Workflow··5 min read

Turn one long video into a week of clips

The creators who win short-form aren't filming more — they're repurposing better. Here's the system for squeezing a week of posts out of a single recording.

Start with content you already have

Every podcast episode, livestream, webinar, or long YouTube upload is a goldmine of short-form. The work isn't creating new material — it's extracting the moments that stand on their own and packaging them for vertical feeds.

The repurposing system

Run this loop on every long video:

  • Transcribe the full video so you can scan it fast
  • Mark 4–6 self-contained moments with a clear payoff
  • Cut each to 20–60 seconds, starting near the punchline
  • Reframe to 9:16 and keep the speaker centered
  • Burn in captions and a hook headline
  • Schedule them out across the week, not all at once

Automate the tedious parts

Done by hand, that loop takes hours per video. Nova automates the whole chain: paste a link or upload a file, and it transcribes, ranks every segment for virality, cuts the best moments, reframes them, captions them, and even schedules them. You go from one long video to a batch of finished clips without opening an editor.

Try the first step now — paste a link and see the moments Nova would pull:

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Turn your video into clips

Nova does the clipping, reframing, and captioning for you. Free to start.

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