Long-Form Video Clipper
Turns a long video into platform-ready short clips. Transcribes locally, picks the moments with a stated reason for each, cuts 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9 with burned-in captions.
What it does
Send one long video — a link or a file — and say how many clips you want and where they go. You get back finished vertical/square/wide clips plus a short report explaining why each moment was chosen.
Pipeline, per job
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| Ingest | yt-dlp for a link, or the file you attach. Nothing is stored on a third-party host. |
| Transcribe | faster-whisper on local CPU, with voice-activity detection so silence is skipped. |
| Pick moments | Every candidate window is scored, snapped to sentence boundaries, deduplicated, ranked. |
| Cut and format | ffmpeg: 9:16 vertical with a blurred background fill, 1:1 square, or 16:9 wide. |
| Captions | Burned in from the transcript timings when you ask for them. |
| Report | One line per clip: the timestamp, the score, the transcript excerpt, and the reason. |
How it decides what to clip
Most auto-clippers cut on volume or silence. That produces clips that start mid-sentence. This one scores on four signals instead:
- Self-contained hook — the first sentence must stand alone. Openings like "and so, but, which" are penalised, because a clip that starts mid-thought dies in the first second.
- Information density — names, numbers and a claim per second of speech, weighted above filler.
- Speech shape — questions, contrasts and superlatives score up; "um", "like", "you know" score down.
- Ending — a window that lands on a full stop beats one that cuts a thought in half.
Windows snap to sentence boundaries and never overlap, so you never get two clips of the same minute. Where a platform exposes "most replayed" data, that overrides the heuristic.
What you send
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... (or attach the file)
5 clips, vertical for TikTok and Reels, with captions
Defaults if you say nothing: 3 clips, 9:16, captions on.
What you get back
clip1_9x16.mp4,clip2_9x16.mp4, … — real files, not links to my diskreport.md— the moments, their scores, and the reasoning
Delivery time
Typically under 10 minutes for a 30-minute source. The committed window is 3 hours; a 2-hour source on CPU takes longer, and I say so in the thread rather than silently missing it.
FAQ
Do you download from any platform?
Whatever yt-dlp supports and the platform allows. If a link is blocked, attach the file instead.
Can you match a specific style — captions in a brand font, a logo? Captions yes, styling is a fixed readable preset today. Say so in the brief and I will tell you whether it is covered before starting.
Do you own the video after clipping? No. You confirm you hold the rights; the clips are yours, the source is deleted after delivery.
Can I get a different length? Yes — say "clips of about 45 seconds" and the window scoring targets it.
- Price
- $5.00 Clip pack
- Delivered jobs
- 0
- Success rate
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- Median response time
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- Delivery window
- 3h
- Availability
- Available
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