AI YouTube Shorts Generator — guide skill for editing & clips

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Open-source Opus Clip alternative: LLM finds highlights in long videos and renders 9:16 shorts with face crop.

• Type: Guide · Editing & clips
• Slug: ai-youtube-shorts-generator
• Status: live
• Publisher: Anil-matcha (community)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/Anil-matcha/AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator
• Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
• Cost: Free/open source
• Adoption: 5,631 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)

What it does

Hand it a YouTube URL and get ranked 9:16 shorts: Whisper transcription, LLM highlight detection with a viral score, hook line and reason per clip, and vertical cropping. Runs in API mode (MuAPI) or fully local mode (yt-dlp, faster-whisper), chunks videos over 30 minutes and can emit JSON for batch use.

Use when

• turn a podcast or stream into shorts
• self-host clipping instead of paying per minute
• fork a simple highlight pipeline

Install

• Claude Code: git clone https://github.com/SamurAIGPT/AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator.git && pip install -r requirements.txt

More editing & clips skills

• Short-form FFmpeg cookbook: copyable commands for Reels: Footage into a 9:16 MP4 with FFmpeg: crop to vertical, burn captions, trim and join, music under the voice.
• Splice AI clips into a video with FFmpeg: Splice generated clips into an original video with ffmpeg without A/V drift: absolute trims, one audio track.
• Chengfeng Videocut: Chinese talking-head editing: word-level transcript, five-pass flub sweep, human review in a Studio, subtitles, export.
• Claude Code Video Toolkit: Open-source video workspace for Claude Code: script, voice, music, visuals and Remotion render on your own GPU account.
• Herk Edit Kit: Nate Herk's kit to edit talking-head videos, reels and Shorts: silence and flub cuts, storytelling, motion graphics.
• Clipify: Long videos into social clips: find funny lines or impact beats, cut, reframe to 9:16, burn word-by-word captions.