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Workflow recipeLast verified: September 14, 2026

30 Shorts a month from long videos

Podcasters, streamers, and educators with 3–5 hours of long-form footage a month who want a steady stream of captioned vertical clips without a manual editor.

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Assumptions

  • 30 published Shorts per month
  • About 240 source minutes per month
  • Each Short around 45 seconds
  • Captions required; no AI-generated visuals

Workflow stages

  1. Clip. A long-to-short tool finds candidate moments and reframes them vertically. OpusClip is the only seeded tool with this verified capability; it consumes 1 credit per source minute processed.
  2. Caption & polish. OpusClip Starter and above include AI animated captions and an editor. Submagic remains an alternative, seeded with approximate video counts and a verified per-plan maximum video length.
  3. Publish. Scheduling is a verified OpusClip Pro capability; otherwise export and upload manually.

Known costs (computed now from verified data)

Best Value: OpusClip Pro (annual) → OpusClip Pro (annual)
$15/mo known subscription cost · nominal, no retry assumption
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  • · OpusClip Pro (annual) covers Long-to-short clipping: 2,880 of 3,600 credits/year (240/month equivalent) (80%).
  • · OpusClip Pro (annual) serves Long-to-short clipping and Captions & shorts editing from one subscription, counted once.
  • · OpusClip Pro (annual) is billed $174/year upfront ($14.50/month equivalent) — an annual commitment, not monthly billing.
  • · Costs are nominal generation costs. Retry-adjusted cost is unavailable until you provide a retry assumption under Advanced assumptions.

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Known limitations and trade-offs

  • OpusClip consumes 1 credit per source minute: 240 source minutes need about 240 credits, so Starter (150) is insufficient, Pro monthly (300) is a verified fit, and Pro annual (3,600/year) covers the 2,880-credit annual workload.
  • OpusClip Starter and above include AI captions and the editor, so a separate caption tool is only needed for a capability OpusClip lacks.
  • Submagic Starter caps videos at 2 minutes; fine for Shorts, not for long outputs.
  • Pro (annual): $174 billed annually; 3,600 credits available across the year.
  • OpusClip Pro (annual): based on pricing last verified Sep 2026.

Alternatives

  • Do the clipping manually in your NLE and use only a caption tool.
  • Add Submagic only if you need a verified capability OpusClip does not provide.

Sources

  • OpusClip pricing page — official pricing · verified September 14, 2026 · source
  • OpusClip pricing page (plan comparison) — official spec · verified September 14, 2026 · source
  • Submagic pricing page — official pricing · verified September 14, 2026 · source
  • Submagic plan comparison — official spec · verified September 14, 2026 · source

Last verification date: September 14, 2026. Veytora AI does not claim outcomes; run the recipe with your own numbers.

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