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YouTube Clip Maker

Paste a YouTube link and get short-form clips back. Add the channel instead and new uploads get clipped without you doing anything.

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Features

Works with any public YouTube video

Podcasts, streams, vlogs, lectures, interviews — yours or someone else's. No downloading the source first and no re-uploading it here.

Ranked moments with visible scoring

Every candidate clip carries a virality score broken into five criteria, so a clip's position in the queue is something you can inspect and override, not a verdict.

Vertical output, captioned

Every clip comes out 9:16 with the speaker kept centered and captions timed to individual words. Pro adds 1:1, 16:9, and 4:5 exports when you're posting the same clip to several places.

Channel monitoring

Add a channel once and new uploads get clipped automatically, usually within minutes of going live. Starter watches 1 channel, Pro 3, Scale 10.

How It Works

Paste a YouTube video URL

Any public YouTube video works. Nothing to download, nothing to upload.

The best moments come back ranked

The video is read end to end and each moment scored for how likely it is to hold attention, with the breakdown shown for every clip.

Download or auto-post

Take the files, or connect your accounts and let clips publish to TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and 10+ other destinations on a spaced schedule.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I clip any YouTube video?

Any public one, whether or not you own the channel. Paste the URL and transcription, moment selection, reframing, captions, and posting are all handled. What you publish is still your call — check the source creator's policy and the platform's rules before you post someone else's material.

How many clips does it generate?

Around nine from a typical video, though it depends entirely on how much usable material is in there — a tight interview gives up more than an hour of screen-share does. Per-video caps are 6 clips on Starter, 12 on Pro, 15 on Scale.

Is the YouTube clip maker free?

There's a free tier with trial clips, a watermark, and 2 connected social accounts, which is enough to judge the output. Paid starts at $19.99/mo for Starter — 200 credits, 10 videos, 50 clips, watermark-free export, and 1 monitored channel. Pro is $39.99/mo and Scale is $79.99/mo; annual billing brings those to $12.49, $24.99, and $49.99 a month effectively.

How long does it take to clip a YouTube video?

About 10–15 minutes for a typical video, proportionally longer for a multi-hour source. The comparison that matters isn't against a stopwatch, it's against your evening: doing the same job by hand in an editor means finding the moments yourself, cutting, reframing, and captioning each one, which is a couple of hours for a set of clips even if you're quick.

Can I clip YouTube videos without downloading them first?

Yes. Paste the URL and that's the whole input. No file management, no intermediate downloads, no re-uploading a 2GB source.

Does it add captions automatically?

Yes, on every clip, burned in and timed to individual words rather than whole lines. That matters more than it sounds: most people watch short-form on mute, so an uncaptioned clip is mostly a silent video of someone's face. Pick a style or save your own in a brand kit.

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Go from YouTube video to posted clip — no manual steps, no stitching tools together. AutoClip handles the entire pipeline.