# Snipri: every page in full > Snipri is AI video clipping that explains why each moment deserves to be a clip. The web app turns one long video, such as a podcast episode, an interview or a webinar, into short vertical clips with captions burned in, ready for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. A language model reads the transcript and keeps only the moments that make sense on their own, each with five scores and a written reason. Each clip is reframed to 1080×1920 around the speaker's face, and the captions highlight each word as it is spoken. Snipri is built and run by one person, Cihan Düzgören. The 85 pages below are the site's own words, as Markdown: the home page, pricing, the fact sheet, the docs and each of their how-to guides, each feature, use case and comparison, and each blog guide. The map of the site is https://www.snipri.com/llms.txt. Each page can also be read on its own, at its address with .md added (https://www.snipri.com/pricing.md; the home page's is https://www.snipri.com/index.md), or at its own address with the header Accept: text/markdown. --- # AI video clipping that explains why each moment deserves to be a clip. Snipri is an AI clip maker for podcasts and long videos. It keeps each moment with the context it needs, shows you why it made the cut, then reframes and captions it for TikTok, Reels and Shorts in about 43 minutes. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/ - Updated: November 4, 2026 ## How Snipri works 1. **Transcribe.** The audio becomes a transcript with a timing for every word. Speech recognition runs on Groq. 2. **Select.** A language model from Anthropic reads the transcript and scores each candidate moment on hook, payoff, standalone sense, arc and quotability. Hook, payoff and standalone sense must each reach 7/10 or the moment is dropped, and the scores sit beside every clip it keeps. [Each kind of video](https://www.snipri.com/tools#kinds) (podcast, webinar, Q&A and others) is judged by its own rules, picked before the job or named by Snipri. With One clip chosen instead, nothing is selected: up to 10 minutes of the video becomes one clip, with no scores. 3. **Reframe.** Each clip is cropped to vertical 1080×1920 with the face tracked. Two people sharing a wide shot can be stacked in one frame. In a webinar or another kind of video led by a screen, a confirmed webcam inset puts the screen on top and the speaker below. A shot with no face keeps the whole picture on a blurred backdrop. 4. **Caption.** Captions are burned in word by word, each word highlighted as it is spoken, unless they are switched off before the job. An editable hook title card can open the clip. 5. **Deliver.** Clips land in the person's library. Restyling the captions, trimming or splitting a clip afterwards does not run the source video again and costs nothing. ## Seven clips from 46 minutes Snipri scores every moment of a recording for its hook, its payoff and whether it makes sense on its own. Each of the three has to reach 7 out of 10. In this 46-minute fireside chat, seven moments did. The rest was left out. Every moment the job scored, with its hook, payoff and standalone scores, and where each is in the fireside chat. What each gate measures: - **Hook:** How hard the first 3 seconds grab attention and stop the scroll - **Payoff:** Whether the moment delivers a satisfying point, punchline, or insight by the end - **Standalone:** Whether it makes sense with zero surrounding context The seven clips, strongest first: 1. Why Godot's Multiplayer Hosting Was Paused, 12:06 to 12:53: Hook 8, payoff 7, standalone 7 2. Start From the Problem, Not the Solution, 19:07 to 19:55: Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone 7 3. Can Godot Become a AAA Engine?, 30:48 to 31:28: Hook 8, payoff 7, standalone 7 4. Godot Steam Releases Grow 60% a Year, 41:11 to 42:04: Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone 7 5. Why Fixing Bugs Beats Adding Features, 6:13 to 6:34: Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone 7 6. Fixing Godot's Abandoned Mobile Plugins, 24:17 to 24:57: Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone 7 7. A Build Pipeline Hack That Saves QA Hours, 27:54 to 28:19: Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone 7 The 4 moments that came closest, left out: - There Are Jobs for Godot Developers, 44:37 to 45:21: Hook 6, under 7 - Why Godot Has No Built-In Terrain Engine, 20:44 to 21:30: Hook 6 and standalone 6, under 7 - Why Publishers Rebuild Godot Games in Unity, 25:05 to 25:53: Hook 6, under 7 - Managing Volunteers Is Herding Cats, 5:05 to 5:47: Hook 6 and standalone 6, under 7 A real job: the fireside chat, the point each clip was cut from, and the moments that came closest. The recording is “Fireside Chat: Godot's Next Milestones” by Ben Vehling, Matt Ellis and Rémi Verschelde, GodotFest 2025 ([media.ccc.de](https://media.ccc.de/v/godotfest2025-fireside-chat-godots-next-milestones), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)), its clips cut, reframed and captioned by Snipri, and the logos on the speakers' shirts painted out. ## Seven out of ten, or it's left out On the scale Snipri's AI scores by, a 7 means a moment a skilled editor would post as it is. Each moment is scored on its own merits, never against the rest of the video, so a weak recording can give no clips at all. - **1 to 4:** Not a clip - **5 to 6:** It needs changes before it works, such as a clearer opening, missing context or a weak ending - Left out, hook 6: “So I think there's a lot of opportunities for people…” (There Are Jobs for Godot Developers) - **7 to 8:** Strong, a moment a skilled editor would post as it is - Clip 1, hook 8: “We like to say that making multiplayer games is like 100…” (Why Godot's Multiplayer Hosting Was Paused) - **9 to 10:** Exceptional, among the best moments a channel posts An 8 payoff can't save a 6 hook. Hook, payoff and standalone are each a gate of their own: a high score on one never makes up for a miss on another. Arc and quotability are scored too, but never gate a moment. Every clip Snipri keeps comes with its five scores and the reason it was kept, under Why this clip in My clips. [How Snipri picks each clip](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) One scale for all five scores, in the words Snipri's AI is given. The quotes are two moments of the job above, each set in the band its hook was given: the words of its first three seconds, the part a hook is scored on, as the job's transcript has them. ## AI clipping **Clips chosen for you, with the reasons shown.** Snipri reads the transcript for complete thoughts with a strong hook and a clear payoff, and drops the rest. Before a job you can tell it the kind of video, the clip length and moments to look for. [How Snipri picks each clip](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) ## Auto reframe **Wide video, made vertical.** Face tracking keeps the speaker in a 9:16 frame. When two or three people share the shot, Snipri can stack them or cut to whoever is talking. [How auto reframe works](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) ## Auto captions **Captions in your style, word by word.** Pick a style before clipping or after and fine-tune fonts, colours, word highlights and position, or leave captions off. Captions render in all 25 languages Snipri transcribes: when a built-in font lacks a language's letters, the caption switches to one that has them. New clips start in your saved brand look unless you pick another style. [How animated captions work](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) ## The last word is yours. Trim or split a clip, split a scene so each part takes its own layout, move or zoom each view, switch to square or landscape, rewrite the hook title card, and add your own text, images and logo. [How the clip editor works](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor) Sample clip in the editor: “It got really dark really fast” *A scene from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, cut for this example and reframed by Snipri. Its words are the film's own captions.* ## Ask Snip. Snip is the assistant in the clip editor. Ask for a change in your own words, from fixing a name to cutting the clip to 30 seconds, and Snip makes it. > Hi, I'm Snip. Ask for a change to this clip in your own words, or start with one of these. - Review this clip - Fix names - Make it 30s - Write 3 hooks Each change shows here with an Undo, and nothing is saved until you press Save. Snip is on every plan, the free one included: 300 messages a month, and asking never uses one of your videos. [See the plans](https://www.snipri.com/#pricing) ## Plans - **Free:** $0, 2 videos once, each up to 1 hour, uploads up to 1 GB, with a watermark. - **Starter:** $29.90 a month or $286.90 a year, 10 videos a month, each up to 2 hours, uploads up to 3 GB, API access. - **Pro:** $89.90 a month or $862.90 a year, 30 videos a month, each up to 3 hours, uploads up to 10 GB, API access. - **Scale:** $299 a month or $2,869.90 a year, 100 videos a month, each up to 3 hours, uploads up to 10 GB, API access. Prices are in US dollars. Unused videos do not roll over, the free videos never refill, and clips never expire on any plan. Every plan, its limits and the billing questions: [Snipri pricing](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ## Frequently asked questions ### Do I need video editing experience? No. Add your video and Snipri selects, reframes and captions the clips. Review the results, make any adjustments and download. [How to make podcast clips](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips) is a checklist for that review. ### Is Snipri free? 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. ### How long does it take to get my clips? About 43 minutes for a typical recording. Studio updates the estimate as the job progresses. You can close the tab and return to your library when the clips are ready. ### Who can see my clips? Your clips stay in your library behind your login. Nothing is published without you choosing to share it. The services used to process your videos are listed in the privacy policy. ### Can I see why a clip was selected? Yes. Every clip Snipri picks comes with its five [scores and a written reason for keeping it](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker). Open a clip in your library to see them. The number of clips depends on the recording. ### How is Snipri different from Opus Clip or Klap? Snipri is built for talking-head video like [podcasts](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker), [interviews](https://www.snipri.com/tools/interview-clip-maker) and [talks](https://www.snipri.com/tools/webinar-clip-maker). Instead of returning as many clips as possible, it leaves out moments that do not stand on their own and shows why each clip was picked. Our [comparison pages](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) cover pricing and features side by side. ### How do I add a video? Upload a file, choose one from Dropbox or Google Drive, or paste a supported video link, including a public YouTube video. Only import videos you own or have permission to use. Private, members-only and live videos are not supported. ### Is there a watermark? Free exports include a Snipri watermark. All paid plans, including Starter, export without it. ### What will my clips look like? Vertical 1080×1920 clips, up to 10 per job, with word-level captions and an optional opening title. Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead. Each job makes at most 10 minutes of clips, so longer clips come back fewer. Download them for TikTok, Reels or [Shorts](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts), or adjust them in the editor first, where you can also switch a clip to square or landscape. ### Can I change where a clip starts and ends? Yes. Trim a clip or split it into two. New clips can offer up to 10 extra seconds before and after the selected moment when that footage is in the part of the video Snipri processed. Older clips without this extra footage can still be shortened. ### What languages does Snipri support? Snipri transcribes and captions 25 languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Choose the spoken language when you add a video, or let Snipri detect it. ## More about Snipri - [Features](https://www.snipri.com/features): Each part of Snipri, with its numbers and what it does not do. - [Use cases](https://www.snipri.com/tools): Podcasts, interviews, webinars and other long videos where people talk. - [Comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives): Snipri beside 19 clipping, caption and video tools, each dated and sourced. - [Guides](https://www.snipri.com/blog): Clip lengths, sizes and captions for Shorts and Reels, each guide with its sources. - [Fact sheet](https://www.snipri.com/ai-info): Plain facts about Snipri on one page. - [About](https://www.snipri.com/about): Who builds and runs Snipri. --- # Snipri pricing: pay for videos, not clips Paid plans start at $29.90/month for 10 videos a month, each up to 2 hours, without a watermark. You start with 2 free videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark and no credit card. A video counts once for each hour of it, rounded up, and only when it gives you at least one clip. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/pricing - Updated: November 2, 2026 ## Compare the plans ### Free $0 to start - **Videos:** 2, one time - **Clips:** Up to 20 - **Longest video:** 1 hour - **Largest upload:** 1 GB - **Watermark:** On every clip - **Also included:** - Customizable word-level captions - Clips never expire - 9:16 clips for Reels, Shorts and TikTok ### Starter $29.90 a month, billed monthly, or $286.90 billed yearly ($23.91 a month, save 20%) - **Videos:** 10 a month - **Clips:** Up to 100 a month - **Longest video:** 2 hours - **Largest upload:** 3 GB - **Watermark:** None - **Also included:** - Customizable word-level captions - API access - Email support ### Pro $89.90 a month, billed monthly, or $862.90 billed yearly ($71.91 a month, save 20%) - **Videos:** 30 a month - **Clips:** Up to 300 a month - **Longest video:** 3 hours - **Largest upload:** 10 GB - **Watermark:** None - **Also included:** - API access - Priority email support - Customizable word-level captions ### Scale $299 a month, billed monthly, or $2,869.90 billed yearly ($239.16 a month, save 20%) - **Videos:** 100 a month - **Clips:** Up to 1,000 a month - **Longest video:** 3 hours - **Largest upload:** 10 GB - **Watermark:** None - **Also included:** - Everything in Pro - API access - Dedicated support Plans count videos, never clips. A video counts once for each hour of it, rounded up, so an hour or less is one, and only when it gives you at least one clip. Every plan includes clip selection, reframing to 9:16, captions you can restyle and the clip editor, and editing a clip never uses another video. Links and cloud files can be up to an hour long, and from a longer upload you can keep just the part you want, which is all that counts. Unused videos do not roll over. ## How the price compares Each comparison is dated and links every page it read. - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri: plans and credits](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip): Opus Clip pricing next to Snipri's: the Free, Starter, Pro and Business plans, what a credit buys, clip storage, posting and API, from Opus Clip's own pages. - [Klap AI alternative for podcasts and interviews](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap): A Klap alternative billed per video, not per clip: Snipri and Klap compared on the free plan, languages and posting, with a monthly cost check you set. - [Vizard AI alternative for podcasts and interviews](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard): A Vizard alternative billed per video: Snipri and Vizard compared on credit tiers, the free plan, 4K export, posting and API, with a monthly cost check you set. - [Ssemble pricing vs Snipri: what a credit covers](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/ssemble): Ssemble pricing next to Snipri's: the Pro, Expert, Business and Custom plans, what one credit covers, the 20-minute part, links, posting and API, from its site. - [Every comparison](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives): Snipri beside 19 clipping, caption and video tools, each dated and sourced. ## Billing questions ### What counts as a video? A video counts against your allowance once for each hour of the part that its job processes, rounded up, so a part of an hour or less counts as one video and a part of 61 minutes as two. It counts when its job comes back with at least one clip, or, for a job that came back with none, when you make the first of its near-misses into a clip. A job that fails, or that finds nothing worth clipping, does not count, and neither do edits, re-renders or splits of clips you already have, or near-misses made into clips after the first. While a job is being processed it holds the videos it would count until it finishes. ### How long can one video be? Up to 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale. Imported links and cloud files can be up to an hour long on any plan. You can clip a longer upload one part at a time, and each part is counted on its own. ### Do unused videos roll over? No. A paid plan's videos come back every month, and any you have not used expire when the next month's allowance is granted or the subscription ends. The 2 free videos come once and never refill. ### Can I pay by the year? Yes. Starter is $286.90 a year, Pro is $862.90 a year and Scale is $2,869.90 a year, paid once, and the plan's videos still come back every month. ### Is there a watermark? Free exports include a Snipri watermark. All paid plans, including Starter, export without it. ### Who takes the payment? Lemon Squeezy, in US dollars, in advance for the month or the year. Its receipt email comes with every charge and carries the link to manage or cancel your subscription. ### Can I cancel, or get a refund? You can cancel any time to stop the next renewal, and you keep access and any videos you have left until the end of the period. Payments are not refunded, beyond what the law or Lemon Squeezy's buyer terms provide, but a job that fails never uses a video, and one that finds no clip uses none unless you make one of its near-misses into a clip. [Refunds and cancellation](https://www.snipri.com/terms#refunds) in the terms says it in full. --- # Snipri fact sheet Plain facts about Snipri on one page, for AI assistants, search engines and anyone writing about it. Plans, prices, languages and clip limits are read from the product's own code when the site is built, so they change when the product does. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/ai-info - Last updated: November 2, 2026 ## Snipri in one paragraph Snipri is AI video clipping that explains why each moment deserves to be a clip. The web app turns one long video, such as a podcast episode, an interview or a webinar, into short vertical clips with captions burned in, ready for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. A language model reads the transcript and keeps only the moments that make sense on their own, each with five scores and a written reason. Each clip is reframed to 1080×1920 around the speaker's face, and the captions highlight each word as it is spoken. Snipri is built and run by one person, Cihan Düzgören. ## Key facts | Fact | Snipri | | --- | --- | | What it is | An AI video clipper, also called an AI clip maker. It is a web app, with nothing to install. | | Made by | [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri alone | | Founded | 2026 | | Website | [www.snipri.com](https://www.snipri.com/) | | Contact | [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com), answered by the founder | | What goes in | An uploaded video file, a public YouTube, Vimeo or direct video link, or a file picked from Dropbox or Google Drive, one video per job | | Longest video | Up to 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale. Imported links and cloud files can be up to an hour long on any plan. A longer recording can be uploaded and clipped one part at a time, and each part counts as one video for each hour of it, rounded up. | | Largest upload | 1 GB on Free, 3 GB on Starter and 10 GB on Pro and Scale | | Spoken languages | 25, each transcribed and captioned in its own language: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. The language can be named when the video is added, or detected. | | What comes out | Up to 10 MP4 clips from each video, vertical 1080×1920, captions burned in. A finished clip can be switched to square (1:1) or landscape (16:9) in the editor. | | Clip length | Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead. One clip, chosen before the job instead, keeps up to 10 minutes of the video as a single clip. | | Which moments | When Snipri picks, only moments that make sense on their own. Hook, payoff and standalone sense must each score 7/10, so a video can come back with fewer clips, or none, and a video with none is not counted. | | Captions | Burned in word by word, each word highlighted as it is spoken, in 31 ready-made styles that can be changed after the clip is made | | Usual wait | About 43 minutes, and the job keeps running once the video is handed over | | Billing | By the video. A video counts once for each hour of it, rounded up, when its job comes back with at least one clip, and edits, re-renders and splits are free. | | Watermark | On the Free plan only | | Posting | Clips are downloaded and posted by hand. Snipri never posts on anyone's behalf. | | API | On the Starter, Pro and Scale plans: a program can send a video by upload or link, read its clips back and receive a signed webhook when the job ends. Its jobs are counted in videos like any other. | ## How a video becomes clips 1. **Transcribe.** The audio becomes a transcript with a timing for every word. Speech recognition runs on Groq. 2. **Select.** A language model from Anthropic reads the transcript and scores each candidate moment on hook, payoff, standalone sense, arc and quotability. Hook, payoff and standalone sense must each reach 7/10 or the moment is dropped, and the scores sit beside every clip it keeps. [Each kind of video](https://www.snipri.com/tools#kinds) (podcast, webinar, Q&A and others) is judged by its own rules, picked before the job or named by Snipri. With One clip chosen instead, nothing is selected: up to 10 minutes of the video becomes one clip, with no scores. 3. **Reframe.** Each clip is cropped to vertical 1080×1920 with the face tracked. Two people sharing a wide shot can be stacked in one frame. In a webinar or another kind of video led by a screen, a confirmed webcam inset puts the screen on top and the speaker below. A shot with no face keeps the whole picture on a blurred backdrop. 4. **Caption.** Captions are burned in word by word, each word highlighted as it is spoken, unless they are switched off before the job. An editable hook title card can open the clip. 5. **Deliver.** Clips land in the person's library. Restyling the captions, trimming or splitting a clip afterwards does not run the source video again and costs nothing. ## Plans and prices - **Free:** $0, 2 videos once, each up to 1 hour, uploads up to 1 GB, with a watermark. - **Starter:** $29.90 a month or $286.90 a year, 10 videos a month, each up to 2 hours, uploads up to 3 GB, API access. - **Pro:** $89.90 a month or $862.90 a year, 30 videos a month, each up to 3 hours, uploads up to 10 GB, API access. - **Scale:** $299 a month or $2,869.90 a year, 100 videos a month, each up to 3 hours, uploads up to 10 GB, API access. Prices are in US dollars. Unused videos do not roll over, the free videos never refill, and clips never expire on any plan. ## What Snipri does not do - It gives no virality score and does not predict views or reach. The five scores beside each clip say why the moment was kept, not how far it will travel. - It does not post to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or any other account. - It does not work from audio alone. It needs a video, because it frames each clip around the people on screen. - It has no timeline that spans several clips. The editor works on one clip at a time. - It does not import private, members-only or live YouTube videos. - It does not charge by the minute, the clip or the export. ## Entity map How Snipri relates to the people, formats and products it is mentioned with, read as one sentence per row. | Snipri | What | | --- | --- | | is a | AI video clipper, also searched for as an [AI clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/), which shows [why it picked each clip](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) | | is made by | [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), its founder, who builds and runs it alone | | was founded in | 2026 | | clips | long videos where people talk, such as [podcasts](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker), [interviews](https://www.snipri.com/tools/interview-clip-maker) and [webinars](https://www.snipri.com/tools/webinar-clip-maker), judging [each kind of video by its own rules](https://www.snipri.com/tools#kinds) | | makes clips for | TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, [from one long video](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts) | | is built with | speech recognition on Groq, a language model from Anthropic and face tracking. The [privacy policy](https://www.snipri.com/privacy) lists every service it uses. | | is compared with | [Opus Clip](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip), [Klap](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap), [Vizard](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard), [Vidyo.ai](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vidyo-ai), [WayinVideo](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wayinvideo), [2short.ai](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/2short-ai), [SendShort](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/sendshort), [Cutlabs](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/cutlabs), [Ssemble](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/ssemble), [Nexus Clips](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/nexus-clips), [Spikes Studio](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/spikes-studio), [Submagic](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic), [VEED](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed), [Wisecut](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wisecut), [Zubtitle](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/zubtitle), [Munch](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/munch), [Short AI](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/short-ai), [ClipGoat](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/clipgoat) and [Qlip](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/qlip-ai), [each with its sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) | | bills by | the video, not the minute, the clip or the export, on [4 plans](https://www.snipri.com/pricing) | ## How to refer to Snipri - Name: Snipri, with one capital S. It is spelled S-N-I-P-R-I, it is not a misspelling of "sniper", and its only site is [www.snipri.com](https://www.snipri.com/). - Short description: "AI video clipping that explains why each moment deserves to be a clip. Captioned clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts from podcasts, interviews and long videos." - Logo: [www.snipri.com/icon.svg](https://www.snipri.com/icon.svg) - The same facts for crawlers, as plain text: [llms.txt](https://www.snipri.com/llms.txt), and every page in full, as Markdown: [llms-full.txt](https://www.snipri.com/llms-full.txt) - A correction: if an answer about Snipri is wrong or out of date, write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com). --- # 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. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-snipri-works - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: Getting started, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Snipri turns a long recording where people talk, such as a podcast, an interview, a webinar or a talk, into short vertical clips with captions. You add the video in the Studio and choose how it is clipped. The clips land in My clips, where you can change them and download them. ## What happens to a video Once you press **Get clips**, the job runs on its own, and the Studio shows each step as it starts: 1. **Transcribing.** The audio becomes a transcript with a timing for every word. 2. **Selecting highlights.** A language model reads the transcript and scores each moment that could work on its own. Only the moments that clear the bar become clips, and each one keeps its scores and the reason it was picked. 3. **Rendering.** Each moment is cut from the video, cropped to vertical so the person speaking stays in the frame, and captioned word by word. 4. **Done.** The clips are in My clips. With **One clip** chosen instead of **Best moments**, nothing is selected: the part of the video you keep becomes a single clip. Every clip comes back vertical, 1080 × 1920 pixels at 9:16, ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. A job returns up to 10 clips and at most 10 minutes of clips in total, so longer clips come back fewer. Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead. How a moment earns its place is in [See why a clip was chosen](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-clip-was-chosen), and the [AI clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) page shows the selection at work. How the crop follows the people on screen is on the [auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) page. ## The four screens Everything after you sign in happens on four screens, each named in the app's menu: - **Studio** is where you add a video, choose how it is clipped and follow the job. - **My clips** holds every clip, grouped by the video it came from, with the reason each one was chosen, the editor and the downloads. - **Brand** keeps the look new clips are made in: a caption style, your logo, a line of text such as your handle, your colours and your own font. - **Plan & videos** shows your plan, how many videos you have left and when they come back. ## What a video needs Snipri picks moments by reading what is said, so it needs a recording with speech in it. Music and ambient footage give it nothing to read, and a file without an audio track can't be clipped at all. It needs the picture too, because each clip is framed around the people on screen, so audio on its own is not enough. Snipri transcribes and captions 25 languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Choose the spoken language when you add a video, or let Snipri detect it. ## What it does not do - It does not post anywhere. You download the clips and post them yourself. - It does not predict views or reach. The scores beside each clip say why the moment was kept, not how far it will travel. - It does not translate. Captions are in the language spoken in the video. - It has no timeline for joining several clips into one video. The editor works on one clip at a time. The next guide, [Make your first clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/make-your-first-clips), walks through a first job from the start. Next guide: [Make your first clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/make-your-first-clips) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. --- # Find your way around Snipri 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/find-your-way-around - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Getting started, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Snipri has four screens. On a computer they are listed down the left side, and on a phone along the bottom. The bar at the top of every screen shows the videos you have left, and its account menu holds the rest. ## The four screens - **Studio** is where a job starts: add a video, choose how it is clipped and follow the job while it runs. - **My clips** holds every video you added and the clips each one gave, with the editor one press away. - **Brand** keeps the look every new clip starts in: your caption style, colours, font, logo and handle. - **Plan & videos** shows your plan, the videos you have left and when they come back. [Make your first clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/make-your-first-clips) follows a job through the Studio, and [Find and manage your clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/manage-your-clips) covers My clips. ## The bar at the top The figure on the right of the bar is the videos left on your plan. Press it to open **Plan & videos**. **New video** takes you back to the Studio from any other screen. ## The account menu Your picture or initial at the far right opens the account menu. It starts with your name and email address, then offers: - **Brand settings** and **Plan & videos**, the same screens as the menu on the left. - **API**, where you make keys for the [Snipri API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/get-started-with-the-api) and set the address its webhooks go to. - **Earn with Snipri**, the [affiliate program](https://www.snipri.com/affiliates). - **Help**, which opens these guides, and **Contact & feedback** for anything they don't answer. - **Sign out**. On a computer **Help** is also at the foot of the menu on the left, so these guides are one press away from every screen. Previous guide: [Make your first clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/make-your-first-clips) Next guide: [Sign in and manage your account](https://www.snipri.com/docs/sign-in-and-account) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Sign in and manage your 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/sign-in-and-account - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Getting started, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) One step signs you in and, the first time, makes your free account. There is no password: you sign in with Google, or with a code sent to your email address. ## Sign in with Google Press **Continue with Google** and choose your Google account. Snipri receives your name, email address and profile picture from Google, and uses them to know your account. ## Sign in with a code 1. Type your email address and press **Email me a code**. 