Product changelog

What's new

Latest features, improvements and fixes in shortube.pro. We ship weekly — check back often.

Release history at a glance

Features shipped per release cycle

ReleaseNew featuresImprovementsFixesHighlight
May 2026
8
3
2
Live streams + Enhance suite
Apr 2026
5
4
2
Animated captions + scheduling
Mar 2026
7
0
0
Public launch

May 2026

v0.5Latest

Live streams, full enhance suite, auto-refunds and data lifecycle management.

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Live Stream Shorts

Create Shorts from the last 10 minutes of any active YouTube live stream. Paste a live URL and the pipeline runs automatically in real time. Best for podcasters who stream weekly.

🎛️

Enhance Suite

Six new post-processing actions: audio enhancement (highpass + loudnorm), filler word removal, AI thumbnail generation with DALL-E 3, caption translation to 10+ languages, TTS voiceover, and B-roll insertion from Pexels.

🎨

Brand Templates

Create reusable brand templates with your logo, primary/secondary colors, font choice, and watermark position. Apply to any Short in one click from the Enhance panel.

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A/B Caption Rendering

Render two versions of any Short with different caption styles simultaneously. Compare performance across platforms to find what works for your audience.

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AI Hook Suggestions

Generate 5 AI-powered alternative opening hooks per Short. Hooks are based on your actual transcript content — not generic templates.

NEW

Live Stream Shorts — create Shorts from the last 10 minutes of any YouTube live stream. Paste a live URL and the pipeline runs automatically.

NEW

Audio enhancement — noise reduction (highpass 80Hz + anlmdn denoiser) + loudness normalization (EBU R128 standard) in one click from the Enhance panel.

NEW

Filler word removal — detect and cut um, uh, like, you know, and silence gaps >0.6s from the transcript. Produces tighter, faster-paced Shorts automatically.

NEW

AI thumbnail generation — extract a key frame, analyze it with GPT-4o Vision, generate a 1024×1792 HD thumbnail with DALL-E 3. Applied in one click.

NEW

Caption translation — translate captions to 10+ languages using GPT-4o while preserving word-level timestamps. SRT and VTT export available for each translation.

NEW

TTS voiceover — generate a narration track from any script using OpenAI TTS-HD. Mixes automatically with the original audio.

NEW

B-roll integration — paste keywords or let the AI extract them from your transcript. Pexels portrait-orientation clips are inserted at specified timestamps.

NEW

Brand Templates — logo, colors, font, watermark position. Apply to any Short from the Enhance panel or set as default per channel.

NEW

A/B caption render — generate two caption-style variants of the same Short for platform A/B testing.

NEW

AI hook suggestions — 5 alternative opening hooks per Short, generated from the actual clip transcript content.

NEW

Chapter markers — auto-generate chapter timestamps for long-form videos using GPT-4o semantic analysis.

NEW

Auto-refund credits — if a project fails due to a platform error, your video credit is returned automatically within minutes.

NEW

Auto-deletion — processed videos and Shorts are automatically deleted 24 hours after project completion for Pay-per-video and 24-hour pass users.

IMPROVED

Short editor page — new 3-column layout with virality score breakdown, caption style picker, crop mode selector, and all enhance actions in one place.

IMPROVED

Multi-platform publish modal — unified publish flow for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels from a single dialog.

IMPROVED

Project page search — filter your Shorts by title or description keyword to find specific clips in large batches.

FIX

Fixed live stream HLS download — section selector now correctly probes stream duration before calculating start timestamp.

April 2026

v0.4

Animated captions, AI metadata, scheduled publishing, multi-channel support and render speed improvements.

🎬

Animated word-level captions

Whisper large-v3 transcription with karaoke-style word timing burned permanently into every Short. Eight styles: Bold, Clean Minimal, Creator Highlight, Word-by-Word, Bounce, Fade-In, Typewriter, and None.

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AI metadata generation

Title, description, and hashtag set generated per clip directly from the transcript — not generic templates. The AI understands what the clip is actually about.

