned-in and uploaded captions, why most viewers never see the second kind, and a practical process for captioning short-form clips people actually read.
Read →Why auto-reframed clips look wrong (and how to fix it)
Cropped-off heads, jittery framing and speakers who wander out of shot. The three reasons automatic 9:16 reframing fails, and what to do about each one.
Read →How to turn a long video into Shorts, Reels and TikToks
A repeatable process for cutting one long recording into ten short vertical clips — which moments to pick, how long to make them, and how to frame them so faces stay in shot.
Read →Stop hand-cutting clips
Load a video, get back a set of vertical clips with captions. One payment, yours forever.