Make YouTube Shorts with AI from one sentence, a page link or screenshots. This AI YouTube Shorts maker writes the script, builds vertical motion graphics scenes with voiceover and captions, and lets you edit every scene before you export an MP4 to upload yourself. It makes new Shorts; it does not cut clips from a long video.
Free to preview and edit. You only pay when you export.
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Each vertical sample came out of the AI shorts generator from one sentence, a pasted outline, a page link, screenshots or a PDF, with Short picked under Video type. Select a poster to play it.
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Why the sky is blue, explained one idea per screen and made from one sentence of direction.
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Three uploaded screenshots of the Potto AI image generator become a three-step how-to: open the generator, type your prompt, pick a model.
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The outline of a long cold brew test video, pasted as text, becomes a Short that previews three findings in a sample channel's brand colors and sends viewers to the full video.
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A link to the Potto image upscaler page becomes an explainer on what upscaling changes in a photo, when to use it and what to check in the result.
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Weekly bike-share ride counts typed into the prompt as example numbers become one animated bar chart and a single takeaway, framed for phones.
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A biology handout PDF becomes a vertical lesson, voiced and captioned in Spanish: the steps of photosynthesis in order.
Potto wrote the prompts, outline and sample files behind these YouTube Shorts; the channel, people and figures in them are fictional, and two samples show Potto's own pages. Each one is a Potto project export, not a recording of a customer channel.
The first scene of the sky science sample as Potto's AI shorts generator wrote it in the storyboard, next to the frame it became. Viewers decide on a phone whether to keep watching YouTube Shorts, so the opening scene carries the hook.
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The hook line from the storyboard appears as large text in a vertical frame, short enough to read on a phone at a glance. Details that would crowd a small screen move into the voiceover instead.
The storyboard row also holds a spoken line. Narration explains what the on-screen text only names, and captions highlight each word as it is spoken for viewers who watch Shorts with the sound off.
Read the hook out loud against the first frame and ask whether it says what the Short is about. Then check every name, number and claim against your source: the AI shorts generator writes only from what you give it, and you are the one who publishes it.
YouTube Shorts are watched on phones, often by viewers who do not know your channel yet. Whatever short video maker you use, give each video a single job, and let that job decide the input, the opening line and the ending.
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One task per video. Start from screenshots for steps on a screen, or from a sentence for a single technique, and keep the steps in order. Exact button names and settings belong on screen, not only in narration, because viewers may pause and follow along.
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Write the outline or main findings of a long video into your brief and ask for YouTube Shorts that preview them. Potto builds new scenes from that text. End on where to watch the full video, and keep every claim to what the long video shows.
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Paste a public page link, upload a PDF, PowerPoint or Word file, or type your numbers into the prompt. Turn one idea or one number into a short video, with a single chart per screen so it stays readable in a vertical frame.
Use this AI YouTube Shorts maker in three steps with the creator above. Previews are free, and the credit price appears before you export.
Write a sentence on what the video should teach or show, and who it is for. Add a public link, screenshots, or PDF, PowerPoint and Word files of 20 MB or less. Choose Short as the video type for a 9:16, 30-second video with voiceover and captions.
Read the script and storyboard the AI shorts generator drafted. Edit the words on screen and the voiceover for any scene, swap a screenshot, choose a focus point, or regenerate or replace an illustration. Make sure the first scene says what it is about.
Watch a preview in your browser for free. Export a 1080p MP4 at 30 fps in 1080×1920, then upload it to YouTube Shorts yourself. Credits are charged only when you export, based on length, narration and illustrations.
Potto is a short video maker that starts from your idea and sources, and builds YouTube Shorts from new scenes: an AI-written script, motion graphics, narration, captions and music, exported as a vertical MP4.
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Describe your video in one sentence and say what its first scene should land on. Claude Opus 5.5 drafts the outline, storyboard and voiceover script around that hook; scenes are rendered with Remotion, with AI-generated illustrations and voiceover. If the hook falls flat, rewrite it before exporting.
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Paste a public http or https link, and Potto reads that page plus up to 2 more pages on the same site and captures a 1440×900 screenshot of the first view. You can also add screenshots and PDF, PowerPoint or Word files of 20 MB or less each. Pages behind a login cannot be read, so upload screenshots of them instead.
