YouTube · 9:16 · 50s
YouTube Shorts Retention Cut (Practice)
50s Shorts re-cut of a long tutorial — payoff first, then the how.
- Format
- 9:16
- Duration
- 50s
- Tools
- CapCut, VN Editor
- Style
- Retention Cut · Captions · Motion Type
The brief
Practice piece. Take a creator's long-form tutorial and re-cut for retention as a YouTube Short.
My approach
Restructured: payoff in the first 2s, then 'how'. Removed every word the visual already showed. Hook frame loops back at the end.
Timeline highlights
- 01
Cut 14s of dead air from the original
- 02
Payoff frame placed at 00:01
- 03
Loop back to the hook on the last frame
Frames
Deliverables
- 9:16 · 50s
- Captions burned + SRT