10 AI Video Editing Hacks Creators Are Actually Using
A YouTuber and her team tested a year's worth of AI editing tools and kept the ten that save real time without making the content feel robotic.
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Big Idea
The argument in one line.
Ten specific AI tools now handle the repetitive parts of video editing, trimming, audio cleanup, captions, b-roll, background removal, so a creator's time goes toward the ideas and voice AI still can't replace.
Who This Is For
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
A creator already publishing regularly who wants to cut editing time without hiring an editor yet.
A YouTuber or short-form creator who wants specific tool names and prices, not just the general idea of 'using AI to edit'.
Someone weighing paid editing tools like Gling, Submagic, OpusClip, or Riverside and wants real pricing before committing.
SKIP IF…
You're looking for AI to generate video content from scratch, not edit footage you already shot.
You want one all-in-one tool recommendation rather than a curated list of ten single-purpose tools.
TL;DR
The full version, fast.
AI has taken over the repetitive half of video editing: Gling auto-cuts a rough draft, Adobe Premiere mobile cleans up audio better than CapCut, Templify beats Submagic on stylized captions, and ClipTag auto-organizes raw footage. Further down the pipeline, OpusClip auto-inserts b-roll and repurposes long videos into shorts, Riverside's 'magic clips' does the same for podcasts, and Metricool or repurpose.io handle cross-posting. Each tool gets a real price ($7-35/month range). The through-line: repurposing and automation only pay off once a creator already has traction on one platform, and AI tools that promise to fully replace hands-on editing, like eye-contact correction or Claude, aren't there yet.
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States the video's premise: AI for editing efficiency, not for AI-generated content or replacing the creator.
00:51 – 01:07
02 · AI disclaimer
Draws the line before the list starts: this is not about video generation.
01:08 – 02:58
03 · Hack 1: The first rough cut
Gling auto-trims silences, bad takes, and filler words into a first cut.
02:59 – 05:19
04 · Hack 2: Enhanced audio
AI voice cleanup compared across CapCut and Adobe Premiere mobile.
05:20 – 07:57
05 · Hack 3: Captions & subtitles
Submagic vs. Templify for auto-captions with a stylized brand look.
07:58 – 09:32
06 · Sponsor: HubSpot
Integrated read for HubSpot's free 'Create Authentic AI Content' guide.
09:33 – 12:04
07 · Hack 4: Video organization
ClipTag auto-tags, renames, and sorts raw footage into a searchable library.
12:05 – 13:12
08 · Hack 5: Automatic b-roll
OpusClip auto-inserts relevant b-roll into talking-head footage.
13:13 – 15:33
09 · Hack 6: All-in-one editing
Submagic as a bundled tool for rough cuts, captions, and auto zooms.
15:34 – 16:44
10 · Hack 7: Background removal
CapCut, Adobe Premiere, and Canva Pro all offer one-click background removal.
16:45 – 18:06
11 · Hack 8: Sync clips to music
Auto beat-detection replaces manual play-pause cutting to the rhythm.
18:07 – 23:10
12 · Hack 9: Repurposing content
OpusClip, Riverside, Metricool, and repurpose.io for turning one video into many.
23:11 – 24:38
13 · Hack 10: AI-driven storyboarding
Storyboard That helps plan shots before filming, especially for UGC and brand work.
24:39 – 26:24
14 · Honorable mentions
AI eye-contact correction and using Claude to edit video, both not quite there yet.
26:25 – 26:35
15 · Outro
Sign-off and invitation to request a full Claude editing tutorial.
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Gling's free plan caps at one hour of footage a month; the paid tier is $20/month for ten hours, positioning it as the default first-cut tool for high-volume channels.
CapCut's audio-enhance feature can make a voice sound more echoey, while Adobe Premiere mobile's version produces a noticeably crisper result in about five seconds.
Adobe Premiere is the single most expensive tool in the stack: enhanced audio is free on mobile, but the desktop app costs roughly $35/month on its own.
Submagic's auto-captions are functional but visually generic even with a brand kit applied; more stylized, customizable captions come from Templify instead.
