VERTES Academy

Every tab, every button — explained.

VERTES is a full studio, but nothing here is complicated. This is a plain-English tour of each tab and what every control actually does. Read it once and you'll know the whole app.

1 · Create Shorts 2 · Caption & Editor 3 · Marketing & Analytics 4 · Strategist 5 · Content Coach 6 · Upload & Schedule 7 · Setup / Onboarding 8 · Help & Legal
1

Create Shorts

The core: drop footage, say what you want, get finished vertical Shorts.

Create Shorts tab
  • 📥Pick footage — choose a video file from your PC or paste a link. Any length: even a 6-hour stream.
  • 🎮Game / genre — tells VERTES what to look for. If it's unsure, it asks a quick clarifying question so it hunts the right moments.
  • #️⃣How many Shorts & length — e.g. 3 shorts, 30–40s each. No caps — make as many as you like.
  • 🙂Facecam — if you stream with a camera, VERTES finds it and places it as a split or a circle at the top.
  • 🏷️Channel branding — drop your social icons (Twitch/YouTube/TikTok/X…) plus your handle onto every clip, in the corner you choose.
  • 🎬Outro card — optional end card with your channel name.
  • 📊System monitor — live CPU/GPU/RAM/temperature + a timer, so you can see it working.
  • ▶️Start — VERTES downloads (if a link), transcribes, finds the best moments, cuts, crops vertical and ranks them. Clips land in your Shorts folder.
Good to know: Create makes clean, fast clips. Captions are added on demand in the next tab, so every caption is perfectly synced to that exact clip.
2

Caption & Editor

Fine-tune a clip and add karaoke-style captions — one clip, or many at once.

Where it lives: the Caption & Editor tab in the left menu. Pick a clip from your gallery, or tick several to caption in a batch.
  • ✂️Cut (timeline) — drag the start/end handles, or type an exact time, to trim the clip before captioning.
  • 📍Caption position — top, middle or bottom (top clears YouTube's UI).
  • 🔤Font — any font installed on your Windows.
  • 🌍Caption language — keep the original speech, or "English (translate)" to auto-translate any spoken language into English captions.
  • 🖼️Framing — keep as-is, or a streamer facecam split (choose the cam corner, shape — bar/circle/square — and where to place it).
  • 🔡Bigger spoken word — pops the currently-spoken word larger for that trending karaoke look.
  • 🎨Caption style — 14 ready-made colour styles; the base colour is the word, the glow is the spoken (karaoke) word.
  • 📚Caption selected — caption several shorts at once. Optional: delete the original after captioning (goes to Recycle Bin).
3

Marketing & Analytics

Real numbers from YOUR channel — and the tuning VERTES applies from them.

Marketing & Analytics tab
  • 📈Real KPIs — views, watch time, retention (average view %) and subscribers, pulled straight from YouTube Analytics.
  • 🚦Traffic sources — where views come from, so you know what's actually working.
  • 🧠Channel DNA — VERTES learns what holds YOUR audience (openings, lengths, moment types) and feeds it back into the next cuts.
  • 🔄Run learn — refresh the learning from your latest real analytics whenever you want.
Why it matters: this is the loop nobody else has — publish → measure → the next batch is tuned automatically.
4

Strategist

Nine marketing tools, all anchored to YOUR games and channel.

Strategist tab
  • 🧭Find viral niches — 20 gaming niches ranked for your channel.
  • 🗓️Content calendar — day-by-day topics, hooks, CTAs and thumbnails.
  • 🪝Viral hooks — 60 hooks grouped by psychology.
  • 🎬Write a script — a 30–45s structure: hook · value · example · CTA.
  • ♻️Repurpose everywhere — one script → native posts for every platform.
  • 🔎Analyze competitors — real top creators (live YouTube data) and the gaps you can take.
  • ⚡Optimize a script — rewrite for maximum completion rate.
  • 💰Monetization plan — a 1k → 500k roadmap with honest timelines.
  • 🤖My daily manager — today's 10 ideas, scripts, best times and products.
5

Content Coach

Ask anything — strategy advice grounded in real data, not guesses.

Content Coach tab
  • 💬Chat — ask about titles, ideas, what to post, why a clip flopped — in any language, it always answers in English.
  • 🌐Grounded answers — the coach uses live web research plus your real channel data, so advice is specific to you.
  • 🧩Knows your niche — it's pinned to your actual games and what already performs for you.
6

Upload & Schedule

Optional auto-upload to your own channel — SEO written, best times picked.

Upload & Schedule tab
  • 🔌Connect wizard — a step-by-step guide to link your own YouTube (your own quota, no gatekeeping). Upload is optional — you can always post clips yourself.
  • ✍️SEO titles & tags — written for each clip; you review and approve before anything goes live.
  • ⏰Best posting times — schedules your Shorts into good slots automatically.
  • 🔧Optimize published videos — scans your live Shorts, flags under-performers vs your game's benchmark, and rewrites title/description/tags (grounded in real viral titles) — then updates them on YouTube with one click.
Honest note: editing a live video updates its search/suggested reach over time — it does not "re-launch" it. VERTES tells you the truth about what each fix can and can't do.
7

Setup / Onboarding

One-time setup: the AI engine, your licence, fonts.

Where it lives: the ⚙ Setup / Onboarding tab. You'll visit it once when you first install.
  • 🔑Activate this device — paste your licence key (from your purchase email) to unlock VERTES on this PC.
  • 🧠Install the AI engine — one click installs the free local AI (Ollama + models). The smart features (editor, coach, titles) use it; video cutting works even without it.
  • ✨Or use Claude — paste your own Claude API key for the premium brain — pennies per session, billed to you, your data.
  • 📁Folders & fonts — choose where clips are saved and see which fonts are available for captions.
8

Help & Legal

Get unstuck fast, and everything official.

Where it lives: the ❓ Help & Legal tab, plus quick links at the bottom of the menu.
  • ❓FAQ + AI help — common answers, plus an assistant that walks you through anything step by step.
  • 🎖️Your membership — your rank, activation status and device.
  • 📄EULA & licences — the terms and the open-source components VERTES builds on.
  • 🔗Quick links — Visit website, join the Discord community, and leave feedback — all from the menu.

Deciding if VERTES is right for you

Three straight answers to the questions people ask before buying, including the cases where we tell you to use something else instead: