AI Video Montage — turn a long video into a short video

Turn a long video into a short video, automatically

An hour-long talk, a recorded podcast, a two-hour livestream: the content is good, but almost nobody watches it to the end. The missing work is always the same — finding the five minutes worth watching and dropping the rest. It takes hours, and it is exactly what AI video montage does for you.

The tool listens to the entire video, spots the passages that actually carry something, then stitches them back together in order as one condensed video. You do not get a list of moments to assemble: you get a finished edit, ready to publish.

How to turn a long video into a short video in 3 steps

Step 1

Import the long video

Drop your file, or paste the link of an online video. Talk, recorded podcast, livestream, webinar: the longer the source, the more the edit has to work with.

Step 2

Choose the length you want

Leave it on Auto for a length that fits your video, or aim for 1, 2 or 5 minutes depending on where it will be published.

Step 3

Get the finished edit

You get a single video, already assembled and ready to publish — and you can still reframe or caption it afterwards.

Why edit your video with AI

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The cuts are decided by AI

AI follows what is being said from start to finish, spots the passages that carry information or emotion, and drops the padding, the repeats and the dead air.

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The assembly is done for you

The selected passages are stitched back together in order, with clean cuts. You get a finished video, not a list of timestamps to edit yourself.

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You decide the length

Auto fits your source; otherwise you set a target length and the edit stays as close to it as possible, without ever cutting mid-sentence.

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Your original format is kept

The video keeps its aspect ratio and its resolution. Need a vertical or captioned version? Chain into the next tool without re-uploading the file.

When to condense a long video

A conference or webinar replay

An hour of presentation is rarely watched in full. The edit turns it into the short version that actually circulates — the one shared internally or featured on a page.

A recorded podcast or an interview

Keep the best answers and cut the follow-ups, the hesitations and the off-topic stretches. To go further, AI Clips splits the same source into several vertical excerpts.

A livestream or a gaming session

Hours of live footage become a few minutes of best-of: this is the format that brings people back to the channel between two streams.

A recorded course or tutorial

The condensed version works as a recap: the essentials without rewatching the full walkthrough. Then add animated subtitles to make it readable with the sound off.

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AI video montage — frequently asked questions

Import the video, choose the length you want, then start the edit: AI selects the passages worth keeping and assembles them into one short video, with nothing to do on your side.

It analyses what is said across the whole runtime and keeps what moves the point forward: strong answers, key explanations, turning points. Silences, digressions and repeats are dropped.

On Auto, roughly a tenth of the original runtime — long enough to keep the thread, short enough to be watched to the end. You can also aim for 1, 2 or 5 minutes.

Yes. The kept excerpts stay in chronological order, so the argument still makes sense and nothing feels rearranged.

Yes. The edit comes out in your original aspect ratio; from the result screen you can send it in one click to vertical reframing or to animated subtitles, without re-uploading the file.

This tool is built for long videos — that is its raw material. If your file goes beyond your plan's limit, the screen tells you before processing starts, never after.

The edit is delivered clean, with no logo. The tool uses your credits based on the analysed length; your first export is on us, and creating a free account gives you credits to keep going.

MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV and WebM as input. The edit is rendered as MP4, which plays everywhere.

What Creators Say

Condense your long video

AI-decided cuts, automatic assembly, one video to publish.

The long edit, without the hours of editing

Condensing a video by hand means listening to all of it, noting timestamps, then cutting and stitching in an editor. Klipa walks that path for you: import the long video, say how long you want the result, and collect the edit. What used to take half a day now fits into a coffee break.