Video trimmer for exact cuts andautomatic ones
Give it a start and an end and get that range back as a new file. Or hand a two-hour recording to Clipping and let it find the eight moments worth keeping.
How to use the video trimmer in three steps
There are two kinds of trimming. One is surgical — you know the timestamps and you want that range, nothing else. The other is editorial — you have hours of footage and no idea which sixty seconds matter. Shorz does both: an exact time-range cut on your own disk, and an AI pass that reads the transcript and picks the highlights.
Pick your range
Start time, end time, done. Shorz writes the trimmed range to a new file and leaves the source untouched — so you can pull ten different clips out of one recording.
Second-level precision
Or let it find the cuts
Clipping transcribes the whole video, ranks the moments most likely to land, and cuts up to 8 vertical clips. Auto Edit goes further and removes dead air and filler words across the whole thing.
Transcript-driven selection
Finish the clip
A trimmed clip is a starting point: caption it, reframe it to vertical, add B-roll, generate a thumbnail and publish it — without moving the file to another app.
Trim, then finish
Find it in the app under MCP single-file tool · in-project: Auto Edit & Clipping.
Why Video Trimmer in Shorz
No length limit, no upload
Online cutters cap the file size because they have to receive it first. Shorz reads the file off your disk, so a four-hour 4K recording trims exactly as easily as a thirty-second clip.
Any file size
One long video, a week of shorts
Clipping pulls up to 8 clips out of a single source, reframes each to 9:16 with face tracking, captions every word and preps them for YouTube, TikTok and Reels. Link import works from YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram.
Up to 8 clips
Who uses it, and for what
Exact excerpts
Pull one quote out of a long recording.
Podcast highlights
Up to 8 shorts from one episode.
Top and tail
Cut the setup and the goodbye.
Batch splitting
Slice a folder of files from one instruction.
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
“Trim this recording from 4:12 to 5:03, caption it, and export it vertical.”
Shorz does
- 1Trim the exact time range
- 2Reframe to 9:16 with face tracking
- 3Add word-level captions
- 4Export the finished clip
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 Trimmer questions
You give a start and an end time in seconds and Shorz writes exactly that range to a new file, leaving the original untouched.
No. The trim runs on your own machine, so there's nothing to upload and no cap. The 30-minute source limit some people have seen applies only to the free weekly Auto Edit and Clipping allowance.
Yes — that's Clipping. It transcribes the video, ranks the strongest moments and cuts up to 8 vertical clips, captioned and reframed. It imports from YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram links, or from your own files.
Exact time-range trimming is one of Shorz's single-file tools, driven over MCP — ask the AI assistant you've connected (Claude, Cursor, Codex or Gemini) and it runs the cut for you.
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Video Cropper
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Video Transcription
Shorz transcribes your footage before it edits it — and then every other feature reads that transcript.
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Cut your video down to the part that matters
Trim an exact time range, or let Clipping find up to 8 highlights for you. No upload, no file-size cap, no watermark.
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