How to Use AutoClip's Auto Clip Extraction Feature
Getting Started with Auto Clip Extraction
AutoClip's auto clip extraction turns any YouTube URL into a set of vertical, caption-ready short clips in minutes. To start, log into your dashboard at autoclip.dev and click 'New Clip' in the top navigation. Paste the YouTube URL of the video you want to clip from and click 'Extract Clips.'
The system will immediately begin processing. For most videos, you'll see your first clip results within 5–10 minutes. For longer videos (2+ hours), processing may take up to 20 minutes. You can continue using the dashboard while processing runs — you'll receive a notification when clips are ready.
Understanding Clip Results and Virality Scores
Once processing completes, your clips dashboard shows each extracted clip with a virality score from 1–100, a preview thumbnail, the clip duration, and the transcript section it came from. Virality scores combine hook strength, emotional intensity, and standalone clarity — a score of 75+ indicates a high-confidence viral candidate.
Sorted by virality score by default, you'll typically see 5–10 clips from a one-hour video. Review the top 3–5 clips first. Click any clip to preview it in the player — you can see the vertical reframe, read the auto-generated captions, and play the audio to confirm quality.
Customizing Clips Before Posting
Each clip can be customized before posting. Trim controls let you adjust the in and out points by a few seconds if the AI clip boundary doesn't feel perfect. Caption style settings let you change font, color, and size. You can also toggle captions off entirely for clips where the visual action speaks for itself.
The reframe adjustment panel lets you shift the vertical crop if the auto-crop missed an important element. Most clips won't need this adjustment — the automatic reframe is accurate 90%+ of the time — but the manual override is available for edge cases.
Posting and Scheduling Your Clips
Once you've reviewed and optionally customized a clip, select the platforms you want to post to (TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts) and click 'Post Now' or 'Schedule.' The schedule picker shows recommended posting times for each platform based on your audience's most active hours.
For multiple clips from the same video, use the 'Schedule All' option to automatically distribute them across the coming week at optimal intervals — avoiding the duplicate-content penalty that comes from posting multiple clips from the same source too close together.
Frequently Asked Questions
Typically 5–10 clips from a one-hour video, ranked by viral potential. You can adjust extraction sensitivity in settings to get more or fewer clips per video.
Yes — if you want additional clip candidates from a video, you can re-run extraction with different sensitivity settings. This is useful for high-quality long-form videos where you want to surface more clips.
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