How to Repurpose YouTube Videos into Shorts, Reels and TikToks

لماذا تعمل إعادة الاستخدام بشكل جيد

Short form content dominates right now. TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts all compete for the same attention, and they all reward consistent posting. But creating original short content every day is exhausting.

The smarter approach is to pull the best moments from your long form videos and redistribute them. A 15 minute tutorial can easily become 5 to 8 standalone clips. Each one works as its own piece of content that drives viewers back to the full video on your قناة يوتيوب.

التحدي الفني

YouTube videos are usually 16:9 landscape. Short form platforms want 9:16 vertical. So you need to:

1. قص الفيديو إلى مقاطع فردية (أفضل اللحظات من 30 إلى 60 ثانية)
2. قص من أفقي إلى عمودي، مع الحفاظ على الموضوع في الإطار
3. إعادة ترميز إلى H.264 MP4 لتحقيق أقصى توافق
4. Upload each clip to تيك توك, Instagram and YouTube Shorts

You can do all of this manually in Premiere or DaVinci Resolve. Or you can automate the entire process. Let\'s look at both.

الخطوة 1: قص وقطع باستخدام FFmpeg

The fastest way to convert a landscape video to vertical is with FFmpeg. This command takes a 16:9 video, crops the center to 9:16, resizes to 1080x1920, and extracts a 45 second clip starting at the 2 minute mark:

ffmpeg -i full-video.mp4 \
  -ss 00:02:00 -t 45 \
  -vf "crop=ih*9/16:ih,scale=1080:1920" \
  -c:v libx264 -preset medium -profile:v high \
  -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a aac -movflags +faststart \
  clip-01.mp4

Don\'t want to run FFmpeg locally? Upload-Post has a built in FFmpeg API that does it in the cloud:

curl -X POST https://api.upload-post.com/api/uploadposts/ffmpeg/jobs/upload \
  -H "التفويض: Apikey your-api-key-here" \
  -F "[email protected]" \
  -F 'full_command=ffmpeg -i {input} -ss 00:02:00 -t 45 -vf "crop=ih*9/16:ih,scale=1080:1920" -c:v libx264 -preset medium -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a aac -movflags +faststart {output}' \
  -F "output_extension=mp4"

The API returns a job_id. Once processing finishes (you can poll the status), download the result and you\'ve got a perfectly formatted vertical clip ready for publishing.

الخطوة 2: ارفع المقطع إلى جميع المنصات القصيرة

Now take that clip and send it everywhere with a single API call:

curl -X POST https://api.upload-post.com/api/upload \
  -H "التفويض: Apikey your-api-key-here" \
  -F "[email protected]" \
  -F "user=mybrand" \
  -F "title=The one editing trick most people miss" \
  -F "tiktok_title=The one editing trick most people miss #editing #tutorial" \
  -F "instagram_title=This changed my editing workflow. Full tutorial on YouTube (link in bio)" \
  -F "youtube_title=The one editing trick most people miss #shorts" \
  -F "platform[]=tiktok" \
  -F "platform[]=instagram" \
  -F "platform[]=youtube" \
  -F "first_comment=Full video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=your-video-id"

Notice how each platform gets a slightly different caption. تيك توك gets hashtags inline, Instagram gets a call to action mentioning the full video, and يوتيوب gets the #shorts tag. The first_comment parameter automatically adds a link to the original video.

YouTube Shorts detection is automatic: any video under 60 seconds in vertical format (9:16 or 1:1) is treated as a Short.

الخطوة 3: أتمتة خط الأنابيب بالكامل باستخدام n8n

Here\'s where things get really powerful. You can set up an n8n workflow that watches your YouTube channel, detects new uploads, clips them automatically, and publishes the clips to TikTok and Instagram without you doing anything.

We have several templates that do exactly this:

• قص الفيديوهات الطويلة تلقائيًا إلى Shorts وجدولتها على TikTok وInstagram
• تحويل الفيديوهات الطويلة إلى مقاطع قصيرة فيروسية باستخدام AI (Whisper + Gemini)
• تحويل فيديوهات YouTube إلى ريلز فيروسية على Instagram تلقائيًا
• تحويل البودكاست إلى مقاطع فيروسية على TikTok باستخدام Gemini AI

The most advanced version uses Whisper for transcription and Gemini AI to identify the most engaging moments from your video. It then clips those exact segments, crops them to vertical, generates captions, and publishes them to your connected accounts. All in the background.

