Introducing Katto: Long Videos to Ranked, Captioned Shorts — Flat Pricing
Katto turns long videos into vertical shorts with virality scoring, reframing, captions in 99 languages, and flat per-video pricing — no credits.
Introducing Katto: Long Videos to Ranked, Captioned Shorts — Flat Pricing
Creators and podcast teams often lose hours hunting clips inside long recordings. Katto is an AI video clipper that turns one long video into ranked, vertical, captioned shorts — with flat per-video pricing instead of credit math.
Katto sits in the long-form → short-form packaging layer: detect moments, score them, reframe, caption, and publish.
What Katto does
AI long-to-short packaging for podcasts, talks, and speech-led video:
- Moment detection — finds clip-worthy segments from YouTube links or uploads
- Virality scoring — ranks clips on hook, flow, value, and trend so you start from a shortlist
- Smart reframe — crops to 9:16 / 4:5 / 1:1 and follows speakers
- Animated captions — word-synced captions in 99 languages (precise timing in 41)
- Text-based editing — edit the transcript; cuts follow like editing a doc
- AI B-roll & hooks — optional cutaways and scroll-stopping hooks
- Publish & API — export or schedule to major platforms; REST API + MCP for agents
- Flat pricing — billed per video, not per minute or credit
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Who it is for
Podcasters, educators, and marketing teams who ship speech-led long video and need a steady pipeline of vertical shorts without babysitting a timeline.
Where it fits in a content stack
Katto owns long source → ranked shorts → captions → publish. You still own the story and the channel; Katto compresses the packaging pass.
Why it matters now
Short-form distribution rewards volume and hooks. Flat video quotas make weekly repurposing predictable for indie creators and small media teams.
How teams typically use Katto
A podcast producer pastes an episode URL, reviews scored clips, tweaks captions, and schedules posts. A founder records a weekly talking-head and turns it into a week of Reels without hiring an editor.
Quick tips if you try Katto
- Start with speech-led sources — interviews and podcasts score more cleanly than pure B-roll.
- Trust the ranking, then prune — post the top clips first; archive low scores.
- Edit in text — delete filler sentences in the transcript before export.
- Pick one brand caption style and reuse it for recognition.
- Use Solo/Creator flat plans when you already know your weekly episode count.
Soft close — related tool
If you also need concept → storyboard → animated or whiteboard explainer / Reels (not talking-avatar presenters), see Scro Explainer. Scro (by NOVAX) is built around approving an AI storyboard before you render — useful when the job is teaching a process, not clipping a long take. Keep Katto as the focus of this intro; Scro is only a related option for storyboard-first explainers.