# 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.

- Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/make-your-first-clips
- By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · Updated November 3, 2026 · 3 min read
- Section: Getting started, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs)
- Published: November 2, 2026

A first job takes a few choices and one button. This guide follows one from signing in to saving the clips.

## Sign in

Sign in with Google, or with a six-digit code sent to your email address. The Free plan starts as soon as you are in, and [Sign in and manage your account](https://www.snipri.com/docs/sign-in-and-account) covers both ways.

You start with 2 free videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark and no credit card. Paid plans start at $29.90/month for 10 videos a month, each up to 2 hours, without a watermark. A video counts once for each hour of it, rounded up, and only when it gives you at least one clip.

If you chose a video on the home page before signing in, a code sign-in keeps it on the page. Google's sign-in leaves the page and comes back, and a browser can't carry a file through that, so afterwards the Studio names the video and asks you to choose it again.

## Add a video

In the Studio, press **Upload video** or drag the file onto it, or paste a link into the field that says **Paste a video link**.

You can upload the file, paste a link to it, pick it from Dropbox or pick it from Google Drive.

[Upload a video file](https://www.snipri.com/docs/upload-a-video) and [Import a video from a link](https://www.snipri.com/docs/import-a-video-from-a-link) give the limits of each way in.

## Choose how it is clipped

Once a video is in, its settings open under it in three cards:

- **Video** shows the footage. Drag the lime part to keep only the part you want clipped, and set the **Spoken language**, or leave it on **Detect automatically**.
- **Clips** chooses between **Best moments**, where Snipri picks the moments, and **One clip**, where the part you keep becomes a single clip. For Best moments it also sets the length of each clip and the kind of video.
- **Captions** shows a frame of your video wearing the chosen captions, beside the caption styles and the **Hook title** switch.

Left as they are, the settings let Snipri decide everything. [Choose how a video is clipped](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-clip-settings) explains each one.

## Get clips

The bar at the foot of the settings says how many videos the job will use. Press **Get clips** to start it.

A typical job takes about 43 minutes, longer when a recording gives many clips. The Studio shows its estimate while the job runs and updates it as each step finishes.

A file has to finish uploading before the job can start, so keep the Studio open until the upload bar is full. After that you can close the tab: the job keeps running, and its clips land in My clips.

## Review and download

When the job is done, the Studio shows its clips. **Review and download** opens them in My clips, where each clip plays with its title, its scores and the reason it was chosen. **Download** saves one clip, **Download all** saves every clip from the video, and **Open editor** opens a clip to change it.

[Download your clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/download-clips) covers the files, and [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) covers the editor.

Previous guide: [How Snipri works](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-snipri-works)

Next guide: [Find your way around Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/docs/find-your-way-around)

Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said.