Paste any YouTube link and Short.now turns it into Reels-ready clips: best moments, animated captions, and a 9:16 crop sized for Instagram — in minutes.
Drop in any public YouTube URL — Short.now fetches and processes the video directly, no download needed.
The AI scans the full video and pulls the moments that work as Reels: hook-first, self-contained, and under 90 seconds.
Edit captions, fine-tune the trim, and check the caption safe zone so nothing sits behind Instagram's UI.
Download clean 9:16 MP4s or publish straight to Instagram from Short.now.
Paste a URL and get back vertical, captioned Reels — no manual download, re-upload, or editing.
Face-tracking crop reframes your footage to Instagram's vertical format and keeps the speaker centered.
Captions are positioned above Instagram's overlay area automatically, so they're never hidden behind the UI.
Export clean Reels with no watermark — Instagram suppresses reach on clips that carry one, so this matters.
No. Paste the YouTube URL into Short.now and it processes the video directly — no manual download or re-upload.
Instagram Reels can run up to 90 seconds, but 30–60 second clips get the best completion rates. Short.now trims each clip to your target length automatically.
Instagram doesn't penalize repurposed content itself, but it does suppress clips with a visible third-party watermark. Short.now exports clean, so your Reel competes on performance alone.
Short.now exports your clip with its original audio. To add a trending sound, add it in Instagram's native editor after uploading — that's where trending audio lives.
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