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TikTok Clip Maker

Paste a YouTube link. Get vertical, captioned clips posted to TikTok without a manual upload step.

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Features

Built for the format

Every clip is 9:16 at full vertical resolution and cut to a length that suits short-form — long enough to land, short enough to finish. You can set the target length per project if your niche runs longer.

Caption styles that read on a phone

Word-synced captions in karaoke, pop, or bounce styles, with emoji support. Save your fonts, colors, and logo to a brand kit so every clip looks like it came from the same channel.

Posts straight to TikTok

Connect your account once and clips publish from AutoClip on a spaced schedule — no downloading and re-uploading. 3 connected accounts on Starter, 8 on Pro, 25 on Scale.

Ranked moments, reasoning shown

Each candidate gets a virality score split across five criteria, so you can tell why a clip ranked where it did and move it if you read your audience differently.

How It Works

Paste any YouTube URL

Find a video worth clipping and drop the link in. Or add the channel to monitoring and new uploads get clipped on their own.

Clips come back ready for TikTok

Vertical reframe, word-synced captions, and clip length all handled — about 10–15 minutes for a typical video.

Post to TikTok

Review the queue and publish, or let the schedule space them out across the week for you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I post directly to TikTok from AutoClip?

Yes. Connect the account once and clips publish from the dashboard, spaced out rather than dumped all at once. No downloading and re-uploading.

What video length works best for TikTok clips?

15–60 seconds covers most of what works, and completion rate is the reason — a viewer finishing a 30-second clip is a stronger signal than one bailing halfway through 90. That said, it's niche-dependent: story-driven and commentary clips often need the extra room. AutoClip targets the shorter window by default and you can change it per project.

Does it add captions?

Yes, on every clip, burned in and timed word by word. Most short-form viewing happens on mute, so captions aren't a nice extra — an uncaptioned clip is throwing away most of your audience. Styles are customizable and saveable to a brand kit.

Is there a free TikTok clip maker?

The free tier gives you trial clips with a watermark and 2 connected social accounts — enough to see whether the output fits your channel. Auto-posting to TikTok starts on Starter at $19.99/mo, which also removes the watermark and includes 200 credits and 1 monitored channel.

Can clips post to TikTok without me uploading them manually?

Yes. Connect the account once and finished clips go out on their own after processing. Combined with channel monitoring, the whole path from a new YouTube upload to a posted TikTok runs without you in it — which is either the point or slightly alarming, depending on how much you want to review before publishing. You can keep clips in an approval queue instead.

Does it work for all types of YouTube content?

Most of it — gaming, podcasts, interviews, sports, education, vlogs — and it handles them differently. Multi-speaker podcasts get cuts that land on speaker changes instead of mid-sentence. Gaming can use a facecam split layout so the player and the action are both visible. The weakest material is anything where the value lives in something you can't see in a vertical crop: screen shares, dense slides, long tutorial walkthroughs.

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