ClipTag can auto-rename and tag raw footage by content and flag weak shots, turning hours of manual b-roll hunting into a searchable library.
OpusClip auto-inserts relevant b-roll into talking-head footage using the Pexels library or a creator's own uploaded clips, priced at $15-30/month.
Editing video cuts to match the beat of the music measurably improves retention because it reads as more polished and keeps viewers watching longer.
Riverside's 'magic clips' feature automatically detects and edits the best short-form moments out of a long-form video with no manual clipping.
A brand-new creator does not need to repurpose content across platforms; going all-in on one platform until traction builds is the better early move.
Metricool is nearly free for solo creators (20 scheduled cross-posts a month), while repurpose.io at $35/month automates re-posting between platforms entirely hands-off.
AI eye-contact correction, making a reader's gaze look camera-locked while reading a script, exists in several tools but isn't convincing enough yet to count as a real hack.
Using Claude to edit a full video requires enough manual setup that it doesn't function as a genuine 'hack,' despite social media claims that it edits video hands-off.
Takeaway
Ten AI tools now handle the repetitive half of video editing
WHAT TO LEARN
Rough cuts, audio cleanup, captions, organization, b-roll, and repurposing all now have a dedicated AI tool, so the editing bottleneck for creators has shifted from technical skill to picking the right $10-35/month tool for each step.
03Hack 1: The first rough cut
Gling's free plan caps at one hour of footage a month; paid tier is $20/month for ten hours, making it the default first-cut tool for high-volume channels.
Gling can trim silences, remove filler words, and cut bad takes into a first rough cut automatically, turning hours of manual scrubbing into minutes.
After the AI pass, review Gling's auto-generated transcript alongside the cut to catch anything wrongly kept or removed before finishing in a full editor.
04Hack 2: Enhanced audio
AI voice-enhancement tools isolate a voice and strip background noise well enough to skip buying a mic before filming and still sound clean.
Not all enhancement engines are equal: CapCut's version can add an echoey artifact, while Adobe Premiere's mobile enhance-audio produces a noticeably crisper result in about five seconds.
Adobe Premiere's enhanced audio is free on mobile; the desktop app runs about $35/month, the most expensive single tool in the whole stack.
05Hack 3: Captions & subtitles
Auto-caption tools like Submagic are reliable but visually generic even with a brand kit applied; treat them as a baseline, not a finished look.
Templify offers more stylized, on-brand caption templates with word-level editing of position, size, and color after the AI generates the first pass.
Templify's free tier is usable; Pro runs about $12/month and, at time of filming, is iPhone-only.
07Hack 4: Video organization
AI tools like ClipTag can auto-tag, rename, and sort raw footage by content, and flag weak shots, turning a messy b-roll folder into a searchable library.
Organized, consistently-named footage matters most once a team is involved: collaborators can find a clip without asking what it was saved as.
ClipTag pricing rewards light usage: plans start near $7/month for 500 files, and unused credits roll over instead of expiring.
08Hack 5: Automatic b-roll
OpusClip can auto-insert relevant b-roll into a talking-head video by pulling from the Pexels library or a creator's own uploaded clips.
Automatic b-roll placement is judged by relevance to the transcript, not just keyword-matched stock footage dropped over dead air.
OpusClip runs $15/month on the starter plan or $30/month on pro, with roughly 50% off if paid annually.
09Hack 6: All-in-one editing
An all-in-one tool like Submagic bundles rough-cut trimming, auto captions, auto zooms, and AI hook-title generation into one $12-23/month workflow, a reasonable first AI-editing tool to test.
Higher-tier Submagic plans unlock brand-kit captions and direct publishing to TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, useful when turnaround speed matters more than polish.
Different tools suit different formats: long-form gets a dedicated rough-cut tool like Gling; short-form gets a fast all-in-one like Submagic when time is tight.
10Hack 7: Background removal
Background removal, available in CapCut, Adobe Premiere, and Canva Pro, unlocks compositing tricks like text-behind-subject or a scrolling-phone overlay effect.
