Upload your podcast or paste a YouTube link. ClipIt's AI finds the best moments and exports 9:16 vertical clips ready for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
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A 90-minute episode contains dozens of quotable, shareable moments — but finding them manually takes longer than recording the episode itself. Most podcasters know they should be posting clips. Few do it consistently, because scrubbing through hours of audio, cutting, captioning, and reformatting for vertical is a second full-time job stacked on top of actually making the show.
Short-form platforms reward consistency more than polish. A creator who posts five clips per episode every week outpaces one who posts a single hand-crafted highlight every two weeks. The bottleneck is not creativity — it is throughput. AI clipping removes that bottleneck: ClipIt processes a full episode, identifies the highest-energy segments, and exports captioned 9:16 clips while you move on to your next recording.
The result is a sustainable short-form presence built on content you have already made. No new scripts. No additional production time. Just more surface area for your audience to discover the show.
ClipIt accepts direct MP4 uploads and YouTube URLs. If your podcast is recorded to video (a common setup for interview shows), paste the YouTube link and ClipIt fetches it at up to 1080p. If you have a local recording, upload the MP4 directly. Episodes up to 3 hours long are supported — no need to split long-form content beforehand.
The highlight detection model analyzes audio amplitude, speech intensity, pacing, and topic transitions across the entire episode. It identifies the segments most likely to stop a viewer mid-scroll: strong opinions, surprising facts, emotional peaks, and well-defined story arcs that work standalone. Each candidate is scored independently before the final set is selected.
Each detected moment is exported as a 1080p 9:16 MP4 with auto-generated subtitles rendered directly into the frame. No SRT file to upload. No separate captioning step. The clips are ready to post to TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts immediately. You can also open any clip in the ClipIt editor to adjust the subtitle text, trim the cut, or switch the caption template before downloading.
Podcast audio has a distinct energy profile. Unlike a YouTube tutorial with a single presenter, a podcast often involves two or more speakers exchanging turns — which means the AI needs to track not just amplitude spikes but conversational dynamics. ClipIt scores energy peaks relative to the episode's baseline: a host who speaks calmly most of the time registers higher when their volume or pace shifts, even if their absolute level is lower than a louder co-host.
Topic pivots are strong clip boundaries. When the conversation shifts from setup to a contrarian claim, from question to surprising answer, or from story preamble to the actual punchline, those transition points often contain the most shareable content. The model identifies these structural inflection points and scores candidates that capture the pivot itself plus enough context to be self-contained.
Audience reactions — laughter, sharp intakes of breath, overlapping speech, or explicit verbal affirmations from co-hosts — are treated as secondary quality signals. A moment followed by genuine laughter is typically more engaging than one followed by silence. ClipIt weights these cues during candidate ranking, making it particularly effective for comedy podcasts, debate formats, and interview shows with a strong host chemistry dynamic.
ClipIt supports source videos up to 3 hours long — enough to cover the longest podcast formats, from extended interview specials to live recorded panels. The credit model is straightforward: 1 credit = 1 clip generated, regardless of episode length. A 2-hour episode that produces eight clips costs eight credits. There is no per-minute charge and no tiered pricing based on video duration.
Processing time scales with episode length, but you do not need to wait. Submit the episode and leave. ClipIt runs the analysis on its servers and sends a dashboard notification when your clips are ready. Source files and generated clips are retained for 3 days after creation, giving you a reasonable window to review, edit, and download before they are removed.
Every clip exports at 1080×1920 (1080p) in h264 MP4 — the standard format accepted by TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts without re-encoding. Subtitles are burned directly into the video frame, so captions appear correctly on every platform regardless of whether auto-captions are enabled on the destination.
ClipIt includes brand templates for caption styling. You can apply a font, color scheme, and caption position that matches your show's identity across all clips from an episode, rather than restyling each clip individually. The template is applied at export time, so adjustments to style do not require re-processing the source video.
New ClipIt accounts receive signup credits immediately — no credit card required. Free-tier exports carry no watermark, and the signup credits do not expire. Use them on a real episode to see how the AI performs on your specific podcast format before deciding whether to upgrade. The Pro plan is $19/mo (monthly) or $15/mo billed annually (a 20% saving) and includes 300 credits per month.
ClipIt supports source videos up to 3 hours long. The vast majority of podcast episodes — including extended interview formats and live-recorded panels — fall within this limit. If you occasionally release bonus episodes longer than 3 hours, you can split the file into two parts before uploading. For episodes under 3 hours, no pre-processing is needed; submit the full episode as-is.
Yes. Many video podcasts use a static image, a looping waveform visualizer, or a simple talking-head frame. ClipIt's highlight detection is driven primarily by audio analysis — amplitude, speech intensity, and pacing — so a static or near-static visual does not reduce accuracy. The output clips will reflect whatever is in the source: if the source has a static sponsor logo on screen, the exported 9:16 clips will too. If you want a more polished visual, record a video version or add a custom background in the ClipIt editor.
Yes. Every generated clip opens in the ClipIt editor where you can correct the auto-transcribed subtitle text, adjust clip start and end timestamps, and change the caption template style before exporting. Subtitle edits are reflected in the final exported 1080p MP4. The edits are non-destructive — the original generated clip is preserved and you can re-export with different settings without reprocessing the source episode.
Riverside and Descript are recording and editing platforms that added clipping as a secondary feature — they assume you recorded or edited inside their ecosystem. ClipIt is a dedicated clip-extraction tool that works on any source: a YouTube URL, a Bilibili link, or an MP4 you already have. There is no recording workflow to adopt and no project format to migrate into. ClipIt also offers a no-watermark free tier with non-expiring credits, whereas Riverside's Magic Clips require a paid plan and Descript's clip export is gated on subscription tier. If you already record in Riverside, you can export the MP4 and drop it directly into ClipIt.
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