Auto zoom that lands onthe right word
Static talking-head footage loses people in seconds. Shorz punches in on the moments that matter — synced to speech or to the music beat — with a pool of 16 zoom effects you can dial up or down.
How to use the auto zoom in three steps
Punch-ins are the single highest-leverage retention edit in short-form, and also the most tedious: find the beat, add a keyframe, ease it, repeat two hundred times. Auto Zoom does the finding. You get a knob for how often and how hard — not a timeline full of keyframes.
Choose how it syncs
Intelligent Auto Zoom reads the speech and punches in on emphasis. Zoom on Music Beat locks to the track instead, so the cuts feel scored rather than sprinkled.
Speech-synced or beat-synced
Dial in the intensity
Set how many zooms, how strong, and how fast they move. A calm explainer and a high-energy TikTok edit come out of the same panel with different numbers.
Count · strength · speed
Pick the look of each punch
Choose from a pool of 16 in/out effects — blur, radial blur, chromatic, vignette, colour boost, motion lines, edge glow, time ripple, flash, shockwave, matrix rain, glitch, pixelate, retro VHS, film grain.
16 effects to draw from
Find it in the app under Settings panel → Auto Zoom.
Why Auto Zoom in Shorz
Zooms that keep the face in frame
Punching in is only safe if the subject stays centred. Face tracking runs alongside auto zoom, so the crop follows the speaker as they move instead of cutting their head off at the top of the frame.
Paired with face tracking
Sound on the punch
Each zoom can carry its own sound effect from the Audio panel. A whoosh on the punch-in is the difference between a zoom you notice and a zoom that just feels like energy.
Optional zoom sounds
Who uses it, and for what
Podcast clips
Punch in on the punchline, not at random.
Talking head
Break up a static frame without a second camera.
Music-led edits
Every zoom on the downbeat, automatically.
Tutorials
Emphasise the step being explained.
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 beat-synced zooms to this project — high intensity, glitch on the way in, and a whoosh on each punch.”
Shorz does
- 1Enable Zoom on Music Beat
- 2Set count and strength to high
- 3Pick the glitch in-effect
- 4Turn on zoom 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
Auto Zoom questions
In Intelligent Auto Zoom it reads the speech and punches in on emphasis. In Zoom on Music Beat it follows the music track instead. Either way you control how many zooms, how strong they are and how fast they move.
Yes. There's a pool of 16 effects — blur, radial blur, chromatic, vignette, colour boost, motion lines, edge glow, time ripple, flash, shockwave, matrix rain, glitch, pixelate, retro VHS and film grain — with separate pools for the way a zoom enters and exits.
Yes, if face tracking is on. It keeps the subject centred through the zoom, which matters most when you're reframing landscape footage to vertical.
No. It's rendered locally, so it's free for everyone — including on free Auto Edit and Clipping runs.
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Add punch-in zooms automatically
Synced to speech or to the music beat, with 16 effects and face tracking keeping your speaker in frame. Costs no credits.
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