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
| Release | New features | Improvements | Fixes | Highlight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
v0.5LatestLive 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.
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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.
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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.
Live Stream Shorts — create Shorts from the last 10 minutes of any YouTube live stream. Paste a live URL and the pipeline runs automatically.
Audio enhancement — noise reduction (highpass 80Hz + anlmdn denoiser) + loudness normalization (EBU R128 standard) in one click from the Enhance panel.
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.
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.
Caption translation — translate captions to 10+ languages using GPT-4o while preserving word-level timestamps. SRT and VTT export available for each translation.
TTS voiceover — generate a narration track from any script using OpenAI TTS-HD. Mixes automatically with the original audio.
B-roll integration — paste keywords or let the AI extract them from your transcript. Pexels portrait-orientation clips are inserted at specified timestamps.
Brand Templates — logo, colors, font, watermark position. Apply to any Short from the Enhance panel or set as default per channel.
A/B caption render — generate two caption-style variants of the same Short for platform A/B testing.
AI hook suggestions — 5 alternative opening hooks per Short, generated from the actual clip transcript content.
Chapter markers — auto-generate chapter timestamps for long-form videos using GPT-4o semantic analysis.
Auto-refund credits — if a project fails due to a platform error, your video credit is returned automatically within minutes.
Auto-deletion — processed videos and Shorts are automatically deleted 24 hours after project completion for Pay-per-video and 24-hour pass users.
Short editor page — new 3-column layout with virality score breakdown, caption style picker, crop mode selector, and all enhance actions in one place.
Multi-platform publish modal — unified publish flow for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels from a single dialog.
Project page search — filter your Shorts by title or description keyword to find specific clips in large batches.
Fixed live stream HLS download — section selector now correctly probes stream duration before calculating start timestamp.
April 2026
v0.4Animated captions, AI metadata, scheduled publishing, multi-channel support and render speed improvements.
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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.
Animated word-level (karaoke-style) captions burned permanently into every rendered Short. Powered by OpenAI Whisper large-v3.
Eight caption styles: Bold (Hormozi-style), Clean Minimal, Creator Highlight, Word-by-Word, Bounce (animated), Fade-In, Typewriter, and None.
AI metadata generation — title, description and hashtag set generated per clip from the actual transcript content.
Scheduled publishing to YouTube — set a future date and time per Short and our scheduler handles the upload automatically.
Multiple YouTube channel support — connect unlimited channels; select per upload from a dropdown.
SRT and VTT caption export — download caption files from any Short for use in external editing tools.
Render speed — 60-minute videos now process in under 6 minutes end-to-end (down from 12–15 minutes).
Caption accuracy — upgraded from Whisper medium to Whisper large-v3 for near-human word error rate.
Dashboard layout — short cards now show virality score badges and direct Enhance / Publish action buttons.
Fixed YouTube upload retry logic for source files larger than 2GB.
Fixed caption timing drift on clips longer than 3 minutes.
March 2026
v0.1LaunchPublic launch — AI clipping, Cashfree payments, pay-per-video and time-pass pricing.
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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.
Public launch of shortube.pro.
AI clipping with four-dimensional virality scoring (hook strength, topic completeness, pacing, viral potential) per clip candidate.
Semantic transcript analysis — clips are selected based on meaning, not just audio waveforms or silence detection.
Cashfree billing integration — UPI, cards and netbanking for Indian users. Pricing in INR.
Pay-per-video pricing (credits) and time-based passes: 1-day, 7-day, 30-day and 365-day.
9:16 reframe engine — intelligent crop with subject tracking converts any 16:9 video to a clean 1080×1920 vertical Short.
YouTube OAuth integration — upload directly to any connected channel from within the dashboard.
Five AI presets: TALKING_HEAD, PODCAST, EDUCATIONAL, VIRAL_CREATOR, MOTIVATIONAL.
Project dashboard — all generated Shorts organized by source video with metadata, scores and download.
What's coming next
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Analytics dashboard
In developmentPer-Short performance metrics synced from YouTube, TikTok and Instagram in one view. Track views, watch-through rate and engagement across platforms.
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Team collaboration
PlannedInvite editors and reviewers to your workspace. Role-based permissions for agency workflows. Comment threads on individual Shorts.
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Mobile app
PlannediOS and Android app for reviewing, approving and scheduling Shorts on the go. Push notifications when processing completes.
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Webhook notifications
In developmentTrigger Zapier, Make, or any webhook URL when a project completes or a scheduled post goes live. Connect with your existing workflow tools.
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Speaker diarization
In developmentAutomatically detect multiple speakers in an interview and assign different caption colors per speaker. Coming to all Podcast preset projects first.
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Direct LinkedIn publishing
PlannedPublish Shorts directly to LinkedIn as native video. LinkedIn integration will use the same OAuth pattern as YouTube and Instagram.
Stay up to date
New features ship regularly. Follow us on our blog for detailed release notes and strategy content.