2. Open the email from Snipri and type the code into the page that asked for it. 3. Press **Sign in**. The code has 6 digits and works once, for 10 minutes. An address that already signs in with Google reaches the same account, so you can use either way in. > **Tip:** No email after a minute? Look in spam or promotions, then press **Send a new code**. **Use another email** starts again with a different address. ## When signing in fails The page says what went wrong, and each message says what to do next: - We couldn't send the code. Try again in a moment, or continue with Google. - Too many codes were sent in the last hour. Wait a while before asking for another, or continue with Google. - That code is wrong or has expired. Check it, or send a new one. - Too many tries from here. Wait a few minutes, then send a new code. - Something on Snipri's side failed while signing you in. Try again in a moment. - Couldn't reach Snipri. Check your connection and try again. ## A video chosen before signing in If you chose a video on the home page and then signed in with a code, the video stays on the page. Google's sign-in leaves the page and comes back, and a browser can't carry a file through that, so after a Google sign-in you choose the file again. ## Sign out Open the account menu at the top right of any screen and press **Sign out**. ## Close your account Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) from the address you sign in with and ask for the account to be closed. The [privacy policy](https://www.snipri.com/privacy) says what is removed and which billing records are kept. Previous guide: [Find your way around Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/docs/find-your-way-around) Next guide: [Upload a video file](https://www.snipri.com/docs/upload-a-video) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Upload a video file 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/upload-a-video - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Add a video, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Uploading the file is the way in with the most room: it takes the largest files, the longest recordings your plan covers, and it lets you choose the part of the video to clip. ## Choose the file In the Studio, press **Upload video** and pick the file, or drag it onto the Studio. The file needs its sound: Snipri picks moments from what is said, and a video exported without its audio track can't be clipped. An MP4 with H.264 video and AAC audio is the safest choice. Most other video files work too, and if one can't be read, exporting it again as that kind of MP4 fixes it almost every time. ## How big and how long The largest file you can upload is 1 GB on Free, 3 GB on Starter and 10 GB on Pro and Scale. A file over 4 GB goes up in parts, and a part that fails is sent again on its own. Each plan covers a set length of each video: 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale. A recording longer than your plan covers still goes in. The Studio selects the first part your plan covers, and you can drag it to any other part. [Clip a video longer than your plan covers](https://www.snipri.com/docs/clip-a-long-video) shows how to clip the rest. ## While it uploads The file goes from your browser straight to Snipri's storage, and the Studio shows a bar as it fills. Keep the Studio open until the bar is full, because an upload stops when its tab closes. Once the file is in and the job has started, you can close the tab. If the connection drops partway, the Studio says **The upload didn't finish** and nothing is processed or counted. Press **Try again**. If it keeps stopping, a smaller file or a steadier connection usually gets it through. ## The spoken language The **Spoken language** setting on the Video card starts on **Detect automatically**, which leaves the transcription to tell which language is spoken. If you know it, picking it takes that guess away. Snipri transcribes and captions 25 languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Choose the spoken language when you add a video, or let Snipri detect it. Previous guide: [Sign in and manage your account](https://www.snipri.com/docs/sign-in-and-account) Next guide: [Import a video from a link](https://www.snipri.com/docs/import-a-video-from-a-link) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/import-a-video-from-a-link - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Add a video, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) A link saves you the upload: Snipri fetches the video itself, so nothing passes through your browser and you can start the job straight away. ## Paste a link Paste the link into the field that says **Paste a video link** in the Studio. Two kinds work: a link to a public page that plays one video, and a link straight to a video file, such as a shared file that downloads when you open it. A link that needs you to sign in, or that has expired, gives Snipri nothing to fetch. A YouTube link has to point at one public video or Short: not a playlist or a channel, and not a private, members-only or live video. Import only videos you own or have permission to use. ## Pick from a cloud drive Dropbox and Google Drive open their own file picker in the Studio. Choose the video there and Snipri fetches it from them; it never passes through your browser. ## What a fetched video can be A video from a link, Dropbox or Google Drive can run up to 1 hour on every plan. A link to a video page is fetched at up to 720p; a link straight to a video file keeps the file's own resolution. A video from a link or a cloud drive is read in full, so the Video card has no part to drag. To clip only part of a recording, or one longer than a fetched video can be, upload the file instead. Private videos, members-only videos and live streams can't be fetched. A live stream has no finished file to cut from until it is published as a normal video. ## When a link fails The Studio names what went wrong: the link may need a sign-in, the host may be limiting downloads for a while, or the page may have no video Snipri can read. A failed import is never counted. [Why a job failed, and what to do](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-job-failed) lists every message with its fix. Previous guide: [Upload a video file](https://www.snipri.com/docs/upload-a-video) Next guide: [Clip a video longer than your plan covers](https://www.snipri.com/docs/clip-a-long-video) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Clip a video longer than your plan covers 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/clip-a-long-video - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Add a video, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) A plan limits how much of a video one job reads, not how long the file can be. A longer recording still uploads, and you clip it one part at a time. Each plan covers a set length of each video: 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale. ## Choose the part After you add the file, the Video card in the Studio shows the footage as a strip of frames with a lime part on it. Only the lime part is read. On a recording longer than your plan covers, the Studio starts with the first part your plan covers selected. - Drag either end of the lime part. When the part is as long as your plan allows, pulling one end brings the other along, so the part slides. - Or type a time into **Start** and **End**, in hours, minutes and seconds. The part you keep has to be at least 10 seconds long. Press **Get clips** when the part is where you want it. To clip the next part, add the same file again and move the lime part on. The timeframe is there for uploads only. A video from a link or a cloud drive is read in full, so to clip part of one, upload the file instead. ## How the parts are counted Each part is its own job, and each job counts one video for each hour of the part it reads, rounded up. Choosing a shorter part costs fewer videos, and the bar under the settings says how many before you start. | Part of the video a job processes | Videos it counts | | --- | --- | | 45 minutes | 1 | | 1 hour | 1 | | 1 hour and 30 minutes | 2 | | 3 hours | 3 | When you have fewer videos left than a part would count, the lime part can only be as long as the hours your videos cover. [How videos are counted](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-videos-are-counted) has the whole rule. Previous guide: [Import a video from a link](https://www.snipri.com/docs/import-a-video-from-a-link) Next guide: [Choose the spoken language](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-the-spoken-language) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-the-spoken-language - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Add a video, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Snipri writes the captions in the language the video is spoken in. It can work that language out by itself, and it transcribes more accurately when you name it. ## The languages Snipri transcribes and captions 25 languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Choose the spoken language when you add a video, or let Snipri detect it. Captions stay in the language that is spoken: Snipri doesn't translate them. ## Set the language Once a video is in the Studio, the **Spoken language** field sits at the foot of the **Video** card. It starts on **Detect automatically**. Open it and choose the language from the list, where each one is named in English and in its own words. The Studio remembers your choice in this browser, so your next video starts on the same language. Set it back to **Detect automatically** before you add a video in another language. ## When to name it Leave it on **Detect automatically** when a video is plainly in one language. Name the language when: - the video opens on music, silence or a few words in another language; - the speakers have strong accents, or the recording is noisy; - the language is close to another one on the list, such as Norwegian, Danish and Swedish. > **Note:** A video with no speech gives no clips in any language. [Why a job failed, and what to do](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-job-failed) gives the message the Studio shows then. [Upload a video file](https://www.snipri.com/docs/upload-a-video) covers the files the Studio takes. Previous guide: [Clip a video longer than your plan covers](https://www.snipri.com/docs/clip-a-long-video) Next guide: [Choose how a video is clipped](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-clip-settings) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Choose how a video is clipped 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-clip-settings - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: Clip selection, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) The settings open under a video once it is in the Studio. Each one changes what the job does, and left as they are they let Snipri decide. ## Best moments or One clip The **Clips** card starts on **Best moments**: Snipri reads the whole [part you keep](https://www.snipri.com/docs/clip-a-long-video) and makes a clip of each moment that stands on its own. One clip keeps the part of the video you use as a single clip, up to 10 minutes long. With One clip there is nothing to select, so the clip has no scores and no hook title. A video from a link or a cloud drive is used whole, so for One clip it has to be no longer than that. ## Length of each clip Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead. A job returns up to 10 clips and at most 10 minutes of clips in total, so longer clips come back fewer. ## Kind of video The kind of video tells Snipri what a strong moment looks like in that format: a Q&A keeps each answer with its question, a webinar leaves out the agenda and the housekeeping, and comedy keeps the setup with its punchline. Kind of video starts on Auto, which lets Snipri tell the format from the transcript. The other 16 are Q&A, Commentary, Marketing, Webinar, Motivational speech, Podcast, Academic, Listicle, Product reviews, How-to, Comedy, Sports commentary, Sermon, News, Vlog and Gaming. A webinar or another kind of video led by a screen also changes the framing: where Snipri confirms a webcam inset, the screen goes on top of the clip and the speaker below. The [webinar clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/webinar-clip-maker) page shows it. ## Moments to look for Write what you want clipped in your own words, such as "every time we talk about pricing". Matching moments come first, as long as each one works as a clip on its own, so a request never turns a weak moment into a clip. Moments to look for takes a sentence of up to 300 characters. ## Captions and the hook title The **Captions** card shows a frame of your own video wearing the selected style, beside every caption style. It starts on your brand's look if you saved one on the Brand page, and on Karaoke if you didn't. The switch at the top of the card turns captions off for the whole job. [Change a clip's caption style](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-caption-style) describes each style. The **Hook title** switch puts a short title on screen as each clip starts. It needs captions on, and One clip has no title to show. You can rewrite or remove the title of any clip later, in the editor. ## Keep the settings **Use these settings next time** keeps the choices in this browser for your next video. The part of the video you kept and the moments you asked for stay with this video only. Previous guide: [Choose the spoken language](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-the-spoken-language) Next guide: [See why a clip was chosen](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-clip-was-chosen) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # See 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-clip-was-chosen - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Clip selection, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Snipri doesn't hand you clips and ask you to trust them. Every clip it picks keeps the scores it was picked on and the reason, in a sentence, so you can check the choice yourself. ## Where to find it Open a clip in My clips. In its details, under the title and **Open editor**, **Why this clip** shows: - **Delivered**, the mark of a clip Snipri chose, with the line the clip opens on. - **Must pass**: the hook, payoff and standalone scores, with a dashed line where the gate is. - **Also scored**: arc and quotability. - The reason the moment was chosen, as the model wrote it. ## How a moment gets in Every moment gets 5 scores out of 10: hook, payoff, standalone sense, arc and quotability. Hook, payoff and standalone sense are gates: a moment becomes a clip only when each of the three reaches 7. Moments that pass are ranked by hook and payoff, with the other three breaking ties. ## What each score measures - **Hook**: how hard the opening seconds grab attention. - **Payoff**: whether the moment delivers a satisfying point, punchline or insight by its end. - **Standalone**: whether it makes sense with no context around it. - **Arc**: whether it has a shape of its own, with a beginning, a little tension and a resolution. - **Quotability**: how memorable or shareable its core line is. A moment that scores high on arc and quotability but misses one of the three gates is still left out. That is why a video can come back with fewer clips than you hoped, and sometimes with none. [When a video comes back with no clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/near-miss-clips) says what you can do then. ## When you disagree with a pick The scores explain a choice; they don't lock it. Trim a clip that starts too early or ends too late, or split one that covers two points into two clips. To steer the next job, write what you want into **Moments to look for** before you start it. A clip you split says it was scored as one moment, before the split. A near-miss you made into a clip says **Your pick** instead of Delivered, because Snipri left it out and you chose it. The [AI clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) page shows the selection on real clips. Previous guide: [Choose how a video is clipped](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-clip-settings) Next guide: [When a video comes back with no clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/near-miss-clips) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # When a video comes back with no 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/near-miss-clips - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Clip selection, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Snipri would rather give you no clip than a weak one. When no moment in the part you kept clears the bar, the job finishes with no clips, and the video is not counted. Every moment gets 5 scores out of 10: hook, payoff, standalone sense, arc and quotability. Hook, payoff and standalone sense are gates: a moment becomes a clip only when each of the three reaches 7. Moments that pass are ranked by hook and payoff, with the other three breaking ties. [See why a clip was chosen](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-clip-was-chosen) says what each of the scores measures. ## The moments that came closest The job still has something to show you. Its result in the Studio, and the video in My clips, list the moments that came closest, each with its place in the recording, its title and opening line, its scores, the gates it missed and the reason it was left out. A near-miss is a moment that scored below 7 on hook, payoff or standalone sense, so Snipri left it out, but came closer than the rest. ## Make one into a clip Press **Make this a clip** on the moment you want. Snipri cuts, frames and captions it as it would a clip it chose, in the job's own caption look, without transcribing or selecting again. You can leave the page while it works, and the clip lands in My clips. If it fails, the button turns into **Try again**. In **Why this clip**, a clip made this way says **Your pick**, because you chose it. ## What it counts Making the first near-miss into a clip counts the video the way a job with clips counts, one video for each hour of the part it read. Every near-miss you make into a clip after that, from the same video, is free. [How videos are counted](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-videos-are-counted) has the whole rule. ## When none of them fits The bar is the same for every recording, so one whose talk mostly leans on what came before it can come back with nothing that stands alone. For an upload, try another part of it with the [timeframe](https://www.snipri.com/docs/clip-a-long-video), or set the [kind of video](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-clip-settings) yourself, since each kind is judged on what makes a strong moment in that format. A job that finds no clips again is not counted again. Previous guide: [See why a clip was chosen](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-clip-was-chosen) Next guide: [Find and manage your clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/manage-your-clips) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Find and 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/manage-your-clips - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: My clips, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) My clips keeps every video you added, newest first, each with the clips it gave. Clips never expire, so the library is also your archive. ## A video and its clips Each video is a row with its name, the length of the recording, how many clips it gave and when you added it. Under the name, a strip stands for the whole recording, with a mark where each clip came from, so you can see which parts of the recording the clips cover. A grey mark is a moment Snipri weighed and left out. The clips sit under the strip, numbered like their marks. Point at one to light its mark and play it without sound. While a job is still running, its row says which step it is on, and **Follow in Studio** opens it there. A job that failed says why, and **Try again in Studio** takes you back to start again. A failed job never counts against your plan. ## Search and filter **Search packs and clips** finds a video by its name, or a clip by its title. When the words match clip titles, those clips light up and the others dim, so the answer shows in place. **All**, **Packs** and **Single** filter the list: packs are the videos that gave several clips, and single clips are the rest. ## Preview a clip Press a clip to open it. It plays with sound beside its title, its length and its format, and under them **Why this clip**: the scores it was chosen on and its reason in a sentence, which [See why a clip was chosen](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-clip-was-chosen) explains. **Previous clip** and **Next clip** move through the other clips of the same video. From the preview, **Open editor** opens the clip to change it, and the button at the foot downloads it. ## Rename a video Press **Rename video**, the pencil beside its name, type the new name and press **Save**. A clip with no title of its own downloads under the video's name. ## Delete a video **Delete video**, the bin at the end of a row, deletes the video and every clip it gave. On a finished video the first press turns the button into **Confirm delete**, and a second press deletes. A video that is still running, or one that failed, goes at the first press. > **Warning:** The app has no way to bring a deleted video or its clips back. Download the clips you want to keep first. [Download your clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/download-clips) covers saving them. Previous guide: [When a video comes back with no clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/near-miss-clips) Next guide: [Download your clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/download-clips) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Download your 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/download-clips - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: My clips, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Every clip is ready to download as soon as its job is done, and again after each edit. ## One clip or all of them In My clips, each video's row has a **Download all** button for every clip it gave. Open the video to download from its clips one at a time: **Download** beside a clip saves that clip. Each clip is an MP4 file named after its title. When you download several, the browser may ask once whether the site can download more than one file. Allow it, so that every clip arrives. ## The files Every clip comes back vertical, 1080 × 1920 pixels at 9:16, ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. A clip you changed with the editor's **Clip format** menu downloads in that format instead, as [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) explains. The captions, text, images and hook title are burned into the picture, so the file plays the same everywhere and needs no subtitle file beside it. Clips made on Free carry a Snipri watermark. Starter, Pro and Scale export without it. ## How long clips are kept Clips never expire, on any plan. They stay in My clips, behind your sign-in, until you delete them, and deleting a video in My clips deletes its clips with it. Snipri never posts anything for you: download the clips and post them where you like. The guides to [Instagram Reel sizes](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size) and [how long YouTube Shorts can be](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be) cover what each platform takes. Previous guide: [Find and manage your clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/manage-your-clips) Next guide: [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Every clip opens in an editor made for one short clip. A save renders the clip again from its own footage, without transcribing or selecting again, and edits never count against your plan. ## Open the editor In My clips, open a clip and press **Open editor**. The editor fills the screen, and the arrow at its top left, **Back to clip**, closes it again. ## How the editor is laid out - The top bar holds the clip's title, **Undo** and **Redo**, the save state and **Save changes**. - The video sits in the middle, with a toolbar over it for the clip's format and the framing of each scene. - The transcript stands beside the video on a wide screen. On a smaller one it is the first tab of the rail. - The rail of tool tabs opens a panel beside the video, or along the bottom on a phone. - The timeline runs under the video, with playback, the clip's length and a row for each layer. ## The tools Each tab of the rail opens one tool, and each tool has a guide of its own: - **Words**: correct, replace, hide or cut the words, and add emoji. [Edit a clip's transcript](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-transcript) - **Captions**: the caption style, font, colours, highlight and position. [Change a clip's caption style](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-caption-style) - **Text**: lines of your own over the video. [Add text to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-text-to-a-clip) - **Media**: images, video clips of your own, your brand, and an intro and an outro. [Add images and video to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-images-and-video) and [Add an intro and an outro](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-an-intro-and-outro) - **Hook**: the title card the clip opens on. [Edit the opening hook](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-opening-hook) - **B-roll**: stock footage over one phrase of the clip. [Add B-roll to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-b-roll) - **Music**: a track of your own, and the volume and fades of the clip's sound. [Add music to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-music) The length and the framing are worked from the timeline and the toolbar: [Trim and split a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/trim-and-split-a-clip) and [Reframe a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/reframe-a-clip) cover them. ## The timeline The timeline shows the clip's video, with its scenes, and its sound. **Timeline & layers** opens it to its full height, with the captions and a row for every text, image and video layer, and **Hide details** closes it again. Drag along the ruler to move the playhead, or press Space to play. **Fit** shows the whole clip, and the zoom beside it brings a moment closer. Drag the clip's start or end to trim it, and **Trim** opens its exact length. ## Save Changes wait until you press **Save changes**, and the line beside the button says **Unsaved changes** until you do. **Undo** and **Redo** step through the changes until then. The clip renders again while the editor says **Rendering your clip…**, then **All changes saved**, and the new version takes the old one's place in My clips. > **Tip:** Press ? anywhere in the editor for its keyboard shortcuts. [Keyboard shortcuts in the editor](https://www.snipri.com/docs/editor-keyboard-shortcuts) lists them all. If a save does not go through, [Fix an edit that won't save](https://www.snipri.com/docs/fix-an-edit-that-wont-save) goes through each message. Editing, rendering again and splitting are free on every plan, and the [clip editor](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor) page shows the editor at work. Previous guide: [Download your clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/download-clips) Next guide: [Edit a clip's transcript](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-transcript) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Edit a clip's 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-transcript - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) The transcript is the clip's words, each timed to the moment it is spoken, and the captions are drawn from it. A word you correct here is the word the captions show. On a wide screen the words stand beside the video under **Transcript**, and on a smaller one they are the **Words** tab. ## Correct a word 1. Click the word in the transcript. It opens in the bar under the transcript, ready to type over. 2. Type the right word. 3. Press Enter to move on to the next word, or Shift Enter to go back to the one before, so a whole clip can be checked from the keyboard. Escape closes the word. The bar says where the word falls in the clip, and whether it is hidden or cut. A correction changes the captions only: the sound and the picture stay as they were recorded. > **Note:** Every word needs some text. While one is empty, the editor shows **Fill in empty words before saving**, and pressing it takes you to the first empty word. ## Find and replace Type in **Find in transcript…** and the transcript narrows to the phrases that match, each with its time in the clip. To change a word everywhere it appears, type the new spelling in **Replace with…** and press **Replace all**. It replaces whole words only, and the line under the field counts the matches before you press. **Select them** selects every match instead, so you can hide or cut them together. ## Hide words or cut them A word you no longer want can leave the captions alone, or leave the clip: - **Hide from captions** takes the word out of the captions, while its sound and its picture stay in the clip. **Show in captions** puts it back. - **Cut from video** removes the word together with its footage, so the clip gets shorter. **Restore to video** puts it back. For one word, open it and use the buttons beside it in the bar. For several, press **Select**, click the words, and choose what to do with all of them. Shift-click selects a run of words at once, **Clear** empties the selection and **Done** stops selecting. Cutting words is how you take out a stumble or a filler word. To change where the clip starts or ends, use [Trim and split a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/trim-and-split-a-clip). ## Add emoji Open a word and press **Add emoji**, the face beside it. Pick an emoji from the list or type a word into **Search emoji…** to find one, and **Remove** takes it off again. A clip takes up to 12 emoji, and each caption shows one: the emoji of the first of its words that has one. When an emoji will not show, the bar says why: its word is hidden or cut, an earlier word in the same caption has one, or the caption style does not draw emoji. Emoji come with the current caption styles, so on an older clip pick a style on **Captions** first. ## Save your edits The changes wait until you press **Save changes**, and the clip renders again with them at no cost. [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) shows where every other tool is, and [Change a clip's caption style](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-caption-style) covers how the captions look. Previous guide: [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) Next guide: [Change a clip's caption style](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-caption-style) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Change a clip's 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-caption-style - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Captions are burned into a clip word by word, each word highlighted as it is spoken. You can choose their look before a job, and change it on any clip afterwards. ## The styles There are 31 styles: Karaoke, Panel, Typewriter, Bounce, Spotlight, Pop, Impact, Comic, Focus, Clean, Editorial, Bulletin, Kapow, Slate, Poster, Signal, Ticker, Orchid, Badge, Sprout, Sorbet, Flamingo, Daydream, Gilded, Bloom, Sunset, Pogo, Decode, Feather, Lucid and Ribbon. Each style is a whole look, down to how the words arrive on screen, so picking one changes the motion and not only the typeface. Hover over a style, or move the keyboard focus to it, to see it move. ## Before a job In the Studio, the **Captions** card shows a frame of your video wearing the selected style. New clips start in your brand's look if you saved one on the Brand page, and in Karaoke if you didn't. The switch at the top of the card turns captions off for the whole job. ## On a clip you already have Open the clip in the editor and choose **Captions**. **Show captions**, at the top, turns the captions of this clip on or off. Under it: - **Caption style**: the styles above, as cards. Pick one to start from. - **Position**: **Top**, **Middle** or **Bottom**. You can also drag the captions on the video, and pull a side handle to make them wider or narrower. - **Font color**: the colour of the words, including neon colours that glow. 13 fonts are built in: Montserrat, Roboto, Lato, Raleway, Nunito, Rubik, Bebas Neue, Oswald, Shrikhand, Jomhuria, Playfair Display, IBM Plex Mono and Komika Axis. A font file of your own, uploaded on the Brand page, is offered beside them. ## More caption settings **More caption settings** opens the rest of the look: - **Font settings**: the **Font**, its **Weight** and its **Size**. A font of your own is uploaded on the Brand page, and **Upload your own** opens it. - **Caption length**: how much a caption shows at a time. **One word** shows a word at a time, and **Short** and **Standard** show short or longer lines. - **Outline**: the colour around the letters, and its **Stroke size**. - **Text treatment**: **Uppercase**, and **Background box** with its **Box color**. - **Animation**: how each word or phrase arrives, from **None** to effects such as **Word bounce** or **Glitch**. - **Word highlight**: how the spoken word stands out, such as **Current only**, **Up to current**, **Background** or **Underline**, in its **Highlight color**. **Background** adds **Text on highlight**, the colour of the word on its box, and **Last line** adds **Last line size**, which draws the last line larger than the lines above it. Press **Save changes** and the clip renders again with the new captions, at no cost. [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) covers the editor's other tools. ## Use a look again Under **Your styles**, press **Save this style**, type a name and press **Save**. The look is kept in this browser and offered beside the built-in styles, in the editor and on the Studio's **Captions** card, so you can put it on other clips one at a time. The bin beside a saved style deletes it. To make a look the one every new clip starts in, save it on the Brand page instead: the brand kit belongs to your account and dresses the clips of each new job. A change to the kit reaches the clips made after it, and never restyles the clips you already have. [Set up your brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/docs/set-up-your-brand-kit) covers it. The [brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit) page shows what a kit holds, and [animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) shows the styles in motion. Previous guide: [Edit a clip's transcript](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-transcript) Next guide: [Add text to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-text-to-a-clip) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-text-to-a-clip - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) A text layer is a line you type over the video, apart from the captions: a title, a name, a handle or a note. It burns into the clip with the captions when you save. ## Add a text layer 1. Open the **Text** tab and press **Add text**, or press T anywhere in the editor. 2. Type the words. The new layer opens for typing on the video, and its words are also in the field under **Text layer**. 3. Drag the layer on the video to place it. 4. To change when it shows, open **Timeline & layers** under the video and drag the layer's bar. Pull either end of the bar to make it show for longer or for less time. The new layer starts at the playhead. While you drag it on the video, Shift keeps it moving in one direction and Alt lets it go past the guides it would otherwise snap to. A clip takes up to 8 text layers of up to 120 characters each, and 4 images. An image can be PNG, JPEG or WebP, under 5 MB. ## Change how it looks Select the layer on the video or on the timeline, and the **Text** tab shows its settings: - **Font**: one of the fonts the captions offer, or **Same as captions**, which follows the caption font when you change it later. - **Size**: how large the text is. You can also drag the handle on the selected layer to resize it. - **Color**: the colour of the text, from the picker or from your brand colours. To change the words of a layer already on the video, double-click it, or select it and press Enter. ## Remove a layer Select it and press **Delete layer**, or press Delete. **Undo** brings it back until you save. > **Tip:** A line that belongs on every new clip, such as your handle, can live in your brand kit instead, which puts it on the clips of each new job. [Set up your brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/docs/set-up-your-brand-kit) covers it. ## Save your edits The layers wait until you press **Save changes**. [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) shows where every other tool is, and [Add images and video to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-images-and-video) covers pictures and footage of your own. Previous guide: [Change a clip's caption style](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-caption-style) Next guide: [Add images and video to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-images-and-video) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Add images and video to a clip 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-images-and-video - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) The **Media** tab holds what you bring yourself: pictures over the clip, video clips of your own and your brand. Its intro and outro have [a guide of their own](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-an-intro-and-outro). ## Add an image or a logo 1. Open **Media**, press **Image or logo** and choose the file. You can also drop an image straight on the video or on the timeline. 2. Drag the image on the video to place it, and pull its corner to resize it. **Width** sets its size exactly. 3. To change when it shows, open **Timeline & layers** under the video and drag the image's bar, or pull either end of the bar. A clip takes up to 8 text layers of up to 120 characters each, and 4 images. An image can be PNG, JPEG or WebP, under 5 MB. **Delete image** removes the selected image, and so does Delete on the keyboard. ## Add a video clip A video clip of your own fills the frame for as long as it plays, under the captions, while the clip's own sound goes on. It is the way to show what the speaker is talking about. 1. Put the playhead where the video should start. 2. Open **Media**, press **Video clip** and choose the file, or drop the video on the video or at a moment on the timeline. 