ShortsHQ answers
What is ShortsHQ?
ShortsHQ is an AI-assisted workspace for short-form video. Authors use it for book trailers and excerpt clips. Creators use it to keep brand profiles, prompts, voice, and a publish queue in one place.
ShortsHQ is a short-form video workspace
ShortsHQ lives at shortshq.com. It is a workspace for planning, drafting, and reviewing short-form video before anything leaves your account. You bring a book, a channel, a product page, or a script you are allowed to use. The tools help you shape a hook, a voiceover, captions, and a vertical or horizontal cut. You stay in the loop: a draft is something you read, watch, and approve.
People ask what an AI short-form video tool for authors and creators actually does. In this product, it means the repetitive parts of a Short, Reel, or YouTube Short can start from your source material. That includes a back-cover blurb, an authorized excerpt, a prompt you saved, or a channel profile you already set up. The output is a draft plus the settings you chose, such as a 9:16 frame, a caption style, and a target platform. Export and posting come after that review.
The public site describes ShortsHQ as an AI short-form video command center. Inside the account, that command center is a set of concrete screens: channel profiles, a prompt library, Create, book trailers, Kindle screenshot videos, Avatar Studio, a music library, and a publish queue. Each screen does a specific job. Together they let one person run more than one brand without rebuilding the logo, the tone, and the script shelf every time.
Who it is for
Authors are a primary audience. A novelist, a nonfiction writer, or a small press can turn a title into a book-trailer draft, a Kindle-style excerpt clip, or a short talking update. The for-authors path on the site is aimed at BookTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. The practical version of that promise is narrower and more useful: you prepare a clip that shows the tone of the book and gives readers a place to go, then you decide whether to post it.
Creators who never appear on camera use the same workspace. A history channel, a coach, a realtor, a restaurant, or a product seller can keep a separate channel profile for each brand. Faceless workflows rely on stock footage, generated scene footage you opt into, voice, captions, and, when you want a presenter, a talking avatar. Camera time is optional. Rights, accuracy, and platform rules are still yours to check.
Agencies and operators with several brands use the higher plans for more channel profiles, more voice characters, and white-label branding. The workspace is still organized the same way. You switch profiles, load the assets that belong to that profile, and draft against that audience. ShortsHQ does not replace a human editor for claims, trademarks, or licensed music you bring in from outside the library.
What you can draft in the product
Create walks through four steps: brand assets, script and prompt, video settings, then review and export. You can attach a channel profile, pick a saved prompt, and generate a script draft from that prompt. Formats include 9:16 for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, 16:9 for YouTube, 1:1, and 4:5. Styles include cinematic, documentary, slideshow, product ad, book trailer, and talking avatar. Caption styles include bold white, yellow highlight, word-by-word, or no captions.
Book trailer drafts start from the title, author, genre, mood, themes, audience, and either a synopsis or manuscript text you paste or upload. The book trailer screen tells you the original manuscript is not stored. The product keeps the AI analysis, then offers a hook line, captions, and hashtags you can edit. You can include an Amazon or other retailer URL in the caption when you want the clip to point at a buy page.
Kindle screenshot videos are a separate public tool. You work from an excerpt you are allowed to show. You can highlight lines, strike through words, or blur a spoiler, then build a vertical clip that looks like a reader marking up a page. That is a different job from a cinematic trailer. It is the right job when the sentence itself is the marketing.
- Prompt library entries with a title, body, category, tags, and a usage count
- Music from the in-product music library on paid plans that include it
- Hashtag and caption drafts from the content tools
- Campaign notes that store a source URL, niche, colors, logo, and end card
- Avatar Studio clips when you want a presenter on screen
How the video stack fits together
The default Create path assembles a short from stock B-roll, an ElevenLabs voiceover, and burned-in captions. Stock footage is the starting visual engine, so a draft can be cut without turning on a generative video model. ElevenLabs is the voice layer. Plans are metered in credits: 1 credit is 150 narration characters, about 10 seconds. Basic includes 200 credits a month (30,000 characters). Premium includes 3,200 credits a month (480,000 characters). Own-voice slots are separate and do not spend credits: Pro includes 1, Prime includes 3, and Premium includes 10.
