Make a vertical promo video on your Mac

Pick a template, drop in a recording or a few photos, and OwnClip makes a 1080×1920 promo Short with a voice-over, music and captions. The voice, the music and the edit are all made on your Mac, and nothing is uploaded.

Promo Shorts is part of Studio, a one-time $99 purchase. Everything else on this page is free.

A vertical promo Short for a gym called Iron Hall: black-and-white pictures of people training, LIFT. SWEAT. REPEAT. in white and neon green, a numbered workout list, a member count climbing to 500+ and an end card — A Promo Short made by OwnClip on a Mac from the Fitness class template. Every picture, the voice and the music were made on the Mac.

A Short without a production team

A promo for a new product, a weekly special or an open house usually means a script, a voice, a soundtrack and an edit, in four different tools. Promo Shorts does those steps for you from a template. You choose the template, fill in a few details about your business, and add a recording or some photos if you have them.

Choose Make a Short on any recording in the Library, the editor or the Home screen, or open Promo Shorts from More Tools. The finished video is saved to your Library, ready to post.

Made on this Mac

Each template is its own design.

The Short at the top of this page is the Fitness class template: condensed type, a neon accent and black-and-white pictures. This one is the Café special: a serif masthead, warm photos and slow fades. Both were made from each template's own sample details with no photos added, so OwnClip painted every picture. Nothing was edited afterwards.

1080×1920
Voice-over
Music
Captions

A vertical promo Short for a café called Luma Coffee: a painted latte, milk being poured, an almond croissant, a list of the week's items and an end card with the café's web address — A Promo Short made by OwnClip on a Mac from the Café special template. Every picture, the voice and the music were made on the Mac.

What goes into a Short

20 templatesStudio

From a café special or a home listing to an app tour, a class, an event or a hiring post. Each has its own layout, type, colours, motion and music.

Your recordings and photosStudio

Add a screen recording, a video or photos to any scene. Pick the moment of a recording a scene should show.

A voice-overStudio

Each scene line is read aloud in the voice the template suggests, or one you choose.

Music made for itStudio

A music bed is composed for each Short and dips under the voice.

CaptionsStudio

The spoken lines appear as captions, in a colour picked to read against the picture behind them.

Pictures for empty scenesStudio

On a Mac with 16 GB of memory or more, OwnClip can paint a picture for any scene you leave empty, after a one-time download.

From template to finished Short

1Choose a templateBrowse the templates by kind of business, or describe your business in one line and let OwnClip draft the text.
2Fill in the detailsYour business name, what you are promoting, your web address. Add recordings or photos to the scenes you want them in.
3GenerateThe run sheet shows how long it will take before you start. Painting pictures takes longer than using your own.
4Post itThe Short lands in your Library as a vertical video, ready for any app that plays vertical video.

The list scene of a gym promo Short: TODAY'S WORK, then kettlebell swings, sled pushes and battle ropes, numbered in neon green — The list scene of the Fitness class Short, as OwnClip rendered it.

Questions people ask

In OwnClip, choose Make a Short on a recording, or open Promo Shorts from More Tools. Pick a template, fill in your details, add a recording or photos if you have them, and choose Generate. OwnClip writes a vertical 1080×1920 video with a voice-over, music and captions to your Library.

No. The voice, the music, the pictures and the edit are all made on your Mac, and the finished video is saved to your Library. Nothing leaves the Mac unless you share it.

Studio, $99 once with no subscription. It activates up to two Macs, and every 1.x and 2.x update is included. Promo Shorts is not part of Free or Pro.

Not on a Mac with 16 GB of memory or more: OwnClip can paint a picture for every scene you leave empty, after a one-time download. On other Macs, add a recording or a photo to each picture scene.

A few minutes with your own recordings and photos. Painting pictures adds time for each one. The run sheet shows an estimate before you start.

OwnClip runs on the latest macOS — currently macOS 26 — on an Apple silicon Mac. It is a native Mac app; there is no Windows or web version.

A Mac video editor that opens on your recordingThe editor your recording opens into, instead of an app you export toward.A screen recorder built for the MacThe hub: recording, editing and exporting on the Mac.Screen recording that zooms in on its ownCursor-driven zoom moves generated from the recording itself.Live streaming from a Mac, with no scene to buildGo live to several destinations at once, with a local recording running underneath.

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