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News Clip Maker
A 90-minute panel usually contains three moments anyone will share. AutoClip finds the confrontations, the reversals, and the specific-number claims, and cuts them for you.
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Features
Ranked by what actually gets shared
Confrontations, contradictions, and hard numbers rise to the top of the queue; throat-clearing and setup sink. Every candidate shows a virality score broken into five criteria, so you can see whether a clip ranked on the hook, the payoff, or the energy shift — and reorder it if you read the room differently.
Two-speaker debate reframe
Debate footage puts two people on screen. The 9:16 crop follows whoever is talking, so the frame moves with the exchange instead of parking on a static wide shot. Works for side-by-side panels, interview setups, and split-screen formats.
Captions you can style per channel
Word-synced captions in a bold, high-contrast style that reads on a phone. Fonts, colors, and positioning are yours to set, and a brand kit locks the look so a week of clips looks like one channel rather than eleven experiments.
Fast turnaround while the story is live
News has a short shelf life. A typical video is clipped, reframed, captioned, and queued in about 10–15 minutes — long enough to review before you post, short enough to still be early. Multi-hour VODs take proportionally longer, and Scale plans get priority processing.
How It Works
Paste the commentary URL
Any public YouTube URL from a news commentary, debate, or current-events channel. A 30-minute panel and a 3-hour livestream VOD both work; source length caps at 2 hours on Starter, 5 on Pro, 10 on Scale.
Review the ranked candidates
A typical video returns around nine clips with transcript excerpts and scores attached. The top of the list is usually the confrontation moments, the concrete claims, and the on-air reversals. Per-video caps are 6 on Starter, 12 on Pro, 15 on Scale.
Export or schedule
Clips come out 9:16, captioned, and ready. Queue them for spaced posting across your connected accounts, or download and publish by hand — for breaking stories, most clippers post the top one immediately and let the rest go out on a schedule.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which news commentary channels work best with this tool?
Formats built on unscripted exchange — panel debates, live reaction shows, interview confrontations — produce far more usable clips per hour than a single host reading prepared segments. The reason is structural: a clip has to stand on its own, and an unscripted disagreement carries its own context in a way that paragraph three of a monologue does not. Rather than take anyone's channel list on faith, run one video from a candidate channel and compare the clip count against another. That comparison is cheap and it beats guessing.
How does it handle two-speaker debate footage?
The vertical crop follows the person currently talking, so the frame moves with the exchange rather than sitting on a static wide. For most panel and interview layouts it's accurate enough to publish without touching it. Where it struggles is heavy crosstalk — when two people talk over each other for a sustained stretch, the crop can hunt. You can override the framing on any clip in the editor.
Can I turn around a clip the same day as the event?
Yes. Paste the URL as soon as the video is up; a typical video is done in about 10–15 minutes, and a multi-hour VOD takes proportionally longer. Political clips have a short window — the first day or two carries most of the distribution — so the practical constraint is usually how fast the source video gets published, not how fast the clip gets made. If you monitor the channel instead of pasting links, new uploads get picked up automatically and you skip the submission step entirely.
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