Freeze frames that landon the punchline
The oldest emphasis trick in editing, automated. Shorz finds the impactful moments, holds the frame, and picks how long each pause should last — or you name an exact timestamp and duration.
How to use the freeze frame in three steps
A freeze is a full stop. It tells the viewer that the thing just said was the point — and in short-form, where everything moves, stillness is the loudest available move. Shorz can find those moments itself, or hold any frame you name for as long as you want.
Turn on freeze frame effects
One switch in the Settings panel. Shorz analyses the video and creates short freeze moments at impactful points — and if it doesn't find any, it doesn't force them.
Automatic, and honest about it
Let it choose the length
The AI picks how long each freeze holds based on the moment. A beat for a punchline, longer for a reveal — you don't set a global duration and hope it fits everywhere.
Per-moment duration
Or freeze an exact frame
Need one specific hold? Give Shorz a timestamp and a duration and it freezes that exact frame, returning a new file with the original untouched.
Timestamp + duration
Find it in the app under Settings panel → Freeze Frame Effects · MCP single-file tool.
Why Freeze Frame in Shorz
Stillness works because everything else moves
Freeze frames pair with the rest of the emphasis toolkit — auto-zoom punch-ins, sound effects, titles. The freeze is the pause; the zoom and the whoosh either side are what make it read as deliberate.
Emphasis toolkit
Automatic, but never fabricated
If the video has no moment worth holding, Shorz applies nothing. That's deliberate — a freeze on a filler sentence is worse than no freeze at all.
No forced effects
Who uses it, and for what
Reveals
Hold on the reaction before you move on.
Punchlines
A beat of stillness after the line lands.
Data moments
Give the number time to be read.
Intros
Freeze the opening frame under a title.
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
“Freeze the frame at 12.4 seconds for 1.5 seconds and save it as a new file.”
Shorz does
- 1Read the source video
- 2Hold the frame at the timestamp
- 3Write a new output file
- 4Leave the original untouched
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
Freeze Frame questions
It analyses the video for impactful moments and places short freezes there, choosing the length of each one. If it finds no relevant moment, it doesn't apply the effect.
Yes. The single-file freeze tool takes an exact timestamp and a duration and returns a new video with that frame held — the original file is never modified.
No. Freeze frame effects render locally and are free for everyone, including on free Auto Edit and Clipping runs.
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Hold the moments that actually land
Shorz finds the beats worth freezing and picks how long each one holds — or you name the exact timestamp. Costs no credits.
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