Shortyard makes its clips with OpenShorts, an open-source project by its authors, used under the MIT licence. We run its code on our own GPUs, with our own model choices; the official project and its cloud service are at github.com/mutonby/openshorts and openshorts.app, and are not connected to this site. Where the self-hosted project asks for a Gemini key to pick the moments, we use Claude, and we run the transcription on a GPU.
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Also used
- faster-whisper (MIT) for the transcript.
- FFmpeg (LGPL) for cutting and encoding.
- yt-dlp (Unlicense) for reading YouTube links.
- Ultralytics YOLO (AGPL-3.0) for finding the person to crop around, as part of the OpenShorts engine.