Episode recaps
Turn a full episode into a vertical recap that opens with its best moment
A recap channel spends most of its editing time on the same three jobs: finding the moments that carry the story, putting them in vertical, and choosing the opening that makes people stay. This does those three and leaves you the part that makes the recap yours, which is your voice.
What you get back
- One vertical 9:16 video, with the original picture centred and blurred edges above and below
- A hook at the very start: a few seconds from the episode itself, picked for how much it makes people want to know what happened
- The story in order after that, cut to the length you ask for, up to ten minutes
- The original sound levelled to what TikTok and Shorts expect
- No subtitles and no generated voice, so nothing gets in the way when you record your own
How the hook is chosen
The AI reads the whole transcript first and works out what the episode is about: the central conflict, what is at stake. Only then does it look for the opening. It wants the moment that makes you want to see how things got there, like the peak of the conflict, a reveal or the line that sums up the tone.
Two kinds of moment are ruled out on purpose. A joke that has nothing to do with the plot does not qualify, however funny it is, because the recap that follows would not pay it off. Neither does the ending, because a recap that opens with the resolution has nothing left to give.
It is still a choice made by software, so the result page tells you which moment it opened with and why before you post anything.
The story, in the order it happens
After the hook, the recap walks through the episode from start to finish. The selection is built for coverage rather than highlights: many short moments spread across the whole runtime, instead of three long scenes from the first ten minutes. The hook counts inside the length you ask for, so a three minute recap is three minutes in total.
Cuts that land between sentences
Every piece is cut where a sentence ends, not wherever a timestamp happened to fall, and each cut is then nudged to the quietest point nearby without ever landing inside a word. A recap is built from dozens of short pieces, which is exactly where a clipped word gets noticed.
Your voice goes on top
The recap comes back with nothing layered over the episode, and that is deliberate. Record your narration in whatever editor you already use, bring the episode sound down under it, and post.
Your uploads, your call
You confirm that you have the rights to every video you upload, and that responsibility stays with you. Whether a recap is allowed on a given platform depends on the footage, how much of it you use and what you add to it, and TubeAtelier cannot make that call for you. The details are in the terms.
What it costs to try
Free accounts get 40 minutes of video a month, which covers a full episode of a typical half hour show, with no card required. Only one video is processed at a time, so if someone else's is running, yours waits its turn. Paid plans take videos of up to two hours each and are compared on the plans page.