3. Drag its bar on the timeline to move it, and pull either end of the bar to change how much of it plays. A video clip is an MP4 or WebM file of up to 100 MB. A clip takes up to 3 video cuts, B-roll shots and video clips of your own together, and no two of them can play at the same moment. When a new one would overlap another, the editor says so and asks for an empty moment on the timeline. **Remove video** takes the selected video clip off. ## Put your brand on a clip A brand kit dresses the clips of each new job, and a clip you already have can take it in one press. **Brand**, in the **Media** tab, puts your brand's caption look on the clip, with its logo and its line of text over the whole clip. **Remove brand logo and text** takes the logo and the text off again. If the clip is already holding as many text or image layers as it can, the editor asks you to remove one first. [Set up your brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/docs/set-up-your-brand-kit) covers what a kit holds. ## Save your edits The pictures and videos wait until you press **Save changes**, and the clip renders again with them at no cost. [Add B-roll to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-b-roll) covers stock footage, and [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) shows where every other tool is. Previous guide: [Add text to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-text-to-a-clip) Next guide: [Add an intro and an outro](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-an-intro-and-outro) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Add an intro and an 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-an-intro-and-outro - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) An intro is a video of your own that plays before the clip, and an outro is one that plays after it: a logo sting, a channel card, a call to follow. A clip takes one of each. ## Add one 1. Open the clip in the editor and choose **Media**. 2. Under **Intro and outro**, press **Upload** on the **Intro** row or on the **Outro** row. 3. Choose the video. The row then shows its name and how long it plays. An intro or an outro is an MP4 or WebM video of up to 100 MB. Its first 5 seconds play, or all of it when it is shorter, with its own sound. The intro and the outro fill the frame, and the clip's captions, music and sound settings stay with the clip between them. **Remove** on a row takes that video off. ## Watch the whole clip The editor's player plays the clip alone, so you can keep working on it. **Preview with intro and outro** plays the clip the way it will be rendered, from the start of the intro to the end of the outro, and **Back to editing** returns to the editor. > **Note:** A clip with an intro or an outro cannot be split. Remove them first, split the clip, and then add them to the clip you keep. [Trim and split a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/trim-and-split-a-clip) covers splitting. ## Save your edits The intro and the outro wait until you press **Save changes**, and the clip renders again with them at no cost. [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) shows where every other tool is. Previous guide: [Add images and video to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-images-and-video) Next guide: [Edit the opening hook](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-opening-hook) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-opening-hook - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) The hook is a short title on screen as a clip starts, so a viewer knows in the first moment what the clip is about. It starts as the title Snipri wrote for the clip when it chose the moment. ## Before a job In the Studio, the **Captions** card holds the **Hook title** switch, on unless you turn it off. It rides on the captions, so it is off while captions are off, and **One clip** jobs have no title to show. ## Rewrite it Open the clip in the editor and choose **Hook**. With **Hook title** on: 1. Type your own words in **Hook text**. The field starts with the title the card shows now. 2. Under **Hook length**, set **Seconds**: how long the title stays on screen. 3. Drag the card on the video to place it, and pull its corner to resize it. The hook title takes up to 120 characters and stays on screen for 1 to 10 seconds. Clearing **Hook text** brings back the title Snipri wrote. A clip that has no title of its own needs words in the field before the card can show. ## When the switch is locked The hook cannot show with the captions at the top of the frame, where the card sits, or with the captions turned off. The switch says which it is: move the captions on **Captions**, or turn them on, and it unlocks. ## Save your edits The new hook waits until you press **Save changes**. [Change a clip's caption style](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-caption-style) covers the captions the hook rides on, and [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) shows where every other tool is. Previous guide: [Add an intro and an outro](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-an-intro-and-outro) Next guide: [Add B-roll to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-b-roll) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Add B-roll to a clip 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-b-roll - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) B-roll is footage that shows what the speaker is talking about while they keep talking. In Snipri it is offered, never added on its own: the editor names the phrase a shot would cover, and nothing reaches the clip until you pick one. ## Add a shot 1. Open the clip in the editor and choose **B-roll**. 2. The panel names the phrase the shot will cover. When the clip has several phrases worth covering, **Covers** lets you choose one. 3. The search field starts with words from that phrase. Change them if you like, then press **Find**. 4. Press a shot to use it. It is laid over the phrase you chose. The footage comes from Pexels and fills the frame for the length of the phrase, under the captions, while the clip's own sound goes on. A clip takes up to 3 video cuts, B-roll shots and video clips of your own together, and no two of them can play at the same moment. The panel lists the shots on the clip, each with the phrase it covers and its time. The cross beside one takes it off. ## When there is nothing to add - A clip that is all speaker may have no phrase that wants covering, and the panel says so. That is often the right answer for a clip like it. - When a search finds nothing, the panel asks for a plainer word: one thing you can see, such as a coffee shop or a crowd, finds more than an idea does. - When every phrase worth covering already has a shot, or the clip holds as many as it can, the panel says that too. > **Tip:** A shot follows its phrase. Cut words before the phrase and the shot moves with it, and cut the phrase itself and the shot goes, because it has nothing left to show. ## Save your edits The shots wait until you press **Save changes**, and the clip renders again with them at no cost. [Add images and video to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-images-and-video) covers footage of your own, and [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) shows where every other tool is. Previous guide: [Edit the opening hook](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-opening-hook) Next guide: [Add music to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-music) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Add music to a clip 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-music - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) The **Music** tab holds the clip's sound: the voice it was recorded with, and a track of your own under it. Both apply to the clip itself, after any cuts, while an intro or an outro keeps its own sound. ## Add a track 1. Open the clip in the editor and choose **Music**. 2. Under **Music**, press **Upload music**, or drop the file on **Add a soundtrack**. 3. Set **Music volume** so the voice stays clear over it. The music can be an MP3, M4A, WAV or OGG file of up to 50 MB. You choose where it starts and whether it loops, and set the volume and the fades of the music and of the clip's own sound. **Replace music** swaps the track for another file, and **Remove music** takes it off. ## Choose where it plays Open **Timing & fades** under the track: - **Music starts at**: the moment of the clip the track comes in. - **Start in file**: where in the track to begin, to skip a slow opening. - **Music fade in** and **Music fade out**: how long the music takes to rise at its start and to fall away at the end. - **Loop to end of clip**: plays the track again if it ends before the clip does. A track that starts after the clip has ended is never heard, and the panel says so. ## The clip's own sound Under **Original sound**, **Original volume** sets the level of the recording, and **Fade in & out** holds **Original fade in** and **Original fade out**, to ease the voice in at the start or out at the end. **Reset original sound** puts all of it back as it was recorded. ## Save your edits The sound waits until you press **Save changes**, and the clip renders again with it at no cost. [Add an intro and an outro](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-an-intro-and-outro) covers the videos that keep their own sound, and [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) shows where every other tool is. Previous guide: [Add B-roll to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-b-roll) Next guide: [Trim and split a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/trim-and-split-a-clip) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/trim-and-split-a-clip - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) A clip's length is set on the timeline under the video. Every change here cuts the clip's own footage, so nothing is transcribed or selected again, and **Undo** steps back through each one. ## Drag the edges The simplest trim is on the timeline: drag the clip's start or its end. Each edge also moves with the arrow keys once it has the keyboard focus. The part you trim away stays on the timeline, dimmed, so you can drag it back. ## Set the length exactly Press **Trim**, beside the timeline, to open **Clip length**. Its heading shows how long the clip is after every cut. For **Start** and for **End**: - The step buttons move the edge by a fixed step, in or out. - The sentence buttons add a whole sentence at that edge, or take one away, so a clip can start or end on a full thought. - The time field takes the exact second you type. A clip can also grow by up to 10 seconds at either end, where that footage is in the part of the video Snipri read. **Original edges** puts both edges back where the clip was made, and on a clip with no extra footage the same button is **Full clip**. The panel's times follow the timeline. ## Shorten pauses **Pauses**, in the same panel, counts the long silences inside the clip. **Shorten pauses** cuts each one down to a short beat, which tightens a slow speaker without cutting a word, and **Restore pauses** puts them back. To take out a word or a stumble, cut it from the transcript instead. [Edit a clip's transcript](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-transcript) covers it. ## Split a clip into two clips 1. Put the playhead where the second clip should start. 2. Open **Timeline & layers** under the video. 3. Press **Split into two clips**. The editor saves your edits with the split, so both halves keep them, and says **Rendering both halves…** while they render. The first half stays open in the editor, and the second appears in My clips beside it as a clip of its own. Both come from the clip's own footage, so neither goes back to the source video, and a split is free. The button explains itself when a split cannot happen yet: the playhead sits too close to an edge or in a part you cut, a caption word is empty, or the clip has an intro or an outro, which has to come off first. In My clips, each half keeps the scores of the moment it came from, marked **Scored as one moment, before it was split**. ## Save your edits A trim waits until you press **Save changes**, and the clip renders again at its new length at no cost. [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) shows where every other tool is. Previous guide: [Add music to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-music) Next guide: [Reframe a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/reframe-a-clip) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/reframe-a-clip - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Snipri frames each scene of a clip for a vertical screen when it makes the clip, following the speaker or showing the screen they share. The toolbar over the video changes that framing, scene by scene or for the whole clip, from the original video. ## Change the format The **Clip format** menu sits at the start of the toolbar over the video. The clip renders again in the format you pick when you save: Portrait 9:16 at 1080 × 1920 pixels, Square 1:1 at 1080 × 1080 or Landscape 16:9 at 1920 × 1080. A job's clips always start in Portrait 9:16. ## Choose a layout A clip is made of scenes, the stretches between camera changes, and each has a layout. **Layout** names the layout of the scene under the playhead, and choosing another changes that scene. | Layout | What it shows | | --- | --- | | Auto | The framing Snipri chose for the scene when it made the clip. | | One person | One part of the video, cropped to fill the whole frame. | | Two people | Two views stacked one above the other, for two people in one shot. | | Full video | The whole video, fitted inside the frame. | | Three views | Three views stacked from top to bottom. | | Four views | Four views in a grid. | | Screen + speaker | The screen in a large view and the speaker in a smaller one under it, or beside it in a square or landscape clip. | - To change the whole clip at once, press **All scenes** before you choose. A scene that already plays the layout you pick keeps its own views. - To change several scenes, choose them on the timeline's video row: Shift or Ctrl click a scene to add it to the choice. - To give part of one long scene a different layout, put the playhead where the change should happen and press **Split scene**. Each part then takes a layout of its own. ## Move the frame On the video, click a view to select it. Drag the picture to move it inside the view, and scroll or press + and − to zoom it. **Reset view** puts the selected view back as the layout drew it. For more control, press **Adjust**, or **Adjust view** on a selected view. **Adjust view** shows the original video beside your clip: 1. Drag the frame over the original video to choose what the view shows, and pull an edge or a corner to resize it. 2. Choose a shape on the **Crop** row, if you want a fixed one. 3. Play the scene to check it, then press **Use this framing**. **Reset** goes back to how the scene was when you opened it, and **Cancel** leaves without changing it. The Crop row sets the shape of the frame inside the view: Fill view, Full video, 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 or 9:16. Fill view fills the view, Full video shows the whole original video in it, and a fixed shape is fitted inside the view. A frame you resize by hand is Custom. A change in **Adjust view** applies to that one scene, as the line at its foot says. ## When the original video does not load Framing works from the original video, so the editor loads it for the scenes that use it. If it cannot, the editor says so, and **Try loading video again** fetches it once more. A clip saved with framing settings the editor no longer offers names each one, with **Reset to Auto** beside it. ## Save your edits The new framing waits until you press **Save changes**, and the clip renders again with it at no cost. The [auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) page shows the framing at work, and [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) shows where every other tool is. Previous guide: [Trim and split a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/trim-and-split-a-clip) Next guide: [Keyboard shortcuts in the editor](https://www.snipri.com/docs/editor-keyboard-shortcuts) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Keyboard shortcuts in the editor 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/editor-keyboard-shortcuts - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Most of the editor can be worked from the keyboard. The list below is the one the editor itself shows. ## Open the list in the editor Press ? anywhere in the editor, or the keyboard button at the end of the toolbar over the video, to open **Keyboard shortcuts**. Escape closes it again. ## The shortcuts | What it does | Keys | | --- | --- | | Play / pause | Space | | Previous / next word | ← / → | | Next / previous word while changing one | Enter / Shift Enter | | Add text | T | | Save changes | Ctrl / ⌘ S | | Undo | Ctrl / ⌘ Z | | Redo | Ctrl / ⌘ Shift Z | | Move selected layer | Arrow keys | | Move in larger steps | Shift + arrows | | Edit selected text | Enter | | Adjust the selected view | Enter | | Zoom the selected view | Scroll, + / − | | Choose several scenes | Shift / Ctrl click a scene | | Remove selected layer | Delete | | Deselect, then close the editor | Esc | | Show these shortcuts | ? | Text fields keep their usual typing shortcuts. Select a layer on the video to move or edit it. On a Mac, ⌘ takes the place of Ctrl. ## In the transcript The transcript is one stop for the Tab key, and the arrow keys walk its words from there. Enter opens the word under the focus to change it, Enter and Shift Enter then move to the next word and the one before, and Escape lets go of the word. [Edit a clip's transcript](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-transcript) covers what you can do to a word. ## On the timeline - With the playhead focused, the arrow keys move it by a tenth of a second, and with Shift by a whole second. - A layer's bar moves with the left and right arrow keys, in the same steps, and Delete removes the layer. Focusing a bar selects its layer, and each end of the bar then takes the focus too, to make the layer show for longer or for less time. - The edges of the clip move with the arrow keys too, which trims it. [Trim and split a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/trim-and-split-a-clip) covers the rest. Previous guide: [Reframe a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/reframe-a-clip) Next guide: [Set up your brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/docs/set-up-your-brand-kit) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/set-up-your-brand-kit - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: Brand, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) A brand kit is the look every new clip starts in: the captions, your colours and font, a logo and a line of text such as your handle. It belongs to your account, so it dresses the clips of each new job on any device. ## The Brand page Open **Brand** from the menu. The page opens on a preview of a vertical clip, drawn over a frame of one of your own clips, and the settings sit beside it in tabs: **Captions**, **Brand assets** and **Logo & text**. **Another frame** shows the preview over a different moment, **Plain backdrop** swaps the footage for a plain ground, and **Use my footage** brings it back. **Enlarge preview** makes the preview larger while you work. A brand kit keeps up to 6 colours, one font file (TTF, OTF or TTC) of up to 8 MB, a logo (PNG, JPEG or WebP, under 5 MB) and a line of text of up to 120 characters. ## Your caption look On **Captions**, under **Caption style**, pick the style to start from, then make it yours: the **Font** and its **Weight**, the **Word highlight** that marks the spoken word, the **Subtitle transition** each word or phrase arrives with, and the colours of the **Text**, the **Highlight** and the **Outline**. **Uppercase**, **Background box** and **Last line size** finish the look. [Change a clip's caption style](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-caption-style) explains the same settings in the editor. ## Colours and font On **Brand assets**: - **Brand colours** keeps the colours you use, and they wait in every colour picker of the Brand page and the clip editor. - **Your own font** takes a font file of your own. Press **Upload a font**, and the font is offered for your captions and your text beside the built-in ones, here and in the editor. ## Logo and handle On **Logo & text**: 1. Under **Logo**, press **Upload a logo** and choose the image. Drag it in the preview to place it, and set **Logo size**. 2. Under **Handle or text**, type a username or a short line in **Your text**, then set its **Text size**, its **Colour** and its **Font**. Drag it in the preview to place it. Both appear on every new clip, where you placed them. ## Save the kit Press **Save brand**. The bar beside it says **Unsaved changes** until you do, and **All changes saved** once the kit is stored. > **Note:** A saved kit applies to new clips, and the clips you already have stay as they are. To put the kit on one of them, open it in the editor and press **Brand** in the **Media** tab, which [Add images and video to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-images-and-video) covers. In the Studio, the **Captions** card starts on your brand's look. Picking another style there changes the captions of that one job, and the kit stays as it is. The [brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit) page shows a kit at work. Previous guide: [Keyboard shortcuts in the editor](https://www.snipri.com/docs/editor-keyboard-shortcuts) Next guide: [How videos are counted](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-videos-are-counted) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-videos-are-counted - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Plans and billing, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Plans are counted in videos. Not minutes, not clips and not exports: a job uses videos from your plan only when it gives you clips. ## The rule A job counts one video for each hour of the part of the video it reads, rounded up, and it counts only when it comes back with at least one clip. How many clips it gives makes no difference. | Part of the video a job processes | Videos it counts | | --- | --- | | 45 minutes | 1 | | 1 hour | 1 | | 1 hour and 30 minutes | 2 | | 3 hours | 3 | The part a job reads is the part you keep with the timeframe, so on an upload a shorter part counts fewer videos. The bar under the Studio's settings says how many a job will use before you press **Get clips**. ## What never counts - A job that fails, whatever stopped it. - A job that finds no moment worth clipping, until you make one of its near-misses into a clip. - Every edit, render and split of a clip you already have. - Every near-miss you make into a clip after the first one from the same video. [When a video comes back with no clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/near-miss-clips) explains the near-misses. ## While a job runs A job holds the videos it would count from the moment it is queued until it ends, so the last videos on a plan can't be spent twice. If the job fails, nothing is counted and the videos it held are free again. When you have fewer videos left than a part would count, the Studio lets you keep only as much as your videos cover. ## When videos come back - The free videos come once and never refill. - A paid plan's videos come back each month when the plan renews, and the ones you didn't use don't carry over. - A yearly plan gets the same videos every month, refilled on each monthly anniversary of the payment. 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. **Plan & videos** shows how many videos you have left and when they come back. [Plans and limits](https://www.snipri.com/docs/plans-and-limits) lists what each plan includes. Previous guide: [Set up your brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/docs/set-up-your-brand-kit) Next guide: [Plans and limits](https://www.snipri.com/docs/plans-and-limits) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/plans-and-limits - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: Plans and billing, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Every plan has the same Studio, the same editor and the same caption styles. Plans differ in how many videos they include, how much of each video a job reads, how large an upload can be, the watermark and the API. ## Each plan | Plan | Price | Videos | Longest video | Largest upload | Watermark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 2, once | 1 hour | 1 GB | Yes | | Starter | $29.90 a month, or $286.90 a year | 10 a month | 2 hours | 3 GB | No | | Pro | $89.90 a month, or $862.90 a year | 30 a month | 3 hours | 10 GB | No | | Scale | $299 a month, or $2,869.90 a year | 100 a month | 3 hours | 10 GB | No | 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. Clips made on Free carry a Snipri watermark. Starter, Pro and Scale export without it. Prices are in US dollars. Two limits are the same on every plan: how long a video fetched from a link can be, and how much a single job returns. A video from a link, Dropbox or Google Drive can run up to 1 hour on every plan. A link to a video page is fetched at up to 720p; a link straight to a video file keeps the file's own resolution. A job returns up to 10 clips and at most 10 minutes of clips in total, so longer clips come back fewer. ## Monthly or yearly A paid plan can be paid by the month or by the year. A year is $286.90 on Starter, $862.90 on Pro and $2,869.90 on Scale, 20% less than twelve months, paid once, and the plan's videos still come back every month. ## The API The API comes with the Starter, Pro and Scale plans. There is no separate price for it: a job sent through the API uses your plan's videos, the same way a job started in the Studio does. The Free plan does not include it. [Get started with the Snipri API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/get-started-with-the-api) shows how to make a key and send a first request. ## Change your plan **Plan & videos** shows your plan and the videos you have left, and [Change or cancel a plan](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-or-cancel-a-plan) covers moving to another plan, paying by the year and cancelling. The [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing) has every plan side by side and the billing questions in full, and [How videos are counted](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-videos-are-counted) says what uses a video and what never does. Previous guide: [How videos are counted](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-videos-are-counted) Next guide: [Change or cancel a plan](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-or-cancel-a-plan) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-or-cancel-a-plan - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Plans and billing, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Plans are paid through Lemon Squeezy, which handles the checkout, the receipts and the subscription. **Plan & videos** in the app shows where your plan stands. ## What Plan & videos shows The page opens on the videos you have used and the ones left. The card named after your plan lists its price, the videos it includes, the **Length per video** a job covers, the **Clips per video** a job can return and the day the period ends. On a yearly plan, **Videos come back** gives the date of the next refill. ## Start a paid plan 1. On **Plan & videos**, press **Get more videos** or **Compare plans** to open the plans. 2. Choose monthly or yearly billing, and press the plan you want. The checkout opens at Lemon Squeezy. 3. Once you have paid, you come back to **Plan & videos**, which says **Confirming your plan** until Lemon Squeezy confirms the payment, then shows the new plan. A paid plan can be paid by the month or by the year. A year is $286.90 on Starter, $862.90 on Pro and $2,869.90 on Scale, 20% less than twelve months, paid once, and the plan's videos still come back every month. ## Move to another plan On a paid plan, pressing a plan on the pricing page opens your subscription at Lemon Squeezy, where you change it, instead of starting a second one. The new plan shows on **Plan & videos** once Lemon Squeezy confirms the change. ## Payment details and invoices Lemon Squeezy sends a receipt with every charge. Its manage subscription link opens your subscription, where you update your payment details, see your invoices and cancel. ## Cancel Cancel from the manage subscription link in any Lemon Squeezy receipt, or write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) and the team cancels for you. A cancelled plan keeps its access and the videos you have left until the end of the period you paid for. After that the account works within the Free plan's limits, and your clips stay in My clips. > **Note:** Payments are not refunded for unused videos or part of a period, apart from what the law or Lemon Squeezy's own terms require. A job that fails or finds no clip never counts, so it needs no refund. The [terms](https://www.snipri.com/terms#refunds) say this in full. [Plans and limits](https://www.snipri.com/docs/plans-and-limits) compares the plans, and [How videos are counted](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-videos-are-counted) says what uses a video. Previous guide: [Plans and limits](https://www.snipri.com/docs/plans-and-limits) Next guide: [How long a job takes](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-long-a-job-takes) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-long-a-job-takes - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · Updated November 3, 2026 · 2 min read - Section: Troubleshooting, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) - Published: November 2, 2026 A job runs on Snipri's side, not in your browser, so you don't have to watch 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. ## The steps The Studio's progress bar names each step as it starts: 1. **Queued**: the video is in and the job is waiting its turn to start. 2. **Transcribing**: the audio becomes a transcript with a timing for every word. 3. **Selecting highlights**: the transcript is read and every moment that could stand on its own is scored. 4. **Rendering**: each chosen moment is cut, framed and captioned. 5. **Done**: the clips are in My clips. While a file is still uploading, the bar counts the upload instead, and says how long the processing after it should take. ## Can I close the tab? Once the job has started, yes. It keeps running and its clips land in My clips. What can't be left is an upload: the file comes from your browser, so keep the Studio open until the upload bar is full. After that, **Hide** clears the job from the Studio while it keeps running in the background. ## When a job stops moving If something on Snipri's side stops a job partway, the job starts again on its own, and you only see a failure when that doesn't work either. A job whose progress has not moved for 30 minutes is marked as failed. While it waits its turn in the queue it has 3 hours, and while it renders 90 minutes. A failed job is not counted. [Why a job failed, and what to do](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-job-failed) lists the messages a failed job shows. Previous guide: [Change or cancel a plan](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-or-cancel-a-plan) Next guide: [Why a job failed, and what to do](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-job-failed) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Why a job failed, and what to do 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-job-failed - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 4 min read - Section: Troubleshooting, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) When a job stops before it gives you clips, the Studio names what went wrong in a title, says what to do in a sentence, and confirms the job didn't count against your plan. A video counts only when it comes back with clips, so a failure never uses one. ## What to try first - Press **Try again** in the Studio. A failure on Snipri's side often clears on a second run. - Read the sentence under the title: most failures come from the file or the link, and it says which. - Where the Studio shows **Technical detail**, open it. It holds the raw error, which is what to send if you write in. ## What each message means ### Link importing is temporarily unavailable The download service is unavailable on our side. Upload a video file that includes audio, or try again later. ### This video has no audio track The uploaded file contains video without audio. Snipri needs speech to choose clips. Upload a version that includes the original audio; if you downloaded it, choose a video + audio download. ### No videos left on your plan Every video your plan includes is used or still processing. A video counts only when it comes back with clips, so a failed job never uses one. Paid plans get their videos back every month, and a bigger plan has more. ### Not enough videos left for this length Each hour of a video, or part of one, counts as one video. Keep a shorter part with the timeframe. Paid plans get their videos back every month, and a bigger plan has more. ### This video is longer than your plan covers Each plan processes videos up to a set length. Keep a shorter part of the video with the timeframe, or move to a plan that covers longer videos. ### Those clip settings don't fit this video The part of the video you kept or the One clip setting didn't match the video once it was measured. Choose the settings again and resubmit. ### Downloads are temporarily limited The video host is limiting download requests. Wait a little, then try again. ### This one timed out The job stopped after running too long without finishing. That usually means an unusually long or very large source. Try again, or email hello@snipri.com and I'll look at this one directly. ### The upload didn't finish The connection dropped before the whole video reached us, so nothing was processed. Try again. If it keeps stopping partway, a smaller file or a steadier connection usually gets through. ### We couldn't import that YouTube link We couldn't download this YouTube video. Check that the link goes to one public video that isn't private, members-only or still live, then try again, or upload the file instead. ### That video couldn't be reached The link points at something private, removed, or not visible without signing in. A public YouTube video or a direct file link works, and so does uploading the video or importing it from Dropbox or Google Drive. ### Live streams can't be clipped A live stream has no finished file to cut from. Once it's published as a normal video, upload that file instead. ### That video is bigger than we can fetch Videos fetched from a link are capped at one hour and a fixed file size. Uploading the file directly allows more, or trim it shorter and try again. ### We couldn't find any speech Snipri picks moments by reading what is said, so a video with no clear spoken audio has nothing to work from. A recording with talking in it is what this needs. Music and ambient video won't produce clips. ### We couldn't read that video The file is either damaged or in a container we can't decode. Re-exporting it as an MP4 (H.264 video, AAC audio) fixes this almost every time. ### We couldn't download that link The link didn't hand us a video. It may need a login, it may have expired, or the page it points at may have no video we can read. A public YouTube video or a direct file link works, and so does uploading the video or importing it from Dropbox or Google Drive. ### Choosing moments failed The transcript came through, but the step that picks moments stopped before it finished. Trying again usually clears it. If it doesn't, email hello@snipri.com and I'll take a look. ### Something went wrong The job stopped before it finished, and this one didn't report a reason I can explain. Try it again. If it fails twice, email hello@snipri.com and I'll look at what happened. ## Still stuck If a job fails twice, or times out, write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the title the Studio showed, the technical detail if there was one, and the name of the video or the link you used. [How long a job takes](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-long-a-job-takes) explains when a job that stops moving is marked as failed. Previous guide: [How long a job takes](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-long-a-job-takes) Next guide: [Fix an edit that won't save](https://www.snipri.com/docs/fix-an-edit-that-wont-save) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Fix an edit that won't 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/fix-an-edit-that-wont-save - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: Troubleshooting, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) An edit is saved in one step: **Save changes** sends it, and the clip renders again with it. When something stops that step, the editor says what it is. ## When Save changes is unavailable Point at the button and it says why. Each reason has a fix: - **Fill in the empty caption word first**: a word of the transcript has no text. **Fill in empty words before saving**, at the top of the transcript or of the tool panel, takes you to it. - **Give every text layer some text**: a text layer on the video is empty. Type in it or delete it. - **Uploading your media…** or **Applying your brand…**: the editor is still busy with a file or with your brand. Wait for it to finish. - **Make an edit to save a new version**: nothing has changed since the last save. A caption font size or stroke size outside its range holds the button too, and the message gives the range. ## While a clip renders After you press **Save changes** the editor says **Saving…** and then **Rendering your clip…**, and **Clip updated** once the new version is in place. The tools wait while it renders. If a render runs long, the editor says so and suggests closing and refreshing in a moment. The render goes on without the editor, and the new version takes the old one's place in My clips when it lands. ## When a render fails The editor shows the reason, and your previous version of the clip stays in My clips. **Back to editing** returns to the editor with your edits still in it, so you can change something and save again. A save whose render never finished shows **Render needed** beside the button, and the button reads **Retry render**: press it to render the saved edits once more. Other messages: - **Your session expired. Sign in again and retry**: sign in again in another tab, then save. - **This clip no longer exists**: the clip was deleted, from this tab or another. - **Something went wrong on our end. Please try again**: a fault on Snipri's side. Saving again usually works. If it keeps happening, [write to us](https://www.snipri.com/contact). - **Network error. Check your connection and try again**: the save never reached Snipri. Your edits are still in the editor. ## Leaving with unsaved changes The edits wait in the editor until you save them. If you close the editor first, it asks **Leave without saving?