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Titles, descriptions, scripts, thumbnails, captions, schema, and full in-browser video processing — 94 tools that run on your device, no server uploads.

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18 FFmpeg-powered tools — trim, compress, convert, merge, resize, rotate, extract frames, burn in captions. Files never leave your device.

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How Video.yt helps creators

A workflow for every step of the upload

01

Plan better videos

Brainstorm sharper hooks, titles, and outlines before you press record — so every video starts with a clear angle.

02

Process & optimize

Trim, compress, convert, resize, and caption your video locally. Then write descriptions, tags, and schema that earn the click.

03

Publish with confidence

Preview thumbnails, generate clean embed codes, and run a final SEO check before you hit publish.

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YouTube Creator Tools

Generate titles, descriptions, tags, and metadata that earn the click.

Title Generator

Free YouTube title generator — enter a topic, audience, and tone to get 8 click-worthy, copy-ready title ideas in seconds. No signup, no upload.

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Description Generator

Free YouTube description generator — turn a topic and key points into a structured description with bullets, timestamps, a CTA, and tags. No signup.

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Tag Generator

Turn one keyword into a clean set of related tags ready to paste into your upload.

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Hashtag Generator

Free YouTube hashtag generator — get 15 hashtags split into broad, niche, and long-tail tiers; only the first 3 show above the title. No signup.

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Script Generator

Outline a video script with hook, segments, and CTA in seconds.

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Hook Generator

Open every video with a hook that stops the scroll in 3 seconds.

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Thumbnail Downloader

YouTube thumbnail downloader — grab any video thumbnail at all 5 resolutions, maxresdefault down to default. Free, no signup, any YouTube URL.

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Video ID Extractor

YouTube video id extractor — get the 11-character ID from any URL: watch, youtu.be, shorts, embed, or with timestamp parameters. Batch input supported.

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Channel ID Finder

Find any YouTube channel's UC… ID from a handle, custom URL, or legacy URL. Uses oEmbed with HTML fallback. Required for API, RSS, and embed tools.

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Subscribe Link Generator

Convert any YouTube channel URL into a one-click subscribe link with the sub_confirmation=1 parameter. Boosts conversion on end screens and bio links.

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Timestamp Link Generator

Create a YouTube link that starts at a specific time. Live preview, supports hours/minutes/seconds, also reads current iframe playback position.

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Chapter Generator

Format and validate YouTube video chapter timestamps. Catches the first-chapter-not-at-0:00 and minimum-10-seconds rules that silently disable chapters.

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Tag Extractor

Extract video tags from any public YouTube video by parsing the page meta keywords. Useful for competitor research and keyword gap analysis.

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Title Extractor

YouTube title extractor — pull the video title, channel name, and thumbnail from any public YouTube video via oEmbed. Free, instant, no signup.

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Description Extractor

YouTube description extractor — pull the meta description (~160 chars) from any public YouTube video. Great for competitor research and quick audits.

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Hashtag Extractor

YouTube hashtag extractor — pull every hashtag from any video description. Great for competitor research and spotting trending tags in your niche.

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B-Roll Ideas

Generate 15 specific b-roll shot ideas for any video topic, split into establishing, detail, and transition shots. Bring it on set as a shot list.

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Niche Finder

YouTube niche finder. Take a 3-question quiz on topics, skills, and audience to get 3 specific niche recommendations with competition estimates.

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Series Planner

Plan a 10-episode YouTube series with episode progression, suggested titles, and downloadable CSV. Boost session watch time and channel authority.

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Comparison Ideas

Pick a niche and get five 'X vs Y' video matchups, each with three ready-to-use title variations.

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CTA Scripts

YouTube CTA script generator. Get 5 spoken call-to-action scripts tailored to your channel goal — subscribers, comments, traffic, or repeat views.

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Channel Name Generator

YouTube channel name generator — get 20 brandable name ideas pairing your niche with a personal word, each with a heuristic .com availability badge.

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Channel Keywords

Suggest 15 YouTube channel keywords for YouTube Studio, ranked by relevance and capped at the 500-character field limit. Free, in your browser.

