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Ranking maker

Short answer: A ranking maker on this site orders clips you already filmed from the highest number down to #1 and exports one vertical countdown. It does not draw a tier image, fetch a leaderboard, or invent the footage.

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How to use this ranking maker

1. Play the sample before you touch your files. The editor link on this page opens a Top 5 sample. Slam is the dark skin. Board is the paper frame. Watch both. The drawings are there so the layout is visible. They are not your list.
2. Clear the sample cards, then add your own. Sample replaces the rail with drawings. Add clips appends MP4, WebM, or MOV after the cards already there. Remove a sample with the ✕ control, or your files sit behind the drawings. The rail holds ten cards at most.
3. Set the length, the order, and the titles. Choose 3, 5, or 10. The top card plays first and becomes the highest number once the list is full. The bottom card of that length is #1. Replace every filename. The seconds slider runs from 2 to 4 on the free plan and from 2 to 8 after the lifetime unlock, in half-second steps.
4. Export while the tab stays visible. Play the preview once muted and once with sound. Export writes a 9:16 file on this machine. Keep the tab in front. Cancel saves nothing. You upload the file yourself.

People who search for a ranking maker are usually holding two things: a list they already believe, and footage that could prove it. They want the list to become a video someone can watch to the end. ShortsRank is that bench. You add the clips in this browser, you decide which one is last, and you download one vertical file. The link above opens the editor with a sample Top 5 so the shape is on screen before you spend time on titles.

A written ranking and a countdown answer different readers. This page is the countdown. If you wanted a chart of other people’s channels, a spreadsheet sorted by a score, or a picture of boxes in rows, the paragraphs below say so while the list is still a list, and they name the kind of tool that finishes that other job.

A still list and a countdown video

A still ranking is a page, a picture, or a grid. The reader scans it. Number one can sit at the top, because a page does not have to withhold the winner. A tier image works the same way: each item is a tile, each row is a judgment, and the whole opinion is visible at once. Those formats are good when the audience will pause and argue with a picture. They are a poor fit when you want someone to stay for the next number.

A countdown video spends the winner. The first thing that plays is the highest number. The last thing that plays is #1. The viewer who leaves in the middle never sees the clip you were protecting. That is the format this editor builds, and it is the reason the rail feels backwards if you are used to blog posts.

	Still ranking	Countdown from this editor
What the viewer receives	A page, a picture, or a grid	One 9:16 video file
Where #1 sits	Often at the top, visible immediately	Last in the file
What each item needs	A name, sometimes a photo	A video clip that starts on the action
How the order is chosen	A score, a vote, or your own sort	You drag the rail
What ShortsRank writes	It does not write this column	The video in the other column

That split is the job of a ranking maker on this site. The editor will not export a PNG of rows, a CSV of scores, or a page of tiles. If the deliverable your caption promised is a still board, build the board in a tier-list image tool and stop. If the deliverable is a vertical video of clips you filmed, keep going. The ranking template page lists concrete counts, holds, and title patterns for that video. This page stays on the decision to rank at all.

Leaderboard sites are a third object. They sort public videos by views or votes. ShortsRank does not connect to a channel, does not read a view count, and does not update when a number changes overnight. You would come here after you have already chosen the clips, including the cases where the “ranking” is only your taste.

How the number gets onto the clip

The rank is not a field you type. It is the seat in the rail.

Pick a length: 3, 5, or 10. Those are the only lengths. There is no Top 4 and no Top 7. If you have four honest clips, the countdown is a Top 3 plus one clip you are willing to cut, or you go film a fifth. Padding with an unrelated file so the number looks round is how the middle of the video goes slack.

When you have at least as many cards as the length, the top card is the highest number and plays first. The card at the bottom of that length is #1 and plays last. Cards past the length are marked Bench. Bench cards stay in the tab so you can swap them. They are not in the export. The rail never holds an eleventh card. Ten is the maximum in this version, whether or not they are all in the countdown. A Top 5 can keep five more cards on the bench. A Top 10 has no spare seat.

Empty slots are labeled as empty. Export will not invent a clip to fill one. If you press Export with fewer cards than the length, the page tells you how many are missing and waits. Switch the length down, add a file, or load a sample. The sample is a drawing, and you should remove it before you publish.

Drag the handle, or use the up and down buttons. Arrow Up and Arrow Down work when a card is focused. Moving a card down the rail moves it closer to #1. Moving it up reveals it sooner. A written list puts the winner at the top of the page. This ranking maker cannot, or the file stops being a countdown. If you want the best clip first and then a montage, that is a highlight reel. Cut the reel in a full editor. The intro card here is not a cold open that flashes #1 and then rewinds.

Each card has a title and a seconds slider. The title starts as the filename with the extension stripped, underscores turned into spaces, and the text cut at 80 characters. “clip 0042 final” will go on the plate if you leave it. Replace it before you judge the cut. The series field at the top of the workbench is the name on the intro card. It is also capped at 80 characters. The outro does not use a sentence you write. Both skins end on the fixed line “THAT IS THE ORDER”, under the words that close the count.

