Getting Started: From Long Video to Published Short

Step 01: Open your account and land in My Videos

Start by signing in to MintiStudio, then head straight to My Videos. This is your working library: the place where uploaded long videos, generated Shorts, and their current progress all come together.

Step 02: Upload a long video and start the analysis

Upload the long-form video you want to repurpose, then start analysis. MintiStudio prepares the video for the rest of the workflow by pulling together the media, transcript, and clip-planning context.

Step 03: Review and clean up the transcript

Once the transcript is ready, skim through it and make any fixes that matter before clipping. A clean transcript gives Minti better material for suggestions and makes later caption editing much smoother.

Step 04: Let Minti suggest the strongest moments

Ask Minti to suggest clips from the full video. Instead of starting from a blank slate, you get a set of candidate moments that are already shaped around hooks, self-contained ideas, and short-form pacing.

Step 05: Choose a clip and style the frame

Open the clip in the editor and set the look you want: crop, background, subtitles, and overall framing. This is where the Short starts to feel ready for publishing rather than just extracted.

Step 06: Create the clip from the chosen moment

When the framing and styling look right, create the clip. Minti turns that selected range into a proper Short project that can now be rendered, reviewed, and published.

Step 07: Render the final Short

Run the render once everything is set. Minti composes the vertical video, captions, title treatment, and background choices into the final export you can review and download.

Step 08: Schedule and publish across platforms

After rendering, send the Short into your publishing flow. You can schedule the release and manage where it goes next, so YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook all fit into the same workflow instead of separate tools.

Step 09: Track the result and keep the loop going

Once the Short is live, use the tracking view to see how it performed and carry that learning into the next batch. The workflow is meant to repeat: one long video in, several smarter Shorts out.

Next step

Turn one long video into a publishable Shorts workflow — upload once, find the moments, style the clip, and publish across platforms from the same place.

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Upload once, find the moments, style the clip, and publish across platforms from the same place.