Turn Long Videos Into Social Shorts With Riverside (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Instead of scrubbing through an hour-long recording trying to find the best moments, reframing it vertically, and adding captions yourself, an AI shorts maker can handle a lot of that work for you. And in Riverside, this actually starts happening the second you finish recording or uploading a video. So let me quickly show you how it works, how you can customize what it creates, and a few different ways you can use it to turn your existing content into shorts, reels, and TikToks. Let's get started. Everything starts with a recording or upload. You can record a podcast, webinar, video, or other pieces of long-form content directly in Riverside. Or if you already have something recorded somewhere else, you can upload that footage instead. If you're recording in Riverside, one advantage is that you're starting with high quality source footage. Riverside records locally with each participant on their own separate track, which gives you a lot more flexibility once you start editing and repurposing the content. But either way, once a video is finished processing, Riverside starts doing a lot of the repurposing work automatically. And that's where the Made For You tab comes in. Inside Made For You, Riverside analyzes your recordings and creates content based on what's actually said. One of the biggest things you'll find here is magic clips. Instead of sitting through your entire recording and manually marking timestamps, Riverside looks for moments that could work on their own as short-form videos and automatically turns those moments into clips. So from one recording, you may already have a bunch of potential shorts ready to look through. And because these are designed for social media, Riverside can automatically reframe the video into a vertical layout and add captions, giving you a much better starting point than simply cutting a random 30 seconds out of your full episode. This is probably the biggest advantage of using an AI shorts maker like this. The AI handles the first pass. You decide what's actually worth posting. Now, this part is important because I don't think that you should publish everything AI gives you without looking at it first. The goal is to use AI to get you closer to a finished video faster while still keeping control over what actually goes out under your name. Once I open this clip in the Riverside editor, I can change the edit myself, adjust where it starts or ends, and clean up parts I don't need. I can also change the layout, customize my captions, add my branding, bring in images or b-roll, add graphics, and make the clip visually match the rest of my content. And there's a lot of other AI tools here in the Riverside editor that can help you if your clip needs a little bit more work. So Magic Clips don't lock you into whatever AI originally created. They're really a starting point. But there's also plenty of times where the original clip is ready to post. Another really great resource for short-form clips I want to mention is using Riverside Connected to something like an MCP, so something like Claude. You can actually describe and have it search specific moments based on your transcript and edit short videos from there. We actually have a whole video breaking this down. I'll link it right up here for you to check out. Now this is useful when you already know there was a specific part of your recording that you want to turn into a short. Maybe you remember a guest telling a great story, maybe there was one answer that sums up your entire episode, or maybe you want a clip built around a specific hook rather than one of the moments Magic Clips originally selected. You can use Riverside's AI transcript and AI editing tools to find that section, tighten it up, and turn it into another piece of short-form content. Or like I mentioned before, you can use MCPs like Claude to search for those specific moments and cut short-form clips from there. So you have both options. You can let Magic Clips surface moments for you automatically, or you can use the AI tools to help build something more specific. Now once this clip looks the way that I want, there's still one more part of the workflow that usually means jumping into another app, actually posting that content. But you can handle that inside Riverside too. Once your social accounts are connected, you can take the clips you've created and schedule them using the planner. I could take several clips from the same recording and spread them out throughout the week across different platforms like YouTube Shorts, Instagram, TikTok, or other connected accounts. Then I can see those scheduled posts together inside my content calendar. You're taking one long-form recording and moving it through the entire process from recording, to repurposing, to editing, and eventually publishing. And that's really what I'd look for in an AI shorts maker. It's not just about pressing a button and getting a bunch of random vertical videos. The useful part is getting through that first edit much faster, finding moments that you may have otherwise missed, and then still having enough control to make those videos feel like your content. With Riverside, Magic Clips can give you that starting point automatically. The editor lets you take over from there, and the planner helps you actually get those clips out into the world. So if you want to try Magic Clips in Riverside and start turning your long-form videos into short-form content, you can use the link in the description to get started. And if you want to learn more about recording, editing, and creating better content with Riverside, I'll link a few more videos that you can check out right up here and in the description down below. Be sure to like this video and subscribe for more content just like this. And if you have any questions about making short-form videos, or Magic Clips, or anything Riverside related, feel free to leave them in the comments. I'll be happy to answer them personally. Thank you so much for watching, and we can't wait to see what you create.