Canva's background removal is a Pro-only feature, reached by starting a new video project and applying it directly in the editor.
11Hack 8: Sync clips to music
Auto beat-sync features in Canva, CapCut, and TikTok's editor detect the beat of a music track automatically, replacing manual play-pause-cut editing by ear.
Cutting video on the beat measurably helps retention: an edit that lands in time with the music reads as more polished and keeps viewers watching longer.
12Hack 9: Repurposing content
Repurposing only makes sense once a platform already has traction; a brand-new creator should go all-in on one platform before splitting effort elsewhere.
OpusClip and Riverside both convert long-form video into short clips automatically; Riverside's 'magic clips' detects the best moments without manual selection.
For short-to-short cross-posting, Metricool is largely free at 20 scheduled posts a month, unlimited at $10/month, while repurpose.io at $35/month automates re-posting between platforms entirely hands-off.
13Hack 10: AI-driven storyboarding
Storyboard That uses AI-assisted visual templates to plan shots before filming, most useful for visual/cinematic creators and UGC creators aligning a shot list with a brand before shooting.
A free Storyboard That account allows two storyboards a week with limited elements; paid plans start around $10/month.
14Honorable mentions
AI eye-contact correction, making a reader's gaze look camera-locked while reading a script, exists in several tools but isn't reliable enough yet to be a genuine hack.
Using Claude to fully edit a video requires enough manual setup that it doesn't qualify as a time-saving 'hack' yet, despite social media claims that it edits a whole video hands-off.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
Rough cut
The first pass of an edited video, cut for length and structure but not yet polished; the starting point before final tweaks.
B-roll
Supplementary footage cut in alongside the main talking-head shot to illustrate a point or keep a video visually engaging.
Magic clips
Riverside's AI feature that automatically detects and edits the strongest short-form moments out of a longer video without manual selection.
“If you're a creator who is just getting started, you do not need to repurpose content.”
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26:02
“The amount of setup that goes into making Claude actually usable to edit a video for you, it's like a lot of work, and I don't consider that to be a hack.”
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There's a fine line with AI and the content creator world. And for me, I'm all for using it when it makes a process automated or more efficient without AI getting in the way of my creativity and uniqueness as a content creator.
So my team and I hunted down the top 10 best AI video editing hacks that you need to know the most as a content creator, most of which my team and I are actually using. So in this video, we're going to cover things like automating cuts on your video edits, how to improve your audio quality so it sounds like you have a mic even when you didn't, AI driven storyboarding, and a genuinely easy way to repurpose your content.
As always, timestamps are below. Use them if you need them. Let's jump in.
First, let me reiterate. This video is about AI for efficiency. We are not getting into anything AI video generation or replacing you as the creator with AI.
So that's out of the way. Let's move on to our first hack. Hack number one, getting that first rough cut automatically done.
Automated video trimming might just be my most used AI video editing hack. We usually use an app called Gling.
It's my personal favorite for this. You can cut silences and bad takes, remove filler words, and get your first rough cut of your video done in seconds.
I use this most with editing my course content. I'm constantly upgrading the BSP model throughout the whole year, and there's over a 100 video trainings within BSP. And that's a lot of videos to edit.
So when we discovered Gling, it was a huge relief. Basically, I'll just upload the raw footage directly into Gling.
I'll select what I want Gling to do. It's usually just like cutting the fluff, removing bad takes, cutting awkward pauses, and then Gling edits the video for me.
When it's done processing, you can edit your video using the transcription that it generates too on the side. This is super helpful for me to just kinda, like, skim through the transcript and make sure nothing was accidentally cut or nothing was accidentally forgotten to be cut out. Gling has definitely gotten more advanced since I first discovered it maybe about two years ago because in the beginning, it was just simple edits.
And now it's definitely gotten more advanced with more editing options, but I typically just stick to the basics of getting my first rough cut done, exporting it, and then uploading it to Adobe Premiere Pro to finish doing final tweaks. Glean has a free plan that allows you to edit up to one hour of video footage per month.