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With Short as the video type, a project starts as a 9:16 video of 30 seconds with narration and captions on. As a short video maker for phones, it uses the full height of the frame, with large text and one idea at a time. When you also need a video for a website or a feed, the same creator exports 16:9 and 1:1 too, and the price stays the same for every aspect ratio.
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Choose any of 32 narration languages or let Potto detect the language. Captions highlight each word as it is spoken, so your Shorts still make sense with the sound off. Background music comes from Potto's own library of original tracks, picked to fit the style and length, and you can change it.
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Select a brand kit, or turn on the default brand, and its four brand colors are applied to the visuals. Choose a font from Inter, Space Grotesk and Bricolage; your logo appears in opening and closing scenes, so a series of YouTube Shorts looks like it comes from one channel.
A short video maker for YouTube is one way to use Potto. These pages cover other formats and starting points.
What a YouTube Shorts maker is, what Potto needs from you, and the limits, edits and prices to know before exporting.
A YouTube Shorts maker is a short video maker for vertical videos made for YouTube Shorts, the short-form format that viewers watch and swipe through on their phones. Many Shorts makers are editors or clip tools that cut a long video into pieces. Potto is an AI YouTube Shorts maker that generates new Shorts from a sentence, a link, screenshots or a document: it writes the script, renders motion graphics scenes with narration, captions and music, and exports an MP4. It does not film footage or generate a digital presenter.
An AI shorts generator is software that uses AI to produce short vertical videos from an input such as a prompt, a script, an article or an existing video. Potto is an AI shorts generator that works from prompts and sources: Claude Opus 5.5 writes the outline, storyboard and voiceover script, and Potto's Remotion scenes turn it into motion graphics, with AI-generated illustrations and voiceover. Potto currently cannot take an existing video as input, so it does not pick highlights from your footage.
To make YouTube Shorts with AI here, describe the video in the creator at the top, add a page link or files if you have them, pick Short under Video type and start the project. Claude Opus 5.5 drafts the script, storyboard, voiceover and captions; you edit them scene by scene, preview for free in your browser, export an MP4 and upload it to YouTube Shorts yourself.
The AI YouTube Shorts maker accepts a sentence of direction, a public link, screenshots and documents. Potto reads a public http or https page plus up to 2 more pages on the same site; pages behind a login cannot be read, so upload screenshots of them instead. PDF, PowerPoint and Word files can be 20 MB each, with text read from up to 100 pages, and one project holds 8 attachments in total.
No. Potto currently cannot take an existing video to analyze or edit, so it cannot cut YouTube Shorts out of a long video. It can make new Shorts about the same topic: paste the outline, script or key findings of your long video into the brief, and this AI YouTube Shorts maker builds fresh scenes that send viewers to the full video.
Yes. Before you export, you can edit what the AI shorts generator drafted: the words on screen and the voiceover script for each scene. For visuals, you can swap a screenshot, choose its focus point, regenerate an illustration or replace it with your own upload. Preview again after each change, and check that the first scene still says what it is about.
Yes, when you select a brand kit or turn on the default brand. Its four brand colors are applied to the visuals, the font is your choice of Inter, Space Grotesk or Bricolage, and your logo appears in opening and closing scenes of your YouTube Shorts.
Yes. The AI YouTube Shorts maker offers narration in 32 languages, or it can detect the language automatically. Captions highlight each word as it is spoken, which helps viewers who watch Shorts with the sound off. Listen to a preview once for names, numbers and abbreviations.
YouTube Shorts are exported as a 1080p MP4 at 30 fps in 9:16 (1080×1920). The Short video type starts from that vertical frame, 30 seconds and narration with captions. The same creator also exports 16:9 (1920×1080) and 1:1 (1080×1080) when you need a video for a website or a feed. A 4:5 frame and GIF export are not available.
No. Potto exports an MP4 file, and you upload it to YouTube yourself. It is not connected to your YouTube account and never publishes or schedules Shorts. As a short video maker, it gives you a file that any app accepting a vertical MP4 can take; for Instagram, see the Reels maker page.
Generating and previewing YouTube Shorts in your browser is free; credits are charged only when you export. The price depends on video length, narration length and how many AI illustrations you use, and aspect ratio does not change it. For example, a 30-second Short with English narration and no illustrations costs 153 credits, and adding 2 illustrations brings it to 199 credits. Each account can start up to 30 video projects and generate 60 illustrations a day.
Use the short video maker above: describe your idea, add a link or screenshots, review every scene and see the credit price before you export a vertical MP4.