** and offers **Keep editing**, **Discard changes** or **Save and re-render**. Closing or reloading the browser tab while changes are unsaved makes the browser ask before it goes, because the edits would be lost. [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) covers the editor's tools, and [Why a job failed, and what to do](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-job-failed) covers jobs that fail before there is a clip. Previous guide: [Why a job failed, and what to do](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-job-failed) Next guide: [Get started with the Snipri API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/get-started-with-the-api) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Get started with the Snipri 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/get-started-with-the-api - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: API, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) The Snipri API lets your own code do what the Studio does: send a long recording, let Snipri pick the moments worth clipping, and get the finished vertical clips back. A job made through the API is the same job the Studio makes. It is held to the same plan and counted the same way, and its clips land in **My clips**, where the editor works on them as on any other. ## Who can use it The API comes with the Starter, Pro and Scale plans. There is no separate price for it: a job sent through the API uses your plan's videos, the same way a job started in the Studio does. The Free plan does not include it. [Plans and limits](https://www.snipri.com/docs/plans-and-limits) compares the plans, and [How videos are counted](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-videos-are-counted) says what a job uses. ## Make a key 1. Open the account menu, your picture or initial at the far right of the top bar, and choose **API**. 2. Type a name under **Name a new key** that says where the key will be used, such as the script or the server that sends it. 3. Press **Create key** and copy the key at once. It is shown this one time and never again. [Create and revoke API keys](https://www.snipri.com/docs/manage-api-keys) covers keeping a key safe and revoking one you no longer use. ## Make a first call Every request goes to https://www.snipri.com/api/v1 and carries your key in the Authorization header, after the word Bearer. With the key in SNIPRI\_API\_KEY, this one asks for your account: Request: ```bash curl https://www.snipri.com/api/v1/account \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SNIPRI_API_KEY" ``` The answer gives your plan, the videos it has left and the limits a job is held to: Answer: ```json { "plan": { "key": "pro", "name": "Pro" }, "videos": { "allowance": 30, "used": 4, "held": 1, "remaining": 25 }, "limits": { "maxVideoSeconds": 10800, "maxUploadBytes": 10737418240, "jobsInProgress": 2 }, "jobsInProgress": 1 } ``` A key that is missing, mistyped or revoked gets an error in place of the account. [API errors and limits](https://www.snipri.com/docs/api-errors-and-limits) lists every error and what to do about it. ## What you can do | Request | What it does | | --- | --- | | `GET /account` | Your plan, the videos it has left and the limits a job is held to. | | `POST /jobs` | Makes a job from a link, queued at once, or from a file you upload next. | | `POST /jobs/{id}/start` | Queues a job made from a file, once the file is uploaded. | | `GET /jobs/{id}` | One job, with its clips and links to download them. | | `GET /jobs` | Every job on the account, newest first, a page at a time. | Editing is not part of the API. A clip made through it opens in the editor like any other, so a change to its words, captions, framing or length is made there. Read the job again afterwards and its link gives the clip as it is now. ## How requests and answers look - Requests and answers are JSON. A request with a body sends Content-Type: application/json. - Times are in ISO 8601, in UTC. Lengths are in seconds and sizes in bytes. - No answer is cached anywhere: each one carries Cache-Control: no-store. ## The steps of a job 1. Send the video, as a link or as a file you upload next: [Send a video through the API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/send-a-video-with-the-api). 2. Choose how it is clipped in the same request, as the Studio's settings do: [Set clip options in an API request](https://www.snipri.com/docs/api-clip-options). 3. Wait for it to end, by reading the job or by having Snipri post it to your server: [Read jobs and clips through the API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/read-jobs-and-clips) and [Receive webhooks when a job ends](https://www.snipri.com/docs/receive-webhooks). 4. Download each clip from the link the job gives. Previous guide: [Fix an edit that won't save](https://www.snipri.com/docs/fix-an-edit-that-wont-save) Next guide: [Create and revoke API keys](https://www.snipri.com/docs/manage-api-keys) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Create and revoke 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/manage-api-keys - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: API, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) An API key lets code act for your account. Whoever holds it can send videos, which use your plan's videos, and read every job and clip you have, so keep it the way you keep a password. ## Create a key 1. Open the account menu and choose **API**. 2. Type a name under **Name a new key**. A key left without a name is called API key. 3. Press **Create key**. The new key appears above the list with a **Copy** button. This is the only time it is shown: Snipri keeps a fingerprint of it, not the key itself, so it cannot show it again. Put it in your secret store or your server's environment before you leave the screen. A key that is lost cannot be recovered, so revoke it and make another. - A key is snp\_ followed by 40 letters and digits. - An account holds up to 5 keys at once. A revoked key stays on the list but no longer counts. - A key's name can be up to 60 characters long. - The list shows the first 12 characters of each key, the day it was made and the day it was last used. The last use is written at most once a minute. ## Keep a key safe - Send it in the Authorization header only. A key placed in the address of a request is not read, because addresses end up in logs. - Keep it on a server. A key built into a web page, a mobile app or a public repository can be read by anyone who opens it. - Give each script or server its own key, named for it, so that one can be revoked without stopping the rest. - Revoke a key as soon as it may have been seen by someone else, then make a new one. > **Note:** A key cannot make or revoke keys, show the signing secret or change the webhook. Those are done on the API screen while you are signed in, so a key that leaks cannot take over the account. ## Revoke a key 1. On the API screen, find the key in the list. Each line shows its name, the start of the key, the day it was made and the day it was last used. 2. Press **Revoke**, then **Revoke for good** to confirm. The key stops working on the next request, and every request sent with it from then on is refused with `UNAUTHORIZED`. The jobs it made stay in My clips with their clips. A revoked key stays on the list, marked Revoked with the day, and no longer counts toward the keys an account can hold. ## When your plan changes Every request checks the plan the account is on at that moment. On a plan without the API, or once a paid plan has ended, every key is refused with `API_NOT_IN_PLAN`. Move back to a plan that includes the API and the same keys work again, with nothing to make anew. [Change or cancel a plan](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-or-cancel-a-plan) covers moving between plans. Previous guide: [Get started with the Snipri API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/get-started-with-the-api) Next guide: [Send a video through the API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/send-a-video-with-the-api) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Send a video through 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/send-a-video-with-the-api - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 4 min read - Section: API, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) A job starts from a link to a video or from a file you upload. A link takes one request, and the job is queued at once. A file takes a request that makes the job, an upload to the link its answer gives, and a request that starts it. Its bytes go straight to storage and never pass through the API. ## From a link Send the link as `source.url`. The links the Studio takes work here too, and [Import a video from a link](https://www.snipri.com/docs/import-a-video-from-a-link) lists them. Request: ```bash curl -X POST https://www.snipri.com/api/v1/jobs \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SNIPRI_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Idempotency-Key: episode-12" \ -d '{ "source": { "url": "https://example.com/episode-12.mp4" }, "clip": { "genre": "podcast", "length": "medium" } }' ``` A link is queued at once. The answer, with status 201, is the job: Answer: ```json { "job": { "id": "cmhj2b9xk0003l708s4f1z9qa", "status": "queued", "name": "episode-12", "origin": "api", "source": { "type": "url", "url": "https://example.com/episode-12.mp4" }, "durationSec": null, "videos": 1, "error": null, "createdAt": "2026-11-02T18:00:00.000Z", "completedAt": null, "clipCount": 0 } } ``` A video from a link can run up to 1 hour on every plan; a longer one fails, and its error says to send the file instead. While it runs, a job from a link holds one video, because its length is unknown until Snipri has it. A YouTube link works like any other, as long as it points at one public video or Short: not a playlist or a channel, and not a private, members-only or live video. ## From a file ### Make the job Send the file's size in bytes as `source.upload.sizeBytes`, and its name as `source.upload.fileName` to name the job after it. Request: ```bash curl -X POST https://www.snipri.com/api/v1/jobs \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SNIPRI_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "source": { "upload": { "sizeBytes": 734003200, "fileName": "episode-12.mp4" } } }' ``` The answer, with status 201, is the job, waiting for its file, and where to put the file. A file up to 4 GB goes up in one PUT: Answer: ```json { "job": { "id": "cmhj2b9xk0003l708s4f1z9qa", "status": "awaiting_upload", "name": "episode-12", "origin": "api", "source": { "type": "upload" }, "durationSec": null, "videos": 0, "error": null, "createdAt": "2026-11-02T18:00:00.000Z", "completedAt": null, "clipCount": 0 }, "upload": { "method": "PUT", "multipart": false, "url": "https://...", "headers": { "Content-Type": "video/mp4" }, "expiresAt": "2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z" } } ``` ### Upload the file Put the job's id from that answer in JOB_ID and its `upload.url` in UPLOAD_URL, then send the file: Upload the file to upload.url: ```bash curl -X PUT "$UPLOAD_URL" \ -H "Content-Type: video/mp4" \ --upload-file episode-12.mp4 ``` Send the Content-Type the answer names with it. The type is part of the link's signature, and an upload without it is refused. ### Start the job Once the upload has finished, start the job. It is queued from that moment, and the videos it may count are held for it. Request: ```bash curl -X POST https://www.snipri.com/api/v1/jobs/$JOB_ID/start \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SNIPRI_API_KEY" ``` The answer is the job, queued. Starting a job that is already queued answers with the job as it is and changes nothing, so a start whose answer never came can be sent again. The upload links stay valid for 6 hours, and expiresAt says until when. A job still waiting for its file 6 hours after it was made is failed, and counts nothing. The largest file a job takes is 3 GB on Starter and 10 GB on Pro and Scale. A larger one is refused before any of it is sent, with FILE\_TOO\_LARGE. ## Large files A file over 4 GB goes up in parts of 128 MB, the last part holding whatever is left. The answer's upload has a link for every part, numbered from 1; these are the first two: Answer, its upload: ```json { "upload": { "method": "PUT", "multipart": true, "uploadId": "...", "partSize": 134217728, "parts": [ { "partNumber": 1, "url": "https://..." }, { "partNumber": 2, "url": "https://..." } ], "expiresAt": "2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z" } } ``` PUT each part to its link and keep the ETag header each of those answers carries. Then start the job with the upload's id and every part's ETag: Request: ```bash curl -X POST https://www.snipri.com/api/v1/jobs/$JOB_ID/start \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SNIPRI_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "uploadId": "...", "parts": [ { "partNumber": 1, "etag": "\"9b2cf535f27731c974343645a3985328\"" }, { "partNumber": 2, "etag": "\"6f1ed002ab5595859014ebf0951522d9\"" } ] }' ``` A part that fails can be sent again on its own, to the same link, while the links are valid. [Upload a video](https://www.snipri.com/docs/upload-a-video) has more on the files Snipri reads. ## Retry without making a second job A create whose answer never arrived may still have made the job, and sending it again would make another. An Idempotency-Key header makes the retry safe. - Send an Idempotency-Key header with a create: up to 255 printable ASCII characters, with no spaces. - The same key with the same body answers with the job the first request made, with status 200, and with fresh upload links while its file has not arrived. The order of the fields in the body does not matter. - The same key with a different body is refused with IDEMPOTENCY\_KEY\_REUSED. - Keys belong to one account, so two accounts can use the same one. A key that names the video, such as the episode's own id, also keeps a video sent twice from becoming a second job. Previous guide: [Create and revoke API keys](https://www.snipri.com/docs/manage-api-keys) Next guide: [Set clip options in an API request](https://www.snipri.com/docs/api-clip-options) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Set clip options in an API request 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/api-clip-options - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 4 min read - Section: API, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) A job request carries the choices the Studio offers before a job: the kind of video, how long the clips run, the moments to look for, the part of the video to use and the caption style. Every field but the source can be left out, and a field left out takes the default the Studio starts on. ## The request | Field | What it takes | | --- | --- | | `source.url` | A link to the video, as the Studio takes one. Send this or source.upload, not both. | | `source.upload.sizeBytes` | The file's size in bytes. Needed for an upload. | | `source.upload.durationSec` | The video's length in seconds. Needed with clip.range. Without it, the job holds the videos your plan's longest video would count, or what is left if that is fewer, until it ends; it is counted by the length Snipri measures. | | `source.upload.fileName` | The file's name, which names the job when name is not sent. | | `language` | The spoken language, as one of 25 codes: en (English), de (German), es (Spanish), fr (French), pt (Portuguese), it (Italian), nl (Dutch), ru (Russian), pl (Polish), id (Indonesian), uk (Ukrainian), sv (Swedish), tr (Turkish), no (Norwegian), hr (Croatian), ro (Romanian), sk (Slovak), el (Greek), da (Danish), fi (Finnish), hu (Hungarian), cs (Czech), ja (Japanese), ko (Korean), vi (Vietnamese). Or auto, the default, to detect it. | | `name` | The job's name in My clips. Left out, it comes from the link or the file. | | `webhookUrl` | Where this job's webhook goes, in place of the account's endpoint. | | `clip` | How the video is clipped, in the fields below. Left out, every setting is on its default, as in the Studio. | ## Clip settings The settings sit in `clip`, as they sit in the Studio's panel before a job. | Field | What it takes | | --- | --- | | `clip.mode` | ai, the default, picks the best moments. whole keeps the video, or the part in clip.range, as one clip of up to 10 minutes; genre, length and moments are not used with it. | | `clip.genre` | What kind of video it is: auto, qa, commentary, marketing, webinar, motivational, podcast, academic, listicle, product-review, how-to, comedy, sports, sermon, news, vlog, gaming. auto, the default, lets Snipri tell from what is said. | | `clip.length` | How long each clip runs: auto, 15 to 60s; short, 10 to 30s; medium, 30 to 60s; long, 60 to 90s; extended, 90s to 3 min. auto is the default. | | `clip.moments` | The moments to look for, in a sentence of up to 300 characters. Only with ai. | | `clip.range` | The part of the video to clip, as from and to in seconds, at least 10 seconds apart. Uploads only, with source.upload.durationSec. Only that part counts toward your plan. | | `clip.captions` | none, for no captions, or a caption style: karaoke, panel, typewriter, bounce, spotlight, pop, impact, comic, focus, clean, editorial, bulletin, kapow, slate, poster, signal, ticker, orchid, badge, sprout, sorbet, flamingo, daydream, gilded, bloom, sunset, pogo, decode, feather, lucid, ribbon. Left out, the clips start in the look your Brand screen sets. | | `clip.headline` | true or false, to show or hide the hook title on every clip. Left out, your Brand look decides. | [Choose clip settings](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-clip-settings) explains what each setting changes, [Choose the spoken language](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-the-spoken-language) when to name the language rather than leave it on auto, and [Change caption style](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-caption-style) shows the styles. ## An example This request keeps part of an uploaded episode, names its language and the moments to look for, and sets a caption style: Request: ```bash curl -X POST https://www.snipri.com/api/v1/jobs \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SNIPRI_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "source": { "upload": { "sizeBytes": 734003200, "durationSec": 3542.5, "fileName": "episode-12.mp4" } }, "language": "en", "name": "Episode 12", "clip": { "genre": "podcast", "length": "medium", "moments": "The story about the first customer, and the advice at the end", "range": { "from": 120, "to": 2400 }, "captions": "karaoke", "headline": true } }' ``` Only the part in `clip.range` counts toward your plan, so clipping part of a long recording counts the hours of that part alone. [How videos are counted](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-videos-are-counted) has the whole rule. ## When a setting is refused A setting that cannot be used is refused with `INVALID_REQUEST`, and its message is the sentence the Studio shows for the same choice. Nothing is made, held or counted for a refused request, so correct the field and send it again. Previous guide: [Send a video through the API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/send-a-video-with-the-api) Next guide: [Read jobs and clips through the API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/read-jobs-and-clips) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Read jobs and clips through the API 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/read-jobs-and-clips - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 5 min read - Section: API, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) A job moves through the same steps the Studio shows while it runs. Read it to see where it is, and once it has completed, to get its clips and the links to download them. ## A job's status | Status | What it means | | --- | --- | | `awaiting_upload` | Made for a file that has not been started yet: upload the file, then start the job. | | `queued` | Waiting for its turn to be processed, behind any jobs queued before it. A job whose run failed for a reason that may clear, such as a host that did not answer, comes back here before it runs again. | | `transcribing` | The speech is being written out, word by word, with the time each word is said. | | `selecting` | The moments are being chosen and scored. | | `rendering` | The clips are being framed, captioned and made. | | `completed` | Done. Its clips are ready; none at all means nothing was worth clipping, and nothing was counted. | | `failed` | Stopped before it gave clips. Its error says why, and nothing was counted. | A job takes minutes rather than seconds, so reading it about every half minute is plenty, and a [webhook](https://www.snipri.com/docs/receive-webhooks) saves the reads altogether. [How long a job takes](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-long-a-job-takes) says what decides the wait. ## Read one job Request: ```bash curl https://www.snipri.com/api/v1/jobs/cmhj2b9xk0003l708s4f1z9qa \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SNIPRI_API_KEY" ``` Answer: ```json { "job": { "id": "cmhj2b9xk0003l708s4f1z9qa", "status": "completed", "name": "episode-12", "origin": "api", "source": { "type": "url", "url": "https://example.com/episode-12.mp4" }, "durationSec": 3542.5, "videos": 1, "error": null, "createdAt": "2026-11-02T18:00:00.000Z", "completedAt": "2026-11-02T18:24:10.000Z", "clips": [ { "id": "cmhj2kq4e0007l708u2m3c8vd", "index": 0, "part": 0, "title": "Launch week, honestly", "hook": "Nobody tells you this about launch week", "reason": "A clear question and a complete answer, and the last line lands without anything said before it.", "scores": { "hook": 8, "payoff": 8, "standalone": 9, "arc": 7, "quotability": 7 }, "startSec": 312.4, "endSec": 349.9, "durationSec": 37.5, "videoUrl": "https://...", "thumbnailUrl": "https://...", "urlsExpireAt": "2026-11-02T19:25:10.000Z" } ] } } ``` | Field | What it holds | | --- | --- | | `id` | The job's id, which every other request about it names. | | `status` | Where the job is, from the list above. | | `name` | Its name in My clips, or null. | | `origin` | api for a job made with a key, studio for one started in the Studio. | | `source` | type url, with the link, or type upload. | | `durationSec` | The video's length in seconds once it is known, or null. | | `videos` | What the job holds against your plan while it runs, what it counted once it completed with clips, and 0 for a job that failed, found nothing or was never started. | | `error` | null, or on a failed job its kind, title and message: the title and sentence the Studio shows. | | `createdAt, completedAt` | When it was made, and when it completed or null. | | `clips` | On one job and in a webhook: its clips, in order. | | `clipCount` | In the list of jobs, in place of clips: how many it gave. | ## Its clips | Field | What it holds | | --- | --- | | `id` | The clip's id. | | `index` | Its place among the job's clips, from 0. | | `part` | 0 for the clip as Snipri made it, and 1 and up for the pieces a split in the editor adds. | | `title` | Its title in My clips. | | `hook` | The line it opens on, or null on clips made before Snipri wrote one. | | `reason` | Why the moment was kept, or null on older clips. | | `scores` | The 5 scores it was kept on, from 1 to 10 each: hook, payoff, standalone, arc and quotability. null on older clips. | | `startSec, endSec, durationSec` | Where it starts and ends in the video, and how long it runs, in seconds. | | `videoUrl` | The finished MP4, with its captions burned in and any edit made since in the editor. | | `thumbnailUrl` | Its cover picture. | | `urlsExpireAt` | When the two links stop working, an hour after the answer. | videoUrl and thumbnailUrl stay valid for an hour, and urlsExpireAt says until when. Read the job again for fresh ones whenever you need them. Clips come in the order My clips shows them. A clip split in the editor is listed as its pieces, which share an index and differ in part. [See why a clip was chosen](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-clip-was-chosen) explains the scores and the reason. ## A job that found nothing A job can complete with no clips when no moment in the video was strong enough, and then it counts nothing. Its near-misses, the moments that came closest, wait in My clips, where one can be made into a clip. That clip is in the job's clips the next time you read it, and [When a video comes back with no clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/near-miss-clips) says what making one counts. ## Every job on the account The list holds 20 jobs a page, or as many as limit asks for, from 1 to 100. Each job carries clipCount in place of its clips, and jobs started in the Studio are listed too, with origin studio. Request: ```bash curl "https://www.snipri.com/api/v1/jobs?limit=50" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SNIPRI_API_KEY" ``` Answer: ```json { "jobs": [ { "id": "cmhj2b9xk0003l708s4f1z9qa", "status": "completed", "name": "episode-12", "origin": "api", "source": { "type": "url", "url": "https://example.com/episode-12.mp4" }, "durationSec": 3542.5, "videos": 1, "error": null, "createdAt": "2026-11-02T18:00:00.000Z", "completedAt": "2026-11-02T18:24:10.000Z", "clipCount": 1 } ], "nextCursor": "cmhj2b9xk0003l708s4f1z9qa" } ``` When there are more jobs, nextCursor is the id to send as cursor for the next page, as in https://www.snipri.com/api/v1/jobs?limit=50&cursor=cmhj2b9xk0003l708s4f1z9qa. On the last page it is null. A job deleted in My clips is gone from the API too: the list leaves it out, and reading it answers `NOT_FOUND`. ## A job that stops moving Reading a job is also what fails one that has stopped moving, by the same allowances the Studio uses: A job whose progress has not moved for 30 minutes is marked as failed. While it waits its turn in the queue it has 3 hours, and while it renders 90 minutes. A failed job is not counted. When the job was made through the API, failing it this way sends `job.failed` to your webhook, as any other failure does. Previous guide: [Set clip options in an API request](https://www.snipri.com/docs/api-clip-options) Next guide: [Receive webhooks when a job ends](https://www.snipri.com/docs/receive-webhooks) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # Receive webhooks when a job ends 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/receive-webhooks - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 5 min read - Section: API, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Rather than read a job until it ends, your server can be told. When a job made through the API completes or fails, Snipri posts it to an address you choose, with its clips and the links to download them. ## Set the endpoint 1. Open the account menu and choose **API**. 2. Under **Webhook**, type the address your server receives at in **Endpoint URL**. 3. Press **Save**. The address has to meet these rules: - It starts with https:// and uses the standard port, 443. - It is at a public address, with a full domain name. - It carries no user name or password, and is at most 2048 characters long. - Redirects are not followed, so save the address that answers. Saving an address makes the account's signing secret, if it has none yet. To stop the deliveries, clear the field and press **Remove**. Under the field, the screen says how the last delivery went: the status your server answered with, or that it could not be reached. A job can also name an address of its own as `webhookUrl` in the request that makes it, and its events go there in place of the account's. [Set clip options in an API request](https://www.snipri.com/docs/api-clip-options) lists the field. ## The events | Event | When it is sent | | --- | --- | | `job.completed` | A job made through the API finished, with its clips, or with none when nothing was worth clipping. | | `job.failed` | A job made through the API stopped before it gave clips. | Only jobs made with a key are posted. A job started in the Studio is not, even on an account with an endpoint. ## What a delivery carries Each event is a POST with a JSON body. Its `data` is the job as reading it would give, with its clips and fresh links to them, so there is nothing to fetch before you can use it. Body: ```json { "type": "job.completed", "timestamp": "2026-11-02T18:24:12.000Z", "data": { "id": "cmhj2b9xk0003l708s4f1z9qa", "status": "completed", "name": "episode-12", "origin": "api", "source": { "type": "url", "url": "https://example.com/episode-12.mp4" }, "durationSec": 3542.5, "videos": 1, "error": null, "createdAt": "2026-11-02T18:00:00.000Z", "completedAt": "2026-11-02T18:24:10.000Z", "clips": [ { "id": "cmhj2kq4e0007l708u2m3c8vd", "index": 0, "part": 0, "title": "Launch week, honestly", "hook": "Nobody tells you this about launch week", "reason": "A clear question and a complete answer, and the last line lands without anything said before it.", "scores": { "hook": 8, "payoff": 8, "standalone": 9, "arc": 7, "quotability": 7 }, "startSec": 312.4, "endSec": 349.9, "durationSec": 37.5, "videoUrl": "https://...", "thumbnailUrl": "https://...", "urlsExpireAt": "2026-11-02T19:24:12.000Z" } ] } } ``` | Header | What it carries | | --- | --- | | `webhook-id` | The event's id, the same on every attempt to deliver it. Use it to drop a repeat. | | `webhook-timestamp` | When this attempt was signed, in seconds since 1 January 1970, UTC. | | `webhook-signature` | v1, a comma and the signature in base64. While a replaced secret still signs, there are two, with a space between them. | | `content-type` | application/json | | `user-agent` | Snipri-Webhooks/1.0 (+https://www.snipri.com) | ## Check the signature Every delivery is signed in the [Standard Webhooks](https://www.standardwebhooks.com/) format, so a library made for it can check one with your signing secret. To find the secret, press **Show secret** under **Signing secret** on the API screen, and keep it on your server as you keep a key. To check a delivery yourself: 1. Take the body exactly as it arrived, before any parsing. Parsed and written out again, it is no longer the text that was signed. 2. Join the `webhook-id` header, a dot, the `webhook-timestamp` header, another dot and the body. 3. Sign that with HMAC-SHA256, keyed with the part of the secret after `whsec_`, decoded from base64. 4. Compare the result, in base64, with each entry of the `webhook-signature` header after its `v1` and comma, in constant time. One match is enough. 5. Refuse a delivery whose timestamp is more than a few minutes from your own clock, so an old one sent again cannot pass. Check a delivery in Node.js: ```js import { createHmac, timingSafeEqual } from "node:crypto"; // secret: the signing secret from the API screen, whsec_... // headers: the request's headers, with lowercase names // body: the request's raw body, exactly as it arrived export function verifySnipriWebhook(secret, headers, body, toleranceSeconds = 300) { const id = headers["webhook-id"]; const timestamp = headers["webhook-timestamp"]; if (!id || !timestamp) return false; const age = Math.abs(Date.now() / 1000 - Number(timestamp)); if (!(age <= toleranceSeconds)) return false; const key = Buffer.from(secret.replace(/^whsec_/, ""), "base64"); const expected = createHmac("sha256", key).update(`${id}.${timestamp}.${body}`).digest(); return String(headers["webhook-signature"] ?? "").split(" ").some((entry) => { const [version, signature] = entry.split(","); if (version !== "v1" || !signature) return false; const given = Buffer.from(signature, "base64"); return given.length === expected.length && timingSafeEqual(given, expected); }); } ``` Use it in an Express route: ```js const { SNIPRI_WEBHOOK_SECRET } = process.env; app.post("/snipri-webhook", express.raw({ type: "application/json" }), (req, res) => { const body = req.body.toString("utf8"); if (!verifySnipriWebhook(SNIPRI_WEBHOOK_SECRET, req.headers, body)) { return res.sendStatus(400); } const event = JSON.parse(body); if (event.type === "job.completed") { // event.data is the job, with its clips } res.sendStatus(204); }); ``` ## Answer in time Answer with any 2xx status within 10 seconds. Any other answer, or none in that time, is tried again up to 3 more times. Each attempt is signed afresh and carries the job as it is then, with fresh clip links. Answer first and do the work after: a server that downloads the clips before it answers can run out of time and be sent the same event again. The `webhook-id` is the same on every attempt, so keep the ids you have handled and drop a repeat. > **Note:** Now and then a job that went quiet is failed, and `job.failed` is sent, before its clips arrive after all. Then `job.completed` follows for the same job. Treat `job.completed` as the last word on a job. ## Replace the secret 1. Under **Signing secret**, press **Replace secret**, then **Replace it now** to confirm. 2. Copy the new secret from the screen and put it on your server. For 24 hours after the secret is replaced, every delivery is signed with the new secret and the old one, two entries in webhook-signature, so your server can switch over whenever it suits. Replacing it again in that time drops the oldest. The screen shows until when the previous secret keeps signing. Previous guide: [Read jobs and clips through the API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/read-jobs-and-clips) Next guide: [API errors and limits](https://www.snipri.com/docs/api-errors-and-limits) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # 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. