Video transcription thatdrives the whole edit
Shorz transcribes your footage before it edits it — and then every other feature reads that transcript. Captions, clip selection, B-roll placement, titles and sound effects all come from the same source of truth.
How to use the video transcription in three steps
A transcript isn't a deliverable in Shorz — it's the input the rest of the app runs on. It's how captions land on the syllable, how Clipping knows which sixty seconds of a podcast are worth cutting, how B-roll knows what's being talked about, and how Auto SoundFX knows where a sound belongs.
Point it at a video
Any local video file with speech. Long footage takes a few minutes; Shorz runs it in the background while you keep working on the project.
Any local file
Get timed text back
Not a wall of text — a timed transcript. Every word carries a timestamp, which is what makes word-level captions and precise clip boundaries possible.
Timestamps, not just words
Let the rest of the app use it
Captions, highlight detection for clipping, B-roll placement, AI title generation and Auto SoundFX all read the same transcript. Transcribe once, and the whole edit gets smarter.
One transcript, six features
Find it in the app under Auto Edit & Clipping → transcription pass · MCP single-file tool.
Why Video Transcription in Shorz
How Clipping finds the good bits
Clipping reads the transcript and the screen to rank the moments most likely to land, then cuts up to 8 vertical clips from one long video. Without a timed transcript that's guesswork; with it, it's selection.
Powers highlight detection
Cheap, and usually already included
Transcription runs around 1 credit per minute on its own — about a cent. Inside an Auto Edit or Clipping run it's part of the pass, including on the free weekly allowance.
~€0.01 per minute
Who uses it, and for what
Finding highlights
Know which sixty seconds are worth clipping.
Caption source
Word-accurate subtitles with no typing.
Show notes
Turn an episode into text you can repurpose.
Searchable footage
Find the moment someone said the thing.
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
“Transcribe this recording, find every mention of pricing, and cut a clip around each one.”
Shorz does
- 1Transcribe the file
- 2Search the transcript for the topic
- 3Trim a clip per match
- 4Save them to the library
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
Video Transcription questions
It depends on the length of the footage — long videos can take a few minutes. It runs in the background, so you can keep setting up the project while it works.
Roughly 1 credit per minute of video, so about a cent a minute (1 credit = €0.01). Inside an Auto Edit or Clipping run it's part of the pass — including on the free weekly allowance.
Word-level subtitles, highlight detection for Clipping, B-roll placement, AI title generation and Auto SoundFX placement all read it. One transcription makes the whole edit smarter.
Yes. Transcription is one of the tools exposed over MCP, so Claude, Cursor, Codex or Gemini can transcribe a file and act on the result — for example, finding a quote and cutting a clip around it.
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More Shorz tools
Auto Subtitle Generator
Shorz transcribes your video and captions it word by word — then hands you the styling controls web tools won't: your own fonts, your own colours, 16 animations, and highlight-on-the-spoken-word.
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Silence Remover
Every "um", every three-second pause, every breath between takes — gone in one pass.
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AI Video Translator
One toggle translates the script, re-voices the narration and re-syncs every subtitle.
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Video Trimmer
Give it a start and an end and get that range back as a new file.
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Turn your video into timed text
About a cent a minute — and that transcript is what powers your captions, your clip selection and your B-roll placement.
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