The seconds slider starts at 2 and moves in steps of half a second. On the free plan it stops at 4. After the lifetime unlock it stops at 8. You cannot set a one-second hold. A new file arrives at 4 seconds. A Top 10 sample loads at 3 seconds per card. A Top 3 or Top 5 sample loads at 4. The link on this page cannot set the seconds for you. Move the slider after the sample is up.

Subjects you can rank when the clips exist

A ranking maker is useful when every row of the list is a clip you can show, and the clips belong in one category. The category is the series title. If the title says the video is fails, a highlight in the third seat breaks the promise even when the number is painted correctly. These are subjects the editor can carry. Each one fails in the same way if you only have names.

Products. Film the object in your hands, on the shelf, or coming out of the box. A product name with no footage is a caption, and the editor will not fetch a catalog photo. Five objects you actually shot are the product ranking recipe. The plate should say what the frame shows: “The heavy unbox”, “The one on the end”. Repeating the brand five times does not rank anything.

Games. Use captures you recorded. A VOD you do not have rights to is still someone else’s picture after you put a number on it. The gaming fails page is the rights check for that subject. Titles work as outcomes: “Open-net miss”, “Last-second clutch”. The sample cards already use those lines so you can see the length. Swap the drawings for your files before you export.

Sports. Phone footage from the sideline, a practice rep, a moment you were allowed to film. The sports moments page stays on that constraint. A broadcast rip is not repaired by a rank badge. Put the score or the constraint in the title if the picture needs one fact: “Far post, phone footage”. Leave the play-by-play for the caption in the posting app. The plate wraps to two lines and then ellipsizes.

Food. There is no food preset and no pantry of dish footage. Use the general sample, switch to Board if the kitchen is bright, and replace every card. Film the pan, the plate, or the bite. A photo of the menu will not animate. Titles can be the result you can see: “Burnt edge”, “The second pancake”. If you need a recipe card with ingredients measured in text, write that card somewhere else and keep this file as the tasting countdown.

Travel. There is no travel preset and no map. A Top 5 of places works when you filmed each place yourself, with the action at the start of the file. “Downhill line” is a sample drawing of a street, not your trip. Ten places can work when each hold is a glimpse, which is the pacing problem on the Top 10 countdown maker page. Five places at a longer hold work when each stop needs a second look. Other people’s travel films are not your ranking.

Best moments from a long recording. Pick one peak per clip. Trim in another app so the peak is the first frame. This editor plays from the start of the file for the seconds you set. It will not hunt through a match for the goal. The best moments page is that cut. Files over 60 MB warn. Files over 180 MB are refused. A full match is the wrong thing to drop in even when it sneaks under the cap.

If two cards could swap titles without anyone noticing, they are the same item twice. Cut one. The format’s only trick is difference plus a count. Five angles of one moment are a replay, and a replay does not need five numbers.

What a ranking maker exports

The file is one vertical movie. Preview is a 9:16 frame in the workbench. Free export is 720×1280. Lifetime export is 1080×1920. Both are the same aspect. Apps that take a vertical upload will take either. Post the 1080p file when you are done testing.

The timeline inside that file is fixed in shape. An intro of about 1.3 seconds carries the series title and the words “TOP” plus the length. Each rank then gets a sting of just under half a second, with the number full frame, and then the hold you set. An outro of a little over a second closes on “THAT IS THE ORDER”. Intro and outro together are about two and a half seconds. A Top 5 with four-second holds lands near 25 seconds. A Top 3 at the same hold is about 16 seconds. A Top 10 at three-second holds is about 37 seconds. Those figures come from this timeline. They are not a platform’s definition of a good length. The countdown video maker page is the same clock described as a countdown. The Top 5 and Top 10 pages argue the pacing. Use them when the only question left is how many.

	Free download	Lifetime download
Cards kept	The first three in the rail	Up to the length you set, maximum 10
Hold	Cut to 4 seconds if you set more	Up to 8 seconds
Frame	720×1280	1080×1920
Mark	shortsrank.com on every segment except the intro	No mark
How you get it	Confirm the dialog that names the cut	$24 once, verified on our server, then Export

You can preview a Top 5 or a Top 10 on the free plan. The preview is not the free file. The dialog tells you the free cut keeps the first three cards. Reorder before you confirm, because “first” means the top of the rail, which is the start of the countdown, which is the highest numbers. It is not an automatic pick of your three favorites. A Top 3 you actually wanted to be three items exports as a complete count on the free plan. It is still watermarked and 720p. The free ranking video maker page is that ceiling in full. This page does not change it.

