Short form video for creators: post daily in the format that's winning this week, without editing all night
A full-time creator's job is to be on camera and to keep up with the format. RealTake does the rest: one raw video becomes a finished video with cuts, captions, b-roll, graphics and sound in a style built from what is working on social right now, and your long videos become finished clips.
RealTake is the AI for short form video that full-time creators use to post every day in the format that is winning this week, clip every long video, and schedule it all, without the editing night.
- Formats, not templatesFresh styles every week, built from the formats winning on social right now. Your feed stays current.
- Long videos become clipsDrop the vlog, the stream recording or the podcast into Clips. Moments come back with reasons.
- Scheduled everywhereLinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube from RealTake, now or on a schedule.
Record on your phone, approve on your phone. Nothing to install.
Filmed at midnight. Scheduled for the week by 12:30.
The creator who spends more time editing than creating
A full-time or going-full-time creator on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn, with a long-form channel, a podcast or a stream, and a posting schedule the algorithm punishes you for missing.
Record, edit until 2am, post, check the numbers, notice a new format is winning, learn it, repeat. The edit is the job you didn't sign up for and the format treadmill never stops.
Consistency and format are the whole game. Daily posts in the format that is working this week beat a perfect post in last month's format. You cannot do both and sleep.
What has been stopping you
Four things full-time creators tell us.
“I film for an hour and edit for six.”
The ratio is backwards. The part people pay you for is the hour; the six are the tax.
“A new format blows up and by the time I've learned it, it's over.”
Red flag/green flag, silent point videos, this-vs-that: each one has a window, and learning the edit eats the window.
“My long videos have twenty clips in them and I post two.”
The vlog, the stream, the podcast: the best moments are in there and the clipping never happens.
“An editor costs more than I make from the platform.”
The retainer that fixes the problem is bigger than the AdSense it is supposed to pay for.
Film the hour. RealTake does the six, in this week's format.
One raw video, finished in minutes
Talk straight through, stumbles and all. Smart cuts keep the best delivery of each line and remove the retakes, filler and dead air, every cut labeled and reversible. Upload from the phone you recorded on.
Every element, done
A Director plans the whole edit, then builds it: word-level captions with 29 presets, a title and an AI hook from your own footage, b-roll from your library, 200+ motion graphics for every number and list, camera moves on the key lines, sound effects and music ducked under your voice.
Formats, not templates
Fresh styles are added every week, built from the formats working on social right now. Pick one, or let Auto pick, and the video comes out in this week's format without you learning an editor.
Editor's notes that tell you what to try next
Every finished video comes with a breakdown: the edits made, the time saved, a score for hook, content and pacing, and one thing to try next time. Then post and see how each video did.
Drop the long video into Clips
Vlogs, stream recordings, podcasts up to three hours, from an upload or a Drive or Dropbox link. RealTake finds the moments worth posting with a reason for each, and you can trim, add your own by tapping two transcript lines, or ask for more on a topic.
Every clip finished and framed
Each clip gets the full edit, captions, b-roll, titles, sound, in 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9. Make them all at once in one style and schedule the lot. Credits go only on the clips you make.
Every plan has every feature
Start free with 5 watermarked videos a month. You see the cost of a video before it is made, failed renders are never charged, and changes in the Studio before render cost nothing.
Your own footage, pulled in
Upload your b-roll, your room, your past clips once. They are indexed by what is in them, so when you mention the setup, the setup appears. Licensed stock and AI-generated visuals fill the gaps, approved before they run.
Your face, your voice, your words, animated
RealTake builds an optional opener from your own footage: 8 opener styles, always from you, never a stock avatar or a synthetic stranger. Preview it, keep it or remove it.
- A title written from what you said, on screen in the first second
- Captions that emphasise the words that carry each sentence
- Styles that change weekly with what is working on social
What to film this week
Six videos a creator can record in one sitting. Each one passes the only test that matters: would a stranger scrolling at 1am actually watch it?
This vs that, in the format that's working this week
Pick this week's style. Two recordings, one upload.
The thing I got wrong about this platform
The mistake, the fix, the number on screen. The post people save.
Red flag / green flag for your niche
Five of each, said fast. Lists become graphics as you say them.
What a day of this actually looks like
Three 20-second updates across the day. One upload each.
The stream, clipped
Drop the recording into Clips. Six finished clips with the setup and the payoff intact.
How much this made, honestly
If you share numbers, the counters land them. If you don't, the format still works.
A week of posts, finished
Cuts, captions, title, your own b-roll, graphics and sound on every one, in a style built from what is working on social right now.
How a creator uses it
Record
One raw video on your phone, or the long video you already made.
Upload
From the same phone, in the browser. Pick a style or let Auto choose.
It comes back finished
Cuts, captions, hook, b-roll, graphics, camera moves and sound, in minutes. Open the Studio to change anything, or let it go straight through.
Schedule the week
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn from RealTake. Read the editor's notes. See how it did.
Record tonight's video. Sleep.
Free plan: 5 watermarked videos a month. No credit card.
Which plan a creator needs
Start on Starter, free, up to 5 watermarked videos a month. Presence at $49 covers around 16 to 32 finished videos, a post a day with room for retakes, and 600 source minutes for Clips. A creator clipping every long video wants Authority at $99 with 1,500 source minutes. Billed yearly, those are $29 and $59 a month. Every plan has every feature; you see the cost of a video before it is made, failed renders are never charged, and you get an email before any renewal. Full details on the pricing page.
FAQs
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