yt-shorts A Short cut out of a long video is not a clip of the best moment. It is a moment that survives without the video around it , which is a much smaller set. Picking Read the transcript and find spans of 20-55 seconds where all three are true: 1. It opens on a complete thought. If the first sentence needs the previous minute, it is not a Short. 2. There is a turn in it - a claim, then something that complicates or proves it. 3. It ends on a line, not a trail-off. Rank the candidates and show the user the top five with their timecodes and first line, so they can reject one without readin…