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/api-errors-and-limits - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 4 min read - Section: API, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Every error comes back the same way: an HTTP status and a JSON body with a code to act on and a message to show or log. Act on the code: the message is written for a person and can be reworded. ## The shape of an error An error: ```json { "error": { "code": "RATE_LIMITED", "message": "Too many requests. Wait a moment and try again.", "retryAfter": 12 } } ``` Some errors carry more fields beside the code and the message. The table names them. ## Every error | Code | Status | When | | --- | --- | --- | | `INVALID_REQUEST` | 400 | The body, a header or a parameter can't be used. The message says which, in the Studio's own words where it has them. | | `UPLOAD_NOT_FOUND` | 400 | The job was started before its file arrived. Upload it with the links you were given, then start it again. | | `UNAUTHORIZED` | 401 | The key is missing, unknown or revoked. An unknown key and a revoked one get the same answer. | | `NO_VIDEOS_LEFT` | 402 | Your plan has no videos left. Carries allowance. | | `NOT_ENOUGH_VIDEOS` | 402 | The part to process would count more videos than your plan has left. Carries videos and remaining. | | `VIDEO_TOO_LONG` | 402 | The part to process is longer than your plan covers. Carries maxSeconds. | | `API_NOT_IN_PLAN` | 403 | Your plan does not include the API. Carries plan. | | `NOT_FOUND` | 404 | No job with that id on this account. | | `IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED` | 409 | The Idempotency-Key was already used for a different request. | | `FILE_TOO_LARGE` | 413 | The file is larger than your plan takes: said before the upload, or at the start, which then fails the job. Carries maxBytes. | | `YOUTUBE_UNAVAILABLE` | 422 | A YouTube link was sent while YouTube imports are off. | | `RATE_LIMITED` | 429 | Too many requests in a minute. Carries retryAfter, the seconds to wait, as the Retry-After header does. | | `TOO_MANY_JOBS_IN_PROGRESS` | 429 | Too many jobs made through the API are queued or processing at once. Carries limit. | | `INTERNAL_ERROR` | 500 | Something failed on Snipri's side. Try again in a moment. | | `WEBHOOKS_UNAVAILABLE` | 503 | A webhookUrl was sent while webhooks are unavailable. Leave it out and read the job instead. | A plan refusal, when there are no videos left, too few for the length or the part is longer than the plan covers, carries the sentence the Studio shows for the same refusal. [How videos are counted](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-videos-are-counted) explains what a job uses, and [Plans and limits](https://www.snipri.com/docs/plans-and-limits) what each plan includes. ## Rate limits - 60 requests a minute for each account, all its keys together, for every request but creating a job. - 5 new jobs a minute for each account, shared with the Studio: creating a job counts against this limit instead. - Past either one, the answer is RATE\_LIMITED, with a Retry-After header and a retryAfter field giving the seconds to wait. Wait the seconds it gives before sending again. A client that retries at once only stays limited. ## Jobs in progress At most 2 jobs made through the API can be queued or processing at once on one account. Sending a link, or starting a job made for a file, past that is refused with TOO\_MANY\_JOBS\_IN\_PROGRESS; send it again when one of them ends. A job still waiting for its file does not count, and nor do jobs started in the Studio. The cap keeps one account from filling the queue every account shares. It limits the jobs under way, not how many an account makes: once one ends, the next can start. ## Why a job failed A job that fails is not an error of the request. The request that made it succeeded, and the job's status turns to failed later, with its error. The error's kind names the failure, and its title and message are the ones the Studio shows: | error.kind | What the Studio calls it | | --- | --- | | `download-service` | Link importing is temporarily unavailable | | `no-audio` | This video has no audio track | | `videos` | No videos left on your plan | | `videos-short` | Not enough videos left for this length | | `video-length` | This video is longer than your plan covers | | `clip-settings` | Those clip settings don't fit this video | | `rate-limit` | Downloads are temporarily limited | | `timeout` | This one timed out | | `upload` | The upload didn't finish | | `youtube` | We couldn't import that YouTube link | | `unavailable` | That video couldn't be reached | | `live` | Live streams can't be clipped | | `too-long` | That video is bigger than we can fetch | | `no-speech` | We couldn't find any speech | | `unsupported` | We couldn't read that video | | `download` | We couldn't download that link | | `selection` | Choosing moments failed | | `unknown` | Something went wrong | [Why a job failed](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-job-failed) says what to do about each one. A failed job counts nothing. ## Retry safely - Send a request that was refused again only once what its message names is fixed. The same request, unchanged, is refused the same way. - After `RATE_LIMITED`, wait the seconds it gives. After `INTERNAL_ERROR`, or an answer that never came, wait a moment and send it again. - Send a create again with the same Idempotency-Key, so a retry can never make a second job. [Send a video through the API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/send-a-video-with-the-api) shows how. Previous guide: [Receive webhooks when a job ends](https://www.snipri.com/docs/receive-webhooks) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said. --- # AI clip selection: why each clip was chosen Most AI clippers hand back as many clips as they can. Snipri, an [AI clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/) for podcasts and long videos, scores every candidate, drops the weak ones and shows you the scores, so you spend your time posting clips rather than sorting them. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker - Updated: November 2, 2026 ## What is AI clip selection? AI clip selection is how an AI clip maker decides which moments of a long video become clips. Snipri gives every candidate 5 scores from the transcript and keeps only those whose hook, payoff and standalone sense reach 7 out of 10, then reframes each to 9:16, captions it and says why it was kept. ![Cover for AI clip selection: a vertical clip of a scene from the film Tears of Steel, captioned by Snipri, beside the bar every moment has to clear](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker/cover.webp) - **5 scores**: Hook, Payoff, Standalone sense, Arc and Quotability - **7/10**: The bar hook, payoff and standalone sense must each reach - **Up to 10**: Clips from each job, fewer when fewer moments pass - **16 kinds**: Of video, each judged by its own rules, or Auto - **300 characters**: To name the moments you want it to look for - **15 to 60s**: Clip length by default, or choose 10 to 30s, 30 to 60s, 60 to 90s or 90s to 3 min ## How Snipri picks each clip ### Say what you want, or leave it on Auto Before a job you can pick the kind of video, the clip length and up to 300 characters of moments to look for. On Auto, Snipri names the kind of video from the transcript. ![Drawing of the choices the Studio offers before a job: 16 kinds of video, 5 clip lengths and a field for the moments to look for](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker/studio-options.webp) *The choices before a job, drawn from the Studio's own lists.* ### Every candidate gets five scores Hook, payoff and standalone sense must each reach 7 out of 10. Moments that pass are ranked by hook and payoff, with standalone sense, arc and quotability breaking ties. ![Two moments of one real job scored on hook, payoff, standalone sense, arc and quotability: the clip it kept clears the bar of 7 on all three gates, the moment it left out misses it on hook alone, with a higher payoff than the clip](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker/score-gate.webp) *Two moments of the job on the home page, a clip and a moment it left out, against the bar the worker applies.* ### Only the moments that pass are cut A job returns up to 10 clips, and fewer when fewer moments pass. Each comes with its scores and a written reason, under Why this clip in My clips. ![Timeline of a real job: a 46-minute fireside chat with the 7 clips Snipri kept numbered where they were cut from, ticks at the moments that came closest, and each clip's title and range](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker/one-job.webp) *One real job from the home page: what was kept from a fireside chat, and where.* ## One real job **One of the clips it kept.** Cut from 41:11 of a 46-minute fireside chat, one of the 7 moments Snipri kept from it, with the captions the job gave it. *From “Fireside Chat: Godot's Next Milestones” by Ben Vehling, Matt Ellis and Rémi Verschelde, GodotFest 2025 (media.ccc.de, CC BY 4.0), cut, reframed and captioned by Snipri, with the logo on the speaker's shirt painted out.* ## On podcasts, webinars and interviews - [Podcast clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker): On Podcast it keeps the question when the answer needs it and leaves out intros, sponsor reads and “before we start” housekeeping. - [Webinar clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/webinar-clip-maker): On Webinar it keeps a framework with its example and leaves out agendas, housekeeping, logistics, and recording or slide notices. - [Interview clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/interview-clip-maker): An answer becomes a clip only when it carries enough context to stand alone, so you get whole answers rather than fragments. ## What AI clip selection does not do - It does not predict views. The scores say why a moment works on its own, and there is no virality percentage. - It does not pad a job. A recording with two strong moments gives two clips, and one with none does not count as a video. - It reads what is said. A moment carried by the picture alone, with nothing said about it, is not one it can find. - It does not post for you. You download the clips and post them yourself. ## Frequently asked questions ### What does the AI look at? The transcript, with word-level timings. It looks for complete spoken thoughts with a strong opening, a clear payoff and enough context to make sense alone. You can also tell it the kind of video, how long each clip should run and the moments to look for; a moment you ask for still has to stand on its own to be kept. ### Does it predict how many views a clip will get? No. Each clip comes with its five scores and a written reason for keeping it, which say why the moment works on its own. There is no virality percentage, because nothing in a transcript can promise views. ### Do I need editing experience? No. Clips arrive captioned and framed. The editor is there if you want to change something. ### How do I pay? By the video, not by the clip: a recording counts as one video for each hour of it, rounded up, whether it gives you three clips or ten, and editing, re-rendering or splitting a clip afterwards is free. ### Is Snipri free? 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. ## More Snipri features - [Auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe): Auto reframe turns horizontal video into vertical 9:16 clips. Snipri finds the speaker in each shot, stacks two or three people, or keeps the whole shot. - [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions): Animated AI captions for vertical clips: every word timed to the moment it is said, in a style you pick, in 25 languages, and restyled any time after export. - [Brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit): Save your logo, handle, font and caption look once in Snipri's brand kit, and every new clip is born wearing them. Change the kit any time, on every plan, free. - [Clip editor](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor): Snipri's clip editor: trim, split or extend a clip, rewrite its hook title, restyle the captions, add text, images, B-roll and music, then re-render it free. ## Guides and comparisons - [How to Make Podcast Clips That Stand Alone](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips) - [5 Best Opus Clip Alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip) - [Klap alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap) - [Vizard alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard) --- # Auto reframe: convert horizontal video to vertical A landscape recording cropped down the middle loses whoever sits off centre. Snipri reframes each shot on its own: it finds the faces, picks a layout for the shot and renders the clip at 1080×1920. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe - Updated: November 3, 2026 ## What is auto reframe? Auto reframe crops a horizontal video into a vertical one by following what matters in each shot. Snipri looks for faces again after every camera cut, keeps the speaker in a 9:16 frame, gives two or three people a pane each, splits a seated group of four or more into two or three panes, and keeps a shot whole over a blurred copy of itself when no face is large enough to follow. - **1080×1920**: Every clip from a job, vertical - **Per shot**: Faces found again after every camera cut - **2 or 3**: People in one frame, a pane each - **12%**: Smallest face it crops to, as a share of the frame's height - **2.5×**: Most it enlarges the source picture - **7 layouts**: To pick from in the editor, scene by scene ## How auto reframe works ### It finds the faces in every shot A camera cut starts a new shot, and the search for faces starts again. A face smaller than 12% of the frame's height, such as a webcam inset, stays in the picture rather than being cropped to. ![Drawing of three shots from one wide recording: two with faces large enough to crop to, and one where the only face is under 12% of the frame's height, so the whole shot is kept](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe/faces-per-shot.webp) *Drawn to scale from the worker's own thresholds.* ### It picks a layout for each shot One speaker is framed with room for shoulders and hands. Two people get a 1080×960 pane each and three get 1080×640. A seated group of four or more is split at the gaps between people into two or three panes, so no head is cut, and a shot with no face to follow is kept whole. ![Drawing of five ways a shot fills a vertical clip: one speaker, two people in two panes, three people in three panes, a group of four in three shared panes, and the whole shot over a blurred copy](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe/shot-layouts.webp) *Five of the layouts a job chooses from, drawn to scale. The sixth, Screen + speaker, is for a confirmed webcam inset.* ### You can change any of it In the editor, give a scene another of the 7 layouts, move or zoom each view, or re-render the clip square or landscape. ![Drawing of the 7 layouts the editor offers for a vertical clip, from Auto to Screen + speaker, each with its views to scale](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe/editor-layouts.webp) *The editor's layouts, drawn from the proportions it renders.* ## Wide to vertical **The crop follows the speaker.** Snipri's own 9:16 render of a wide stage shot, the frame staying on the speaker as they move. *Part of a clip Snipri cut from “Ask me anything, with Huib Modderkolk” by Chris van 't Hof and Huib Modderkolk, Hacker Hotel 2025 (CC BY 4.0, via media.ccc.de), as Snipri reframed it.* ## On podcasts, webinars and Shorts - [Podcast clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker): Two hosts in one wide shot get a pane each, and on a longer turn the clip can show the host who is talking. - [Webinar clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/webinar-clip-maker): With a webcam inset confirmed, the slides go on top and your close-up below, so nobody appears twice. - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts): Landscape in, 9:16 out: the crop follows the person on camera from shot to shot. ## What auto reframe does not do - It does not crop to small faces. A webcam inset or a speaker far from the camera keeps the whole shot, or gets the Screen + speaker layout when the kind of video is Webinar, Product reviews, How-to, Sports commentary or Gaming. - It does not sharpen a link. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p, so upload the original file for the cleanest crop. - It does not make square or landscape clips from a job. Every clip starts at 1080×1920, and the editor re-renders one at 1:1 or 16:9. - It does not read what is on screen. It follows faces, and keeps the whole shot rather than guess at a crop. ## Frequently asked questions ### Can I turn a horizontal video vertical without cutting anyone out? Yes. Two people who sit apart each get a pane of their own, and three get a third of the frame each. A seated group of four or more is split at the gaps between people into two or three panes, each holding every head of its group whole and no part of anyone else's. When no split keeps everyone whole, or people sit too close together to split safely, the shot stays whole over a blurred copy of itself, so nobody is cut in half. ### Does auto reframe work on screen recordings? It keeps the screen whole. When the kind of video is Webinar, Product reviews, How-to, Sports commentary or Gaming and Snipri confirms a webcam inset, the clip shows the screen on top and the close-up below. Without a face, the whole frame sits over a blurred copy of itself. ### Can I fix a crop I do not like? Yes. In the editor you can give a scene another of the 7 layouts, move or zoom each view, and split a scene so each part gets a layout of its own. Saving re-renders the clip, and edits are free. ### Why does a clip from a link look softer than one from an upload? A video page is fetched at up to 720p, and a vertical crop keeps about a third of a wide frame's width, so the crop has fewer pixels to fill 1080×1920 with. Uploads keep the resolution they were recorded at. ### Is Snipri free? 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. ## More Snipri features - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker): How Snipri's AI picks clips from a podcast or long video: it scores every moment, keeps only clips that stand on their own and shows why each one was chosen. - [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions): Animated AI captions for vertical clips: every word timed to the moment it is said, in a style you pick, in 25 languages, and restyled any time after export. - [Brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit): Save your logo, handle, font and caption look once in Snipri's brand kit, and every new clip is born wearing them. Change the kit any time, on every plan, free. - [Clip editor](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor): Snipri's clip editor: trim, split or extend a clip, rewrite its hook title, restyle the captions, add text, images, B-roll and music, then re-render it free. ## Guides and comparisons - [How to Make YouTube Shorts from Long Videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos) - [Instagram Reel Size: 1080 × 1920 and Safe Zones](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size) - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip) - [Vizard alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard) - [SendShort alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/sendshort) --- # Animated captions: AI captions timed word by word A clip in a muted feed is read before it is heard, so its words carry it. Snipri times every word from the transcript, burns the captions in the style you choose, and lets you change that style at any point after the clip is made. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions - Updated: November 3, 2026 ## What are animated captions? Animated captions show a clip's words as they are spoken, each one lighting up, growing or arriving on its own beat. Snipri times every word from the transcript, groups the words into blocks of up to 6, and burns them into the clip in the style you pick, in any of the 25 languages it transcribes. ![Cover for animated captions: one moment of a scene from the film Meridian captioned in three different styles](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions/cover.webp) - **Word by word**: Each word timed to the moment it is said - **25 languages**: Transcribed and captioned, with a font for each script - **13 fonts**: Bundled, or upload your own - **6 words**: At most in one caption block, on 1 to 3 lines - **3 places**: Top, middle or bottom of the frame - **Any time**: Restyled after export, and re-rendered free ## How animated captions work ### Every word is timed The transcript gives each word its start and its end. Words are grouped into blocks of up to 6, and a pause longer than 0.8 seconds starts a new block. ![The words said in a scene from the film Meridian, each with the second it starts, grouped into the caption blocks Snipri's renderer drew, beside two frames of the captioned clip](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions/word-timing.webp) *The words said in a scene from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, and the blocks Snipri's renderer drew from them.* ### Pick a look, before the job or after Each style is a whole look: the font, the colours, how the spoken word is marked and how the words arrive. You can also keep your brand kit's look or turn captions off. ![The same moment of a scene from the film Meridian captioned in six styles, each named under its frame](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions/caption-looks.webp) *One moment of a scene from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, in six styles, each burned by Snipri's renderer.* ### Fine-tune it in the editor Change the font, size, colours, outline, word highlight and position, or fix a misheard word, and the clip re-renders with the new captions. ![The same moment of a scene from the film Meridian with its captions at the top, in the middle and at the bottom of the frame](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions/caption-places.webp) *One moment of a scene from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, with the captions in each of the three places, burned by Snipri's renderer.* ## Word by word **Karaoke, the look a clip starts in.** Each word lights up as it is said. A new clip wears this look until you pick another style or save your own in the brand kit. *Part of a clip Snipri cut from “Ask me anything, with Huib Modderkolk” by Chris van 't Hof and Huib Modderkolk, Hacker Hotel 2025 (CC BY 4.0, via media.ccc.de), captioned again by Snipri's renderer in the Karaoke look, with the logo on Chris van 't Hof's shirt painted out.* ## On interviews, Shorts and YouTube clips - [Interview clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/interview-clip-maker): Each word of an answer lights up as it is said, so a muted viewer can follow the guest's point. - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts): Shorts, Reels and TikToks get the same captions, burned into the 9:16 clip. - [YouTube clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/youtube-clip-maker): A clip cut from a YouTube video is captioned from its own transcript, in the language it was spoken in. ## What animated captions do not do - It does not translate. Captions are in the language spoken in the video. - It does not make a subtitle file. Captions are burned into the picture, so they look the same on every platform. - It does not caption audio alone. Snipri needs a video, because it frames each clip around the picture. - It does not promise every word. Read names and terms before you post, and fix any word in the editor. ## Frequently asked questions ### Can I change the caption style after the clip is made? Yes. Pick another style or change any part of one in the editor, and the clip re-renders with the new captions. Edits never use another video. ### Which languages can be captioned? Snipri transcribes and captions 25 languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Choose the spoken language when you add a video, or let Snipri detect it. When a built-in font lacks a language's letters, the caption switches to one that has them. ### Can I use my own font for captions? Yes. Upload a TTF, OTF or TTC file of up to 8 MB in your brand kit, and use it for captions and text layers. ### Are the captions burned into the video? Yes. They are part of the picture, so they show the same way on every platform, with nothing to upload beside the video. You can also turn them off for a clip. ### Is Snipri free? 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. ## More Snipri features - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker): How Snipri's AI picks clips from a podcast or long video: it scores every moment, keeps only clips that stand on their own and shows why each one was chosen. - [Auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe): Auto reframe turns horizontal video into vertical 9:16 clips. Snipri finds the speaker in each shot, stacks two or three people, or keeps the whole shot. - [Brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit): Save your logo, handle, font and caption look once in Snipri's brand kit, and every new clip is born wearing them. Change the kit any time, on every plan, free. - [Clip editor](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor): Snipri's clip editor: trim, split or extend a clip, rewrite its hook title, restyle the captions, add text, images, B-roll and music, then re-render it free. ## Guides and comparisons - [Add Captions to Podcast Clips: A Review Workflow](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips) - [Open Captions vs Closed Captions: Which to Use](https://www.snipri.com/blog/open-captions-vs-closed-captions) - [Submagic alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic) - [VEED alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed) - [Zubtitle alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/zubtitle) --- # Brand kit: add your logo and fonts to every clip Putting a logo and a handle on every clip by hand is the part nobody wants to do. Save them once in the brand kit and Snipri puts them on every new clip it makes, in your font and your caption look. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit - Updated: November 3, 2026 ## What is a brand kit? A brand kit is the look your account saves once: a caption style, a logo, a line of standing text such as your handle, up to 6 colours and your own font. Snipri reads it at the start of every job, so new clips arrive already wearing it, and any one clip can still be changed in the editor. ![Cover for the brand kit: scenes from the films Meridian and Tears of Steel wearing the same saved look, a handle and a placeholder logo](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit/cover.webp) - **Once**: Saved to your account, read by every new job - **Logo**: PNG, JPEG or WebP, placed where you put it - **120 characters**: Of standing text, such as your handle - **6 colours**: In your palette, beside the stock swatches - **TTF, OTF, TTC**: Your own font, up to 8 MB - **Every plan**: Free included, and free to change ## How the brand kit works ### Save the look once On the Brand page, pick a caption style, upload your logo and font, type your handle and add your colours. The page previews it over a frame of one of your own clips. ![Drawing of what a brand kit holds: a caption look, a logo, standing text of up to 120 characters, up to 6 colours and a font file](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit/kit-parts.webp) *What one kit holds, with the limits the app enforces.* ### New clips are born wearing it Every job reads the kit as it starts, so each clip arrives with your captions, logo and handle already burned in. ![Two clips from different films, Meridian and Tears of Steel, wearing the same kit: serif captions with a blue word highlight, a handle and a placeholder logo in the same places](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit/kit-on-clips.webp) *One example kit on scenes from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, and “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, burned by Snipri's renderer.* ### Change one clip, or the kit Restyle any clip in the editor without touching the kit, or change the kit and every clip made after it follows. Neither uses another video. ![Drawing comparing the brand kit, which belongs to the account and dresses every new clip, with a saved style, which lives in one browser and is applied to one clip at a time](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit/kit-or-style.webp) *The brand kit beside a saved style, as the app keeps each.* ## One kit, three videos **The same look on every clip.** An example kit, Playfair Display with a blue box on the spoken word, burned by Snipri's renderer on clips it cut from three talks. ## On podcasts, webinars and YouTube channels - [Podcast clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker): Your show's logo and handle go on every clip from every episode, without placing them each time. - [Webinar clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/webinar-clip-maker): Your company's font and colours on every clip from every session, so a series looks like one series. - [YouTube clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/youtube-clip-maker): Your channel's handle on every clip you cut from a YouTube video, so a viewer can find the full one. ## What the brand kit does not do - It does not restyle clips you already have. A change to the kit reaches the clips made after it. - It holds one look. A second brand's look can be saved as a style in the editor and applied clip by clip. - It does not remove the watermark. Clips on the Free plan carry the snipri.com mark, and every paid plan exports without it. ## Frequently asked questions ### Does the brand kit cost extra? No. It is on every plan, Free included, and changing it is free. ### Will changing the kit restyle clips I already made? No. The kit is read when a job starts, so it dresses the clips made after you save it. Restyle an older clip in the editor. ### What is the difference between the brand kit and a saved style? The brand kit belongs to your account and dresses every new clip on its own. A saved style lives in your browser and is applied to one clip at a time, when you pick it in the editor. ### Can I use my own font? Yes. Upload a TTF, OTF or TTC file of up to 8 MB, and the kit uses it for captions and for your standing text. ### Is Snipri free? 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. ## More Snipri features - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker): How Snipri's AI picks clips from a podcast or long video: it scores every moment, keeps only clips that stand on their own and shows why each one was chosen. - [Auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe): Auto reframe turns horizontal video into vertical 9:16 clips. Snipri finds the speaker in each shot, stacks two or three people, or keeps the whole shot. - [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions): Animated AI captions for vertical clips: every word timed to the moment it is said, in a style you pick, in 25 languages, and restyled any time after export. - [Clip editor](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor): Snipri's clip editor: trim, split or extend a clip, rewrite its hook title, restyle the captions, add text, images, B-roll and music, then re-render it free. ## Guides and comparisons - [Instagram Reel Size: 1080 × 1920 and Safe Zones](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size) - [Add Captions to Podcast Clips: A Review Workflow](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips) - [Submagic alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic) - [VEED alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed) --- # Clip editor: trim, split and add text to clips The AI makes the first cut and you make the last one. Every clip opens in an editor made for one short clip: its own timeline, its words, its captions and its layers, with nothing to install. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor - Updated: November 3, 2026 ## What can you change in the clip editor? Almost everything about one clip. Trim it, split it, or extend it by up to 10 seconds on either side; rewrite the hook title card; restyle or fix the captions; change the framing scene by scene; and add text, images, B-roll and music. Each save re-renders the clip from its own base, at no cost. ![Cover for the clip editor: two edits of one scene from the film Tears of Steel, a retyped title card in another caption style, and a text layer with an image layer](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor/cover.webp) - **10s**: More on either side, within the part processed - **1 to 10s**: For the hook title card, up to 120 characters - **8 text layers**: Up to 120 characters each - **4 images**: PNG, JPEG or WebP, under 5 MB each - **3 B-roll cuts**: Of stock footage, each cued to a phrase - **Free**: Every edit, re-render and split ## How the clip editor works ### Cut it where it should end Trim the start or the end, split one clip into two, or extend it by up to 10 seconds on either side. A split is two trims of one base, so neither goes back to the source video. ![Drawing of one clip's timeline in the editor: the part Snipri cut with 10 seconds of footage on either side, then a trim, an extension into that footage and a split that makes two clips from one base](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor/trim-and-split.webp) *One clip's timeline, drawn from the editor's own limits.* ### Rewrite the hook The clip opens on a title card the AI wrote. Retype it in up to 120 characters, hold it for 1 to 10 seconds, or turn it off. ![The same opening of a scene from the film Tears of Steel twice: its title card with the captions in Karaoke, then the title retyped and the captions in Sorbet](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor/hook-rewrite.webp) *A scene from “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, before and after two edits, both burned by Snipri's renderer.* ### Add your own layers Place up to 8 text layers and 4 images by dragging them on the preview, time each on the clip's timeline, and add up to 3 B-roll cuts and a music track. ![A scene from the film Tears of Steel with a text layer and an image layer burned in, beside its timeline with the window each layer is on screen for](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor/layers.webp) *Layers on a scene from “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, burned by Snipri's renderer, and their windows.* ## Cut a word, and the clip cuts with it. A real clip in the editor's own preview, here on the page. Cut a word from its transcript and the video cuts with it. Sample clip in the editor: “But yeah, apparently they start counting from one” *Part of a clip Snipri cut from “Reverse Engineering Life: A teardown of the DNA source code of a whole bacterium” by bert hubert, WHY2025 (CC BY 4.0, via media.ccc.de), as Snipri reframed it, with the words its job transcribed, with the festival's sign on the lectern painted out.* ## On interviews, Shorts and YouTube clips - [Interview clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/interview-clip-maker): Split an answer that covers two points into two clips, or extend one the AI ended a beat too early. - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts): Post the clips as they come, or trim and restyle them first. Either way it is the same one video on your plan. - [YouTube clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/youtube-clip-maker): Rewrite the title card for where you post, and put your channel's handle on the clip as a text layer. ## What the clip editor does not do - It edits one clip at a time. There is no timeline for joining several clips into one video. - It does not reach past the part Snipri processed. A clip grows by up to 10 seconds on either side only where that footage was processed. - It does not post for you. You download the finished clip and post it yourself. ## Frequently asked questions ### Do edits cost a video? No. Editing, re-rendering and splitting a clip are free on every plan. A video is counted once, when the job that made the clip finishes with at least one clip. ### Can I make a clip longer? Yes, by up to 10 seconds on either side, when that footage is in the part of the video Snipri processed. ### Can I add music? Yes. Upload an MP3, M4A, WAV or OGG file of up to 50 MB, set its volume against the clip's own sound, loop it, and fade either one in or out over up to 10 seconds. ### Can I change the aspect ratio? Yes. The Clip format menu re-renders a clip at 1:1 or 16:9. Clips from a job always start at 1080×1920. ### Is Snipri free? 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. ## More Snipri features - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker): How Snipri's AI picks clips from a podcast or long video: it scores every moment, keeps only clips that stand on their own and shows why each one was chosen. - [Auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe): Auto reframe turns horizontal video into vertical 9:16 clips. Snipri finds the speaker in each shot, stacks two or three people, or keeps the whole shot. - [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions): Animated AI captions for vertical clips: every word timed to the moment it is said, in a style you pick, in 25 languages, and restyled any time after export. - [Brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit): Save your logo, handle, font and caption look once in Snipri's brand kit, and every new clip is born wearing them. Change the kit any time, on every plan, free. ## Guides and comparisons - [How Long Can YouTube Shorts Be? 2026 Limits](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be) - [How to Make YouTube Shorts from Long Videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos) - [VEED alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed) - [Wisecut alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wisecut) - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip) --- # Podcast clip maker: full episodes to short clips Upload an episode and get back the moments a listener would understand without the rest of the conversation, captioned and framed vertically. No timeline, no scrubbing through an hour of tape. