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Smart Short Clips for Mac

Are you looking for an effortless way to transform long videos into engaging, social media-ready clips on your Mac? Check out Filmora's Smart Short Clips feature!

This powerful tool simplifies the editing process by automatically identifying key moments in your footage, enabling you to create captivating shorts with just a few clicks. Dive into this guide to learn how to access and use this feature on your Mac!

Access Smart Short Clips Feature

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  • When you open Filmora, in the list of features under "New Project", you can find the entrance of Smart Short Clips.
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  • You can click on "Filmora Cloud" and find the entry in the "Cloud Space" general buttons.
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Entry on Filmora Cloud
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  • You can click on "Toolbox" and find the Smart Short Clips entry in the function card, or you can check the latest new features.
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Entry on Toolbox

Steps to Use Smart Short Clips

Step 1: Upload Your Videos

Simply paste a link to a YouTube video, upload a video file, or directly choose a file from Filmora Cloud into Filmora.

Note: Remember to use your own YouTube videos if you are choosing to paste a YouTube URL.

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Upload Your Videos

When uploading a video, you need to select the video source language manually. You can also adjust the Duration, and Themes yourself if you don't want to accept the default settings.

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Fill Project Information

You can access the Advanced menu to choose the aspect ratio and activate Smart BGM Generation to auto-generate music that fits your content.

Tip: You can enter a few keywords about your content in the Main Topic box to help the AI generate relevant animations.

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Access Advanced Settings

Rich templates are available under different themes. You can scroll down to find various high-quality short video templates. Select the one that catches your eye and click on Generate to continue.

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Rich Templates

You will need to wait a short time for the software to detect the video source language and upload the video.

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Wait for the Completion

Tip:During the generation process, you can click "return" to edit your other videos. Moreover, an email will be delivered for notification when it is generated.

Step 2: Choose Your Shorts

Based on the uploaded video and the selected settings, the system will generate several results and will give a rating based on the platform rules.

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Generate Different Videos

Tips:

  • You can also click "Reset" to regenerate it.
  • You can choose "AI Speech Enhancement" to improve the quality of your voice recordings beyond just denoising.

Choose your favorite video clips which can be exported directly or refined.

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Choose Your Favorite Clip
Step 3: Edit Your Video

After clicking "Edit" you will enter the editing panel of Smart Short Clips. You can choose to use or hide specific captions in Select Mode or view the script by timecode for easier editing in Time Code Mode.

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Choose Time Code Mode

Tip:You can also generate Thumbnails and edit them by selecting the appropriate location.

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Edit Your Thumbnail

You can also change the font style to better fit your video's theme by selecting the clip and navigating to the Text tab. Then click "Apply to All" to apply it to the whole video.

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Choose Text Template

In the top toolbar, there are many other templates and resources for titles, transitions, effects, filters, and stickers that you can choose to add to your video.

To modify the text, go to the Basic option under the Text tab. You can adjust the text, merge, or emphasize certain words as needed.

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Edit Video Text Script

If you're not satisfied with the existing speech or want to add more dialogue to the video, you can use the Text-to-Speech feature to generate new voiceovers from the text.

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Text to Speech

You can also adjust the stickers etc. in the generated video by deleting them, zooming in or out.

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Edit Stickers in Video

AI will intelligently recognize characters according to specific scenarios and place them in the middle with a reasonable split-screen layout.

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Split Screen
Step 4: Export Your Shorts

Finally, open the Export window, select the social media platform (YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok) for your video upload, and customize settings such as the title, description, category, resolution, and more.

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Export Your Video

If you want to schedule your post, enable the Schedule option and set the desired date and time.

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Schedule Your Videos