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Turn one performance into several Shorts and Reels

You recorded the whole piece. That is a week of posts, not one: the opening, the climax, the hard passage, the ending. Sync it once, mark the clips on the timeline, and export each one — the score comes with it.

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A clip marked on the SheetVideo timeline, bars 10 to 25 of the Nocturne

A clip marked on the timeline: bars 10 to 25, about thirty seconds, cut on bar lines.

The way it is usually done
  1. Export the full score video
  2. Open it in an editor and find each good section
  3. Cut, re-crop to 9:16, re-export — once per clip
  4. Rebuild the overlay for the vertical ones

Every clip means another trip through the editor. And a clip cut mid-bar starts and ends mid-phrase.

With SheetVideo
  1. Sync the whole take
  2. Mark the clips
  3. Choose a shape
  4. Export them

No tapping beats. No tempo guessing. No keyframes.

Step by step

How to do it, click by click

Every picture below is the real SheetVideo editor, with what to click ringed and numbered. The example is a recording of Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 9 No. 2.

  1. 1Look at what it flagged

    When it finishes, every bar has a place in the recording. The timeline under the video shows it: green where the sync is sure, amber and red where a bar is worth a listen.

    The same bars are listed on the right with their times. Click one to jump there and listen; if it sounds right, click Sounds right and it drops off the list. In the Nocturne most of them sit in the closing bars, where the cadenza is played very freely.

    The Sync step after syncing, with the list of bars worth a listen ringed
  2. 2Mark the part worth posting

    Stop the video at the first bar of the passage you want and click Mark a clip under the video. Then do the same for the next passage.

    A clip of about thirty seconds appears on the timeline, starting on that bar — cut on bar lines, so it starts and ends on the music. Drag its edges to change it, or drag across the bars on the timeline to mark another. Every clip you mark is listed on the Clips & export step.

    A clip marked on the timeline, bars 10 to 25, with Mark a clip ringed
  3. 3Pick what to export and its shape

    Step 5. What to export: your clips, the synced part, or the whole take. Made for sets the shape: Original (as filmed), YouTube 16:9, Reels 9:16, Feed 4:5 or Square 1:1.

    Picture chooses between your video and Score only — your recording’s sound with the score large on a stage of its own. The picture on the left is the export itself, so what you see is what you get.

    The Clips & export step with Clips and Reels 9:16 ringed
  4. 4Export it upright for Shorts, Reels and TikTok

    Click Reels 9:16. A landscape video does not get stretched: it sits whole on a blurred copy of itself, or with black bars, or fills the frame with a centre crop — your pick under “When the shape differs”. The score is laid out again for the narrower frame.

    Exporting needs a free account — sign up when you get here, and whatever you did as a guest moves into it. Free exports are up to 60 seconds with a small moving “Made with SheetVideo.com” mark; Pro exports the whole take without it.

    The 9:16 export preview, with Reels 9:16 and Sign up free to export ringed
In detail

Clips that start on the music

  • Clips are cut on bar lines, so each one starts and ends on the music
  • Mark as many as you like; they are kept in the project
  • Each clip is listed on the export step, ticked to include it
  • Export 9:16 for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, 4:5 for the Instagram feed, 1:1 square
  • Free: up to 60 seconds each, as many as you like. Pro: every ticked clip in one batch

Questions

Try it on one of your own takes

Free in your browser, export included — up to 60 seconds a video, with a small mark. Pro exports the whole take without it.