The weekly podcast problem
A weekly show produces forty to ninety minutes of recording every seven days. Somewhere in each episode are three or four exchanges that would stop a thumb: the guest’s unexpected answer, the host’s rant, the story that made everyone in the room go quiet. Finding those by hand means listening again, with a notepad, which is why so many shows have a brilliant back catalogue and an empty shorts feed.
AI Shorts Creator is built for this routine. Export the episode or a fifteen-minute segment of it, upload, choose how many shorts you want, and come back a few minutes later to a set of finished vertical clips with captions and titles. Do it on release day and the promotion is done before the episode is a day old.
Working with long episodes
Uploads are capped at fifteen minutes, which is deliberate: it keeps each job fast and cheap and makes the picker’s choices sharper. For a sixty-minute episode, export the three or four segments you think are richest — the opening, the main interview block, the closing questions — and run each as its own job. Most editors and even desktop players can export a time range without re-encoding.
If your show is audio-only with a static image, the clipper still works, but the frame will be that static image for the whole clip. Shows recorded with a camera on the host and guest produce far better shorts, and the centre-crop mode is designed for exactly that framing.
Two hosts, one frame
Most video podcasts are shot wide with two or three people across the frame. Centre crop will keep whoever is in the middle; if your layout puts the speaker at the side, use blur-pad so both people stay visible with the full wide shot letterboxed inside the vertical frame. Multi-camera recordings that already cut to the speaker work best of all, because the centre of the frame is always the person talking.
What a podcast short looks like
Twenty to sixty seconds, starting on the first word of a sentence and ending when the thought lands. Bold uppercase captions in the lower third with the spoken word highlighted, so the clip works with the sound off in a feed. A thin cobalt progress bar along the bottom edge. A title of up to eight words written as a hook, which many shows paste straight into the post. Everything burned into a 1080×1920 MP4 with the audio untouched.
A release-day routine that holds up
Upload the episode segments while the full episode is uploading elsewhere. Review the shorts, keep the three best, download them, and schedule one a day. The Clipper plan covers six jobs a month, enough for a weekly show that runs one or two segments per episode; the Channel plan covers twenty-five for shows that publish more often or run every segment.