Clipping agency software: every client's clips, in their own style

Past a few clients, clipping is a workflow problem: every week, each client's new videos have to become clips in that client's style, delivered on the same day. Here's how it runs on Clyper:

1. Intake. Keep each client's new videos in one list, added as they go live.
2. Batch by client. On Studio, paste one client's links together, up to 10 at a time or as a .txt or .csv file, so the whole batch gets their caption style, their headline setting and the same number of clips per video. Clyper works through them in turn, with priority processing when there's a wait.
3. Pick. Each video's clips come best first, by hook score. Keep the strongest.
4. Polish. Trim to the word, fix names in the captions, reword a headline.
5. Deliver. Download into each client's folder, or post them if you run their accounts. Clyper doesn't post or schedule.

Each step in more depth, with what to report back each month, is in how to start a clipping agency.

The brand kit on Pro and Studio keeps up to 10 caption styles of your own, one for each client. Each starts from one of Clyper's 5 animated styles and sets its own font (there are 6 to choose from), the colors of the text, the accent, the outline and the headline box, the size, how high the captions sit and whether they're in capitals. Pick it when you start a batch, or switch a clip to it in the editor. A clip keeps its look even if you change the style later.

On the same plans, every clip can open with its hook as an on-screen headline, a text hook, for 4 seconds, which you can reword or remove. The captions sit in the safe zone, clear of the apps' buttons. And Clyper follows whoever's talking (speaker tracking) and stacks a streamer's webcam over the game, so podcast, stream and interview clients all get clips framed for a phone.

Your time is the big cost of a clip, not the tool. By our estimate, using the free clipping rate calculator's example minutes, a clip made by hand takes about 30 minutes of someone's time, and about 11 with Clyper doing the finding, cutting, framing and captions:

Credits add as little as $0.10 a clip on top. At 120 clips a month, that's about 60 hours of work by hand and 22 with Clyper. The minutes are examples, not measurements: put your own into the clipping rate calculator, which also turns them into a price per clip.

A credit is a minute of a client's video, however many clips you take from it, so a plan is how much video you can clip in a month. Take the most clips a video can give, one for every 2 minutes, and billed yearly a clip costs:

Studio covers about 8 clients at 60 clips a month each, and Studio 2× and Studio 4× give 2× and 4× the credits at the same price per clip, so you change size as clients come and go. Take fewer clips from each video and each costs more credits; every video uses at least 10, and a video that gives no clips has its credits returned.

Clients pay for clips and what they do for their channel, not for your hours, so sell monthly packages and let a faster workflow raise your margin. Our pricing guide's worked examples assume 15 clips from each hour of a client's video, 6 minutes of your time on each delivered clip at $40 an hour, and the smallest Clyper plan that covers the video:

How to set your own prices, from your floor to what freelance editors charge, is in how much to charge for clipping, and the clipping rate calculator works it out from your own time and costs.

The strongest pitch is three clips made from a prospect's latest video. Clyper takes any public or unlisted YouTube link, with no channel check, so you can make them before anyone signs: an hour-long video is 60 credits however many clips you take, up to 30, and you send the three with the strongest hooks.

Send samples privately, and post a client's clips only with their permission. How to get clipping clients has the messages to send and where to find creators who need clips, and is clipping legal? explains why permission matters.

For an agency, four questions decide it: how many client videos can you queue at once, can each client keep their own look, is there a watermark, and what does a clip cost at your volume? On Clyper: 10 links at once with priority processing on Studio, up to 10 saved caption styles, no watermark on any plan, and credits by the minute of video, from about $0.10 a clip.

See how the tools stack up in the best AI clipping tools, ranked, or one by one on Clyper vs other clipping tools. What AI clipping does well, and where your editors still decide, is in AI clipping vs manual clipping.