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          <span class="eyebrow">YouTube → Shorts</span>
          <h1>Turn long YouTube videos into Shorts</h1>
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            Paste any YouTube link. Clippy cuts it into vertical clips with word-synced
            captions and written titles, all on your own computer.
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            <span class="cta-note">Your own videos, or any you have the right to use</span>
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              <p class="title">Clips Kitty is free &amp; open source ❤️</p>
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                It runs entirely on your PC with no fees. Please consider donating to help
                cover development costs and keep it free for everyone.
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          <h2>Most-replayed is a real signal, used carefully</h2>
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            YouTube publishes a most-replayed graph for many videos, an aggregate of where
            thousands of people scrubbed back. Where it exists, Clips Kitty reads it and lets
            the very top of that curve nudge a moment up the ranking.
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            Only the sharpest peaks earn anything, and the bonus is <strong>capped below</strong>
            what the video's own content can score. Replay spikes also mark confusing bits
            people rewound to understand, and intros people skip back to, which is exactly why
            it informs the decision rather than making it.
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          <h2>Made for talking-head content</h2>
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              <h3>Podcasts and interviews</h3>
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                Podcast mode handles multi-camera footage: each shot gets its own steady crop
                centred on whoever is talking, so cuts land on a face with no panning.
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              <h3>Tutorials and commentary</h3>
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                Scoring leans on what is said, and clips snap to sentence boundaries so a
                Short never opens mid-word.
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              <h3>Your own back catalogue</h3>
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                Point it at videos you already published and mine them for Shorts. Or import a
                local file to cut before you publish anything at all.
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          <h2>One thing worth knowing about codecs</h2>
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            YouTube serves much of its catalogue in AV1, which almost no consumer GPU decodes
            in hardware. Left alone, that made processing take roughly twice as long, because every
            analysis pass and every render paying for software decoding.
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            Clips Kitty asks for H.264 instead, and converts once up front if it ends up with
            something slow. You do not have to know any of this; it is here because "why is
            YouTube slower than Twitch" is a fair question with a real answer.
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          <h2>Posting the Shorts back</h2>
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            Shorts need nothing special on the way out: no separate mode and no hashtag.
            YouTube decides a video is a Short from its shape and length by itself. Export the
            clips and upload them however you normally would.
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            If uploading a dozen by hand is the part you dread, Clips Kitty can post them for
            you. Write the title once and a clip goes to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook,
            X, Threads, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Bluesky together, or a whole batch goes out
            spread over a few days so nothing looks like spam. It runs through <a href="https://woopsocial.com/?via=clipskitty" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer sponsored">WoopSocial</a> or
            Upload-Post on your own account, which is the one part of the app that is not
            local, and it stays off until you switch it on.
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          <h2>Get started</h2>
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