Shorts builder

Turn a long video into a vertical short in Premiere Pro

The hard part of a short is not the crop. It is deciding which forty seconds of a forty-minute video can stand alone with no setup, and getting that wrong wastes the upload however well it is framed.

Included with Um Out Plus, $7 a month or $70 a year.

What you stop doing

One long video should be several posts. Usually it is one.

By hand

  • Re-watch your own finished video looking for a self-contained moment
  • Build a vertical sequence from scratch every time
  • Post the clip that needed the ten minutes before it to make sense

With Um Out

  • Candidate moments ranked on whether they work cold, with the reasoning shown
  • The one you pick becomes its own 9:16 sequence in your project
  • Ordinary Premiere media on an ordinary timeline, so captions and retiming work as normal

It picks the moment first

Um Out ranks candidate moments on whether they make sense cold: a complete thought, a reaction with a cause in shot, a claim that does not need the ten minutes before it.

You see the ranking and the reasoning, and you choose. A short built from the wrong forty seconds is a wasted upload however well it is framed.

Then it builds the sequence

The chosen moment becomes its own 9:16 sequence in your project, ready to review and adjust rather than a finished file you have to accept.

Everything in it is ordinary Premiere media on an ordinary timeline, so retiming, recropping, and adding captions all work the way they normally do.

Questions people ask

Which plan is this on?

Um Out Plus, at $7 a month or $70 a year, alongside punch-ins, smart zooms, best take and the shorts builder. Um Out Local covers the silence, filler and caption tools with your own AI key.

Does it reframe automatically to follow a speaker?

Not yet. It builds the vertical sequence and you frame it. Automatic reframing needs to understand the picture, not the transcript, and that is a different kind of feature.

Can I get more than one short from a video?

Yes. The ranking gives you several candidates and you can build each one, with no cap on how many.

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Get three posts out of the video you already made.

Plus is $7 a month with no contract, and there is no cap on how many shorts you build.