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Viral Moment Finder

Paste a URL. Get the moments worth clipping, ranked, with the reasoning shown. No timeline scrubbing.

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Features

Every moment scored, and the score explained

Each candidate gets a virality score split across five criteria, so you can tell whether it ranked on the strength of its opening line, its payoff, or a shift in energy. A ranked list you can argue with beats a black box that hands you five clips and no reasoning.

Hook and endpoint suggestions

Each candidate arrives with a proposed start — where the moment actually begins rather than where the sentence does — and an endpoint where the reaction lands or the punchline finishes. Both are draggable if you disagree.

One-click 9:16 reframe

Landscape becomes portrait with the subject kept in frame as it moves — the face, the ball, the reaction. For gaming footage a facecam split layout keeps the player and the action both visible.

Punch-in zoom

Mark the peak frame, set the zoom (10–15% is usually enough), and it renders into the export. Used sparingly it makes a flat talking-head clip feel edited; used on every clip it stops working.

How It Works

Paste the video URL

Any public YouTube video. Source length runs up to 2 hours on Starter, 5 on Pro, and 10 on Scale, which covers most stream VODs.

Candidates come back ranked

A typical video yields around nine scored candidates in about 10–15 minutes. A multi-hour VOD takes proportionally longer — there's simply more to read.

Review and trim

Work the ranked list, adjust in and out points, and throw out anything that doesn't clear your own bar for a first three seconds.

Reframe and punch in

Apply the vertical crop and optional zoom to the ones you kept, then preview to check the framing before export.

Export or post

Download at 1080x1920, or auto-post to TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and 10+ other short-form destinations on a spaced schedule.

Frequently Asked Questions

What video length does this work with?

Any public YouTube video, up to 2 hours of source on Starter, 5 on Pro, and 10 on Scale. Processing scales with length — about 10–15 minutes for a typical video, proportionally longer for a multi-hour stream. Most clippers work in the 20–90 minute range, not because longer videos fail but because their clippable moments per hour tend to be higher.

How is this different from just watching the video myself?

It isn't better at judgment, it's better at triage. Watching an hour of footage to find four moments costs you most of an afternoon across a week of uploads; here you're reviewing a ranked shortlist instead. What it will miss is anything that depends on context you can't hear in the moment — a running joke, a callback to an episode from March, a reference only the regulars get. What it reliably catches is high energy, strong opinions, and things physically happening on screen. If your niche runs on inside jokes, expect to override the ranking more often.

Can I use this on any YouTube channel?

Any public YouTube video — gaming, podcasts, interviews, sports, reactions, commentary, stream VODs. What the scoring does not do is assess your copyright exposure. Two channels can produce equally good clips and have completely different claim histories, so check how a channel treats clippers before you build a posting schedule around it.

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