# How to use Snipri Step-by-step guides to every screen and tool in Snipri, from adding a video to the last edit, written from what the app does today. Each one gives the limits that apply and what to do when something goes wrong. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs - Updated: November 3, 2026 - 39 guides ## Start here - [Make your first clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/make-your-first-clips): A first job from start to finish: sign in, add a video in the Studio, choose how it is clipped, get clips, then review and download them in My clips. - [Choose how a video is clipped](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-clip-settings): Every setting the Studio offers before a job: Best moments or One clip, the length of each clip, the kind of video, moments to look for and the captions. - [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip): A map of the clip editor: the transcript, the tool rail, the toolbar over the video and the timeline, and how a save renders the clip again for free. ## Getting started What Snipri does with a recording, a first job from start to finish, and the screens and account you work with. - [How Snipri works](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-snipri-works): What Snipri does with a long recording: it reads the transcript, picks the moments that stand on their own, then reframes and captions each one. - [Make your first clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/make-your-first-clips): A first job from start to finish: sign in, add a video in the Studio, choose how it is clipped, get clips, then review and download them in My clips. - [Find your way around Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/docs/find-your-way-around): The four screens of the app and what each one is for: the Studio, My clips, Brand and Plan & videos, with the bar on top and the account menu. - [Sign in and manage your account](https://www.snipri.com/docs/sign-in-and-account): Sign in with Google or with a code sent to your email address, what to do when a code doesn't arrive, and how to sign out or close your account. ## Add a video Uploading a file, importing a link, the spoken language, and clipping a recording longer than your plan covers. - [Upload a video file](https://www.snipri.com/docs/upload-a-video): Which files Snipri takes, the largest upload and longest video on each plan, and what to do when an upload stops partway or a file can't be read. - [Import a video from a link](https://www.snipri.com/docs/import-a-video-from-a-link): Paste a link to a public video or a video file, or pick one from a cloud drive, and Snipri fetches it for you. Which links work and the limits that apply. - [Clip a video longer than your plan covers](https://www.snipri.com/docs/clip-a-long-video): Each plan covers a set length of each video. How to clip a longer recording one part at a time with the timeframe, and how each part is counted. - [Choose the spoken language](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-the-spoken-language): Set the language a video is spoken in, or let Snipri detect it: the languages Snipri transcribes and captions, and when naming the language helps. ## Clip selection The choices you make before a job, how Snipri picks the moments, and what happens when none makes the cut. - [Choose how a video is clipped](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-clip-settings): Every setting the Studio offers before a job: Best moments or One clip, the length of each clip, the kind of video, moments to look for and the captions. - [See why a clip was chosen](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-clip-was-chosen): Every clip Snipri picks keeps the five scores it was chosen on and the reason in a sentence. Where to find them, and what each of the scores measures. - [When a video comes back with no clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/near-miss-clips): When no moment clears Snipri's bar, a job ends with no clips and offers the moments that came closest. How to make one into a clip, and what it counts. ## My clips Finding, previewing, renaming, deleting and downloading the clips each video gave you. - [Find and manage your clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/manage-your-clips): How My clips lists every video and its clips: search and filters, the strip that marks where each clip came from, previews, renaming and deleting. - [Download your clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/download-clips): Save one clip or every clip from a video as MP4 files: the size of the files, when a watermark is on them, and how long Snipri keeps your clips. ## Editor Every tool of the clip editor: the words, the captions, text, media, the hook, B-roll, music, the length and the framing. - [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip): A map of the clip editor: the transcript, the tool rail, the toolbar over the video and the timeline, and how a save renders the clip again for free. - [Edit a clip's transcript](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-transcript): Correct a word the transcription got wrong, replace a word everywhere, hide words from the captions, cut words out with their footage and add emoji. - [Change a clip's caption style](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-caption-style): Pick a caption style before a job or in the editor, change the font, colours, highlight and position of the captions, and save a look to use again. - [Add text to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-text-to-a-clip): Put a title, a name or a note over the video, choose its font, size and colour, place it by dragging and set when it shows on the timeline. - [Add images and video to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-images-and-video): Lay a photo or a logo over a clip, cut away to a video of your own, put your brand's logo