Audio is the audio inside the clip that is on screen. Sample drawings are silent, and the editor says so. Real files keep their own sound during the hold. The intro, the sting, and the outro do not add a song or a narrator. If a clip contains a track you cannot clear, strip it before you add the file or accept that the export contains it. There is no music library and no stem mute.

Chrome and Edge try an H.264 MP4. If that encoder is missing, the page tells you which file you got instead. Often that is a WebM. There is no silent swap. The render walks the countdown in real time so the picture and the clip audio stay together. A backgrounded tab stalls. Cancel does not leave a half file. Closing the tab drops the preview. The original files stay on your disk. There is no library to reopen tomorrow.

Order, titles, and the two skins

Two skins exist. Slam is a dark field, a large rank toward the upper left of the hold, and a title plate lower down. Board is a light frame, a large rank above a rounded picture, and the title underneath. You pick one for the whole countdown. You cannot assign Slam to #5 and Board to #1. You cannot keyframe a logo across either skin. You cannot add a sticker, a mask, or a second line of captions from speech.

Use Slam when the footage is dark or busy and you want the number in the corner of the picture. Use Board when the frame is bright and you want each rank to read as a card. The ranking shorts maker page spends longer on safe area. The short version: vertical apps cover the bottom with buttons and the side with icons. Both skins inset the rank. If you later decorate the file in another app, do not park a sticker on the number.

Titles should still make sense if the number were covered, because the number is already the largest type on the hold. Useful shapes are a result, a constraint, or a place. Weak shapes are “Number 3”, “Wait for it”, and the filename. “Wait for it” means the action is late. Trim the file so the action is first. The seconds slider is a duration, not an in-point.

Read the titles from the first card to the last, out loud. The first card teaches the category. The last card is the one you would be annoyed to spoil in the opening second. The middle cards are the ones that need a little context in the title and nowhere else. If the middle needs a paragraph, the countdown is the wrong container. Put the paragraph in the caption of the post, or cut a longer video in a full editor.

Neither skin turns the ranking maker into a timeline. There is no cold open, no split screen, no beat grid, and no voice track to time. When you need those, the honest tool is a full editor. The comparison with a CapCut ranking template is that choice, including the sequence of doing the countdown here and wrapping it there only if the short needs one extra scene. CapCut is a separate product. ShortsRank is not affiliated with it.

The file you actually download

Before you export, watch once with the sound off. Muted viewers are common. The rank and the title have to carry the claim. Watch once with the sound on. Note any card where you are waiting for the point. That card is too long, or the point is not at the first frame, or the title is doing no work. Fix the trim in another app. Then set the seconds again.

Check rights per file before the cards feel finished. Your picture and your audio, or a license you can point to. One uncleared song in the middle of the rail is in the export. The from-clips guide is the file-type and rights checklist. This page assumes you already have an answer per clip.

The download is the end of the ranking on this site. You still pick a cover frame in the app you post to. You still write the caption. You still decide whether the same 9:16 file goes to Shorts, Reels, TikTok, or all three. Those apps cover different edges. The platform pages are YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and the TikTok countdown. The button-level sequence, including the trim that happens before this tab, is how to make a ranking short.

A drag-and-drop tier image remains a different product. This ranking maker will not imitate one. Build the picture elsewhere when a picture is what you set out to post. Come back when the items are clips and the post is a countdown. Structures for the counts, the holds, and the lines you type are collected on the ranking template page so this one can stay on the ranking itself.

Questions

Is this a tier list I drag into rows?

No. The editor plays a countdown from the highest number down to #1. Rows labeled S, A, B, and C are a still-image tool. Use one of those when the deliverable is a picture. Stay here when each item is a clip.

Can I type a topic and receive the ranking?

No. There is no prompt box and no stock library. Add MP4, WebM, or MOV files you already have. If the camera roll is empty, film the items or use a tool that builds a narrated list from a sentence.

I only have photos. Can I still rank them here?

No. Still images are not accepted as clips. Film a few seconds of each item so the action starts at the first frame, then add those files. A slideshow with numbers is a different editor.

Does the order follow views, stars, or votes?

No. Nothing on this site reads analytics. You drag the rail, or you use the up and down buttons on each card. The number is the seat you gave the clip.

What is in the file I download?

A vertical video. Free export keeps the first three cards, caps each hold at 4 seconds, draws a shortsrank.com mark on every segment except the intro, and writes 720×1280. Lifetime is $24 once on the pricing page: up to 10 clips, 8 seconds each, 1080×1920, no mark. The free dialog names that cut before it writes the file.

Will ShortsRank publish the countdown for me?

No. The download ends the job on this site. You choose the cover frame, the caption, and the account in YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram. There is no channel connection.

The browser will not play one of my files. What now?

The card says when the file could not be decoded. Phone MOV files are often HEVC. Export an H.264 MP4 in another app and add that file. Past 60 MB the card warns you. Past 180 MB the file is refused. Trim to the hold you actually need.

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