For interviews and expert content
The good answershould not stay buried.
Upload the interview and Video To Reel finds the answers worth pulling out, cuts each one where the thought starts and ends, and keeps the 9:16 frame on the face in shot — the question and the answer both.
Your recording, your rights. Source deleted after rendering.
The short answer
How do you turn an interview into shorts?
Video To Reel is a mobile app, for iPhone and Android, that turns a recorded interview into finished vertical shorts. You upload the interview file from your own device — MP4, MOV or MKV — and Video To Reel transcribes both sides of the conversation, selects the answers worth clipping, cuts each one on the sentence rather than on a timer, reframes it to 9:16 around the face in shot, burns in word-timed captions and renders at 1080p. Every account gets one free video a calendar month, returned as 3 clips with a small watermark, from an upload of up to 15 minutes; paid plans return up to 10 clips per video, accept uploads up to 3 hours long and render with no watermark. Finished clips stay in the app for 30 days on a paid plan and 7 days on the free one. The interview you uploaded is deleted the moment rendering finishes — it is never used to train anything.
A two-camera sit-down and a laptop webcam call go through the same path. What the crop needs is a face in shot, not a studio.
Upload the recording
Straight from the camera roll or Files. One combined file: the grid recording, the programme mix, whatever your setup already produces.
Choose the shape
How many answers to pull, roughly how long each should run, caption style and position. Three styles, nine positions, all clear of the platform interface.
Read the quote, post the clip
Every short arrives labelled with the line it was cut around and the timestamp it came from in the interview, so approving a set takes about a minute.
Two people, one vertical frame
What an interview needs that a talking-head clip does not
The frame follows the shot
An interview cut between close-ups is a rally. Video To Reel tracks the face in shot and moves the 9:16 crop with it, smoothed so a short exchange does not turn into a slideshow of jump cuts.
Cut on the thought, not the minute
Answers do not arrive in neat 30-second parcels. Clips are cut from the transcript at the start and end of a complete answer, so a short does not open mid-clause or die before the punchline.
Captions carry the expertise
Expert answers are dense, and most of the feed is muted. Word-timed captions are burned in at 1080p, so a technical sentence still lands with the sound off — the same reason captioning is a core accessibility requirement for video, not a nice-to-have.
Everyone identifiable in the recording has to have consented where their local law requires it, and you confirm that when you upload. See section 4 of the terms and the privacy policy for what happens to the file.
FAQ
Before you upload an interview
Does it handle two people in one frame?
It depends how the interview is shot, and we would rather you know before you upload. If the edit cuts between close-ups — one camera on the host, one on the guest, or a remote call with a speaker view — the 9:16 frame follows the change, smoothed so it pans rather than jumps. If the whole interview is a single locked two-shot with both heads in frame the whole time, the frame locks onto one person and holds them for the clip; it will not hop between speakers mid-shot. A centre crop of that same two-shot would cut both heads in half, so the locked crop is still the better output — but it is one person, not the talker.
What about a remote interview recorded on Zoom or Riverside?
Fine, as long as you upload a video file. A grid recording, a speaker-view export or separate-track footage you have already combined all work. Export the file from your recording tool and upload it from your phone. Direct Zoom and Riverside links are not supported.
How many shorts do I get from one interview?
Up to 10 per video on any paid plan, and 3 on the free monthly video. You choose the number before the render, and you can re-render an existing clip — new caption style, new position, a tighter trim — without spending minutes again.
Is my guest's interview used to train a model?
No. The file is transcribed, cut, reframed, captioned and rendered, then deleted along with every intermediate file as soon as the clips are ready. We claim no ownership of your footage and do not use it to train models or to promote the service.
Video To ReelPull the answers out
Free on iPhone and Android. One free video every month, no credit card needed.
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