Create scroll-stopping clips from a single YouTube video with Descript. It’s a YouTube clip maker that highlights the best moments in your video and turns them into clips. Transform longer videos into YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, TikTok videos, GIFs, or any short-form video you need with one smooth clip creation workflow.
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Upload your YouTube video by dragging and dropping it into a new Descript project. This will automatically generate a transcript synced with your video that you can use to find clips by pressing CTRL/CMD+K or using the search bar.
When you find a moment you want to clip, you can highlight it and right click to select Duplicate to > New composition to preserve the original while creating a new composition. Or you can automatically highlight the best moments in your video using the Find good clips AI Action, then simply confirm the ones you want to turn into clips in separate compositions.
Edit your newly created clips by selecting a clip from the compositions dropdown. Use the canvas to choose your aspect ratio, as well as add music, animated captions, and more using the insert menu. Save time by selecting Save scene as template to turn your clip into a template you can apply to other clips. Finally, click Publish to export all your clips or publish them directly to your YouTube channel.
Highlight the transcript or use AI to find good clips
Forget scrubbing your timeline and cutting parts of a video you want to clip and edit. Just search the transcript to highlight soundbites, or curate multiple clips in one click with the Find good clips AI action.
Save time with templates & automatic captions
Apply short-form video templates from our template library, or create custom templates from existing clips to easily apply the same style of captions, animations to all your future clips for TikTok, Instagram/Facebook reels, YouTube shorts, and more.
Your entire YouTube workflow in one place
Write your script, record content, edit videos, create clips, and publish to YouTube all in one app with Descript. Work alone with the support of a built-in AI, or collaboratively by inviting your team to give feedback or create videos with you.
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Publish your clips directly to your YouTube channel, or download all your clips in one go.Publishing
The tool does it all
"This tool saves literally thousands of hours. I can't believe how far this technology has come in such a short span of time."
Maggie H., Digital Community Manager
Incredible features
"Descript is an amazing timeline and text-based editor with some incredible features.I love the timeline editor and the ability to do multi-track editing very quickly."
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Descript exceeds expectations
"I am new to video content creation and found narration and editing challenging... it cut my work time by more than half and significantly improved quality."
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