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Scheduled publishing

Set a future date and time per Short. Our scheduler handles the upload at the exact scheduled moment. YouTube scheduled uploads support Public and Unlisted privacy.

NEW

Animated word-level (karaoke-style) captions burned permanently into every rendered Short. Powered by OpenAI Whisper large-v3.

NEW

Eight caption styles: Bold (Hormozi-style), Clean Minimal, Creator Highlight, Word-by-Word, Bounce (animated), Fade-In, Typewriter, and None.

NEW

AI metadata generation — title, description and hashtag set generated per clip from the actual transcript content.

NEW

Scheduled publishing to YouTube — set a future date and time per Short and our scheduler handles the upload automatically.

NEW

Multiple YouTube channel support — connect unlimited channels; select per upload from a dropdown.

NEW

SRT and VTT caption export — download caption files from any Short for use in external editing tools.

IMPROVED

Render speed — 60-minute videos now process in under 6 minutes end-to-end (down from 12–15 minutes).

IMPROVED

Caption accuracy — upgraded from Whisper medium to Whisper large-v3 for near-human word error rate.

IMPROVED

Dashboard layout — short cards now show virality score badges and direct Enhance / Publish action buttons.

FIX

Fixed YouTube upload retry logic for source files larger than 2GB.

FIX

Fixed caption timing drift on clips longer than 3 minutes.

March 2026

v0.1Launch

Public launch — AI clipping, Cashfree payments, pay-per-video and time-pass pricing.

🚀

Public launch

shortube.pro opens to the public. Sign up, paste a YouTube URL, and get up to 10 AI-clipped Shorts in minutes.

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AI virality scoring

Four-dimensional scoring per clip: hook strength, topic completeness, pacing, and viral potential. Every clip candidate gets scored before you see it.

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Cashfree billing

UPI, debit/credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, RuPay) and netbanking. Pay-per-video credits and time-based passes (1-day, 7-day, 30-day, 365-day) — all in INR.

NEW

Public launch of shortube.pro.

NEW

AI clipping with four-dimensional virality scoring (hook strength, topic completeness, pacing, viral potential) per clip candidate.

NEW

Semantic transcript analysis — clips are selected based on meaning, not just audio waveforms or silence detection.

NEW

Cashfree billing integration — UPI, cards and netbanking for Indian users. Pricing in INR.

NEW

Pay-per-video pricing (credits) and time-based passes: 1-day, 7-day, 30-day and 365-day.

NEW

9:16 reframe engine — intelligent crop with subject tracking converts any 16:9 video to a clean 1080×1920 vertical Short.

NEW

YouTube OAuth integration — upload directly to any connected channel from within the dashboard.

NEW

Five AI presets: TALKING_HEAD, PODCAST, EDUCATIONAL, VIRAL_CREATOR, MOTIVATIONAL.

NEW

Project dashboard — all generated Shorts organized by source video with metadata, scores and download.

What's coming next

📊

Analytics dashboard

In development

Per-Short performance metrics synced from YouTube, TikTok and Instagram in one view. Track views, watch-through rate and engagement across platforms.

🤝

Team collaboration

Planned

Invite editors and reviewers to your workspace. Role-based permissions for agency workflows. Comment threads on individual Shorts.

📱

Mobile app

Planned

iOS and Android app for reviewing, approving and scheduling Shorts on the go. Push notifications when processing completes.

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Webhook notifications

In development

Trigger Zapier, Make, or any webhook URL when a project completes or a scheduled post goes live. Connect with your existing workflow tools.

🎙️

Speaker diarization

In development

Automatically detect multiple speakers in an interview and assign different caption colors per speaker. Coming to all Podcast preset projects first.

🌐

Direct LinkedIn publishing

Planned

Publish Shorts directly to LinkedIn as native video. LinkedIn integration will use the same OAuth pattern as YouTube and Instagram.

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New features ship regularly. Follow us on our blog for detailed release notes and strategy content.