The AI clip generator that turns one long video into 30 clips worth posting

An AI clip generator turns a long video into short clips by itself. It transcribes what's said, picks the moments that make sense on their own, cuts them out, reframes them from wide to vertical and adds captions. What used to take an editor hours of scrubbing takes minutes, and you spend your time choosing between clips instead of finding them.

The work splits into five jobs, and the clips are only as good as the weakest one:

1. Finding the moments. Clyper reads the whole transcript and looks for moments that stand alone: a story, a take, a tip, an answer. It skips sponsor reads.
2. Cutting them. Each clip starts on a line that makes people need the next one and ends right after the payoff, on whole sentences, 20 to 60 seconds long.
3. Framing them. It finds the faces in every shot, follows whoever's talking, holds still while they do and cuts (never pans) when the speaker or the shot changes.
4. Captioning them. Every word, timed to the voice, above the usernames and captions the apps show at the bottom.
5. Ranking them. A hook score from 0 to 100 for how likely the opening is to stop the scroll and the clip to keep people, so you know where to start.

The longer version, with what each step gets wrong when it's done badly, is in how AI clip generators work.

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These are Clyper's own picks, cut, framed and captioned by the same code that clips your videos, with no hand edits. It scored them 73, 72, 68 out of 100. The scale is strict: 75 is strong and 90 or above is rare, and nothing under 50 is kept, so the order means something. How the score works is on the hook score page.

• It cuts moments, not windows. A clip starts where the thought starts and ends after its payoff, so it makes sense to someone who never saw the video. If you want more, extend either end by up to 15 seconds in the editor.
• It frames people the way an editor would. On a two-person podcast it switches to whoever's talking, from the moment they start, and keeps people together when they fit. On a stream, it finds the webcam in the corner and stacks it in the top 1080 × 608 over the middle of the game. See auto reframe.
• Every clip has a hook score, on every plan. Clips come sorted, strongest first. On Auto you get fewer clips rather than weak ones.
• You choose how many clips. Up to one for every 2 minutes of video and 30 in all: a 30-minute video gives up to 15. Or leave it on Auto, about 10 an hour, up to 10.
• You pay for video, not clips. A credit is a minute of video, however many clips you take from it, so asking for 30 costs the same as asking for 10.
• No watermark on any plan. Not even on Starter.

Anyone with more long video than time to cut it:

• Podcasters, for a week of clips from every episode: Clyper for podcasters.
• Streamers, to turn a VOD into TikToks before it expires: Clyper for streamers and Twitch to TikTok.
• YouTubers, for Shorts that bring people back to the long video: Clyper for YouTubers.
• Clippers, who post clips of creators' videos for pay: Clyper for clippers.
• Agencies, marketers and social media managers, repurposing webinars, talks and client videos: clipping agencies, businesses and social media managers.

A credit is a minute of video. An hour-long video uses 60 credits and can give up to 30 clips: about $1.90 on Pro billed yearly, or $0.06 a clip if you take them all.

Every video uses at least 10 credits, and one that gives no clips has its credits returned. There's no free plan: Starter is $20 a month. Put in your own videos in the AI clipping cost calculator.

• Find moments nobody talks about. Clyper picks from what's said, so a silent play or a look is one to cut yourself. Music and silent footage give few clips.
• Make anything up. It cuts, frames and captions the real footage. No AI voices, faces or b-roll.
• Post for you. You download the clips and post or schedule them yourself.
• Make square or wide clips. Clips are 9:16. The free video resizer turns one into 1:1 or 4:5.