jipraks / yt-short-clipper
Windows desktop app that turns long-form YouTube videos into 9:16 short-form clips — AI highlight detection, face-tracking portrait reframe, and word-by-word captions.
Why this job: topics: video-editing, ai-video
What it does
- AI highlight detection from the video's subtitle transcript, via any
- AI direction per video. free-text steering: name a time range, chase a recurring
- Output language for titles and hook text, defaulting to the video's own language
- Portrait reframe in three modes. face tracking (MediaPipe), centered on black bars,
- Word-by-word captions burned from YouTube's original subtitle track — no
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 50 days ago
- Stars
- 1,074
- +10 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v2.0.7-beta
- Released 50 days ago
- Built with
- TypeScript
- 56% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 1
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 94% closed
- 1 still open
- Pull requests
- 5 merged
- 0 waiting
- Releases
- 29
- 29 in the last year
- No contributing guide
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- TypeScript 56%
- Python 28%
- Rust 13%
- PowerShell 2%
Topics
- ai-video
- content-creation
- ffmpeg
- instagram-reels
- llm
- mediapipe
- python
- react
- rust
- short-form-video
- tauri
- tauri-app
Project record
- JobVideo
- StatusFeatured
- Commits14
- Forks311
- Watching19
- Stars in 28 days+41
- CreatedJan 15, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026