Automatic video summaries
AI Video Summarizer
Upload a long video and pick a length. Pictory finds the key moments and builds a short summary video, from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, with captions and your brand.
- Summaries of 30 seconds, 1, 2 or 5 minutes
- Videos up to 5 GB and 180 minutes
- Filler words and silences removed
- Free to try, online in your browser
4.6/5Trusted by over 20,000 teams and institutions worldwide.
What is an AI video summarizer?
An AI video summarizer turns a long video into a short summary video of its key moments. In Pictory you upload the video, choose 30 seconds, 1, 2 or 5 minutes, and it builds the summary with captions and your brand, ready to download.
You get a video back. The AI video summary is a set of numbered clips cut from your own footage. Keep the ones you want, remove the rest, and download them together or one at a time.
Use it to summarize a video of any kind: a webinar, a lecture, an interview or a town hall. Let AI summarize video you have already recorded. This video summarizer AI runs in your browser and is free to try.
webinar-recording.mp458 min · English (US)
Summary ready5 clips · 1 min · captions on
After you upload
Automatic video summaries in minutes
Automatic video summaries start the moment you upload. Pictory transcribes the video for you, and you can leave and be notified when it is done. The summary editor then shows the transcript beside a numbered set of summary clips, with filler words highlighted for removal.
Your source, any format
A long video is just the start.
Bring any format.
Nothing recorded yet? Start from text, a link, slides or a PDF instead.
AI Video Editor
Upload a video and edit it by editing the text.
Audio to Video
Give podcasts visuals and captions for YouTube.
Screen Recorder
Record, then edit it like a document.
Text to Video
Paste any text and get a finished video.
URL to Video
Drop in a link. Pictory turns the page into a video script.
Blog to Video
Turn a post into a video for social.
PDF to Video
Turn reports and guides into videos people actually finish.
PPT to Video
Your slides and notes, narrated and on screen.
Script to Video
Paste it and keep every word, or let AI tighten it up.
How it works
How to summarize a long video
To summarize a long video, choose Summarize Video in Pictory and upload the file, up to 5 GB and 180 minutes. Open the summary editor and choose a length from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. Remove filler words and silences, then download the clips or the summary video.
Upload your video
Drag in a video or audio file, up to 5 GB and 180 minutes. Choose the language.
Pick the summary length
Choose 30 seconds, 1, 2 or 5 minutes. Pictory picks the clips to fit.
Clean it up
Switch off filler words and silences. Remove any clip you do not want.
Download the summary
Add captions and your brand, then download the summary video or each clip.
Summary lengths
Summary lengths: 30 seconds to 5 minutes
A summary can be 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes or 5 minutes long. Pick the length in the summary editor and Pictory chooses the clips to fit. Choose another length and you get another summary from the same upload.
| Summary length | What it suits | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| 30 seconds | A teaser | Shorts, Reels and TikTok |
| 1 minute | A social post | LinkedIn and feeds |
| 2 minutes | An explainer | Email and landing pages |
| 5 minutes | A recap | The team or the people who missed it |
Features
AI video summarizer features: lengths, clean-up and captions
Lengths
Four summary lengths from one upload
Choose 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes or 5 minutes. The summary arrives as numbered clips, so you can drop one, keep the rest and download each clip on its own.
- 30 seconds, 1, 2 or 5 minutes
- Numbered clips you can keep or remove
- Download the summary or single clips
Clean-up
Filler words and silences removed for you
Two toggles take out the filler words and the silences. The transcript shows what goes, so the summary keeps the point and loses the padding.
- Remove filler words with one toggle
- Remove silences with another
- Open the full editor to change anything else
Clip 2 · 0:22
Cleaned upFiller words off · silences off
Captions and brand
Captions, your brand and the shape you need
Switch on subtitles and set the maximum lines, pick a caption style and choose your brand kit. Then export the summary landscape or vertical.
- Subtitles in a choice of styles
- Your brand kit on every summary
- Landscape or vertical
Orientation
Vertical and horizontal summaries
Every summary can be landscape or vertical. Choose the orientation in the summary editor: landscape for YouTube, websites and presentations, vertical 9:16 for Shorts, Reels and TikTok. The captions and your brand move with it, so the same summary works in both shapes.
Recordings
Summarize a webinar, lecture or recording
Any recording you can upload can be summarized: a webinar, a lecture, a town hall, an interview or a podcast episode. Files can be video or audio, up to 5 GB and 180 minutes. Pictory finds the key moments and you choose how long the summary should be.
More AI video features
Your complete AI video generation tool
AI avatars
Add a talking presenter, or a digital twin of you.
