AI B-roll that appearson the right word
Shorz reads the transcript and drops in supporting visuals where they belong — your own footage, web images, GIFs, emojis, or shots it generates on the spot. Five independent sources, one pass.
How to use the ai b-roll generator in three steps
B-roll is what separates a recording from a video, and it's pure manual labour: listen, pause, search, download, drag, trim, repeat. Shorz already has the transcript, so it knows where a cutaway belongs and what it should show. Four of the five sources cost nothing at all.
Pick your sources
Your own imported B-roll, auto-pulled web images, GIFs (sticker or standard), AI-generated visuals, and timed emoji overlays. Turn on any combination — they run independently.
Assets · Web · GIF · AI · Emoji
Set how much you want
Web images 1–30, GIFs 1–20, emojis 1–20 — a light touch for a corporate explainer, wall-to-wall for a TikTok edit. AI B-roll works out its own clip lengths from the speech timing.
Density you control
Choose how they enter and leave
Each B-roll type has its own in and out transition pools, and the exit plays the effect reversed — a "slide in left" leaves to the left. Add appearance sounds and it starts to feel edited.
Separate in/out pools
Find it in the app under B-roll panel → Assets · Web · GIF · AI · Emoji.
Why AI B-Roll Generator in Shorz
Generated B-roll, not stock B-roll
The AI source makes the visual instead of finding one: stills for cheap, wide coverage, or generated video clips when a shot has to move. Shorz works out the clip length from the speech, so nothing hangs on screen too long.
Image or video mode
Most of it costs nothing
Only the AI tab spends credits. Your own assets, web images, GIFs and emojis all work in full on a free Auto Edit or Clipping run — which means automatic B-roll is something you can use every day, not a premium extra.
4 of 5 sources free
Who uses it, and for what
Faceless videos
Wall-to-wall visuals with no footage of your own.
Podcast clips
Cut away when a topic is named.
Explainers
Show the thing you're describing, automatically.
TikTok edits
GIFs and emoji energy without hand-placing them.
Shorz speaks MCP
Shorz isn't a locked web app. Connect it to Claude, Cursor, Codex or Gemini and your assistant can drive it directly — one message instead of a panel full of clicks. You review before anything is published.
See how MCP automation works
You say
“Add AI image B-roll to this project with 12 inserts, slide-in transitions, and a whoosh on each appearance.”
Shorz does
- 1Enable AI B-roll in image mode
- 2Set the insert count to 12
- 3Choose the slide-in transition pool
- 4Attach B-roll appearance sounds
Every tool ships with the same promises
They're not separate products with separate bills. One app, one credit balance, one export that belongs to you.
- No subscription — prepaid credits that never expire
- No watermark on anything you export, ever
- Full commercial rights on what you create
- A desktop app for Windows and Mac — your files stay on your machine
- Auto Edit and Clipping: 4 free videos a week, no card
- Drivable from Claude, Cursor, Codex or Gemini over MCP
AI B-Roll Generator questions
Five independent sources: B-roll you imported yourself, web images pulled automatically, GIFs (sticker or standard), AI-generated stills or video clips, and timed emoji overlays. You can run any combination at once.
From the transcript. Shorz knows what's being said and when, so the visual appears while the topic is being discussed rather than at a fixed interval.
Only the AI tab — both its image and video modes. Your own assets, web images, GIFs and emojis are free for everyone, including on free Auto Edit and Clipping runs.
AI B-roll works its own length out from the speech timing, so cutaways match the sentence they belong to. For everything else you control the density — how many inserts across the video.
Relative to images, yes — AI video costs roughly ten to thirty times more per placement than an AI still. For long videos, image mode is usually the sensible default, with video mode saved for hero moments.
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Add B-roll to your video automatically
Five sources placed from your transcript, so the cutaway lands on the word that called for it. Four of the five cost no credits.
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