HeyGen is the talking-avatar tool. Avatar Studio asks you to pick an avatar look, a voice, a script, an aspect ratio, and a background, then generates a presenter video you can download when it finishes. Use that path when the short should feel like someone speaking to the camera. Use stock footage when the short should feel like scenes, pages, or product shots with a narrator over them.
Kling is the scene and B-roll generator you opt into. It is available as a text-to-video engine when that integration is configured on the account. It is not the default. Choose it when a stock clip cannot cover a specific image you described, such as a storm over a harbor or a close shot of a handwritten letter. You still review the clip before it becomes the short you export.
Review, export, and posting
A finished feeling on screen is not the same as a post. The pricing page states the actual bargain in plain language: you get a workspace to draft scripts, book-trailer briefs, Kindle screenshot videos, voice treatments, and campaign notes. Rendered video files are available in the tools that support them, including Kindle screenshot videos and Avatar Studio. The Create flow saves a script draft to your library and can export the default stock short after you review it.
Posting is optional. Social connections exist for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X. A connection works when that platform app is configured and you authorize the account. The publish screen schedules one video to one connected account with a caption and a time. You confirm the destination. Nothing in the product is a promise that a platform will accept the upload, that a hashtag will trend, or that a retailer will credit a sale.
You keep responsibility for the rights in the source. That includes the manuscript, the excerpt, the cover, the music you upload yourself, and any claim in the script. ShortsHQ can draft a line. It cannot know whether you own it. The editorial policy on the site says the same thing about public articles: AI-assisted text can be wrong, and a person reviews it before it is treated as final.
Trial and monthly plans
New accounts get a 3-day trial with 30 credits, a 60-second export cap, and no generated video or dubbing. There is no permanent free plan. After the trial, paid plans are billed monthly or yearly through Stripe. Yearly billing is 20% off. The charged amount is the price Stripe shows before you pay. Monthly plan credits reset each billing cycle and do not roll over. Launch Pass credits and top-ups never expire. You can cancel from Billing and keep access until the current period ends.
- Basic is $19 per month or $182 per year: 200 credits, 100 AI drafts, 5 channel profiles, music library access, the brainrot script generator, and email support.
- Pro is $49 per month or $470 per year: 550 credits, 300 AI drafts, 1 own-voice slot, video series drip scheduling, campaign landing pages, and priority support.
- Prime is $99 per month or $950 per year: 1,200 credits, 800 AI drafts, 3 own-voice slots, white-label branding, and priority support.
- Premium is $249 per month or $2,390 per year: 3,200 credits, 2,500 AI drafts, 10 own-voice slots, white-label branding, and priority support.
Those prices are the catalog on the pricing page and in the billing checkout. Yearly prices are 20% off twelve months. If a promotional code is offered, you enter it on the Stripe checkout page. A $49 Launch Pass adds 500 credits that never expire and does not include an own-voice slot. Start at the pricing page if you want to compare allowances before you open an account.
Questions people ask
What is ShortsHQ?
ShortsHQ is an AI-assisted short-form video workspace at shortshq.com. It helps authors and creators draft scripts, voice, captions, book trailers, and excerpt clips, then review them before export or publishing.
Is ShortsHQ only for book authors?
Authors are a core audience, especially for book trailers and Kindle-style excerpt videos. The same account also supports other creator workflows through channel profiles, a prompt library, faceless stock shorts, and talking-avatar videos.
Do I have to appear on camera?
No. The default Create path uses stock B-roll, an ElevenLabs voiceover, and captions. Avatar Studio can add a HeyGen talking avatar when you want a presenter. You can also stay fully faceless.
What does ShortsHQ cost?
New accounts get a 3-day trial with no credit card. Paid monthly plans start at $19 for Basic, then $49 for Pro, $99 for Prime, and $249 for Premium. Allowances reset each billing cycle.
Can ShortsHQ post the video for me?
Only after you connect an authorized TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, or X account and confirm the destination. Publishing is optional. Review the video, caption, and account before you schedule it.