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker - Updated: November 3, 2026 ## What is a podcast clip maker? A podcast clip maker turns a full episode into short clips of the moments a listener would follow on their own. Snipri reads the episode's transcript, keeps the answers and stories that finish, frames the hosts vertically and captions every word, so each clip is ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Recordings can be in any of 25 languages, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically. - **15 to 60s**: Clip length by default, or choose 10 to 30s, 30 to 60s, 60 to 90s or 90s to 3 min - **Up to 10**: Clips from each job - **1080×1920**: Vertical by default; square or landscape in the editor - **Editable**: Word-level captions, restyled any time after export - **43 min**: Usual wait for your clips - **2 videos**: Free to start, up to 1 hour each, no credit card ## How to turn a podcast episode into clips Three steps, and no editing skills needed. ### Add the episode *A few clicks.* Upload the video file, paste a link, or pick it from Dropbox or Google Drive. ### Snipri picks the moments *About 43 minutes.* The transcript is read for complete thoughts with a clear hook and payoff. Weak candidates are dropped, not padded in. ### Review and post *Your call.* Check each clip, adjust captions or trim if you want, and download. *Clips from “Fireside Chat: Godot's Next Milestones” by Ben Vehling, Matt Ellis and Rémi Verschelde, GodotFest 2025 ([media.ccc.de](https://media.ccc.de/v/godotfest2025-fireside-chat-godots-next-milestones), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)), cut, reframed and captioned by Snipri, with the logos on the speakers' shirts painted out.* ## Why use Snipri for podcast clips ### Both podcast hosts in one vertical frame Two hosts in a wide shot can be stacked in one frame, and on a longer turn the clip cuts to the host who is talking. ### Podcast moments scored before you see them Every moment is scored on hook, payoff and standalone sense, and the scores sit beside each clip Snipri picks. ### Podcast clips priced by the hour An hour-long episode counts as one video, whether you keep three clips or ten. Plans start at $29.90/month. ## AI clipping **Clips cut from the conversation itself.** Snipri reads the episode's transcript for answers and stories that finish, and shows why it kept each one. Before the job, you can set the clip length or name the topics to look for. [How Snipri picks each clip](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) *A scene from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, cut for this example, reframed and captioned by Snipri under a title written for it.* ## Auto reframe **Hosts kept in a vertical frame.** Face tracking keeps the person talking in a 9:16 frame. When the hosts share one wide shot, the clip can stack two or three of them or cut to whoever has the floor. [How auto reframe works](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) *The talk show in the video above, by 김용진 under CC BY 4.0, as Snipri reframed it, with lettering and logos painted out.* ## Auto captions **Every word captioned for muted feeds.** Words light up as they are said, in a style you choose before the job or change later. Episodes in any of the 25 languages Snipri transcribes are captioned in that language. [How animated captions work](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) *A scene from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, cut for this example and burned by Snipri's renderer in the Focus look.* ## Fix any clip before it posts. Trim or split a clip, rewrite the hook title card, and put your show's logo and handle on it. [How the clip editor works](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor) Sample clip in the editor: “So these guys just disappeared?” *A scene from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, cut for this example and reframed by Snipri. Its words are the film's own captions.* ## What Snipri kept from a 46-minute fireside chat A real job: this fireside chat, run through Snipri with Podcast as the kind of video and every other setting at its default. Snipri's AI scored 30 moments in it and kept the seven whose hook, payoff and standalone sense each reached 7 out of 10. They are listed strongest first, in the order My clips gives them. The four strongest of the rest are under the clips, with the score that kept each one out. - The recording: 45:58 - Moments scored: 30 - Clips kept: 7 Recording: [“Fireside Chat: Godot’s Next Milestones”](https://media.ccc.de/v/godotfest2025-fireside-chat-godots-next-milestones) by Ben Vehling, Matt Ellis and Rémi Verschelde, GodotFest 2025 ([CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), via [media.ccc.de](https://media.ccc.de/)), processed in Snipri. ### Why Godot's Multiplayer Hosting Was Paused *12:06 to 12:53, 47 seconds.* Hook 8, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 8. A quotable opening claim leads to a candid result: their tech got it down to 10 times harder, still too much. It resolves with the economics of why hosting was paused. The clip does not explain what W4 is. ### Start From the Problem, Not the Solution *19:07 to 19:55, 48 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 7. It states a rule, explains it with the XY problem and the need to hear from 20 other people with adjacent problems, then names the cost: inertia while waiting for consensus. A complete, actionable framework. ### Can Godot Become a AAA Engine? *30:48 to 31:28, 40 seconds.* Hook 8, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 7. A direct, contrarian opinion with reasoning: AAA could use it for smaller games, Call of Duty is doubtful, and it would need dedicated engineers aligned with the foundation. The take is stated sharply and backed up within the clip. ### Godot Steam Releases Grow 60% a Year *41:11 to 42:04, 52 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 7. It opens on a concrete stat, compares it to Unreal at about 10% and Unity at about 5%, and honestly notes it starts from lower numbers. Complete and quotable without the audience question. ### Why Fixing Bugs Beats Adding Features *6:13 to 6:34, 21 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 8. It opens on a sharp claim, gives the reasoning (a solid foundation first, features after), and lands on a one-line priority. Short and complete, though it assumes the viewer knows it's about the Godot engine. ### Fixing Godot's Abandoned Mobile Plugins *24:17 to 24:57, 40 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 6. A relatable problem cycle (abandoned plugin, outdated later, 15 forks) resolves with the foundation maintaining first-party integrations in one repository. Problem and fix sit together in one tight telling. ### A Build Pipeline Hack That Saves QA Hours *27:54 to 28:19, 25 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 6. It states a concrete tip (build the authentication step into the pipeline so the build starts and connects) and the stated benefit, saving QA hours. Short, actionable, self-contained. ### The closest calls, left out - **There Are Jobs for Godot Developers**. *44:37 to 45:21, 45 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 8. Left out on its hook: 6, under the bar of 7. It sets up a visibility problem, points to a streamlined fix, and lands on a clear line against the student myth that there are no Godot jobs. A complete, practical answer. - **Why Godot Has No Built-In Terrain Engine**. *20:44 to 21:30, 46 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 8, standalone sense 6, arc 8, quotability 7. Left out on its hook and standalone sense: 6 each, under the bar of 7. A complete mini-story: a refused request with reasons, then multiple community terrain extensions that now exist, and the speaker's verdict that this is how it should be. It starts mid-argument on 'The other approach'. - **Why Publishers Rebuild Godot Games in Unity**. *25:05 to 25:53, 48 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 6. Left out on its hook: 6, under the bar of 7. A single concrete scenario: a PC hit goes to a mobile publisher whose template has dozens of SDKs, so the game is rebuilt in Unity. It closes with who needs to fix it. Dense, but one continuous story. - **Managing Volunteers Is Herding Cats**. *5:05 to 5:47, 42 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 7, standalone sense 6, arc 6, quotability 7. Left out on its hook and standalone sense: 6 each, under the bar of 7. A vivid image opens the idea, followed by the tension that volunteers move on and someone must fix the boring bugs, which resolves in the foundation's responsibility. It starts on a 'Because', which slightly weakens the opening. ## Frequently asked questions ### What counts as a podcast moment? One that opens on a surprising answer, a strong opinion or the start of a story, and ends when the answer lands or the story resolves. The AI is told to keep the question when the answer needs it, and to leave out intros, sponsor reads and "before we start" housekeeping. ### Does it work with audio-only podcasts? No. Snipri needs a video recording, because it frames each clip around the people on screen. ### Can I use Riverside or Zoom recordings? Yes, as long as you can export or download the recording as a video file and upload it, or pick it from Dropbox or Google Drive. ### How many clips will I get from an episode? Up to 10, and only moments that pass the standalone check. A quieter episode can come back with fewer or none, and an episode with no clips does not count as a video. A longer clip length also means fewer, since each job makes at most 10 minutes of clips. ### What did Snipri keep from a real podcast episode? From the 46-minute fireside chat on this page, “Fireside Chat: Godot’s Next Milestones” (GodotFest 2025), Snipri's AI scored 30 moments and kept seven, from 21 to 52 seconds long. Each one comes with its five scores and the reason it was kept. ### Why would a strong moment be left out? Because hook, payoff and standalone sense are each a gate of their own. In this fireside chat, “There Are Jobs for Godot Developers” scored 8 for payoff, but its hook scored 6, under the bar of 7, so it was left out. A high score on one never makes up for a miss on another. ### Is Snipri free? 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. ## More ways to use Snipri - [Interview clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/interview-clip-maker): Cut long interviews into captioned interview clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Snipri keeps answers that stand on their own and frames the speaker vertically. - [Webinar clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/webinar-clip-maker): Turn recorded webinars, talks and live sessions into captioned webinar clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Snipri keeps only the points that stand on their own. - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts): A YouTube Shorts maker for long videos. Snipri picks the moments that stand alone, reframes each one to 9:16, captions every word and hands back Shorts to post. - [YouTube clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/youtube-clip-maker): Make clips from a YouTube video: paste a public link, or upload the file at full size. Snipri keeps the moments that stand alone, framed 9:16 and captioned. - [How to make podcast clips that stand alone](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips): Choosing moments that stand alone and tracking which clips bring viewers back to the episode. ## How each part of Snipri works - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) - [Auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) - [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) - [Brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit) - [Clip editor](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor) - [All features](https://www.snipri.com/features) --- # Interview clip maker that keeps complete answers A good interview clip is one complete answer: the question is implied, the point lands, and nobody needs the previous ten minutes. Snipri looks for exactly that in your recording. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/tools/interview-clip-maker - Updated: November 3, 2026 ## What makes a good interview clip? One complete answer. The question is kept or implied, the point lands, and nobody needs the ten minutes before it. Snipri keeps an answer only when its hook, payoff and standalone sense each reach 7 out of 10, then frames the speaker vertically and captions each word. Recordings can be in any of 25 languages, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically. - **15 to 60s**: Clip length by default, or choose 10 to 30s, 30 to 60s, 60 to 90s or 90s to 3 min - **Up to 10**: Clips from each job - **1080×1920**: Vertical by default; square or landscape in the editor - **Editable**: Word-level captions, restyled any time after export - **43 min**: Usual wait for your clips - **2 videos**: Free to start, up to 1 hour each, no credit card ## How to turn an interview into clips Three steps, and no editing skills needed. ### Add the interview *A few clicks.* Upload the video file, paste a link, or pick it from Dropbox or Google Drive. ### Snipri finds complete answers *About 43 minutes.* Moments are kept only when they carry enough context to stand alone and end on a clear payoff. ### Review and post *Your call.* Rewrite the hook title card if you like, adjust captions, trim, and download. *Clips from “Fireside Chat: Godot's Next Milestones” by Ben Vehling, Matt Ellis and Rémi Verschelde, GodotFest 2025 ([media.ccc.de](https://media.ccc.de/v/godotfest2025-fireside-chat-godots-next-milestones), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)), cut, reframed and captioned by Snipri, with the logos on the speakers' shirts painted out.* ## Why use Snipri for interview clips ### Complete interview answers, not fragments Clips end on finished thoughts. Hook, payoff and standalone sense must each reach 7/10. ### A hook title card you can rewrite Each interview clip can open on its title, which you can edit and hold for 1 to 10 seconds. ### Guest and host kept in frame When guest and host share the shot, both can be stacked in frame, and on a longer answer the clip cuts to the speaker. ## AI clipping **Answers kept whole.** An answer becomes a clip only when it carries enough context to stand alone. Before the job, you can name the topics or stories to look for, and Snipri says why it kept each answer. [How Snipri picks each clip](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) *A scene from “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, cut for this example, reframed and captioned by Snipri under a title written for it, with its opening close-up framed by hand as the editor allows.* ## Auto reframe **The speaker centred in 9:16.** Smoothed face tracking follows whoever is answering. With host and guest in one wide shot, the clip can stack them or cut to the one speaking. [How auto reframe works](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) *The TV interview in the video above, by El Canal de Morelos under CC BY 4.0, as Snipri reframed it.* ## Auto captions **Captions that keep up with every answer.** Each word is highlighted as it is said, and the style can be changed in the editor at any time, in any of the 25 languages Snipri transcribes. [How animated captions work](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) *A scene from “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, cut for this example and burned by Snipri's renderer in the Gilded look, with its opening close-up framed by hand as the editor allows.* ## The hook is yours to rewrite. Edit the title card each clip opens on, trim the start or end, or split a clip in two when an answer covers two points. [How the clip editor works](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor) Sample clip in the editor: “There’s a lesson to be learned” *A scene from “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, cut for this example and reframed by Snipri, with its opening close-up framed by hand as the editor allows. Its words are the film's own captions.* ## What Snipri kept from a 41-minute on-stage interview A real job: this on-stage interview, run through Snipri with Q&A as the kind of video and every other setting at its default. Snipri's AI scored 20 moments in it and kept the eight whose hook, payoff and standalone sense each reached 7 out of 10. They are listed strongest first, in the order My clips gives them. The four strongest of the rest are under the clips, with the score that kept each one out. - The recording: 41:17 - Moments scored: 20 - Clips kept: 8 Recording: [“Ask me anything, with Huib Modderkolk”](https://media.ccc.de/v/2025-224-ask-me-anything-with-huib-modderkolk) by Chris van 't Hof and Huib Modderkolk, Hacker Hotel 2025 ([CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), via [media.ccc.de](https://media.ccc.de/)), processed in Snipri. ### The Dutch Hacked the Russian Hackers *23:52 to 24:50, 58 seconds.* Hook 8, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 8, quotability 7. A story in miniature: the reveal, years inside the Russians' systems, a warning to the US, a 24-hour cyber battle, and the DNC hack as the outcome. The opening line is itself the hook. ### His Cure for Paranoia: Techno Festivals *22:22 to 22:56, 34 seconds.* Hook 8, payoff 7, standalone sense 9, arc 7, quotability 7. A relatable question gets a short, unexpected answer with a laugh at the end, and it needs no outside context. ### A Tip for Hackers Who Want to Write *36:43 to 37:30, 47 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 8, arc 7, quotability 7. A tip with a clear method: explain your work to a friend, write down your first sentences, and build from there. The question and answer both sit inside the window. ### The Hack That a Missile Interrupted *33:57 to 34:49, 52 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 7. The framing sets up a concrete, funny example. Russian hackers prepared for weeks to wipe an energy supplier, and a missile hit it first. It lands on the line that a missile is simply more effective. ### The Hardest Sources: Press Officers *35:28 to 36:28, 60 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 8, arc 7, quotability 6. A question, a joke answer ('Us.'), then a reasoned explanation: spokespeople block access to those who know and try to control the narrative. The question and answer sit together and resolve. ### The Biggest Threat to Open Democracy *39:30 to 40:05, 35 seconds.* Hook 8, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 7. A pointed either/or question is answered directly with a claim about autocratic tendencies and attempts to influence democracy through algorithms and social media. It is complete in about 35 seconds. ### Not a Cyber Expert, Just a Translator *7:35 to 8:04, 29 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 6. A quick comic admission opens it and leads into a clear statement of method: he asks experts to explain, then explains to readers. The setup, the joke and the point all fit in one short answer. ### Naive, Healthy, or Paranoid? His Answer *13:37 to 14:15, 38 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 6. A pointed question and a frank, complete answer in the middle of the clip. The answer is bounded by the admission that powerful agencies can hack him if they want to. ### The closest calls, left out - **Why 23,000 Police Don't Secure a Summit**. *27:54 to 28:50, 56 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 8, standalone sense 6, arc 6, quotability 8. Left out on its hook and standalone sense: 6 each, under the bar of 7. He names the story he would most want to write and ends on a sharp line: 23,000 police officers do not mean digital safety. It begins without the NATO summit setup, so the conference is only implied. - **Never Put Source Info on Your Phone**. *15:04 to 15:26, 22 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 6, arc 5, quotability 7. Left out on its standalone sense: 6, under the bar of 7. One actionable security principle stated and then restated: assume you will be hacked, so keep sources off devices. It is compact, but it begins mid-answer. - **When Russia's Security Service Came Looking**. *12:06 to 12:57, 51 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 8, standalone sense 4, arc 7, quotability 6. Left out on its hook (6) and standalone sense (4), each under the bar of 7. It has a real escalation (surrounded at the harbor, the photographer flees, the hotel calls with a warning about the security service) and a startling payoff. It opens mid-story, though, with 'the yacht' unexplained, so it only works with prior context. - **When Is a Hack Actually a Story?** *20:16 to 20:55, 39 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 6. Left out on its hook: 6, under the bar of 7. A clear question is followed by a complete answer: the incident is a vehicle for telling a story about a wider development. It works on its own as an editorial principle. ## Frequently asked questions ### Can I change where a clip starts and ends? Yes. Trim or split any clip in the editor, and extend it by up to 10 seconds on either side when that footage is in the part of the video Snipri processed. ### Who can see my clips? Your clips stay in your library behind your login, and Snipri never posts anything on your behalf. The services used to process your videos are listed in the privacy policy. ### Can I add my logo? Yes. Add images and text layers to any clip and place them on the preview. ### What did Snipri keep from a real interview? From the 41-minute on-stage interview on this page, “Ask me anything, with Huib Modderkolk” (Hacker Hotel 2025), Snipri's AI scored 20 moments and kept eight, from 29 to 60 seconds long. Each one comes with its five scores and the reason it was kept. ### Why would a strong moment be left out? Because hook, payoff and standalone sense are each a gate of their own. In this on-stage interview, “Why 23,000 Police Don't Secure a Summit” scored 8 for payoff, but its hook scored 6 and standalone sense scored 6, under the bar of 7, so it was left out. A high score on one never makes up for a miss on another. ### Is Snipri free? 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. ## More ways to use Snipri - [Podcast clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker): Turn a full video podcast episode into captioned podcast clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Snipri keeps only the moments that make sense on their own. - [Webinar clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/webinar-clip-maker): Turn recorded webinars, talks and live sessions into captioned webinar clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Snipri keeps only the points that stand on their own. - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts): A YouTube Shorts maker for long videos. Snipri picks the moments that stand alone, reframes each one to 9:16, captions every word and hands back Shorts to post. - [YouTube clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/youtube-clip-maker): Make clips from a YouTube video: paste a public link, or upload the file at full size. Snipri keeps the moments that stand alone, framed 9:16 and captioned. - [How to add captions to podcast clips](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips): A review workflow for transcription errors, timing, contrast and placement. ## How each part of Snipri works - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) - [Auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) - [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) - [Brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit) - [Clip editor](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor) - [All features](https://www.snipri.com/features) --- # Webinar clip maker: turn webinars into short clips A one-hour webinar usually holds a handful of points worth sharing on their own. Snipri finds them, captions them and frames them vertically, so the recording keeps working after the session ends. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/tools/webinar-clip-maker - Updated: November 3, 2026 ## What is a webinar clip maker? A webinar clip maker finds the points in a recorded session worth sharing on their own and cuts each into a short clip. With Webinar as the kind of video, Snipri keeps a framework with its example and leaves out agendas, housekeeping, logistics, and recording or slide notices. When it confirms a webcam inset, the slides sit above your close-up in one vertical frame. Recordings can be in any of 25 languages, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically. - **15 to 60s**: Clip length by default, or choose 10 to 30s, 30 to 60s, 60 to 90s or 90s to 3 min - **Up to 10**: Clips from each job - **1080×1920**: Vertical by default; square or landscape in the editor - **Editable**: Word-level captions, restyled any time after export - **43 min**: Usual wait for your clips - **2 videos**: Free to start, up to 1 hour each, no credit card ## How to turn a webinar into clips Three steps, and no editing skills needed. ### Add the recording *A few clicks.* Upload the exported webinar video, or pick it from Dropbox or Google Drive, and choose Webinar as the kind of video. ### Snipri picks the points *About 43 minutes.* Each candidate is checked for a clear hook, a payoff and enough context to make sense alone. ### Review and post *Your call.* Adjust captions, add your logo, trim, and download. *Clips from “Fireside Chat: Godot's Next Milestones” by Ben Vehling, Matt Ellis and Rémi Verschelde, GodotFest 2025 ([media.ccc.de](https://media.ccc.de/v/godotfest2025-fireside-chat-godots-next-milestones), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)), cut, reframed and captioned by Snipri, with the logos on the speakers' shirts painted out.* ## Why use Snipri for webinar clips ### Webinar slides and screen shares kept whole A confirmed webcam inset puts slides on top and the presenter below. With no face, the frame sits on a blurred backdrop. ### Your brand fonts and colours on new clips Save a font and colours once and new clips start in that look by default. Restyling later never uses another video. ### Long webinar recordings, one monthly price Paid plans cover 10 to 100 videos a month, each up to 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale. ## AI clipping **The points worth sharing, found for you.** Choose Webinar as the kind of video and a clip has to open on a problem or a one-line rule and end on something a viewer could act on. Set the clip length first if you need one. [How Snipri picks each clip](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) *A scene from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, cut for this example, reframed and captioned by Snipri under a title written for it.* ## Auto reframe **Presenters and panels framed for 9:16.** When the presenter is on camera, face tracking keeps them in a vertical frame, and a panel of two or three speakers can be stacked or cut to whoever is talking. [How auto reframe works](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) *The online course lecture in the video above, by Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Online Course under CC BY 4.0, as Snipri reframed it.* ## Auto captions **Captions a muted viewer can follow.** Words light up as they are said, so the talk makes sense with the sound off. A webinar in any of the 25 languages Snipri transcribes is captioned in its own language. [How animated captions work](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) *A scene from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, cut for this example and burned by Snipri's renderer in the Ticker look.* ## Brand it before you share it. Add your logo and text, switch a clip to square or landscape, and split a scene so the slides and the speaker each get a layout of their own. [How the clip editor works](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor) Sample clip in the editor: “He’s looking for something” *A scene from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, cut for this example and reframed by Snipri. Its words are the film's own captions.* ## What Snipri kept from a 40-minute talk with slides A real job: this talk with slides, run through Snipri with Webinar as the kind of video and every other setting at its default. Snipri's AI scored 28 moments in it and kept the six whose hook, payoff and standalone sense each reached 7 out of 10. They are listed strongest first, in the order My clips gives them. The four strongest of the rest are under the clips, with the score that kept each one out. - The recording: 40:16 - Moments scored: 28 - Clips kept: 6 Recording: [“Find My \* 101”](https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-find-my-101) by Henryk Plötz, 38C3 ([CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), via [media.ccc.de](https://media.ccc.de/)), processed in Snipri. ### Receiving Takes More Energy Than Sending *6:23 to 6:59, 37 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 9. It opens on a counterintuitive rule, names the trick that follows from it (devices send all the time), and ends on what that enables, putting data into the broadcast. The one-line rule is quotable and the logic completes in under 40 seconds. ### Rotate Broadcast Keys to Stop Tracking *15:48 to 16:45, 57 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 8, quotability 7. It opens on a one-line rule that exposes the flaw, then gives the fix: rotate keys derived from a shared secret. The result follows, with the owner able to decrypt while non-owners stay oblivious. ### How Apple Squeezed a Key Into a MAC Address *18:49 to 19:35, 46 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 8, quotability 7. It sets up a concrete constraint (31 bytes of advertisement data), then resolves it with Apple's hack of putting the remaining six bytes into the random MAC address. The problem and the specific result stay together. ### Why Cheap Trackers Still Enable Stalking *24:00 to 24:42, 42 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 7. It opens on a counterintuitive take and ends on the reasoning: low cost and high accessibility raise the potential for abuse, and a four pack costs $100. The claim and its support fit in about 40 seconds. ### Why Anti-Stalking Alerts Assume Good Faith *36:57 to 37:27, 31 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 7. It opens on a pointed question and then gives the twist: the whole system assumes good faith, so a device could skip the bit and rotate keys faster. It closes on a knowing aside about rumored marketplace listings. ### A $20 Dev Board Becomes a Bluetooth Sniffer *30:01 to 30:55, 53 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 6. It gives a concrete low-cost setup with its steps: plug in the board, upload the firmware, open Wireshark, select the MAC address, and it follows and decodes automatically. The how-to and its stated result stay together. ### The closest calls, left out - **Why Tile Trackers Solve Forgetting, Not Finding**. *8:08 to 8:56, 49 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 8. Left out on its hook: 6, under the bar of 7. It describes the device and how it works, then lands on the distinction that it is about forgetting things, not locating them. The closing line is the most shareable part, but the opening is a plain description. - **Why Bluetooth Low Energy Uses So Little Power**. *11:39 to 12:25, 47 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 8, standalone sense 6, arc 7, quotability 6. Left out on its hook and standalone sense: 6 each, under the bar of 7. It explains the core trick clearly: the device only advertises briefly, and the phone does the long listening. It lands on 'that is the basic trick', but opens without the classic-Bluetooth contrast it refers to. - **Encrypting Location Reports Blinds the Server**. *14:34 to 15:19, 45 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 8, standalone sense 6, arc 7, quotability 6. Left out on its hook and standalone sense: 6 each, under the bar of 7. It is a complete problem-solution beat: broadcast a public key, the non-owner phone encrypts its location, and the server cannot read the report. It ends on the stated result, with the caveat 'if all parties behave correctly'. - **Lost Trackers Let Strangers Make Them Beep**. *27:17 to 28:07, 50 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 8, standalone sense 6, arc 7, quotability 6. Left out on its hook and standalone sense: 6 each, under the bar of 7. It states the rule and then a concrete example: a Google tag away from its owner too long emits a different beacon, and anyone can connect and make it beep without authorization. It opens on 'they' without naming the standard. ## Frequently asked questions ### What does Snipri keep from a webinar? A framework with its example. The AI looks for clips that open on the problem a framework solves, or its one-line rule, and end on a takeaway someone could act on. It is told to leave out agendas, housekeeping, logistics, and recording or slide notices. ### What happens to my webcam inset? When the kind of video is Webinar, chosen by you or named by Snipri on Auto, and computer vision confirms a webcam inset, the clip shows the slides or shared screen on top with the inset hidden and your close-up below, so nobody appears twice. The close-up is cut from the inset, so a sharper webcam gives a sharper close-up. You can also switch any clip to the Screen + speaker layout in the editor. ### How long can the webinar be? Up to 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale. Uploads can be up to 1 GB on Free, 3 GB on Starter and 10 GB on Pro and Scale, and imported links and cloud files up to an hour long. From a longer upload you can keep one continuous part, such as the talk without the Q&A at the end. Only that part has to fit, and only that part counts, one video for each hour of it. ### Does it work for non-English webinars? Yes. Snipri transcribes and captions 25 languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Choose the spoken language when you add a video, or let Snipri detect it. ### Can it post to LinkedIn for me? No. You download the clips and post them yourself. ### What did Snipri keep from a real talk with slides? From the 40-minute talk with slides on this page, “Find My \* 101” (38C3), Snipri's AI scored 28 moments and kept six, from 31 to 57 seconds long. Each one comes with its five scores and the reason it was kept. ### Why would a strong moment be left out? Because hook, payoff and standalone sense are each a gate of their own. In this talk with slides, “Why Tile Trackers Solve Forgetting, Not Finding” scored 8 for payoff, but its hook scored 6, under the bar of 7, so it was left out. A high score on one never makes up for a miss on another. ### Is Snipri free? 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. ## More ways to use Snipri - [Podcast clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker): Turn a full video podcast episode into captioned podcast clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Snipri keeps only the moments that make sense on their own. - [Interview clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/interview-clip-maker): Cut long interviews into captioned interview clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Snipri keeps answers that stand on their own and frames the speaker vertically. - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts): A YouTube Shorts maker for long videos. Snipri picks the moments that stand alone, reframes each one to 9:16, captions every word and hands back Shorts to post. - [YouTube clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/youtube-clip-maker): Make clips from a YouTube video: paste a public link, or upload the file at full size. Snipri keeps the moments that stand alone, framed 9:16 and captioned. - [How to add captions to podcast clips](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips): A review workflow for transcription errors, timing, contrast and placement. ## How each part of Snipri works - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) - [Auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) - [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) - [Brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit) - [Clip editor](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor) - [All features](https://www.snipri.com/features) --- # YouTube Shorts maker: turn long videos into Shorts Cutting Shorts from a long video by hand means scrubbing, cropping and captioning every clip. Snipri does the three steps in one pass and gives you clips you can post as they are. