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Clipping long videos into short clips

Which moments of a long recording stand on their own, how a clip should open and close, and what the tools that find the moments for you cost.

A long recording holds far more talk than a feed will show, and most of it only makes sense with the rest of the episode around it. Clipping is the work of finding the passages that do not need it: a question with its whole answer, a story with its ending, a claim with the reason behind it.

The guides on this shelf go from choosing those moments, to the opening and the payoff that decide where a clip starts and ends, to the six steps from a recording to Shorts you can post. One compares what the tools that find moments for you count and charge, with every price taken from the provider's own pages on a stated day.

Snipri's AI clip selection scores every candidate moment and shows why it kept each clip, and the interview and webinar pages show what it keeps from those recordings. The checks in these guides work the same by hand, in any editor.

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Try it on your own footage

Snipri is AI video clipping that explains why each moment deserves to be a clip. It turns one long video into captioned vertical clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, and you pay by the video, not by the clip. Your first 2 videos are free, up to 1 hour each, no credit card needed.

Clip a video
  • A scene from Meridian, reframed to vertical and captioned word by word by Snipri: a young detective at his desk says "Well, in that case, maybe you don't want to go out there, boss." and smiles.
  • A scene from Tears of Steel, reframed to vertical and captioned by Snipri in condensed capitals: a grey-haired man in a plaid shirt on a balcony, captioned "Last night."
  • A scene from Tears of Steel, reframed to vertical and captioned by Snipri on a dark panel: a man with a mechanical eye points ahead and calls "Action!" into a radio.
  • A scene from Meridian, reframed to vertical and captioned by Snipri with an orange highlight: an older detective in suspenders at his desk, captioned "Nah, not this time."

Scenes from “Meridian” by Netflix (Netflix Open Content, CC BY 4.0) and “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation (mango.blender.org, CC BY 3.0), cut, then reframed and captioned by Snipri, without sound.