Brief

Your brief

Describe your idea — you'll review and edit the full story on the next screen.

Try an example

General football narrative

Story feel

Tone and target length for your first draft.

Choose how ShortForge may use research and your own details.

Use research-backed facts; unsupported details stay out

Advanced controls

Story Strategy, Hook Style, and templates — Auto is recommended.

Flexible is the default. Precise is opt-in and avoids silent Auto changes.

Best-effort draft with safe adaptations and warnings. Quality misses still return a story.

Story strategy

Choose how ShortForge structures pacing and payoff — separate from Hook style.

Chooses the best strategy for the selected duration.

Auto will use Retention-first for 30s videos.

Hook style

Choose how your story opens — Auto keeps today's recommended behaviour.

ShortForge chooses the best hook for your content type and template.

Auto will use Cold Open for Story.

Creator template

Optional reusable formats with smart defaults.

Creator template

Pick a reusable format — defaults apply to content type, scenes, and duration.

Story writing happens online. Images, edits, preview, and download stay on your device.

Coming soon

Break Long Video into Shorts

Upload a full match or podcast clip and turn highlights into multiple vertical shorts.

Preview

Source video

What's next

  1. 1Upload video
  2. 2Extract audio
  3. 3Transcribe
  4. 4Detect best moments
  5. 5Create short stories
  6. 6Export multiple clips

Video analysis will run client-side or via dedicated APIs in a future release.