Start here
If you have a long recording and no idea where to begin, read "How to turn a long video into Shorts" first. It covers the part that decides whether a clip works: finding a moment that starts and ends on its own, rather than cutting every sixty seconds and hoping. The rest of these are references you come back to — safe zones when a caption gets covered by a platform button, dimensions when an export looks wrong, caption practice when the words are right but nobody is reading them.
These are references, not a course
Each guide answers one question and stops. Where DeenClipped does the thing being described, it says so and links to the page that explains it; where the answer has nothing to do with DeenClipped, it just answers the question. A guide that turns into a sales page halfway through is not a guide, and you would not trust the next one.
Two free tools sit alongside them
The safe zone checker draws each platform’s interface over a frame you drop in, so you can see what is covered rather than reading numbers about it. The clip calculator works out how many clips a recording is likely to yield and what processing the useful part of it would cost. Both run entirely in your browser, need no account, and upload nothing.
Questions
Do I need DeenClipped to use these?
No. The guides describe the work, not the product. Safe zones, dimensions and caption practice apply whatever you edit with. Where DeenClipped happens to handle a step automatically the guide says so, because leaving it out would be coy, but nothing here depends on having an account.
How often are the platform numbers checked?
Each guide that quotes a number says when it was last checked. Platforms move their interface without announcing it, so treat any specific pixel figure as a good working rule rather than a specification — and use the safe zone checker on a real frame if a caption matters.
Basic includes the whole workflow.
Import a source, generate clips, review every one and publish to your own connected channels. Upgrade when you need more.