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Long-Form to Short Clip Extractor

A two-hour source becomes a week of posts, without a two-hour scrub through the timeline.

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Features

The Whole Source Gets Read

Every moment is scored, not a sample. On long uploads the strongest material is frequently past the halfway mark, which is exactly where manual scrubbing gives up.

9:16 Reframe That Tracks the Speaker

Landscape source becomes vertical with the speaker kept centered as the shot moves, instead of a fixed center crop that cuts people in half.

Word-Synced Captions

Captions land word by word, timed to speech rather than dropped in sentence blocks — karaoke, pop, and bounce styles, with emoji support.

One Queue, Many Destinations

Extracted clips go out to 9 short-form destinations from a single queue on a spaced schedule, rather than a per-platform upload each time.

How It Works

1

Paste a YouTube URL

Any long-form public link — podcast, stream archive, interview, lecture, vlog. Source-length limits are 2 hours on Starter, 5 on Pro, 10 on Scale.

2

The strongest moments get pulled out

The source is scored end to end and the top moments become clips — around 9 from a typical video, each with a 5-criterion score breakdown you can read.

3

Review and post

Approve the ones you want, pick destinations, set the schedule. A typical video is ready in about 10–15 minutes; a five-hour source takes proportionally longer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What source length works best?

Roughly 45 minutes to 3 hours gives the most usable clips per session. Under 20 minutes there often isn't enough material for more than a couple of strong moments — extraction can't manufacture density that isn't in the source.

How many clips does one long video produce?

Around 9 from a typical video, but it tracks content density more than runtime. A tight one-hour interview can beat a rambling three-hour stream. Per-video ceilings are 6 on Starter, 12 on Pro, and 15 on Scale.

Does it work on any video?

Any public YouTube, Twitch, or Kick source within your plan's length limit. Talk-driven material works best. Heavy background noise, crosstalk, or thick accents degrade caption accuracy, and captions are load-bearing for sound-off viewing — check them before posting.

What does it cost?

The free tier gives you watermarked trial clips. Starter is $19.99/mo with 200 credits, 10 videos and 50 clips a month, and watermark-free export. Pro is $39.99/mo with 500 credits, and Scale is $79.99/mo with 1200 credits and 4K export. One credit is one minute of source video, so a 90-minute upload costs 90.

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