Auto-generate viral 9:16 YouTube Shorts (or TikTok / Reels clips) from a long-form video. Thin platform-aware wrapper around the AI Clipping skill - picks sensible defaults for short-form social platforms (9:16, 30-60…
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slug: muapi-youtube-shorts
name: muapi-youtube-shorts
version: "2.0.0"
description: Auto-generate viral 9:16 YouTube Shorts (or TikTok / Reels clips) from a long-form video. Thin platform-aware wrapper around the AI Clipping skill — picks sensible defaults for short-form social platforms (9:16, 30–60s sweet spot) and delegates the actual highlight extraction + crop to muapi.ai's `/ai-clipping` endpoint.
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# YouTube Shorts Generator
**Long video → ranked vertical short clips, tuned for short-form social.**
This skill is a platform-aware preset over the [AI Clipping](../../edit/ai-clipping/) primitive. It picks the right aspect ratio and clip count for the target platform and delegates highlight extraction, dedupe, and face-tracked auto-crop to muapi.ai's managed `/ai-clipping` endpoint.
Reference implementation: https://github.com/SamurAIGPT/AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator
Underlying API: https://muapi.ai/playground/ai-clipping
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## When to Use This vs. AI Clipping
| Use this skill when… | Use [AI Clipping](../../edit/ai-clipping/) directly when… |
|:---|:---|
| Target is YouTube Shorts / TikTok / Reels | You want full control over aspect / count |
| You want platform-tuned defaults | You want raw timestamps (`--coords-only`) |… install to load the full skill