So if you're just getting started editing a couple short form videos, this is a great place to start when automating that first rough cut. And when you're ready to upgrade, it costs $20 a month for ten hours of footage to be edited.
Hack number two is enhanced audio. This is one that I have been talking about in my videos probably for a long time. And if you watch any other videos on my channel, you probably already know about this.
But I use this one all the time whenever I don't have an opportunity to grab a mic before filming my short form content. And, basically, you can use AI to enhance your voice or your audio, remove background noises, isolate your voice so that your audio can sound a lot more crisp in your final version of your video.
There are a lot of tools that offer this, a lot of editing apps that offer this, and each one does this a little bit differently. Some do a better job than others. I personally, uh, when I use, like, CapCut's enhanced audio feature, I feel like it makes your voice sound more echoey instead of crisp.
So my absolute favorite tool for this is Adobe Premiere on mobile. Whatever they have in that tool, it's just honestly chef's kiss. Their enhanced audio feature is so crisp, so clean.
It truly sounds like you recorded with a high quality microphone. I'll insert clips here of, like, before and afters. Consistency is key for growing on social media.
Right? Consistency is key for growing on social media. Right?
Using the feature is free and easy to use. So whenever you're in the app editing a video, if you just click on the clip that you want the enhanced audio to apply to, you just click on it and then press enhance audio and turn it on, and it'll start the analysis. And five seconds later, your video sounds pretty crisp.
They also have a feature in Adobe Premiere on desktop. So I also have an Adobe Premiere desktop tutorial. So if you wanna watch how to get comfortable with editing on desktop with Adobe, you could watch that video next.
But I truly think their enhanced audio feature is top tier. Of all the tools we're talking about today, Adobe is going to be the most expensive tool. If you're editing using Adobe Premiere on your phone, the app is free.
If you're editing on your desktop, I believe Adobe Premiere on its own costs $35 a month.
But like I said, there are a lot of other tools that offer enhanced audio. Like, we talked about Cap cut. Gling also offers this as option if you're editing in Gling.
And I'm sure a lot of the other tools that I mentioned throughout this video could have alternatives. But like I said, the Adobe Premiere mobile one is just top tier. Hack three is auto captions and subtitles.
So adding captions and subtitles, this is not a new thing on your short form content. It's also not a new hack.
You know, there are plenty of tools and resources that allow you to auto apply subtitles onto your content. For example, the most popular one is probably Submagic.
My team and I have used Submagic. We love Submagic. But here's the thing, what I'm looking for when I'm applying these automated closed captions, like, I want it to be aesthetic.
You know? I don't want it to look like a standard font. And, yes, you can update and have, a brand kit in Submagic, but there's still limitations to the aestheticness that you could achieve within Submagic.
So if you want captions that are going to match your brand and want to make your videos feel more elevated and more aesthetic, then what I recommend using is the Templify app. This is probably my favorite app that you could use to auto add captions to your videos because they have so many options, and it's, like, very stylistic.
They have a bunch of viral fonts and aesthetic options that you could choose from. And when you find one that you feel like matches the vibe that you're going for, you just click generate captions, and it automatically applies it to your video.
Then, of course, I love that you could also, like, customize and make tweaks any way you want with captions that were already auto generated. So, like, if Templify generated one of the words to, like, be sideways because it's, it matches the style, but I wanted that word to be, like, front and center, I could just tap the word and rearrange it, make it bigger, change the color.
So there's still a lot of customization that you could apply after you've achieved the aesthetic that you're going for. There is a free version of Templify that is absolutely amazing. If at any point you want to upgrade to Templify Pro, you can.
At the time of filming this, it's $12 a month, And I believe the app is only available to iPhone at the time of filming. So far with the three tools that we have talked about, you've probably noticed a pattern. They're not necessarily creating the content for you.
They're taking care of, like, the repetitive parts of the editing process so that you have more time to focus on the parts that actually matter, which is, like, your ideas, your story, your unique voice as a creator. And as more AI content starts flooding the Internet, sounding like yourself is going to become the most important part of being a creator.
