Guide
How to make shorts from a long video for free, no watermark
Last updated: 14 November 2026
Many online clippers upload your video to their server and count the minutes. The free tier is usually a few clips with a watermark, then credits. The reason is simple: rendering on a server costs money.
frameyeet works differently: scanning, editing and export run in the browser on your computer. Your video never uploads, so nobody counts minutes, and your shorts come out without a watermark.
What “free” means here
- No watermark. Your shorts come out clean.
- No credits. Nobody counts minutes of footage: rendering runs on your computer, so it costs us nothing.
- No upload. Your video never leaves your device. A big file opens in place, without a copy.
- Nothing to install. Runs right in your browser.
Step by step
- Open frameyeet. In Chrome or Edge on a computer, press “Add video” and pick the recording: MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV.
- Choose auto-cut. For a video longer than 5 minutes, frameyeet asks: cut it into shorts or open it whole? “Cut into shorts” starts the search. “Open whole” gives you one project with the entire recording on the timeline, where you find and cut the short yourself.
- Pick a scan mode. “Detailed” reads every frame. “Medium” and “Fast” read less and run quicker, but find only part of what Detailed finds.
- Review the shorts. frameyeet suggests shorts, each with its reason, aiming for 10–40 seconds. Dead pauses of 3 seconds or more are cut, and the strongest moment goes first. Keep what works, delete the rest.
- Finish by hand if needed. In the editor: trim and split, captions, auto-captions (beta, Powered by Moonshine AI), plus pictures, GIFs and sound from your device.
- Export. Select the shorts and press “Export”: MP4 (H.264 video, AAC sound), 9:16, 1080 pixels wide by default, in one batch. Square 1:1 is on the short’s card.
Good to know
- Gameplay only, for now. Auto-cut is tuned for game recordings: game sound, voice, motion and cuts. Podcasts, interviews and vlogs are in development. Quiet, slow games give fewer signals, so you get fewer shorts.
- frameyeet suggests, you decide. Every short comes with a reason, but a reason is a hint, not a guaranteed hit. Watch your shorts before you post them.
- Best in Chrome or Edge on a computer. We haven’t tested other browsers well enough yet. On iPhone with iOS 18 or older, video exports without sound: Safari there can’t encode audio, and frameyeet tells you before you export.
- Projects live in your browser. They don’t sync between devices. You can save a project as a file as a backup (without the video).
Try it on your own recording: all you need is a browser on a computer.
Questions
Is there really no watermark?
Really. frameyeet doesn’t put a watermark on any short.
Can I cut a podcast or a vlog?
Not with auto-cut yet: it’s tuned for gameplay recordings, and other video types are in development, because each needs its own detector. You can still open any long video whole and cut it by hand.
Where does my video get uploaded?
Nowhere. Scanning, editing and export happen in the browser on your device.
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