Automatic highlight video
AI Highlight Reel Maker
Upload a long video and Pictory finds the best moments. Pick a length, add captions and your brand, and download a short highlight reel you can share.
- Best moments found automatically
- Add or remove any highlight
- Captions and your brand
- Free to try, online in your browser
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What is an AI highlight reel maker?
An AI highlight reel maker picks the best moments of a long video and joins them into a short highlight reel. In Pictory you upload the video, it highlights the key phrases in the transcript, and you pick a length and download the reel.
An automatic highlight video, with you in charge. Pictory marks the strongest lines for you. Add a highlight, remove one, then create a highlight video from the moments you kept.
It works as an AI highlight video maker for webinars, talks, interviews and podcasts. Make AI video highlights in landscape or vertical, online in your browser. It is free to try.
keynote.mp436 min · English (US)
Highlight reel ready8 moments · captions on
Your source, any format
Highlights start with a long video.
Or bring any format.
Nothing recorded yet? Make the video from text, a link or slides first.
AI Video Editor
Upload a video and edit it by editing the text.
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Screen Recorder
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Paste any text and get a finished video.
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PPT to Video
Your slides and notes, narrated and on screen.
PDF to Video
Turn reports and guides into videos people actually finish.
Script to Video
Paste it and keep every word, or let AI tighten it up.
How it works
How to make a highlight reel
To make a highlight reel, upload your video to Pictory and let it transcribe. Open the Highlights tab to see the moments it picked, then add or remove highlights. Choose the length, switch off filler words and silences, add captions and your brand, and download the reel.
Upload your video
Drag in a video or audio file, up to 5 GB and 180 minutes. Choose the language.
Review the highlights
Open the Highlights tab. Pictory marks the key phrases, and you add or remove any.
Choose the length and clean up
Pick how long the reel should be and switch off filler words and silences.
Add captions and download
Pick a caption style and your brand kit, then download the highlight reel.
Auto highlight
Video highlights: what Pictory picks
Pictory reads the transcript of your video and highlights the key phrases, strong statements and moments that carry the point. Each video highlight is a suggestion. Click one to jump to it in the preview, remove it, or select more text to add a highlight of your own.
Features
Highlight video maker features: reels, captions and formats
Reels
One highlight reel from the moments you keep
Keep every highlight you want and choose Create video. Pictory joins the moments into one reel, or turns a single highlight into a clip of its own.
- One reel from all your highlights
- Or a single clip from one highlight
- Filler words and silences removed
Highlight 3 of 8
Reel created8 moments joined
Captions and brand
Captions and your brand on every highlight video
Switch on subtitles, set the maximum lines and pick a style. Choose your brand kit and the reel carries your logo, fonts and colors.
- Captions timed to the speech
- A choice of caption styles
- Your brand kit on every reel
Formats and editing
Landscape or vertical, with a full editor behind it
Download the reel landscape or vertical. To change more, open it in the full editor and edit the text, the visuals, the music or the timing.
- Vertical 9:16 for social
- Landscape for YouTube and websites
- Open the reel in the full editor
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 highlight reels?
EventsEvent highlight reels from keynote recordings
Show what people missed and give them a reason to come next time.
- Sales
Webinar highlights for the sales team
Send prospects the two minutes that answer their question.
- Courses
Course highlights that sell the full class
Join the best moments of a workshop into a reel for the sign-up page.
- Community
Community recaps from a long recording
Turn the monthly meetup recording into a short recap for the feed.
Why Pictory
Loved by creators, trusted by enterprise teams
From solo creators to global marketing 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 highlight reel maker vs. video editing software
One 40-minute talk, turned into a highlight reel two ways.
| Step | With Pictory | Traditional editing software |
|---|---|---|
| Finding the best moments | Highlighted for you in the transcript | Watched through and marked by hand |
| Changing the selection | Add or remove a highlight in the text | Cut and move clips on the timeline |
| Joining the reel | Create video joins the moments | Assembled clip by clip |
| Filler words and silences | Removed with two toggles | Trimmed out by hand |
| 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 |
| Your branding | One brand kit on every reel | 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
A highlight reel is a short video made of the best moments from a longer one. It gives people the point of a talk, a webinar or an interview in a minute or two.
Upload your long video to Pictory and open the Highlights tab. Keep the moments Pictory marked, or add your own, and choose Create video. That is how to create a highlight video with captions and your brand.
Upload the long video, up to 5 GB and 180 minutes. Pictory transcribes it and highlights the key phrases. Review them, pick a length and download the reel.
Yes. You can try Pictory’s highlight video maker 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.
Yes. Choose a length of 30 seconds, 1, 2 or 5 minutes, and add or remove highlights until the reel says what you want.
Yes. Switch on subtitles, set the maximum lines and pick a caption style. The captions are timed to the speech automatically.
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