Name a topic.Get the short.

Topic Shorts turn a written topic into a faceless short. Clip Studio plans a hook, setup, reveal, and payoff, then assembles stock footage, voiceover, and captions so you can post without filming.

Choose from ten: Mini documentary, Myth check, Story with a twist, How it works, Top 5 (a ranking countdown), Quiz, Scary story, History POV, Post story (a Reddit-style first-person post), and What if. The format guides the script structure, visual direction, and default caption look, so you can match the approach to your topic.

Yes. Open Edit story to review the opening, narration, and visual direction before generating. Spoken narration is written to fill the length you pick, so a 30-second short is about 30 seconds of voiceover with matching stock. You can also press Generate directly and let Clip Studio plan the story automatically.

No. Topic Shorts are faceless by design. You provide the topic; the video is assembled from stock footage, narration, and captions.

Yes. Pick a narration voice before you generate so the short sounds like your channel, not a generic read.

Topic Shorts use stock footage. Check the source footage terms and any rights needed for your intended use.

A finished short with voiceover and captions, downloaded as an MP4 for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, or landscape. It comes with a ready title, caption, and hashtags, a cover frame, and extra downloads: a version without music so you can add a trending sound in the app, a version without burned-in captions, and SRT or VTT subtitles.

Yes, for free. On the finished short, switch to another caption look or turn captions off, or swap or remove the music. Each change saves a new version in under a minute without re-voicing the short, and you can go back to an earlier version. A published page keeps the version you shared until you update it.

Captions come in six looks, burned in from the voiceover: Spotlight (default — each spoken word lights up on a blue highlight), Impact (bold outlined caps), Highlighter (caps with one yellow key word), Editorial (quiet lower-third phrases), Boxed (phrases on a dark pill), and Kicker (phrase chunks with one oversized cyan word). Off leaves the frame clean. Transitions default to Dynamic (punchier motion between clips). Classic keeps the current cuts and dissolves. Off is hard cuts only. Captions follow the narration language, including Hindi in Devanagari script. These choices do not change this month’s generation limit.

Yes. Paste a link (up to three) or the text of an article, or upload a PDF, and the script is built from it. A research step keeps only the claims it can cite and drops or softens the rest. The finished short comes with a Sources card that lists where each claim came from.

English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, and Hindi. The script is written in that language, the voice reads it natively, and the captions follow it. The language does not change this month’s generation limit.

Yes. Pick 9:16 for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, 16:9 for landscape, or 1:1 for square feeds. Captions and the opening title are laid out for each frame.

Yes. Add a recurring host, an animated narrator who opens and closes every episode, so a series has a face people recognise. On a paid plan you can also clone your own voice from a short recording and a spoken consent line, then narrate shorts with it. Shorts in a cloned voice carry an AI-voice disclosure by default.

Video Lab generates original motion from a prompt or still across frontier models on your monthly plan. Topic Shorts start from a topic and assemble a faceless stock short with voice and captions — the fast path when you need a post, not a directed shot.

Eligible new accounts get one free Topic Short. No card required.