One upload, a full cut AND shorts: how TailorClip decides what to make

2026-07-13 · 4 min read

Most AI clipping tools take one approach to every video: find the "best" moments, cut ten near-identical highlights, and rank them with a score. TailorClip works the way an editor does — it looks at what your footage actually is, then plans a small set of finished, deliberately different edits.

The variety kinds

When your video finishes analyzing, TailorClip generates cuts by kind, each with its own cap so you never get a wall of near-duplicates:

• ✦Long-form — a full-length cut that keeps everything good. Long videos aren't shortened to death; they're tightened (up to 4 per batch).
• ✦Shorts — platform-length cuts with the hook inside the first seconds, in 9:16 (up to 10).
• ✦Wildcard — Tailor's own creative take on the same footage. Sometimes it's the one you post (up to 4).
• ✦Mixed — a balanced batch when you just want options (up to 6).

Long videos get asked first

If your source runs longer than eight minutes, TailorClip doesn't guess — it asks whether you want long-form or shorts first, because the right answer changes the whole edit plan. Short sources skip the question and get a mixed batch automatically.

Every cut explains itself

Each finished edit ships with a one-line rationale — "Opens on the drop at 4:12 — the strongest hook in your footage" — so choosing a winner takes seconds. And when two or more people talk in your footage, a speaker-switch cut where the frame follows the conversation is generated as one of the varieties automatically.

One upload in. A gallery of real, different edits out — every one of them ready to post in 9:16 or 16:9 with captions burned in.