AI can help you create faster, but it should never make your content feel less like you. So if you want to use AI without sounding like everyone else, then there's this free guide from HubSpot called create authentic AI content that actually converts.
That's exactly what you need if that's a huge goal of yours. It's basically a step by step playbook that breaks down the exact system that top creators use to create authentic content without using their human voice.
Inside of the free guide, there are two frameworks that I personally think you would love. The first is called RIF, which stands for role instructions and format, and it teaches you how to give AI direction that's specific enough to get the output that actually sounds like you instead of sounding like a generic robot, you know, content that we could probably all spot from a mile away at this point.
And then the second framework is called Chef. Not another acronym. It's actually a cooking metaphor for the four step process for creating content with AI, refining it into your voice, and then scaling it.
My favorite part is that this guide shows you how to build custom AI assistance that remember your brand voice, your tone, your formatting rules so you're not having to, like, reexplain who you are every time you open a new chat. These are the same methods that have helped creators grow 97,000 followers and get over 30,000,000 impressions on their content.
So you could download the guide completely for free using the link in the description below, and a huge thank you to HubSpot for sponsoring this video. Now let's get back into it because this next editing hack might just save your sanity as it did mine.
This is video organization. And to be honest, I had no idea this existed before doing research for this video.
And it's so funny because my husband and I, we were just talking about how annoying it is to, like, have to build our own b roll folders and, like, organize footage that it's just let let me tell you about it, and then you your mind could probably be blown as much as mine was. So you can use a tool called clip tag to categorize and tag your footage based on its content.
And it will even rename the footage so that you never have to spend hours looking for a single clip again. So if you're somebody who has ever like scrolled through your phone library looking for specific b roll footage that you got from like months ago, you will know how valuable this could be.
You can create like your own story blocks. Y'all know about story blocks because we use story blocks.
I love story blocks. I've talked about them here on this channel. It's like you could create your own organized footage library that's named correctly and easy to find.
I feel like I'm explaining this horribly, but it's a game changer. This is one of the AI tools that can genuinely take hours of tedious work off of your plate.
You simply just upload your clips into ClipTag. It will rename them and sort them into folders, tag videos for easy sorting, and even spot weak shots, which can help clean up your footage too.
This is also helpful if you have a team that needs to access your files or look through your footage and find certain clips and maybe they don't know what you saved it as or what it saved as or where it's organized, it's so easy for people to find what they're looking for searching through your content. ClipTag has a free to use plan and then you could upgrade depending on how many files you need to organize per month.
But what I really like about their pricing is that your credits will roll over to the next month if you end up not using them during a month time frame. Their plans start at about $7 a month for 500 files and $13 a month for a thousand files, which like I feel like it's a pretty good deal.
So that's definitely one that you're gonna have to check out. If you've learned something new so far, consider giving this video a thumbs up since it tells YouTube that other creators like yourself find it useful. And if you learn two new things by the end of this video, consider subscribing since it's a simple and free way to support me and my content and allows me to create free videos like this for you every single week.
Hack five is automatically adding b roll into your video editing. If you have a long talking head video like the one you're watching, one of the best ways to keep viewers engaged is through b roll. Y'all already know that I love me some b roll.
And these days, there are some helpful AI tools that can take your talking head video and then automatically add relevant b roll where it makes sense. A tool that I've seen this work well on is OpusClip.
I feel like it's a very popular AI video editing tool with a lot of cool features. They use the Pexels library of b roll footage, which gives their editing software an advantage when it comes to finding relevant shots for you and your content. There's also an option for you to just upload your own b roll clips, and then the AI tool will place those clips where it feels relevant for your video.
The starter plan on Opus clip is $15 a month and the pro plan is $30 a month. That was fun to say. The pro plan is $30 a month.
If you switch to pay for Opus clip yearly, you can save 50% on either plan. Alright. Hack number six.
What about, like, all in one video editor? You know, with how can you get that first rough cut done? Cutting bad takes, silences, adding auto captions, doing auto zooms, AI editing.