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts - Updated: November 3, 2026 ## What is a YouTube Shorts maker? A YouTube Shorts maker turns one long video into several Shorts. Snipri reads the transcript for moments that make sense without the rest of the video, reframes each one to 9:16 around the speaker and captions every word. A job returns up to 10 clips, 15 to 60 seconds long by default. Recordings can be in any of 25 languages, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically. - **15 to 60s**: Clip length by default, or choose 10 to 30s, 30 to 60s, 60 to 90s or 90s to 3 min - **Up to 10**: Clips from each job - **1080×1920**: Vertical by default; square or landscape in the editor - **Editable**: Word-level captions, restyled any time after export - **43 min**: Usual wait for your clips - **2 videos**: Free to start, up to 1 hour each, no credit card ## How the YouTube Shorts maker works Three steps, and no editing skills needed. Doing it by hand? [How to make YouTube Shorts from long videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos). ### Add the long video *A few clicks.* Upload the file, paste a public YouTube link or another video link, or pick it from Dropbox or Google Drive. ### Snipri cuts, frames and captions *About 43 minutes.* Moments are selected from the transcript, reframed to vertical around the speaker, and captioned word by word. ### Download and post *Your call.* Clips come out 9:16 and, at the default length, ready for Shorts, Reels and TikTok. *Clips from “Fireside Chat: Godot's Next Milestones” by Ben Vehling, Matt Ellis and Rémi Verschelde, GodotFest 2025 ([media.ccc.de](https://media.ccc.de/v/godotfest2025-fireside-chat-godots-next-milestones), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)), cut, reframed and captioned by Snipri, with the logos on the speakers' shirts painted out.* ## Why use Snipri to make Shorts ### Shorts of 15 to 60 seconds, or your length Snipri picks 15 to 60 seconds, or choose 10 to 30s, 30 to 60s, 60 to 90s or 90s to 3 min before the job. ### Wide video to vertical, speaker centred Smoothed face tracking moves the 9:16 crop with the person speaking. ### Captions for sound-off viewing Each spoken word lights up as it is said, in a style you can change any time. ## AI clipping **Moments that work as Shorts.** Snipri reads the transcript for moments that make sense without the rest of the video and returns up to 10, each with its reasons. A video with fewer strong moments returns fewer clips. [How Snipri picks each clip](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) *A scene from “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, cut for this example, reframed and captioned by Snipri under a title written for it.* ## Auto reframe **Landscape in, 9:16 out.** The crop follows the person on camera from shot to shot, and a shot with no face keeps the whole frame on a blurred backdrop rather than cutting it off. [How auto reframe works](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) *The talk to camera in the video above, by Totally INSPIRED Media INC under CC BY 4.0, as Snipri reframed it.* ## Auto captions **Readable with the sound off.** Word-level captions in a style you choose and a position you set, in any of the 25 languages Snipri transcribes. [How animated captions work](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) *A scene from “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, cut for this example and burned by Snipri's renderer in the Impact look.* ## Post as is, or adjust first. Download the clips as they come, or trim, split, restyle the captions and rewrite the title card before you post. [How the clip editor works](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor) Sample clip in the editor: “Memory overwrite in progress” *A scene from “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, cut for this example and reframed by Snipri. Its words are the film's own captions.* ## What Snipri kept from a 44-minute keynote A real job: this keynote, run through Snipri with Auto as the kind of video and every other setting at its default. Snipri's AI scored 37 moments in it and kept the ten whose hook, payoff and standalone sense each reached 7 out of 10. They are listed strongest first, in the order My clips gives them. The four strongest of the rest are under the clips, with the score that kept each one out. - The recording: 43:58 - Moments scored: 37 - Clips kept: 10 Recording: [“Frank talks AI, keynote style”](https://media.ccc.de/v/2025-217-frank-talks-ai-keynote-style) by Frank Breedijk, Hacker Hotel 2025 ([CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), via [media.ccc.de](https://media.ccc.de/)), processed in Snipri. ### Outsourcing Killing Detaches Us From War *31:39 to 32:31, 53 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 9, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 9. A short, reasoned argument moves from intent to the detachment created by outsourcing killing to drones, and lands on a strong closing line: war should be painful on all fronts because that prompts us to stop fighting. ### Is Self-Reproducing AI Alive? *43:00 to 43:39, 38 seconds.* Hook 8, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 8. A provocative question about AI life and rights is answered with a witty analogy (computer viruses are alive by some definitions and have no rights) and a beer joke. The structure is question, answer and button. ### 5% Noise Turns a Zebra Into a Tortoise *29:55 to 30:40, 45 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 8. A direct question is answered with reasoning (too much data now) and a memorable research example: 5% noise turns a zebra into a tortoise, 10% into a hippopotamus. The example gives a concrete, shareable payoff. ### AI's Best Trick Is Changing Humans *36:42 to 37:18, 36 seconds.* Hook 8, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 9. A counterintuitive claim is stated at the start and backed by a concrete study: LLM-favoured words are creeping into people's vocabularies. The claim and its evidence fit in one tight clip. ### Use AI to Decide What's Worth Reading *9:40 to 10:12, 32 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 7. It states a specific, usable heuristic (a summary that only echoes what you already think is not worth reading) and ends on the payoff: the AI as filter and time saver. ### Does Your Product Have AI Yet? *0:27 to 1:17, 50 seconds.* Hook 8, payoff 7, standalone sense 8, arc 6, quotability 6. A one-line question opens a fast list of increasingly absurd AI-labelled products. It peaks at AI snake oil and closes on the speaker's exasperated reaction, so it works with no outside context. ### Generative AI Is Not Creative AI *6:40 to 7:18, 38 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 8. A sharp claim is stated early and defended with a clear definition (a non-deterministic statistical process) and the duck analogy. It ends on 'educated guesswork' as the takeaway. ### Is It Okay If AI Writes the Song? *11:40 to 12:17, 38 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 8. It poses a real ethical question and then reframes it with two quotable lines about artists stealing and quoting at industrial scale. The song is only referenced, not heard. ### I Asked AI for Trump and It Blocked Me *7:22 to 8:17, 55 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 6. A personal anecdote raises the question of how to shield dangerous knowledge, then resolves it by defining prompt engineering as hacking around restrictions. The setup, the tension and the resolution all fit in one clip. ### Use AI as Your Intelligent Assistant *22:26 to 23:00, 34 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 7. It gives a clear rule: AI is good at learning what is normal, and a human decides whether the abnormal is malicious. Both the framing and the human-in-the-loop caveat are complete. ### The closest calls, left out - **AI Training Data Isn't Clean**. *14:27 to 14:58, 31 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 6, arc 7, quotability 6. Left out on its standalone sense: 6, under the bar of 7. A three-part escalation (copyrighted, mislabeled with peacock-as-duck examples, then illegal content) builds to a serious closing finding. It needs a little prior context on what the training sets are for. - **The Paperclip Apocalypse Explained**. *25:18 to 26:15, 57 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 8, quotability 8. Left out on its hook: 6, under the bar of 7. It is a complete thought experiment, from setup (optimize paperclips with real-world agency) through conflict (humans as a threat) to a vivid ending: earth turned into a giant ball of paperclips. The opening joke makes it feel conversational. - **Why AI Exploded Right Now**. *5:27 to 6:17, 51 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 8, standalone sense 6, arc 7, quotability 8. Left out on its hook and standalone sense: 6 each, under the bar of 7. It recaps the four causes in one breath, then lands a reframing: computer science went from learning to talk to computers to teaching computers to talk to humans. The recap opening is slightly generic. - **Why AI Never Says I Don't Know**. *16:04 to 16:34, 29 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 6, quotability 8. Left out on its hook: 6, under the bar of 7. It names hallucination and explains why it happens: the pull to answer is stronger than the willingness to say 'I don't know'. It lands on a quotable closing line. ## Frequently asked questions ### Can I paste a YouTube link? Yes, a link to one public YouTube video or Short. Playlists and channels are not supported, and neither are private or members-only videos or streams that are still live. File uploads, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive work too. Only import videos you own or have permission to use. ### Is there a watermark? Only on the Free plan. Every paid plan exports without a watermark. ### Do the clips expire? No. Clips stay in your library on every plan. ### What did Snipri keep from a real keynote? From the 44-minute keynote on this page, “Frank talks AI, keynote style” (Hacker Hotel 2025), Snipri's AI scored 37 moments and kept ten, from 32 to 55 seconds long. Each one comes with its five scores and the reason it was kept. ### Why would a strong moment be left out? Because hook, payoff and standalone sense are each a gate of their own. In this keynote, “AI Training Data Isn't Clean” scored 8 for payoff, but its standalone sense scored 6, under the bar of 7, so it was left out. A high score on one never makes up for a miss on another. ### Is Snipri free? 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. ## More ways to use Snipri - [Podcast clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker): Turn a full video podcast episode into captioned podcast clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Snipri keeps only the moments that make sense on their own. - [Interview clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/interview-clip-maker): Cut long interviews into captioned interview clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Snipri keeps answers that stand on their own and frames the speaker vertically. - [Webinar clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/webinar-clip-maker): Turn recorded webinars, talks and live sessions into captioned webinar clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Snipri keeps only the points that stand on their own. - [YouTube clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/youtube-clip-maker): Make clips from a YouTube video: paste a public link, or upload the file at full size. Snipri keeps the moments that stand alone, framed 9:16 and captioned. - [How to make YouTube Shorts from long videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos): Choosing moments, editing hooks, and checking captions and framing before you post. ## How each part of Snipri works - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) - [Auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) - [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) - [Brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit) - [Clip editor](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor) - [All features](https://www.snipri.com/features) --- # YouTube clip maker: turn YouTube videos into clips Paste a link to one of your YouTube videos and get back the moments worth posting as Shorts, Reels and TikToks, each framed vertically and captioned. Or upload the original file, for the sharpest picture. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/tools/youtube-clip-maker - Updated: November 3, 2026 ## Can you make clips from a YouTube video? Yes. Paste a link to a public YouTube video you own or may use, or upload the file. Snipri reads the transcript for moments that make sense on their own, reframes them to 9:16 and captions every word. Links are fetched at up to 720p and up to 1 hour long, and an upload keeps its own resolution. Recordings can be in any of 25 languages, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically. - **15 to 60s**: Clip length by default, or choose 10 to 30s, 30 to 60s, 60 to 90s or 90s to 3 min - **Up to 10**: Clips from each job - **1080×1920**: Vertical by default; square or landscape in the editor - **Editable**: Word-level captions, restyled any time after export - **43 min**: Usual wait for your clips - **2 videos**: Free to start, up to 1 hour each, no credit card ## How to make clips from a YouTube video Three steps, and no editing skills needed. ### Paste the link or upload the file *A few clicks.* Paste a link to one public YouTube video or Short, or upload the file for full resolution, or pick it from Dropbox or Google Drive. ### Snipri finds the moments *About 43 minutes.* The transcript is read for moments that make sense without the rest of the video. Weak ones are dropped, not padded in. ### Review and post *Your call.* Check each clip, rewrite its title card if you like, and download it for Shorts, Reels or TikTok. *Clips from “Fireside Chat: Godot's Next Milestones” by Ben Vehling, Matt Ellis and Rémi Verschelde, GodotFest 2025 ([media.ccc.de](https://media.ccc.de/v/godotfest2025-fireside-chat-godots-next-milestones), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)), cut, reframed and captioned by Snipri, with the logos on the speakers' shirts painted out.* ## Why use Snipri as a YouTube clip maker ### YouTube videos at the resolution you have Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. An uploaded file keeps its own resolution, for a sharper crop. ### A hook title card on every YouTube clip Each clip opens on a title you can rewrite and hold on screen for 1 to 10 seconds. ### Clips from your YouTube video, scored Each clip shows its scores. Hook, payoff and standalone sense must each reach 7/10. ## AI clipping **Moments that work without the rest of the video.** The transcript of your YouTube video is read for moments a viewer would follow on their own, up to 10 of them, each with the reason it was kept. [How Snipri picks each clip](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) *A scene from “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, cut for this example, reframed and captioned by Snipri under a title written for it.* ## Auto reframe **YouTube's 16:9 made 9:16.** The crop follows the person on camera from shot to shot, and two or three people sharing a shot can get a pane each. [How auto reframe works](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) *The classroom lecture in the video above, by Physics 7B UC Davis under CC BY 4.0, as Snipri reframed it, with a logo on a laptop painted out.* ## Auto captions **Captions for a feed scrolled on mute.** Every word is timed from the video's transcript and captioned in the language it was spoken in, one of the 25 Snipri transcribes. [How animated captions work](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) *A scene from “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, cut for this example and burned by Snipri's renderer in the Badge look.* ## Make each clip yours before it posts. Rewrite the title card, trim or extend a clip, and add your channel's handle as a text layer. [How the clip editor works](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor) Sample clip in the editor: “The world’s changed, Celia” *A scene from “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, cut for this example and reframed by Snipri. Its words are the film's own captions.* ## What Snipri kept from a 53-minute lecture A real job: this lecture, run through Snipri with Academic as the kind of video and every other setting at its default. Snipri's AI scored 38 moments in it, and 16 of them cleared the bar: hook, payoff and standalone sense each reached 7 out of 10. It kept the ten strongest, the most clips one job returns. They are listed strongest first, in the order My clips gives them. The four strongest of those that missed it are under the clips, with the score that kept each one out. - The recording: 52:54 - Moments scored: 38 - Clips kept: 10 Recording: [“Reverse Engineering Life: A teardown of the DNA source code of a whole bacterium”](https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-34-reverse-engineering-life-a-teardown-of-the-dna-source-code-of-a-whole-bacterium) by bert hubert, WHY2025 ([CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), via [media.ccc.de](https://media.ccc.de/)), processed in Snipri. ### Booting a Virus From an 800-Byte File *7:43 to 8:34, 50 seconds.* Hook 8, payoff 8, standalone sense 8, arc 8, quotability 8. Gives a concrete size, then the result: upload the file to a DNA printer, put it in a human cell, and it generates the virus from scratch, from a floppy. The claim, mechanism and punchline stay together. ### The Random DNA That Was an Immune System *41:00 to 41:58, 58 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 9, standalone sense 7, arc 9, quotability 8. A discovery arc: 20 years of dismissing the spacers as random, then someone recognizes them as viral DNA, revealing a bacterial immune system stored as a virus signature file. The reveal and the explanation both land inside the clip. ### All Life Runs the Same DNA for 4 Billion Years *5:12 to 6:07, 54 seconds.* Hook 8, payoff 8, standalone sense 8, arc 7, quotability 8. Starts with the surprising universality of DNA, shows consequences (viruses inject it, bacteria make our insulin), and lands on the contrast with unreadable ten-year-old DVDs. It is complete and quotable. ### When Medical Software Stops at One Bad Line *39:33 to 40:04, 31 seconds.* Hook 8, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 8. A specific, alarming bug explained in one breath, then the punch: your disease might be beyond the malformed line, and it took nine years to close the pull request. The stakes make it work alone. ### Am I a Scientist or Just Fooling People? *2:51 to 3:18, 27 seconds.* Hook 8, payoff 7, standalone sense 8, arc 7, quotability 8. A self-deprecating credential check that builds from a blunt question to a punchline: maybe I'm not a scientist, but I fool a lot of people. It is self-contained and lands on a quotable line. ### DNA Storage Outlasts Any SSD by 200,000 Years *3:34 to 4:08, 34 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 8, arc 7, quotability 8. A single comparison: human storage versus DNA in density and durability, ending on the 200,000-year versus two-year SSD contrast. The numbers carry the payoff with no outside context needed. ### Why a $30 Million Synthetic Bacterium Failed *9:09 to 9:45, 36 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 8, quotability 8. Sets an expectation, breaks it ($30 million, nothing worked), then explains the cause: an unknown antiviral mechanism chopped up the new DNA. It ends on the line that truly knowing something means bootstrapping it. ### Why DNA Files Are Four Times Too Large *19:12 to 19:51, 39 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 8, arc 8, quotability 7. Poses a concrete inefficiency, then resolves it with the real reason: the N for unknown bases cannot fit in two bits. Clear question, explanation and wry ending. ### Biologists Keep Inventing Terrible File Formats *33:37 to 34:21, 44 seconds.* Hook 8, payoff 7, standalone sense 7, arc 7, quotability 8. A programmer's rant with a concrete case: a file format mixing space, tab and semicolon delimiters, then one-based addressing as the original sin that causes mountains of bugs. It has a clear build and a sharp ending. ### Why Bacterial Antivirus Doesn't Self-Destruct *43:16 to 44:13, 57 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 7, arc 8, quotability 7. A clean question and answer: using the malware-signature analogy, the bacteria only match when an extra implicit sequence follows, so their own signature file is spared. The paradox, mechanism and conclusion are all in the span. ### The closest calls, left out - **The One Missing Letter That Bricked a Genome**. *9:46 to 10:40, 54 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 8, standalone sense 6, arc 8, quotability 7. Left out on its standalone sense: 6, under the bar of 7. A debugging story with a clean resolution: one missed letter shifts every instruction because DNA has no addressing, and the fix brings the cell to life. It starts mid-story, so it relies on the prior setup of an emptied bacterium. - **Biologists Say It's Logical, Can't Explain It**. *24:08 to 25:00, 52 seconds.* Hook 6, payoff 8, standalone sense 6, arc 7, quotability 8. Left out on its hook and standalone sense: 6 each, under the bar of 7. Extends the parity mystery to longer strings, then delivers the sharp payoff of asking biologists why. They say it's completely logical, then can't explain it. - **The Fish With 33 GB of DNA Nobody Can Explain**. *15:22 to 16:17, 55 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 6, arc 7, quotability 7. Left out on its standalone sense: 6, under the bar of 7. Escalates from 14 MB for a plant to 750 MB for a human to a fish with 33 GB, and admits we don't know why. The escalation gives it shape, though it leans on slide references like this human and this fish. - **A Four-Billion-Year-Old Lookup Table**. *32:06 to 32:54, 47 seconds.* Hook 7, payoff 7, standalone sense 6, arc 6, quotability 8. Left out on its standalone sense: 6, under the bar of 7. Presents the genetic code as a table that has not changed in four billion years, with only tiny variations, and calls it a super Rosetta Stone. The opening joke and codon concept assume a little biology. ## Frequently asked questions ### Which YouTube links work? Links to one public YouTube video or Short, up to 1 hour long. Playlists and channels are not supported, and neither are private or members-only videos or streams that are still live. Only import videos you own or have permission to use. ### Why upload the file instead of pasting the link? A link is fetched at up to 720p, while an upload keeps its own resolution, and a vertical crop keeps about a third of a wide frame's width. An upload can also run longer: up to 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale. ### Can Snipri post the clips to YouTube for me? No. You download the clips and post them yourself, so nothing is published from your account. ### What did Snipri keep from a real lecture? From the 53-minute lecture on this page, “Reverse Engineering Life: A teardown of the DNA source code of a whole bacterium” (WHY2025), Snipri's AI scored 38 moments and kept ten, from 27 to 58 seconds long: the strongest of the 16 that cleared the bar, since one job returns at most ten. Each one comes with its five scores and the reason it was kept. ### Why would a strong moment be left out? Because hook, payoff and standalone sense are each a gate of their own. In this lecture, “The One Missing Letter That Bricked a Genome” scored 8 for payoff, but its standalone sense scored 6, under the bar of 7, so it was left out. A high score on one never makes up for a miss on another. And when more moments clear the bar than one job returns, as 16 did here, only the ten strongest become clips. ### Is Snipri free? 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. ## More ways to use Snipri - [Podcast clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker): Turn a full video podcast episode into captioned podcast clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Snipri keeps only the moments that make sense on their own. - [Interview clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/interview-clip-maker): Cut long interviews into captioned interview clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Snipri keeps answers that stand on their own and frames the speaker vertically. - [Webinar clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/webinar-clip-maker): Turn recorded webinars, talks and live sessions into captioned webinar clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Snipri keeps only the points that stand on their own. - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts): A YouTube Shorts maker for long videos. Snipri picks the moments that stand alone, reframes each one to 9:16, captions every word and hands back Shorts to post. - [How long can YouTube Shorts be?](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be): The current length limits for Shorts, the copyright rule past one minute, and how to plan a clip's length. ## How each part of Snipri works - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) - [Auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) - [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) - [Brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit) - [Clip editor](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor) - [All features](https://www.snipri.com/features) --- # Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri **Choose Snipri if** you clip long talking recordings, which it counts by the hour where Opus Clip counts each minute, and want clips that stay in your library for good. **Choose Opus Clip if** your videos are short, or you want posting and scheduling in the same tool, team seats, an XML export or AI clips longer than 3 minutes. Turn a long podcast or interview into captioned vertical clips, keeping only the moments that stand on their own. From $29.90/month, billed by the video. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 28, 2026 against Opus Clip's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Opus Clip Opus Clip counts credits and Snipri counts videos. Set the month you expect, and each side shows the cheapest plan that covers it. Monthly prices are compared with monthly ones, and yearly with yearly. Three example months, billed monthly: | Month | Snipri | Opus Clip | | --- | --- | --- | | A weekly hour-long show: 4 recordings of 60 minutes | Starter, $29.90/month | Pro, $29/month | | Three 45-minute interviews a week: 12 recordings of 45 minutes | Pro, $89.90/month | Pro with 2 packs, $58/month | | A 90-minute stream every day: 30 recordings of 90 minutes | Scale, $299/month | Pro with 9 packs, $261/month | One credit is one minute of the video imported. Pro comes in packs of 300 credits a month, up to 15. The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Opus Clip We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Opus Clip, feature by feature, checked October 28, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Opus Clip | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Monthly credits, one for each minute of the video you import | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Starter: $15/month for 150 credits, monthly billing only | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | 60 credits per month, an hour of video, with a watermark. Exports stay available for 3 days. | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Yes | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Not stated. Uploads up to 10 GB on Free and Starter, 30 GB on Pro | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | Up to 1080p on Free; the highest resolution available on paid plans | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | 20+ languages for animated captions | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Yes. The home page also lists Google Drive, Vimeo, Zoom, Rumble and Twitch links | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes. Direct posting from Starter; a social scheduler from Pro | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Limited API access on Pro; API and custom integrations on the custom Business plan | Sources: [Opus Clip pricing](https://www.opus.pro/pricing), [Opus Clip help center: How Do Credits Work?](https://help.opus.pro/docs/article/how-are-credits-consumed), [Opus Clip home page](https://www.opus.pro/), checked October 28, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Opus Clip pricing - Free: 60 credits per month, with a watermark; exports stay available for 3 days - Starter: $15/month, 150 credits, monthly billing only; exports stay available for 30 days - Pro: $29/month, or $14.50/month billed yearly ($174), for each pack of 300 credits a month, up to 15 packs; unused credits roll over for 2 months; 100 GB storage - Business: custom pricing ## Why choose Snipri over Opus Clip ### What Opus Clip's first paid plan buys Opus Clip's Starter is $15/month for 150 credits, billed monthly only, and its pricing page counts a credit as a minute of video processing: two and a half hours a month. At $29.90/month for 10 videos, Snipri's Starter takes recordings as long as 2 hours and counts one video for each hour of them, so it covers up to 10 hours a month. ### What ten hour-long episodes cost on each Ten one-hour episodes a month use 600 credits on Opus Clip, which takes Pro with 2 packs at $58/month. On Snipri they are ten videos, within Starter's 10 at $29.90/month. With less to clip, Opus Clip costs less: five hours a month fit one Pro pack at $29, and two and a half fit its Starter at $15. ### Clips you can come back to Everything Snipri makes stays in your library on every plan, Free included, ready to retitle or restyle months later. Opus Clip's pricing page limits exports to 3 days on Free and 30 days on Starter. ### When Opus Clip is the better fit - Your videos are short: thirty 5-minute videos fit in Starter's 150 credits for $15/month - You want clips posted or scheduled to TikTok, YouTube and Instagram from the same tool - You need team seats or an XML export to Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve - You want AI-picked clips longer than 3 minutes (Opus Clip lists clip lengths up to 15 minutes) ## How Opus Clip and Snipri work ### Opus Clip Opus Clip's home page names creators, media companies, marketers, podcasters, agencies and livestreamers. 1. Drop in a video link or upload a file. 2. The AI picks the highlights, arranges them into short videos and adds captions, reframing and transitions. 3. Post in one click or schedule from a calendar, or export XML to Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Source: [Opus Clip home page](https://www.opus.pro/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Opus Clip to Snipri - **What you bring:** Bring the original recordings: upload the files, or paste the links you gave Opus Clip. Clips you already downloaded from Opus Clip are yours to keep. - **What stays with Opus Clip:** Your projects, unused credits and post calendar stay with Opus Clip. Snipri does not post for you, so you download the clips and publish them yourself. ## Opus Clip: common questions ### Is Snipri cheaper than Opus Clip? For many months, no. Opus Clip charges a credit for each minute of the video you import: Starter is $15/month for 150 credits, and Pro $29/month, or $14.50/month billed yearly, for each pack of 300. Snipri's Starter is $29.90/month for 10 videos, one for each hour of a recording. Billed monthly, ten one-hour episodes come to $58 on Opus Clip and $29.90 on Snipri, but four come to $29 on Opus Clip and $29.90 on Snipri, and thirty 5-minute videos to $15 on Opus Clip and $89.90 on Snipri, which counts each one under an hour as a video. The cost check on this page prices the month you set. ### Does Snipri post to TikTok or YouTube like Opus Clip? No. Snipri never publishes on your behalf. You download the finished clips and post them where you like. If direct posting matters to you, Opus Clip is the better fit. ### Does Snipri have a virality score? No, and on purpose. Nothing can tell you in advance what will spread. Instead, Snipri shows the scores it actually selects on, five per clip: hook, payoff, standalone sense, arc, quotability. Whether a clip is worth posting stays your call. ### Can I choose the clip length or clip only part of a video? Yes. Before a job starts you choose between letting Snipri pick the moments and One clip, which keeps up to 10 minutes as a single clip. When Snipri picks, you can also set the kind of video and any moments to look for. Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead. From an uploaded file you can keep one continuous part of the video: that stretch alone must fit your plan's longest video, and Snipri counts only its hours, one video per hour or part of one. ### Which languages does Snipri caption? Snipri transcribes and captions 25 languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Choose the spoken language when you add a video, or let Snipri detect it. Snipri does not translate captions: they are written in the language you pick or the one it detects. Opus Clip's pricing page lists animated captions in 20+ languages. ### Is Opus Clip free? It has a free plan with a watermark: 60 credits a month, which at a credit a minute clip an hour of video, and exports of up to 1080p that stay available for 3 days. Snipri's free plan is 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, given once and never refilled, with a watermark too, and the clips stay in your library for good. ## Other tools like Opus Clip - [Klap alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap) - [Vizard alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard) - [Vidyo.ai alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vidyo-ai) - [WayinVideo alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wayinvideo) - [2short.ai alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/2short-ai) - [SendShort alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/sendshort) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Opus Clip comparison - [Opus Clip pricing](https://www.opus.pro/pricing) (opus.pro) - [Opus Clip help center: How Do Credits Work?](https://help.opus.pro/docs/article/how-are-credits-consumed) (help.opus.pro) - [Opus Clip home page](https://www.opus.pro/) (opus.pro) Checked on October 28, 2026. Prices change, so check Opus Clip's pages before you buy. Opus Clip is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # The Klap alternative for podcasts and interviews **Choose Snipri if** what you clip is long recordings, you would rather pay by their hours however many clips you keep, and you want the reasons for each pick on screen. **Choose Klap if** you want clips posted to your accounts from the same tool, publish in one of the many languages Snipri lacks, or want lots of clips from short videos. Pay for the videos you bring, not the clips you get. Snipri turns long conversations into captioned vertical clips from $29.90/month, billed monthly. