Snipri is a one-person AI video clipper. I build it and I run it, and my name is Cihan Düzgören. It takes one long video and hands back short vertical clips that are ready to post: reframed, captioned, and cut at the moments worth keeping. The one-person part is worth saying up front, because it explains what Snipri does unusually well and what it does not do yet.
Why Snipri exists
Cutting a long video into short clips eats an evening. You find the moment that stands on its own, trim it, reframe it for a vertical feed, caption every word, then start again on the next one. None of that is creative work. It is the tax you pay for having recorded something good. Snipri pays it for you.
How Snipri turns a long video into clips
Start with the video you already have. Upload the file, pick it out of Dropbox or Google Drive, or paste a supported video link. Every job then runs the same pipeline:
- The audio is transcribed with word-level timings.
- A language model reads the transcript for moments that stand on their own: a complete thought with a reason to keep watching. Every candidate is scored on five dimensions, and the weak ones are dropped rather than padded into the list. Nothing is cut just because there was a pause.
- Each clip is reframed to vertical 1080×1920 with the face tracked, so your subject stays in frame instead of drifting out of a centre crop.
- Captions are burned in word by word, each one highlighted as it is spoken. An editable hook title card can run over the opening of the clip.
Clips land in your library ready to post. The job runs on its own once you hand the video over, so you can close the tab and find them there when you come back. Restyle any of them afterwards (font, colour, position, highlight style, emoji), trim them, split them. None of that re-runs the source video.
What is built today, and what is not
Working now: the pipeline above, the caption editor, and four plans. You are billed for minutes of source video, never per export. Cutting one hour into ten clips costs exactly what cutting it into three costs.
Free gives you 90 minutes of source video with a watermark on the output. That is a one-time allowance to try it with, not a monthly one. Paid plans start at $9 for 200 minutes a month and drop the watermark. Clips never expire on any plan, and nothing is deleted out from under you.
Not built yet: an editing timeline that spans more than one clip, and API access on the Scale plan. Captions are English only for now, with more languages coming and no date I am willing to promise.
Public YouTube links are supported alongside Vimeo and direct video links. Private, members-only and live videos are not supported. Only import videos you own or have permission to use.
If something is broken or missing, tell me. With one person building it, the feedback loop is genuinely short. If you would rather read than write, the blog covers what actually makes a clip work: hooks, captions, and which moments are worth cutting at all.