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About Section

Generate a 150–250-word YouTube channel About section with greeting, value proposition, upload schedule, audience, and CTA. Indexed by YouTube search.

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Trailer Script

Generate a 30–60 second YouTube channel trailer script with hook, problem, proof, expectations, and CTA beats. Includes shot direction notes.

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Thumbnail & Visual Tools

Preview, frame, and refine the visuals viewers see first.

Thumbnail Preview

Preview your YouTube thumbnail at all four display sizes — full, search, sidebar, and mobile — plus a mobile feed mock-up. Free, no upload, no signup.

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Dominant Color Extractor

Extract the dominant colors of any image with k-means clustering. Up to 10 swatches as hex + RGB with one-click copy. Browser-only, no upload.

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Mockup Generator

Render your thumbnail inside a desktop, mobile, or sidebar YouTube feed mockup and download it as a PNG. Browser-only, no upload, instant export.

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Avatar Resizer

Resize one image into YouTube, X, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, and favicon avatar sizes at once. Circle-crop preview, ZIP download.

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Banner Template

Make a 2560×1440 YouTube channel banner from 5 ready-made templates — add your name, tagline, and accent color and download the PNG. No upload, free.

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Thumbnail Resizer

Resize a thumbnail to YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook sizes or a custom WxH. One size downloads directly, multiple as a ZIP. No upload, free.

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Thumbnail Compressor

Compress thumbnails to under 2 MB without losing visible quality — JPEG, WebP, or PNG, with a before/after comparison. Browser-only, no uploads.

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Safe Zone Checker

Overlay common player UI safe zones on your thumbnail to see what gets covered by duration badges, captions, and the resume-watching bar.

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Channel Art Template

Design a 2560×1440 YouTube channel banner with TV, desktop, and mobile safe zones drawn on a live preview. Add text and export a clean PNG. No upload.

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Grid Generator

Composite multiple thumbnails into one PNG grid — 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, or a 2×4 banner — with a background color and gap. Drag to reorder. No upload.

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Color Picker

Extract 6 dominant colors from any thumbnail with hex, RGB, and HSL values. Click to copy, export as JSON or ASE. Runs in your browser, no upload.

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Format Converter

Convert a thumbnail between JPG, PNG, and WebP with a quality setting, and see the before/after file size. Runs entirely in your browser. No upload.

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Thumbnail Cropper

Crop a thumbnail to 16:9, 1:1, 9:16, or a free ratio with a live interactive box and real-time output dimensions. Export JPG or PNG. No upload.

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Readability Checker

Check whether your thumbnail text stays readable at mobile feed size. Side-by-side downscale simulation, a 1–5 score, and concrete fixes. Free, no upload.

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Thumbnail A/B

Compare two thumbnails and titles side by side in a feed-style mockup and pick the winner before you publish. Browser-only, no upload, free.

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Caption & Transcript Tools

Format captions and transcripts for accessibility and reach.

Caption Formatter

Free caption formatter — paste a raw transcript or SRT file and get clean, readable caption blocks at the line length you choose. In your browser.

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SRT to VTT

Convert SubRip (.srt) caption files into WebVTT (.vtt) for HTML5 <track> tags. Comma-to-period millisecond conversion, WEBVTT header included.

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VTT to SRT

Convert WebVTT (.vtt) caption files back to SubRip (.srt). Strips cue settings, fixes numbering, switches periods to commas.

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SRT Timing Shifter

SRT timing shifter — move every cue in an SRT file forward or back by a custom millisecond offset. Negative shifts clamp at 00:00:00. In your browser.

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SRT Merger

Combine multiple SRT files into one continuous caption track with re-indexed cues and an optional gap between segments.

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Caption Splitter

Enforce broadcast-style 2-line, 42-character-per-line caption rules. Long cues are split into multiple cues with proportional timing.

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SRT to Plain Text

Strip cue numbers and timestamps from an SRT file to produce a clean, paragraphed transcript ready for blog posts or show notes.