Many things to think about when editing your video and keeping the video engaging. I mentioned this tool earlier, and that's Submagic. If you're just looking for, like, an all in one AI video editing tool that you just wanna play with as, like, a first time testing AI video editing, then I would probably recommend Submagic.
It's $12 a month for 15 videos. And with that, you also get three AI credits. Within that twelve month plan, you could do simple edits like the removing bad takes, cutting silences, simple things like that.
But on their $23 a month plan, you can edit up to 40 videos and you also can do other cool things.
Like, they have a AI hook title where it'll, like, generate the AI hook, you know, the text hook that appears at the beginning of your video. You could do the enhanced audio or AI clean audio.
This is where you could create your own brand kit so that the captions that you generate don't look like boring or standard, but you can have it look more customized for you and your brand.
Also on the $23 a month plan, you could, like, publish your videos to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etcetera. Submagic, like I said, is a tool my team and I have used before, and it's also the tool that, like, if we just need a quick edit done and we need quick turnaround, we're just like, alright.
Let's just upload it to Submagic, use the brand fonts, just let's see how quickly we could get this video done.
Specifically, short form content, I'll say I haven't done any long form with Submagic. I'm just talking short form. Typically, Gling is what my team and I use for long form, And then Submagic is what, like, we've kind of defaulted to when we're in a time pinch for Submagic.
Yeah. Speaking of short form contents and hooks, if you're somebody who wants to create engaging short form videos with solid hooks, I do have a free 75 hooks guide.
It's 75 proven viral hooks completely for free that you could just, like, copy, paste, and use into your own content. If that's something that sounds interesting to you, I'll be sure to leave that link down in the description below. Hack number seven is video background removal.
Background removal has honestly been so huge to adding advanced editing elements throughout your video.
I don't know how to best explain this. I've done, like, a 10 cap cut editing hacks video. I've done a 10 Adobe Premiere hacks video and a lot of the cool editing hacks of, like, getting the text behind you or, like, a Spotify scrolling on your phone effect.
There's so many cool things that you can do when you're able to remove the background of a video. Tools that you could use to do this are CapCut, Adobe Premiere, and in case you don't know, you could also do this in Canva.
It is a Canva pro feature, so you would need to have a Canva subscription to do that. But if you're already editing in Canva, it's pretty simple to do.
You just start a new project, upload your video, click on the option for BG removal, background removal, and then Canva will just remove the background from your video, and then you could add all of those other fun elements with your edit.
In case it wasn't clear, you could remove background on Adobe Premiere, both mobile and desktop. Video editing hack number eight is syncing clips to music.
This is one of those AI editing features that honestly, I feel like just keeps getting better and better. It allows you to upload multiple clips and then auto sync your clips with the beat of the music. I remember the days where I would like be editing and then like I would have the music in the background of my vlog or something.
Usually, I'm editing short form and then I'd like play and then try to pause right when the beat so I could like clip it, cut it, delete and then like okay, play, pause to, like, get the beats just right in a song. And now this is something that, like, editing apps do for you already. I can't think of a tool that doesn't have this.
You could do this in Canva, CapCut, TikTok's editor. I don't know about Instagram's in app editor, but I'm pretty sure edits has it.
So if you're somebody that likes to edit to the music and the beat of the song, just like auto generate beats, and then you'll see those beats appear, and then you could finally edit your video cuts pacing specifically to the song and the rhythm of the song, which I personally believe actually helps with the retention of your video when your video is edited in time with the music.
It's more visually appealing for the audience, and it keeps them watching just a little bit longer. So if you're adding music, make sure you're editing to the beat of the music. Hack nine is about repurposing content.
Let's talk about repurposing content. Maybe there's, like, lots of definitions when it comes to repurposing content because it'll depend on the type of creator you are.
For example, if you're a YouTuber, repurposing content might look like taking a long form video, clipping it into short form content, and then, like, repurposing that to short form platforms. Or if you're a TikTok creator and you have one video here, repurposing that might just look like, okay.
I edited this video. Now let me post it to reels and shorts. So there's different definitions of repurposing.