and text on a clip you already have, and take them off again. - [Add an intro and an outro](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-an-intro-and-outro): Open a clip on a short video of your own and close it on another: what an intro or an outro can be, how it plays, and how to preview the whole clip. - [Edit the opening hook](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-opening-hook): The title card a clip opens on: turn it on or off before a job, rewrite its words, set how long it stays on screen and move it on the video. - [Add B-roll to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-b-roll): Cover one phrase of a clip with stock footage from Pexels: which phrase it covers, how to search for a shot, how it plays and how to take it off again. - [Add music to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-music): Put a track of your own under a clip, choose where it starts and whether it loops, and set the volume and fades of the music and of the clip's sound. - [Trim and split a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/trim-and-split-a-clip): Change where a clip starts and ends, by a step, a sentence or a time you type, shorten its long pauses, and split it into two clips at the playhead. - [Reframe a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/reframe-a-clip): Change a clip's format, choose how each scene is framed, from one person to a screen with the speaker, and move the frame over the original video. - [Keyboard shortcuts in the editor](https://www.snipri.com/docs/editor-keyboard-shortcuts): Every key the clip editor answers to, from playing and saving to moving layers and walking the transcript, and how to open the list inside the editor. ## Brand The look every new clip starts in: your caption style, colours, font, logo and handle. - [Set up your brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/docs/set-up-your-brand-kit): Save your caption look, colours, font, logo and handle on the Brand page, so every new clip starts in your style, and put the kit on clips you already have. ## Plans and billing What counts as a video, what each plan includes, and how to change or cancel a plan. - [How videos are counted](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-videos-are-counted): Snipri counts videos, not minutes or clips: one for each hour of the part a job reads, and only when the job comes back with clips. What is always free. - [Plans and limits](https://www.snipri.com/docs/plans-and-limits): What each Snipri plan includes: its price, its videos, the longest video it covers, the largest upload, the watermark and the API, and yearly billing. - [Change or cancel a plan](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-or-cancel-a-plan): Start a paid plan, move to another plan or to yearly billing, update payment details and cancel, and what each step does to your videos and access. ## Troubleshooting How long a job takes, why one stopped, and what to do when an edit will not save. - [How long a job takes](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-long-a-job-takes): What each step of a Snipri job does, how long a typical job takes, whether you can close the tab, and when a job that stops moving is marked as failed. - [Why a job failed, and what to do](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-job-failed): Every message the Studio shows when a job stops before it gives you clips, what each one means and how to fix it. A failed job never counts against a plan. - [Fix an edit that won't save](https://www.snipri.com/docs/fix-an-edit-that-wont-save): Why Save changes is unavailable or a render fails, what each message in the clip editor means, and how to keep your edits when you leave or reload. ## API Send videos from your own code and get the clips back: keys, jobs and their clip settings, webhooks, and the errors and limits of the API. - [Get started with the Snipri API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/get-started-with-the-api): Send videos to Snipri from your own code: the plans that include the API, making a key, a first request, and how every request and answer is shaped. - [Create and revoke API keys](https://www.snipri.com/docs/manage-api-keys): Make a key for the Snipri API, copy it the only time it is shown, keep it where no one else can read it, and revoke it once it is no longer needed. - [Send a video through the API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/send-a-video-with-the-api): Make a job from a link or from a file with the Snipri API: the request, the upload links, files sent in parts, starting the job and retrying safely. - [Set clip options in an API request](https://www.snipri.com/docs/api-clip-options): Every field a Snipri API job request takes: the source, the spoken language, the name and the webhook, then each clip setting from the genre to captions. - [Read jobs and clips through the API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/read-jobs-and-clips): Follow a job through its statuses with the Snipri API, read its clips with their scores and download links, and page through every job on the account. - [Receive webhooks when a job ends](https://www.snipri.com/docs/receive-webhooks): Have Snipri post each job to your server when it ends: set the endpoint, read the event, check its signature, answer in time and replace the secret. - [API errors and limits](https://www.snipri.com/docs/api-errors-and-limits): Every error the Snipri API answers with, what each one means and what to do, plus the rate limits, the cap on jobs in progress and why a job failed. ## Can't find your answer? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com), the one address for questions about clips, billing and bugs. The [questions on the home page](https://www.snipri.com/#faq), the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing) and the [fact sheet](https://www.snipri.com/ai-info) answer more.