You can also set up similar workflows with Make.com or زابير if you prefer those tools.

متطلبات تنسيق الفيديو لكل منصة

When you\'re creating clips for multiple platforms, it helps to know the technical requirements so you hit the right specs on the first try:

The safe zone is: 1080x1920, H.264, under 60 seconds, under 300 MB. A clip that meets these specs works on every platform. For the full breakdown, check the video requirements documentation.

برنامج نصي بلغة بايثون لقص وتحميل الدفعات

Here\'s a practical script that takes a long video and a list of timestamps, creates vertical clips for each one, and uploads them all:

import subprocess
import os
from upload_post import UploadPostClient

client = UploadPostClient(api_key="your-api-key-here")

source_video = "full-tutorial.mp4"
clips = [
    {"start": "00:01:30", "duration": 45, "title": "هذه النصيحة وفرت لي ساعات"},
    {"start": "00:05:10", "duration": 55, "title": "لا أحد يتحدث عن هذه الميزة"},
    {"start": "00:12:00", "duration": 40, "title": "مقارنة قبل وبعد"},
    {"start": "00:18:45", "duration": 50, "title": "النتيجة النهائية أذهلتني"},
]

for i, clip in enumerate(clips):
    output = f"clip-{i+1:02d}.mp4"

    # Crop to vertical and extract clip
    cmd = [
        "ffmpeg", "-y", "-i", source_video,
        "-ss", clip["start"], "-t", str(clip["duration"]),
        "-vf", "crop=ih*9/16:ih,scale=1080:1920",
        "-c:v", "libx264", "-preset", "medium",
        "-pix_fmt", "yuv420p", "-c:a", "aac",
        "-movflags", "+faststart", output
    ]
    subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)

    # Upload to all short form platforms
    response = client.upload_video(
        video_path=output,
        title=clip["title"],
        user="mybrand",
        platforms=["tiktok", "instagram", "youtube"],
        add_to_queue=True,
        async_upload=True
    )
    print(f"Clip {i+1} queued: {clip['title']}")

    os.remove(output)  # Clean up local file

print("All clips processed and queued!")

نصائح لمحتوى معاد استخدامه بشكل أفضل

• اختر لحظات ذات جذب قوي. The first 3 seconds decide whether someone keeps watching. Choose clips that start with a question, a surprising statement, or a visual payoff.
• احتفظ بالمقاطع تحت 60 ثانية so they work as YouTube Shorts (which has the strictest limit). TikTok and Reels allow longer, but shorter clips tend to perform better anyway.
• أضف تعليقًا أول مع رابط to the full video. Use the first_comment parameter to drive traffic back to YouTube.
• جدولة المقاطع على مدار الأسبوع instead of posting them all at once. Use the queue system to spread them out automatically.
• استخدم تسميات توضيحية مختلفة لكل منصة. What works on TikTok (hashtags, trends) doesn\'t always work on LinkedIn or YouTube.

الأسئلة المتكررة

هل ستعاقبني المنصات على إعادة نشر نفس المحتوى؟

Each platform has its own algorithm and audience. Posting the same clip on TikTok and Instagram is totally normal and won\'t hurt your reach. Just make sure you\'re not uploading the exact same file to the same platform multiple times within 48 hours, as platforms have duplicate detection.

هل يمكنني القيام بذلك مع البودكاست أيضًا؟

Absolutely. The workflow is similar: extract the best audio segments, add a waveform or video background, and publish. We have a specific n8n template for turning podcasts into TikTok clips with automated captions.

هل يمكنني إضافة تسميات توضيحية أو ترجمات إلى المقاطع؟

Yes. If you\'re using the n8n AI templates, Whisper handles transcription and the captions get burned into the video automatically. If you\'re doing it manually with FFmpeg, you can add an SRT subtitle file with the subtitles filter.