And before I share my favorite tools for repurposing really easily, I also wanna say if you're a creator who is just getting started, you do not need to repurpose content. You do not need to be posting multiple places at once.
You can just grow on one platform. Start with one. Go all in.
Once the traction starts building and once the ball starts rolling there, then you could explore repurposing. But, yeah, I don't wanna give this tip and then have it to be assumed like, oh, I need to be repurposing my content if I wanna be successful. Like, that's not the case.
This is specifically for creators who maybe you've already established a presence or a platform and you're ready to start diversifying your platforms and repurposing them elsewhere. So with that said, four places that I think are great with repurposing content depending again on what repurposing looks like for you.
One will be OpusClip. I had mentioned OpusClip before in this video, and they have a bunch of features. So with this one, what I like is if I've already posted a YouTube video, it's already live on my channel.
I could copy the link to that video, paste that link into OpusClip, tell OpusClip what I want it to do with repurposing, and it'll basically do the rest for me.
So it takes an already existing long form clip or piece of content that's live, I just paste the link there, and it does the rest.
Another really cool long form to short form repurposing tool is Riverside. A lot of people know Riverside for, like, podcasting, and, uh, I've done a few podcast episodes in Riverside, and I love Riverside.
What I find the coolest about their platform is when you're editing long form videos, because, like, I could upload this footage into Riverside. And not only can I edit the YouTube video in Riverside, but Riverside has AI tools and they do something called magic clips where it'll automatically edit short form videos from this YouTube video you're watching?
And I think that's amazing. I don't have to edit the short form. It automatically detects the best moments of my long form video.
Boom shakalaka. I have magic clips that I could then go on to schedule or post onto short form. And within Riverside, you can depending on which plan you're on, there's like a $24 a month plan and a $34 a month plan.
On the $24 a month plan, you can just post those magic clips. On the $34 a month plan, you can schedule magic clips out.
So if there's like five clips from one YouTube video I like, I could schedule them out over time. So if you're doing like long form, whether YouTube or podcasts to short form repurposing, I think Riverside could be a cool tool. Now let's talk about short form repurposing.
There's two platforms that I really like for short form repurposing, MetraCool, which is what my team and I currently use, and repurpose.io, which I know is really popular, but not one my team and I use at the moment.
Metricool's pretty much free, and I say pretty much because if you are a solo creator and you want to repurpose your short form to multiple platforms, you can schedule up to 20 videos a month on the free plan, which I feel like that could be plenty.
If you want to schedule unlimited posts per month, then you could go to their starter plan, which I think is $10 a month. So MetraCool, great cost if you're already let's say, okay.
Here's the process. If you already have a video edited and it's not posted, short form video edited, you upload it to MetraCool and then you schedule it to post multiple places at once.
That's Metricool. Next is repurpose.io. Repurpose.io is basically setting up automations where, like, I'm editing in TikTok.
Right? That's my main platform. I edit in TikTok.
I have the caption done, and then, like, I publish it to TikTok. You can set up an automation in repurpose.io where any video you post to TikTok, repurpose I o will download it and then post it to Instagram for you, or it'll, like, save it into a Google Drive folder that you've asked it to save.
Like, okay. Upload all TikTok videos here after they're uploaded, and then you can auto post them to platform.platform. So you could set up automations where as you upload content, it will auto post around for you.
Repurpose.io is $35 a month.
So if those automations sound a little bit more up your alley, then reperse.io would be a good option.
And then our tenth AI video hack is AI driven storyboarding. There's a tool that I think is really cool. It's called Storyboard That.
Basically, this helps you use AI to assist in creating more visual detailed storyboarding. This can be really helpful if you're trying to do visual storytelling and you want to plan out your shots before filming, but you've never created a storyboard before, storyboard that has a lot of visual templates that you can use and assets to pull from that could help speed up your workflow with storyboarding.