Captions
Accurate, synced captions in your brand style.
Translation
Captions and voiceover for every market.
Text editing
Edit the transcript to edit the video.
Team workspaces
Share projects and brand kits with your team.
API
Generate branded videos from your own product.
AI Studio
Create any image or video you need with generative AI
The latest image and video models, built into the editor. Generate it, then drop it straight into your scene.
Generate and edit images
Describe it, or edit an existing image with a prompt.
Keep characters consistent
Use reference images to keep the same person or product in every scene.
Create video clips with sound
Generate clips with audio. Yes, characters can talk.
Extend any clip
Keep any clip going with a new prompt, even one you uploaded.
✓Get four options at once
Generate up to four versions and keep the best one.
Stay on brand
Your brand kit’s colors guide every generation.
Choose your model
Pick a model for stills or 5 to 10-second clips.
Also in AI Studio: Nano Banana Lite for images and Omni Flash for video.
Use cases
Who is using video summaries?
MarketingWebinar summaries for social
Turn an hour-long webinar into a one-minute summary people will finish.
EducationLecture summaries for students
Give students a five-minute recap of the lecture to revise from.
Internal commsTown hall summaries for the whole company
Send the two-minute version to everyone who could not be there.
Why Pictory
Loved by creators, trusted by enterprise teams
From solo creators to global training teams. Read the case studies
4.6 / 5
Average rating on G2, plus Capterra’s Best Ease of Use award for 2025.
20,000+
companies and institutions creating video with Pictory.
SOC 2
and GDPR compliant, ready for enterprise security reviews
GDPR
Case studies
Teams that scaled video with Pictory
“Pictory is the easiest, most efficient way to get from an idea in text to multimedia imagery on the screen. It’s the critical component to get us out of death by PowerPoint.”
Read the Whirlybird Labs case study
“Pictory helps us consistently deliver the high-quality videos we’re known for, content we’re proud of and our clients are proud to use. They always get a five-star response.”
Read the VRC case study
“82% of our 10,000+ partners keep coming back to our training videos even though they aren’t mandatory courses. That’s how we know the content’s working.”
Read the AppDirect case study
“It increased subscriber growth by 78% and cut my video creation time from a couple of hours to a few minutes. It’s been a godsend.”
Read the NetRock case study
“Through Pictory videos, leads up by 500%, video production costs are down 90%.”
Read the Online Super Tutors case study
“We only launched our new app a few months ago and already have over 500 subscribers. People come back regularly to watch more videos made with Pictory.”
Read the Game of Yield case study
Compare
AI video summarizer vs. video editing software
One hour-long recording, summarized two ways.
| Step | With Pictory | Traditional editing software |
|---|---|---|
| Finding the key moments | Picked for you from the transcript | Watched through and marked by hand |
| Choosing a length | Pick 30 seconds, 1, 2 or 5 minutes | Cut and re-cut until it fits |
| Filler words and silences | Removed with two toggles | Trimmed out clip by clip on the timeline |
| Captions | Automatic and timed to the speech | Added, then checked and styled on the timeline |
| A vertical version | Choose the orientation | Reframed and re-edited |
| Single clips | Download each one | Exported one at a time |
| Your branding | One brand kit on every summary | Set up fonts and colors in every project |
Video API
Make video at scale from your own product
Send text, links or slides to the Pictory API and get branded videos back, automatically.
POST /v1/video/storyboard
{
"videoName": "q3-update",
"scenes": [{ "text": "Q3 in 90 seconds..." }]
}Enterprise
Enterprise video at scale
Custom plans, onboarding and support for company-wide rollouts.
- SOC 2 and GDPR compliant
- Custom plans and personalized onboarding
- Shared brand kits and team workspaces
- Dedicated support
Pictory can. Upload a video of up to 180 minutes and its AI video summarizer builds a short summary video from the key moments. You choose 30 seconds, 1, 2 or 5 minutes.
Pictory summarizes video files you upload. For a video on your own channel, download the file from YouTube Studio, upload it to Pictory and choose a summary length.
Up to 5 GB and 180 minutes. You can upload a video file or an audio file.
30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes or 5 minutes. Pick one in the summary editor, and choose another whenever you want a different cut.
A short summary video. The summary editor also shows the transcript and the numbered summary clips side by side, so you can read what each clip says before you keep it.
Yes. Two toggles in the summary editor remove filler words and silences from the whole summary.
Yes. You can try the AI video summarizer on a free trial, online in your browser. Videos downloaded on the free trial carry a watermark, and paid plans start at $25 a month, billed annually.
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