A week of clips from every episode, without an editor

1. Publish the episode as you do now, on YouTube or wherever you host the video.
2. Paste its link (or upload the export) and choose how many clips: up to one for every 2 minutes, so an hour-long episode gives up to 30.
3. Pick the week's clips from the top of the list, fix a name if the captions got one wrong, and download them.
4. Post one a day on TikTok, Reels and Shorts, each pointing back to the full episode, until the next one comes out.

Clips are how new listeners find a show: a stranger hears one great answer and goes looking for the rest. How to turn that into subscribers is in how to grow a podcast with clips and how to promote a podcast.

A podcast is shot wide, with host and guest side by side or on their own cameras. Cropped to 9:16, there's room for one. Clyper decides shot by shot, the way an editor would:

• One person in the shot: it follows them, holding still while they stay near the middle.
• People close enough to fit: it keeps them together.
• Too far apart: it frames whoever's talking, judged by their mouth moving, and switches from the moment the other person starts, not a second late. It cuts rather than pans, so the frame never drifts across the table.

Recording remotely? A speaker view or side-by-side layout gives it clear faces to follow: see Riverside, StreamYard and Zoom. More on the framing on auto reframe.

Your time. In the worked example in how to clip faster, 10 clips from a two-hour podcast take about 3 h 10 min by hand, even done the fast way. With Clyper, the finding, cutting, framing and captioning are done for you, and checking the clips and writing the posts takes about 1 h 20 min. Those are assumed minutes, not measured ones: time your own.

An editor. When we checked on October 27, 2026, Upwork put video editors at $6 to $25 an hour typically, with a mid-tier median of $40, and two short-form editing listings on Contra started at $40 and $50 a video. A good editor brings judgment Clyper doesn't, so if you have one, let Clyper make the first cut and spend their hours on the episode itself.

Clyper. An hour-long episode uses 60 credits: $1.90 on Pro or $1.44 on Studio, billed yearly, for up to 30 clips. Check your own numbers in the AI clipping cost calculator.

A credit is a minute of video, however many clips you take, so the plan follows how much you publish:

Starter, at $20 a month, has one caption style; Pro adds every style, the brand kit and a hook headline on each clip, and billed yearly it costs less a month than Starter. Clipping the back catalog too? Studio queues 10 YouTube links at a time. Compare them on the pricing page.

• On YouTube: paste the episode's link, public or unlisted. See podcast clips.
• In your recording app: export and upload (MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV, up to 4 GB) from Riverside, StreamYard or Zoom.
• On Spotify: Spotify's download gives you the audio, so start from the original video file, as Spotify video podcast to clips explains.
• In a shared folder: paste a Google Drive or Dropbox link to the file.
• Audio only? Clyper clips video. For an audio show, the free audiogram maker turns a moment into a waveform video, and how to start a video podcast covers adding cameras.

A guest with a great clip of themselves will share it. Send each guest their best two or three clips the day the episode goes out, tag them in the posts, and they reach an audience you don't have yet. Clips are clean MP4s with no watermark, so they can post them as their own. Finding guests worth clipping is in how to get podcast guests. Want clippers to post your clips for you? See how to run a clipping campaign.