A teleprompter for YouTube Shorts and full videos
Shorts in 9:16, regular videos in 16:9 from a laptop webcam. Your script scrolls under the lens, and ClippCut gives you a captions file YouTube can read.
Step by step: write a hook in seconds
- Say what the video is about. In the script editor, open Hooks, type your topic and pick your niche. Everything runs on your device: no AI service, no account.
- Pick from proven formulas. You get hooks built from 20 formulas that work on short video: a bold claim, a mistake, a question, a result first. Tap More ideas for another round.
- It becomes your first line, with a score. The hook replaces your opening line. ClippCut scores the first line out of 100 and tells you what would make it stronger, like getting to the point in under three seconds.
Shorts from your phone, videos from your laptop
On a phone, pick 9:16 and use the front camera. On a laptop or desktop, pick 16:9; the prompter strip sits at the top of the screen, right under the webcam.
Captions YouTube can use
Tap Captions file (.srt) after a take. Upload it in YouTube Studio under Subtitles, and your captions match what you said, because they come from the script you read.
Steps
- Paste the script, or start with the YouTube intro script.
- Pick the shape: 9:16 for a Short, 16:9 for a regular video.
- Record, trim, and save the MP4. Upload it to YouTube with the .srt file.
Shorts that hold attention
Viewers decide in the first seconds whether to swipe, so open with the point. Keep one idea per Short, and cut the dead air: jump cuts remove the pauses where you looked for the next line. Use the safe-zone guide so the buttons and title don’t cover your captions.
Making a Short and a regular video from the same script? Record in 9:16 and let ClippCut Pro make the 16:9 version from the same take, with the vertical picture shown over a blurred copy of itself.
Shorts and long videos from the same script
Many creators cut a Short from a longer video. With ClippCut you can do it the other way round: write the Short first as its own script, record it in 9:16, then use it as the hook or teaser for the long video. Because the prompter keeps the wording exact, the Short and the long video say the same thing the same way.
Uploading the captions file
- After the take, tap Captions file (.srt) and save it.
- In YouTube Studio, open the video, then Subtitles, and upload the file for your language.
- Check the timing in YouTube's preview. Because the captions come from your script, the words are already spelled right.
Uploaded captions help viewers who watch with the sound off, and give YouTube the exact words you said.
Questions
Can I record longer videos?
ClippCut Pro records takes up to 5 minutes. For longer recordings, try our free Reframely teleprompter with your own camera or screen recorder.
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