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Caption Duration Calculator

Paste a transcript and a target words-per-minute speed to generate suggested SRT timings for human-readable captions.

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Subtitle Preview

Paste an SRT plus a YouTube URL to preview how captions look burned-in over the video, with live cue scrubbing.

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Burn-In Captions

Burn SRT captions into video frames in your browser with custom font size, color, background, and position. Plays everywhere, even muted. No upload.

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Publishing Tools

Embed, share, and ship your videos with the right specs.

Creator Calculators

Earnings, bitrate, file size, watch time — the math behind every upload.

Aspect Ratio Calculator

Derive a ratio from two dimensions, compute the other side from a ratio, or pick a platform preset — each with a visual swatch.

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YouTube Earnings

Estimate YouTube monetization revenue from views, CPM, and RPM. Shows realistic low / mid / high scenarios with a transparent breakdown.

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TikTok Earnings

Estimate TikTok Creator Rewards Program payouts from monthly views. Monthly and annual revenue at a transparent per-1,000 rate.

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Reels Earnings

Estimate Instagram Reels Play Bonus payouts from monthly views. Monthly and annual revenue at a transparent per-1,000 plays rate.

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Bitrate Calculator

Find a target video encoding bitrate by resolution, framerate, quality preset, and codec. Deterministic lookup with the math shown.

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File Size Calculator

Estimate MB and GB from duration, video bitrate, and audio bitrate. Shows the formula and checks against platform upload limits.

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Duration From Size

Find the max HH:MM:SS that fits a target MB/GB at a given video and audio bitrate. Plan against tight upload caps.

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Subscriber Milestone

Project the time until you hit 1K, 10K, 100K, 1M, and 10M subscribers at your current daily growth rate.

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Watch Time Goal

Views needed to hit 4,000 hours for YouTube Partner Program — by average video length and retention. Per-month and per-week pace.

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Video Storage

Total MB/GB/TB for a video library from video count, average duration, and bitrate. Compares against cloud and drive capacity tiers.

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Conversion Utilities

Frames, time, bitrate, resolution, aspect ratio — quick converters for every spec sheet.

Audio Tools

Extract, convert, and process audio from your video files locally in the browser.

Video Processing

Trim, convert, resize, and re-encode video right in your browser. No upload, no servers.

Video to GIF

Convert MP4, WebM, MOV, or MKV clips into optimized animated GIFs in your browser. Trim, resize, and pick a palette preset — files never leave your device.

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Video Trimmer

Trim any video to a precise start and end in your browser — lossless stream-copy by default, optional re-encode for frame-accurate cuts. No upload.

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Format Converter

Convert any video between MP4, WebM, MOV, MKV, and AVI in your browser. Smart codec defaults per format, estimated output size, no uploads.

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Video Compressor

Compress any video to a target file size (two-pass) or a CRF quality level in your browser. Hit Discord, email, or WhatsApp limits with no upload.

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Video Resizer

Resize any video to 1080p, 720p, vertical 9:16, square 1:1, or any custom WxH. Letterbox to keep aspect, or crop to fill.

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Video Rotator

Rotate any video 90°, 180°, or flip horizontally / vertically in your browser. Live preview, no upload, no signup.

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Video Speed Changer

Speed up or slow down any video from 0.25× to 4× in your browser. Pitch-preserving audio with the atempo filter, no upload, no signup.

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Video Reverser

Reverse any video — and optionally its audio — entirely in your browser with FFmpeg.wasm. Short clips work best. No upload, no signup, free.

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Video Merger

Concatenate multiple video clips into a single MP4 in your browser. Drag to reorder, mixed resolutions and codecs supported.

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Frame Extractor

Extract a single frame at any timestamp, or every Nth second as a ZIP, from any video. Runs entirely in your browser.

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Reference library

Video specs for every platform

Resolution, aspect ratio, max duration, file size, codec, and bitrate — for YouTube, TikTok, Reels, Shorts, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, and Twitch. Last verified January 2026.

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Yes. All 94 tools on Video.yt are free, with no signup, no paywall, and no credit card.