• VIDEO
  • TEXT
  • DATA
  • HUMAN

How to turn YouTube videos into social clips with your AI

Connect Vadoo to your AI client once. After that, you just drop in a link and your agent handles the video repurposing.

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Short answer

How do I turn YouTube videos into social clips with my AI?

Paste a YouTube URL into your chat and tell your agent to make clips. The AI identifies the best segments and crops them for vertical feeds. You'll get ready-to-use video assets.

The outcomes.

What you get from your agent.

Once the AI processes the link, it delivers these specific assets.

VIDEO

Vertical clips

The AI finds the best moments and crops them for mobile viewing. You get short videos optimized for vertical feeds.

TEXT

Social captions

Your agent writes captions and hashtags based on the video content. These are ready for your social posts.

DATA

Clip timestamps

The AI provides the exact start and end times for every segment. This lets you check the content before you post.

HUMAN

Final selection

The AI does the technical cutting, but you choose which clips actually work for your brand. You maintain full control over what goes live.

The workflow

What your AI does when a URL arrives.

Your agent handles the heavy lifting of video editing through these steps.

  1. Find highlights

    The AI scans the long-form video to locate the most engaging or viral segments.

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  2. Crop for mobile

    The tool adjusts the video frame to a vertical aspect ratio for social feeds.

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  3. Write captions

    Your agent generates relevant text and hashtags for the new clips.

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  4. Deliver clips

    The AI provides the finished video segments and text directly in your chat.

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Try it

Copy these to start.

Paste these directly into your chat to begin.

Starting points

These are opening lines. Replace the bracketed info with your specific YouTube link.

Vadoo Connector

You're all set. Choose your MCP client and follow the setup instructions.

Connector linkhttps://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_bwYm9joGVJ1st0IqVabuBAyy5fo3va0EoTcmYj9E/mcp

Claude Desktop

Follow the steps below to connect in seconds.

  1. 1In Claude Desktop, open Settings → Connectors.
  2. 2Click “Add custom connector” and paste the connector link above as the remote MCP server URL.
  3. 3Click Add and start a new chat — Vadoo capabilities are ready to use.
Configuration · claude_desktop_config.jsonCopy
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  "mcpServers": {
    "vadoo-mcp": {
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_bwYm9joGVJ1st0IqVabuBAyy5fo3va0EoTcmYj9E/mcp"
    }
  }
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  • Create social clips from this YouTube video: [URL]

  • Find the funniest moments in this video and turn them into vertical clips: [URL]

  • Turn this video into three short clips for TikTok: [URL]

  • Extract the most educational parts of this video and create clips with captions: [URL]

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FAQ

How this task behaves.

  • 01

    Can the AI post the clips to my social media accounts?

    No. The AI creates the clips and the captions, but you have to upload them to your accounts yourself.

  • 02

    Does the AI edit the original YouTube video?

    No. It creates new, separate clips from the original video content.

  • 03

    Can I use this for live YouTube streams?

    No. This tool requires a standard YouTube video URL to work.

  • 04

    Does the AI decide which clips are the best?

    The AI identifies high-engagement moments, but you are the one who decides which clips to actually use.

  • 05

    Will the AI delete my original YouTube video?

    No. The AI only reads the video to create new clips; it has no ability to delete or change your original content.

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