Shorts · 60-second verticals

YouTube Shorts Transcript
Generator — paste, done.

Drop a Shorts URL and get the exact words from hook to outro. Timestamped, copy-ready, and perfect for cross-posting to TikTok or Instagram Reels.

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2.4M

Videos transcribed

41K

Active creators

98.7%

Accuracy benchmark

12s

Median turnaround

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The hook that made this Short hit 8M views

Transcript Summary Repurpose

00:00:00 Stop. If you're watching this for more than three seconds, the hook already worked.

00:00:04 Everyone's teaching hooks wrong. They tell you to 'grab attention' — that's a vibe, not a tactic.

00:00:10 Here is the actual rule: your first line has to contradict what the viewer expects next.

00:00:18 Save this. Watch your next ten favorite Shorts — every viral one does it.

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What you get

Every YouTube Shorts transcript — hook to last frame.

Paste a Shorts URL — we catch every word, even the three-second hook short-form caption tools usually drop.

Shorts-tuned pipeline

Optimized for short-form pacing — no dropped words in the first three seconds where the hook lives.

Perfect cross-post SRT

Export a subtitle track that drops cleanly into TikTok or Reels — no re-timing, no reformatting.

Instant hook extraction

The opening line is highlighted separately so you can build a swipe file of viral hooks in minutes.

Workflow

From paste to export in three steps.

Paste, transcribe, export. First run is free — no signup to try.

Paste a YouTube URL

Copy the link from any YouTube video and drop it in the box above. Public and unlisted both work.

We do the work

Median 12 seconds per video. 98.7% word accuracy on our internal benchmark suite.

Export, translate, repurpose

Download SRT/VTT/PDF, turn it into a thread or blog post, or translate to 40 languages.

Beyond the transcript

One URL. Every output you need.

Summarize, translate to 40 languages, or repurpose into eight content formats — from the same paste.

Download videos

Save the Short as an MP4 without the Shorts UI burned in.

AI summaries

One-line take — ready to drop into a tweet or a team Slack.

40-language translation

Cross-post to international audiences without a second tool.

Repurpose to 8 formats

Turn a Short into a thread, newsletter, or LinkedIn carousel.

Who this is for

Built for Shorts creators and cross-posters.

Creators remixing Shorts for TikTok

Cross-posting to Instagram Reels

Building swipe files of viral hooks

Captioning for silent autoplay

Extracting copy for paid ad variations

Analyzing competitors' hooks at scale

“I cross-post a Short every day. TranscriptMagic's SRT file works on both TikTok and Reels without a single fix — saves me the worst part of the day.”

Jaylen Ford

Shorts creator · 520k subs

Paste a Short — transcript in seconds.

First Shorts transcripts are free. Copy the hook, export the SRT, cross-post before lunch.

Transcribe a YouTube video

YouTube Shorts Transcript Generator — paste, done.