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Create a Social Video Clip

Cut and reframe a source video for Shorts, Reels or vertical social feeds. Run the preset directly on this page or call the same agent-ready endpoint from your product.

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Run create social video clip
Drop a video, adjust the defaults if you need to, and download the result here.

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BEFORE / AFTER

See what the tool changes.

A real example: the after side is the unedited output of a KinoPipe job. Run the live form above to generate the same result from your own media.

BeforeLong-form source
16:9 · 9 seconds
AfterSocial clip
Ready
9:16 · 6 seconds

Demo footage: public-domain timelapses (Bureau of Land Management, Oregon · NASA SVS). Processed by the same pipeline the API and MCP tools call.

Useful defaults, typed options.

The tool slug stays stable while your agent supplies named media inputs and a narrow set of documented options.

  • Trim and resize in one job
  • 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 outputs
  • Cover and contain modes
What this preset does
  1. 01Cut the selected time range
  2. 02Choose a social aspect ratio
  3. 03Crop or pad safely
  4. 04Encode a share-ready MP4
Stable endpointPOST /api/v1/tools/create-social-video-clip
Live API request
{
  "inputs": [{ "id": "main", "url": "https://example.com/long-video.mp4" }],
  "options": { "start": 30, "end": 45, "aspect_ratio": "9:16", "fit": "cover" }
}
Successful output example
{
  "result": {
    "output": {
      "filename": "create-social-video-clip-output.mp4",
      "contentType": "video/mp4",
      "byteSize": 437021,
      "downloadUrl": "https://cdn.kinopipe.com/…"
    }
  }
}

Know the boundaries before you run.

End must be greater than start.
Supported ratios are 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9.
Cover crops edges; contain adds padding.

About social video clip

Yes. The tool trims and reframes the source into a 9:16 output in the same job.

No. Cover preserves the source proportions and crops the edges to fill the target frame.

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