I see this being the most helpful one if you're a visual person and you love storyboarding, you love, like, visual creative storytelling, maybe you're like a cinematic creator, you love to have that storyboard where you're planning out that shots. Obviously, this tool would be helpful for that type of creator, but I also see this being helpful for, like, UGC creators where maybe before you film for a brand, you're creating a storyboard and sending that storyboard to the brand so that they could see visually what your inspiration and vision is, and then you guys could get on the same page before you even film and reduce the amount of revisions on videos that you're creating for brands.
With a free account on storyboard that, you can create two storyboards a week, but you'll have limited access to some of the elements to build out a more detailed design. If you find yourself using this tool a lot, then you can definitely upgrade plans start at $10 a month. Now before you go, I do have two honorable mentions.
One of them is a feature that I've seen in a few tools called eye contact. It's a great way for AI to make sure that you're always looking directly at the camera even if you're, like, reading from a script.
Right? If you have your script off to the side. Like I said, I like this as an idea.
I think this is great for, again, people not wanting to memorize scripts. When I'm filming my short form content, I use scripts. I print out physical scripts, and then I read a line to the camera and then I look at it and I memorize it.
Then I read a line to the camera and if I could just look off to the side and just like read the whole script and then AI makes my eyes look like I'm just like looking at the camera, that'd be great. And it's great in concept like I said.
But I've seen it used and I feel like it just it's not quite there yet. And that's why it's an honorable mention because I feel like it could get there, but at this moment, it's not there yet. But maybe in the future, it'll look more real.
So that's one to keep an eye out for. And an honorable mention, we gotta talk about Claude. And I wanted to include Claude for this video because I feel like I see a lot of people on social media being like, Claude just edited this whole video for me.
And, like, Claude is constantly improving and is really cool. But when my team and I was doing research for this video because we're like, we gotta use Claude.
The amount of setup that goes into making Claude actually usable to edit a video for you, it's like a lot of work, and I don't consider that to be a hack. Like, me, hacks are, alright. Let me apply this tool.
Let me get this result real fast. That wasn't Claude. It would take like a full video tutorial to teach you how to edit videos in Claude.
So if that's something that you'd be interested in seeing, then let me know down in the comments below. Thank you so much for watching, and I will see you in the next one. Follow your joy.
Bye.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Modern Millie opens with a disclaimer before the pitch: this is a video about editing efficiency, not about letting AI generate content or replace the creator. What follows is ten specific tools, each with a real price and a real caveat, that she and her team actually use to cut editing time without losing what makes a video sound like a person.
Frameworks
Named ideas worth stealing.
08:42acronym
RIF (Role, Instructions, Format)
Role
Instructions
Format
A prompting framework from HubSpot's free guide for giving AI direction specific enough to get output that sounds like you instead of generic and robotic.
Steal forAny AI content-generation prompt where matching brand voice matters.
09:31concept
The Chef Method
A four-step, cooking-metaphor framework from HubSpot's guide for creating with AI: create, refine into your own voice, and scale, plus building custom AI assistants that remember brand voice, tone, and formatting rules.
Steal forBuilding a repeatable AI content pipeline that still sounds like you across sessions.
CTA Breakdown
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
08:02product
“download the guide completely for free using the link in the description below, and a huge thank you to HubSpot for sponsoring this video”
Mid-roll integrated sponsor read after three hacks are already delivered, thematically tied to the video's own AI-authenticity angle rather than a hard sales pitch.
A single-host, desk-shot tutorial walking total beginners through the mindset, gear, shots, storytelling, and editing habits behind vlog-style YouTube content.
A rebuild of a two-year-old ChatGPT workflow, now wired through Claude's native Canva integration — most of the runtime is the unglamorous setup work that has to exist before one-prompt batching works at all.
A three-month framework — Ideation, Creation, Optimization — for hitting 10K Instagram followers using AI tools, analytics, and intentional content research.
A creator ran 75 Instagram Trial Reels over 15 days to pressure-test the platform's most-hyped growth hack — and found 90% of the payoff came from just two videos.
A full walkthrough of Instagram's free Edits app — a 4K60 camera with teleprompter and green screen, plus an AI editor with cutout and restyle filters.
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