{"slug": "show-hn-talecut-turn-a-movie-or-tv-episode-into-vertical-micro-episodes", "title": "Show HN: Talecut – Turn a movie or TV episode into vertical micro-episodes", "summary": "Talecut, an AI-powered video editing tool, converts movies and TV episodes into vertical micro-episodes for platforms like TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, using AI scene analysis to track speakers and generate captions. The tool, which supports videos up to 16 GB, offers features such as vertical reframing and micro-drama series, with a credit system where one credit equals one minute of source video.", "body_md": "Powered byAI Scene Analysis\n\n# Your catalog is a vertical feed.\n\nIt just hasn’t been cut yet.\n\nTalecut is an AI editor for footage you already own. Give it a movie or a full TV episode; it watches the whole thing, follows whoever is on screen, and hands back vertical video that is ready to post. You choose how much of the story comes with it.\n\nThe editor\n\n## The first cut is Talecut’s. The final cut is yours.\n\nOpen an episode and take over. Move the framing, tighten a caption, cut a line, then re-render only what you touched.\n\nThe editor on a real cut of Meridian, reframing a shot and tightening a caption.\n\n### Aim the crop yourself\n\nTalecut tracks whoever is speaking. Take any shot off auto and the frame goes where you point it.\n\n### Fix a line, keep the timing\n\nCaptions open as a document you can read straight through. Change the words; the clock stays as spoken.\n\n### Hand the frame to a character\n\nWhen a shot has more than one person, click the one who matters. The camera follows them through the shot with the same smoothed pan as the auto cut.\n\nThe tools\n\n## One upload. You pick what comes out.\n\nEvery tool takes one video and gives back something you can post. What changes is how much of the story comes with it.\n\nVertical series\n\n### Micro-drama\n\nRe-tell a movie or full episode as a season of short vertical episodes, each ending on a cliffhanger.\n\n[See how it works](/tools/micro-drama)\n\nReframe\n\n### Vertical reframe\n\nKeep the whole video and just make it vertical, subject-tracked and captioned from start to finish.\n\n[See how it works](/tools/vertical-reframe)\n\n### Highlights\n\nComing soonPull the best moments from a match, a broadcast or a podcast into share-ready vertical clips.\n\nNo. Talecut cuts first: episodes, framing, captions, all of it. When you want a say, every episode opens in an editor where you can move the framing, rewrite a caption, or drop a take, then re-render only what you changed.\n\nOne long video you own the rights to, like a movie or a full episode, up to 16 GB. Talecut watches all of it before it decides anything.\n\nIt reads the whole story first: scenes, dialogue, pacing. Then it keeps the moments that carry the plot and shapes them into episodes, each one ending on a hook the next picks up. The full-length vertical skips the choosing and keeps every frame of the original.\n\nNo. Every edit lands in a real gap in the speech, and Talecut reads the soundtrack too, so a cut does not land on top of a music swell.\n\nThe length of your video and nothing else. One credit is one minute of source, and you see the full price before anything runs. If your balance does not cover it, nothing runs and nothing is charged.\n\nYour credits come back in full, automatically.\n\nAnywhere that wants vertical video. Episodes arrive as 9:16 files with captions burned in and loudness levelled, so TikTok, Reels and Shorts take them as they are, nothing to re-export.\n\n## What are you cutting first?\n\nPick a tool and drop in one video.Talecut does the editing.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-talecut-turn-a-movie-or-tv-episode-into-vertical-micro-episodes", "canonical_source": "https://talecut.com/", "published_at": "2026-08-20 07:44:15+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-20 08:15:17.205534+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "computer-vision", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Talecut", "TikTok", "Reels", "Shorts"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-talecut-turn-a-movie-or-tv-episode-into-vertical-micro-episodes", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-talecut-turn-a-movie-or-tv-episode-into-vertical-micro-episodes.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-talecut-turn-a-movie-or-tv-episode-into-vertical-micro-episodes.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-talecut-turn-a-movie-or-tv-episode-into-vertical-micro-episodes.jsonld"}}