viral-short-video-maker

name

viral-short-video-maker

description

Use when turning long-form video, podcasts, interviews, streams, lectures, webinars, screen recordings, or raw footage into high-retention short-form clips for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, or other vertical short-video platforms. Covers clip selection, hooks, pacing, captions, platform export specs, titles, descriptions, hashtags, and edit plans for coding harnesses that can call video tools.

Viral Short Video Maker

Turn long videos into vertical short-form candidates.

Fast Path

scripts/shorty_pipeline.py input.mp4 --output-dir exports --count 5

Thai/code-switching technical speech:

scripts/shorty_pipeline.py input.mp4 --output-dir exports --count 5 --language-profile thai-code-switching --model medium

Per-project ASR/caption terms:

scripts/shorty_pipeline.py input.mp4 --output-dir exports --glossary my-glossary.json

Workflow

1. Ingest source, target platforms, count, duration, language, output dir.
2. If no transcript, run scripts/transcribe_video.py <video> --output <transcript.json>.
3. Plan clips with scripts/plan_clips.py <transcript.json> --output <clip-plan.json>.
4. Render with scripts/make_shorts.py <clip-plan.json> --output-dir exports --manifest exports/manifest.json.
5. Review caption-review.json, visual-checks.json, previews, and manifest before final response.

Load Only If Needed

• Local setup/troubleshooting: references/quickstart.md.
• Detailed harness workflow: references/workflow.md.
• Ranking rules: references/virality-heuristics.md.
• Plan/manifest schema: references/editing-spec.md.
• Platform export defaults: references/platform-specs.md.
• ASR/caption glossary format: references/asr-glossary.json.

Rules

• Prefer exact timecodes.
• Start each short on hook; end after payoff.
• Avoid weak intros, housekeeping, dead air, low-context clips.
• Render 9:16; burn captions unless user says no.
• Do not promise virality. Use viral-style, short-form optimized, or high-retention candidate.