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against Klap's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Klap Klap counts clips and Snipri counts videos. Set the month you expect, and each side shows the cheapest plan that covers it. Monthly prices are compared with monthly ones, and yearly with yearly. Three example months, billed monthly: | Month | Snipri | Klap | | --- | --- | --- | | A weekly hour-long show: 4 recordings of 60 minutes, 5 clips kept from each | Starter, $29.90/month | Basic, $29/month | | Three 45-minute interviews a week: 12 recordings of 45 minutes, 5 clips kept from each | Pro, $89.90/month | Basic, $29/month | | A 90-minute stream every day: 30 recordings of 90 minutes, 5 clips kept from each | Scale, $299/month | Pro, $79/month | The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Klap We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Klap, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Klap | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Generated clips per month | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Basic: $29/month, or $14/month billed yearly, 100 clips per month | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | One free video, according to the home page FAQ | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Not stated on the pricing page | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Not stated | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | Not stated | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | 52 languages for editing and transcription | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Yes. A YouTube link or a file upload | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes. Unlimited social accounts on every plan, with publishing and scheduling to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Not stated on the pricing page | Sources: [Klap pricing](https://klap.app/pricing), [Klap home page and FAQ](https://klap.app/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Klap pricing - Basic: $29/month or $14/month billed yearly, 100 clips per month - Pro: $79/month or $39/month billed yearly, 300 clips per month - Pro+: $189/month or $94/month billed yearly, 1,000 clips per month ## Why choose Snipri over Klap ### Billed by the hour of video, not by the clip Klap counts the clips it generates. Snipri counts each hour of a video, so keeping more or fewer clips from the same episode costs the same, and a video that gives no clips is not counted. ### What Klap's first paid plan buys Klap's Basic is $29/month for 100 clips. Snipri's Starter, at $29.90/month for 10 videos, can give up to as many: an hour-long recording is one video with up to 10 clips, so up to 100 a month. A Snipri video gives only the clips that pass its standalone check, so it can give fewer. ### Fewer clips, each one complete Klap's FAQ describes a 3-minute video becoming 5 clips. Snipri leaves out any moment that needs the rest of the episode to make sense, as in the job pictured, where a long fireside chat gave only the clips that stood alone. ### When Klap is the better fit - You speak a language on Klap's list of 52 that is not yet on Snipri's - You want clips posted to your social accounts from the same tool, with unlimited accounts on every plan - You want many clips from short videos - You want up to 100 clips a month for less: Basic is $29, or $14/month billed yearly ## How Klap and Snipri work ### Klap Klap writes its home page for talking videos: podcasts, interviews, educational videos and product reviews. 1. Paste a YouTube link or upload a file. 2. Klap finds the most interesting topics and turns them into vertical clips with AI captions and reframing. 3. Publish or schedule the clips to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn from Klap. Source: [Klap home page](https://klap.app/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Klap to Snipri - **What you bring:** Bring the same recordings: upload the files or paste the YouTube links you gave Klap. Each hour of a recording is one Snipri video, however many clips you keep from it. - **What stays with Klap:** Clips already generated, connected social accounts and scheduled posts stay in Klap. Snipri does not publish, so you download each clip and post it to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram or LinkedIn yourself. ## Klap: common questions ### What is the difference between paying per clip and per video? Klap counts the clips it generates. Snipri counts videos: each hour of a recording you clip is one video, whether it gives three clips or ten, and one that gives no clips is not counted. If you want many clips from short videos, per clip can suit you; if you bring long recordings and keep only the strongest moments, per video usually does. ### Which Klap plan matches Snipri's Starter? By clips, Klap's Basic: 100 clips per month for $29, or $14/month billed yearly. Snipri's Starter costs $29.90/month, or $23.91/month billed yearly, and its 10 videos can give up to 100 clips if every one is an hour-long recording that gives the most a job returns. Set your own month in the cost check above to compare the two plans on your recordings. ### Can Snipri make as many clips per video as Klap? No. Snipri returns at most 10 clips per job, and only moments that pass its standalone check. Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead. Each job makes at most 10 minutes of clips, so longer clips mean fewer of them. It is built to give you fewer clips you can post without further editing. ### Does Snipri support languages other than English? Yes. Snipri transcribes and captions 25 languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Choose the spoken language when you add a video, or let Snipri detect it. Klap's home page lists 52, so if yours is not on Snipri's list, Klap is the better fit. ### Can I paste a YouTube link into Snipri, as in Klap? Yes. Klap takes a YouTube link or a file upload, and Snipri takes the link of a public YouTube video too, up to 1 hour long like any link, beside uploads and Dropbox or Google Drive picks. Private, members-only and live videos are not supported. ### Can I try Klap for free? Klap's home page FAQ offers one free video, and its pricing page lists only paid plans, from Basic at $29/month. Snipri's free plan gives a new account 2 free videos, up to 1 hour each and watermarked, with no card asked, so one recording can go through both before you pay for either. ## Other tools like Klap - [Vizard alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard) - [Vidyo.ai alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vidyo-ai) - [WayinVideo alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wayinvideo) - [2short.ai alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/2short-ai) - [SendShort alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/sendshort) - [Cutlabs alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/cutlabs) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Klap comparison - [Klap pricing](https://klap.app/pricing) (klap.app) - [Klap home page and FAQ](https://klap.app/) (klap.app) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check Klap's pages before you buy. Klap is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # The Vizard alternative for podcasts and interviews **Choose Snipri if** you would rather count recordings in hours than in minutes, and want full-size clips on the free plan too. **Choose Vizard if** you need 4K export, scheduling across several social accounts, a team workspace, subtitle translation or an API on the free plan. One job, done plainly: long conversations in, captioned 9:16 clips out. Fixed monthly plans from $29.90, billed by the video. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against Vizard's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Vizard Vizard counts credits and Snipri counts videos. Set the month you expect, and each side shows the cheapest plan that covers it. Monthly prices are compared with monthly ones, and yearly with yearly. Three example months, billed monthly: | Month | Snipri | Vizard | | --- | --- | --- | | A weekly hour-long show: 4 recordings of 60 minutes | Starter, $29.90/month | Creator 600, $29/month | | Three 45-minute interviews a week: 12 recordings of 45 minutes | Pro, $89.90/month | Creator 600, $29/month | | A 90-minute stream every day: 30 recordings of 90 minutes | Scale, $299/month | No plan covers it. This month needs 2,700 credits. The largest Vizard plan with a monthly price gives 2,600 per month. | The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Vizard We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Vizard, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Vizard | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Credits; one credit is one minute of video | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Creator: $29/month, or $14.50/month billed yearly ($174), 600 credits per month | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | 60 credits per month, 720p exports, media kept for 3 days | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Yes | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Uploads up to 600 minutes and 30 GB on Creator; 60 minutes and 1 GB on Free | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | Up to 4K on Creator and Business; 720p on Free | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | Subtitles translated into 100+ languages, per the home page | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Not stated on the pricing page | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes. Scheduling from Creator, with 6 social accounts on Creator and 20 on Business | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Yes, on every plan, limited to 1, 3 and 10 requests a minute by plan | Sources: [Vizard pricing](https://vizard.ai/pricing), [Vizard home page](https://vizard.ai/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Vizard pricing - Free: 60 credits per month, 720p exports, media kept for 3 days - Creator: $29/month for 600 credits, or $14.50/month billed yearly ($174 for 7,200 credits), in tiers up to 2,600 credits for $124/month - Business: from $39/month for 600 credits, or $19.50/month billed yearly ($234), with 20 social accounts and team tools ## Why choose Snipri over Vizard ### Counted by the hour, not the minute Vizard counts every minute you upload as a credit, so a 90-minute episode uses 90 credits. Snipri counts one video for each hour, rounded up, so the same episode is two videos. Starter takes recordings of up to 2 hours and Pro up to 3 hours. ### Ten hour-long episodes on either first plan Ten one-hour episodes are 600 credits on Vizard, which Creator covers for $29/month or $14.50/month billed yearly. Counted on Snipri, they are ten videos, within Starter's 10 a month at $29.90/month. ### 1080p export on the free plan Every Snipri clip, free or paid, is exported at 1080 by 1920, or square or landscape if you switch it in the editor. Free has no lower export size. Vizard's free plan exports at 720p and keeps media for 3 days. ### When Vizard is the better fit - You need 4K export or uploads up to 30 GB - You want scheduling, several social accounts and a team workspace - You want API access on the free plan - You want subtitles translated into another language ## How Vizard and Snipri work ### Vizard Vizard's home page names marketers, creators, podcasters, coaches and agencies. 1. Upload a video. 2. Vizard transcribes it, tells the speakers apart, cuts the highlights and makes them vertical. 3. Download the clips, share a link or publish from Vizard, and translate the subtitles if you need to. Source: [Vizard home page](https://vizard.ai/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Vizard to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the same source files. A recording Vizard counted minute by minute counts in Snipri as one video for each hour of it, up to your plan's length. - **What stays with Vizard:** Unused credits, your team workspace and scheduled posts stay with Vizard, and Snipri has no 4K export yet. ## Vizard: common questions ### Do Snipri and Vizard bill the same way? No. Vizard's credits are minutes of uploaded video. Snipri counts one video for each hour of a recording, rounded up, so an hour-long recording counts the same as a ten-minute one. Vizard prices Creator in tiers by the number of credits you choose, monthly or yearly. ### What does a month of ten episodes cost on each? On Vizard, 600 credits, one a minute, which its first Creator tier covers for $29/month, or $14.50/month billed yearly. On Snipri, ten videos, one an episode, which Starter covers for $29.90/month. Longer episodes cost more on both: on Vizard a credit for every minute, on Snipri a video for each hour or part of one, up to 2 hours each on Starter. ### Does Snipri export in 4K? No. Clips are rendered at 1080 by 1920, the native size for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, and the editor can switch a clip to square (1080 by 1080) or landscape (1920 by 1080). If you need 4K, Vizard offers it on paid plans. ### How long and how large can a recording be on Vizard and on Snipri? Vizard's Creator takes uploads of up to 600 minutes and 30 GB, and its free plan up to 60 minutes and 1 GB. In one job Snipri clips up to 1 hour from a file of up to 1 GB on Free, 2 hours from a file of up to 3 GB on Starter and 3 hours from a file of up to 10 GB on Pro and Scale. A longer upload can be clipped one part at a time, each part counted on its own, but Creator takes a recording of up to ten hours in one piece. ### How long do clips stay available? Snipri clips never expire on any plan, including Free. Vizard's free plan keeps media for 3 days. ### Which free plan gives more, Vizard's or Snipri's? Vizard's renews: 60 credits a month, an hour of video at one credit a minute, exported at 720p, with media kept for 3 days. Snipri's 2 free videos of up to 1 hour each come once, with a watermark, but at 1080 by 1920, the size its paid plans export, and the clips never expire. Vizard's lasts longer; Snipri's shows what a paid plan makes. ## Other tools like Vizard - [Vidyo.ai alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vidyo-ai) - [WayinVideo alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wayinvideo) - [2short.ai alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/2short-ai) - [SendShort alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/sendshort) - [Cutlabs alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/cutlabs) - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Vizard comparison - [Vizard pricing](https://vizard.ai/pricing) (vizard.ai) - [Vizard home page](https://vizard.ai/) (vizard.ai) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check Vizard's pages before you buy. Vizard is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # The Vidyo.ai alternative for long recordings **Choose Snipri if** your recordings are long, since quso.ai's credits run out about a minute at a time, and you want the scores behind each clip. **Choose quso.ai if** you schedule to several platforms, need captions in one of its 99 languages, or import from LinkedIn, Loom, X or Zoom links. Vidyo.ai is now quso.ai, and it still sells credits. Snipri counts each hour of a recording as one video and keeps the clips that stand on their own, from $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vidyo-ai - Updated: November 3, 2026 **Renamed.** Vidyo.ai became quso.ai in January 2025. quso.ai says the login, the plan and the features stayed the same, so this page compares Snipri with quso.ai's current plans. [quso.ai on the Vidyo.ai name change](https://quso.ai/vidyo-ai) Checked on October 22, 2026 against Vidyo.ai's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vidyo-ai#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Vidyo.ai Vidyo.ai counts credits and Snipri counts videos. Set the month you expect, and each side shows the cheapest plan that covers it. Monthly prices are compared with monthly ones, and yearly with yearly. Three example months, billed monthly: | Month | Snipri | Vidyo.ai | | --- | --- | --- | | A weekly hour-long show: 4 recordings of 60 minutes | Starter, $29.90/month | Essential, $39/month | | Three 45-minute interviews a week: 12 recordings of 45 minutes | Pro, $89.90/month | Growth, $49/month | | A 90-minute stream every day: 30 recordings of 90 minutes | Scale, $299/month | No plan covers it. This month needs 2,700 credits. The largest Vidyo.ai plan with a monthly price gives 600 per month. | quso.ai counts one credit as about one minute of processed video. The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vidyo-ai#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Vidyo.ai We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Vidyo.ai, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Vidyo.ai | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Credits; one credit is about one minute of processed video | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Lite: $29/month, or $174 billed yearly ($14.50/month), 100 credits per month | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | 75 credits per month, 720p with a quso.ai watermark, clips kept for 7 days | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Not stated for Lite; Free exports carry a quso.ai watermark | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Not stated | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | 1080p on paid plans; 720p on Free | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | 99 languages for captions | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Yes; also Vimeo, X, Facebook, Twitch, Rumble, Loom, LinkedIn, Zoom, Google Drive and Dropbox | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes. TikTok on Free; scheduling to 7 platforms from Essential, per the pricing page | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Not stated | Sources: [quso.ai on the Vidyo.ai name change](https://quso.ai/vidyo-ai), [quso.ai pricing](https://quso.ai/pricing), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Vidyo.ai pricing - Free: 75 credits per month, 720p with a watermark, clips kept for 7 days - Lite: $29/month or $174/year, 100 credits per month, unlimited 1080p clips - Essential: $39/month or $234/year, 300 credits per month, scheduling to 7 platforms - Growth: $49/month or $294/year, 600 credits per month ## Why choose Snipri over Vidyo.ai ### An hour-long episode is one video quso.ai says one credit is about one minute of processed video, so Lite's 100 credits a month cover under two hours. Snipri's Starter counts 10 videos, and an hour-long episode is one of them. ### Ten episodes on the first plan Ten one-hour episodes need about 600 credits on quso.ai, its Growth plan at $49/month or $294 a year. On Snipri they are ten videos, which Starter covers for $29.90/month. ### Restyle a clip months later quso.ai's free plan keeps clips for 7 days. Snipri's clips never expire on any plan, so you can come back months later to retitle or restyle one. ### When Vidyo.ai is the better fit - You schedule clips to several platforms (quso.ai lists 7 on Essential) - You need captions in a language Snipri lacks (quso.ai lists 99) - You import from LinkedIn, Loom, X, Facebook, Rumble or Zoom links ## How Vidyo.ai and Snipri work ### Vidyo.ai quso.ai presents itself as a social media workspace: clipping, captions and scheduling in one place. 1. Upload a file or paste a link from YouTube, Vimeo, X, Facebook, Twitch, Rumble, Loom, LinkedIn, Zoom, Google Drive or Dropbox. 2. quso.ai finds clips, reframes them and adds animated captions, in any of 99 languages. 3. Schedule them to your social platforms from the same workspace. Source: [quso.ai on Vidyo.ai](https://quso.ai/vidyo-ai) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Vidyo.ai to Snipri - **What you bring:** Your Vidyo.ai login already opens quso.ai, so download what you want to keep there. Then upload the source recordings to Snipri, where each hour of a recording counts as one video. - **What stays with Vidyo.ai:** Scheduled posts and connected social accounts stay in quso.ai. Snipri does not post. ## Vidyo.ai: common questions ### Is Vidyo.ai the same as quso.ai? Yes. Vidyo.ai changed its name to quso.ai in January 2025, and quso.ai says the login, the plan and the features you used stayed the same. Its prices and limits on this page are quso.ai's, as listed on October 22, 2026. ### How many episodes does a quso.ai plan cover? quso.ai says one credit is about one minute of processed video. Lite's 100 credits a month cover about 100 minutes, Essential's 300 about five hours and Growth's 600 about ten. Snipri's Starter counts 10 videos of up to 2 hours each, and a job gives up to 10 clips. ### Which caption languages does Snipri support? Snipri transcribes and captions 25 languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Choose the spoken language when you add a video, or let Snipri detect it. quso.ai lists captions in 99, so for a language outside Snipri's list it is the better fit. ### Are Snipri's free clips watermarked like quso.ai's? Yes, the free plan's 2 videos export with a watermark, at full size. quso.ai's free plan exports at 720p with its watermark and keeps clips for 7 days; Snipri's never expire. ## Other tools like Vidyo.ai - [WayinVideo alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wayinvideo) - [2short.ai alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/2short-ai) - [SendShort alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/sendshort) - [Cutlabs alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/cutlabs) - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip) - [Klap alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Vidyo.ai comparison - [quso.ai on the Vidyo.ai name change](https://quso.ai/vidyo-ai) (quso.ai) - [quso.ai pricing](https://quso.ai/pricing) (quso.ai) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check Vidyo.ai's pages before you buy. Vidyo.ai is a trademark of its owner, as is quso.ai. Snipri is not affiliated with either. --- # WayinVideo pricing vs Snipri **Choose Snipri if** you want to read from the plan itself how many recordings a month it covers, and want each clip's scores in front of you. **Choose WayinVideo if** you import from TikTok, Instagram, Twitch or Kick links, want summaries and translation in one place, or pay by the year from $4.99 a month. Count hours of recording, not credits. Snipri turns a long recording into captioned vertical clips and counts one video for each hour of it, from $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wayinvideo - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against WayinVideo's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wayinvideo#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and WayinVideo Set the month you expect to see the Snipri plan that covers it. WayinVideo's pricing page does not say what one credit buys and points to its help center, so a month cannot be priced from it. The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wayinvideo#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. WayinVideo We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and WayinVideo, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | WayinVideo | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Credits; the pricing page links to the help center for what a credit buys | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Starter: $13.99/month, or $4.99/month billed yearly, 500 credits per month (6,000 upfront on yearly) | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | 100 credits once, not renewed | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Not stated on the pricing page | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Not stated | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | Not stated | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | 100+ languages, per the home page | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Yes; also Vimeo, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch and Kick links, and MP4, MOV or WebM files | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes, publishing is listed on the home page | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Yes, including AI clipping and Find Moments | Sources: [WayinVideo pricing](https://wayin.ai/pricing/), [WayinVideo home page](https://wayin.ai/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### WayinVideo pricing - Free: 100 credits once, not renewed - Starter: $13.99/month, or $4.99/month billed yearly, 500 credits per month - Pro: $26.99/month, or $9.58/month billed yearly, 1,000 credits per month - Scale: $139.99/month, or $69.99/month billed yearly, 6,000 credits per month - Enterprise: custom pricing ## Why choose Snipri over WayinVideo ### An hour of recording is one video WayinVideo's plans give credits, and its pricing page sends you to the help center for what they buy. Snipri counts one video for each hour of a recording, rounded up, whether it gives 3 clips or 10. ### Clips scored before you see them Snipri scores every candidate moment five ways (hook, payoff, standalone sense, arc, quotability), and the first three decide whether it is kept. The scores stay beside the clip. ### Edits that never use another video Trim or split a clip, rewrite its title card or switch it to square, as often as you like. It re-renders from the clip you have, without counting another video. ### When WayinVideo is the better fit - You import from TikTok, Instagram, Twitch or Kick links - You want summaries and translation in the same tool - You pay by the year and want the lowest entry price ($4.99/month on Starter) - You publish in a language Snipri does not support (WayinVideo lists 100+) ## How WayinVideo and Snipri work ### WayinVideo WayinVideo's home page presents one workspace for clipping, summaries, captions and translation. 1. Paste a link from YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch or Kick, or upload an MP4, MOV or WebM file. 2. AI clipping finds the moments; edit by transcript, summarise, caption, reframe or translate. 3. Publish from WayinVideo, or build on its API. Source: [WayinVideo home page](https://wayin.ai/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from WayinVideo to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the source files or paste the same YouTube links. In Snipri a recording counts one video per hour, however many clips it gives. - **What stays with WayinVideo:** Unused credits, summaries and translations stay in WayinVideo; Snipri writes captions only in the language spoken, with no translation. ## WayinVideo: common questions ### What does a WayinVideo credit buy? Its pricing page does not say; it points to the help center. That is why the cost check on this page cannot price a WayinVideo month. A Snipri video is up to an hour of one recording, whatever it gives. ### Is WayinVideo cheaper than Snipri? By the month on the page, yes: its Starter is $13.99/month, or $4.99/month billed yearly. Snipri's first plan, Starter, costs $29.90/month for 10 videos, one per hour of a recording. What WayinVideo's 500 credits a month clip is not stated on its pricing page, so the two cannot be set side by side on a month of recordings. ### Does Snipri translate captions like WayinVideo? No. Snipri writes captions in the language spoken, in any of the 25 it transcribes, chosen when you add the video or detected. WayinVideo lists translation, so for subtitles in another language it is the better fit. ### Which links can Snipri import? Links to public video pages and direct video files, public YouTube videos included, and files picked from Dropbox or Google Drive, up to 1 hour long. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p, so upload the original file when you want the sharpest picture. ### Do WayinVideo's free credits renew? No. WayinVideo gives 100 credits once, and its pricing page does not say how much video they clip. Snipri's free plan is also given once: 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, with a watermark, and the clips never expire. ## Other tools like WayinVideo - [2short.ai alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/2short-ai) - [SendShort alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/sendshort) - [Cutlabs alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/cutlabs) - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip) - [Klap alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap) - [Vizard alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the WayinVideo comparison - [WayinVideo pricing](https://wayin.ai/pricing/) (wayin.ai) - [WayinVideo home page](https://wayin.ai/) (wayin.ai) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check WayinVideo's pages before you buy. WayinVideo is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # The 2short.ai alternative for podcasts and interviews **Choose Snipri if** your recordings have no captions yet, or you work from files rather than links, and want one count to cover the whole job. **Choose 2short.ai if** you clip many short videos from links, where its hours go further, or want a free allowance that comes back every month. Paste a public YouTube link, upload a file or pick it from the cloud, and keep only the moments that stand on their own. Captioned vertical clips from $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/2short-ai - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against 2short.ai's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/2short-ai#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and 2short.ai 2short.ai counts hours of analysis and Snipri counts videos. Set the month you expect, and each side shows the cheapest plan that covers it. Monthly prices are compared with monthly ones, and yearly with yearly. Three example months, billed monthly: | Month | Snipri | 2short.ai | | --- | --- | --- | | A weekly hour-long show: 4 recordings of 60 minutes | Starter, $29.90/month | Lite, $9.90/month | | Three 45-minute interviews a week: 12 recordings of 45 minutes | Pro, $89.90/month | Pro, $19.90/month | | A 90-minute stream every day: 30 recordings of 90 minutes | Scale, $299/month | Premium, $49.90/month | The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/2short-ai#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. 2short.ai We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and 2short.ai, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | 2short.ai | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Hours of AI video analysis per month | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Lite: $9.90/month, 5 hours of analysis and 60 minutes of fast exports | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | 30 minutes of analysis per month (another part of the site says 15) | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Yes, according to the site | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Not stated | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | 1080p | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | 26 languages | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Yes, the main workflow; Google Drive and public links from Lite | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Not stated | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Not stated | Source: [2short.ai home page and plans](https://2short.ai/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### 2short.ai pricing - Free: 30 minutes of analysis per month - Lite: $9.90/month, 5 hours of analysis - Pro: $19.90/month, 15 hours of analysis, unlimited fast exports - Premium: $49.90/month, 50 hours of analysis ## Why choose Snipri over 2short.ai ### Any recording, captioned or not 2short.ai is built around pasting a YouTube link, and its site says it can only process videos that have captions. Snipri transcribes the speech itself, so a video without captions works too, and it takes public YouTube video links, file uploads, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. ### Captions you can restyle later Word-level captions in the style you pick, with word highlights, a background box in any colour, and a font you upload. Changing them re-renders the clip without using another video. ### One allowance for the whole job 2short.ai meters analysis hours and, on Lite, fast exports separately. Snipri counts only the recording, one video for each hour of it, and selection, reframing, captions and export are all part of that. ### When 2short.ai is the better fit - You clip many short videos, where hours of analysis go further than a count of videos (Lite lists 5 hours for $9.90) - You publish in a language Snipri doesn't support yet (26 are listed) - You want a recurring free allowance every month ## How 2short.ai and Snipri work ### 2short.ai 2short.ai's site is built for YouTube creators who start from a link. 1. Copy a YouTube link and paste it in; from Lite, Google Drive and other public links work too. 2. 2short.ai analyses the video, which has to have captions already, and suggests short clips. 3. Export the clips in 1080p. Source: [2short.ai home page](https://2short.ai/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from 2short.ai to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the recordings themselves, captioned or not, or pick them from the cloud. Each one counts as one video for each hour of it, rounded up, however long it took to analyse on 2short.ai. - **What stays with 2short.ai:** Unused analysis hours stay with 2short.ai. Snipri's allowance is videos, not hours, and it does not carry over from another tool. ## 2short.ai: common questions ### Which one gives more video for the money? By the hour of video, 2short.ai. Its Lite plan lists 5 hours of analysis for $9.90 a month, however many videos that is, and Snipri's Starter is 10 videos for $29.90 a month, one for each hour of a recording. The hours buy different things, though: 2short.ai needs videos that already have captions, while Snipri's allowance covers the whole job, including transcription, captions, reframing and export, and restyling or trimming afterwards never uses another video. ### Does 2short.ai need captions on the video? Its site says it can only process videos that have captions. Snipri transcribes the speech itself, word by word, so a recording straight from your camera or a call works, and the transcript is what it picks the moments from. ### Can I upload a file to Snipri instead of pasting a link? Yes. Upload a file, choose one from Dropbox or Google Drive, or paste a supported video link, including a public YouTube video. ### How do the free plans of 2short.ai and Snipri compare? 2short.ai's free plan gives 30 minutes of analysis a month, though another part of its site says 15, and it renews. Snipri's gives 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, and only those free clips carry a watermark: every paid plan exports without one. ## Other tools like 2short.ai - [SendShort alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/sendshort) - [Cutlabs alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/cutlabs) - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip) - [Klap alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap) - [Vizard alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard) - [Vidyo.ai alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vidyo-ai) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the 2short.ai comparison - [2short.ai home page and plans](https://2short.ai/) (2short.ai) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check 2short.ai's pages before you buy. 2short.ai is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # The SendShort alternative for full-length recordings **Choose Snipri if** you clip long recordings and want every plan to do it, counted by the hour of recording rather than per short. **Choose SendShort if** you post every day and want shorts scheduled to TikTok and YouTube, B-roll added, exports up to 4K at 60 fps, or captions in over 100 languages. SendShort sells shorts by the month, and its first plan does not cut long videos. Snipri counts long recordings by the hour, not by the short, on every plan, from $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/sendshort - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against SendShort's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/sendshort#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and SendShort SendShort counts shorts and Snipri counts videos. Set the month you expect, and each side shows the cheapest plan that covers it. Monthly prices are compared with monthly ones, and yearly with yearly. Three example months, billed monthly: | Month | Snipri | SendShort | | --- | --- | --- | | A weekly hour-long show: 4 recordings of 60 minutes, 5 clips kept from each | Starter, $29.90/month | Professional, $29/month | | Three 45-minute interviews a week: 12 recordings of 45 minutes, 5 clips kept from each | Pro, $89.90/month | Business, $59/month | | A 90-minute stream every day: 30 recordings of 90 minutes, 5 clips kept from each | Scale, $299/month | Business, $59/month | SendShort's Starter is left out: it does not turn long videos into shorts. The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/sendshort#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. SendShort We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and SendShort, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | SendShort | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Shorts per month, each up to a set length | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Starter: $19/month, or $15/month billed yearly, 20 shorts of up to 90 seconds; long videos to shorts from Professional, $29/month | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | 3 free videos to start | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Yes | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Not stated for the long video; shorts of up to 90 seconds on Starter, 3 minutes on Professional and 10 on Business | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | 1080p on Starter, 2K on Professional, 4K at 60 fps on Business | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | Over 100 languages | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Yes. A file or a YouTube link | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes. A TikTok and YouTube scheduler on every plan, with unlimited social accounts | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Yes, from Professional; the page also lists it under Business | Sources: [SendShort pricing](https://sendshort.ai/pricing), [SendShort home page](https://sendshort.ai/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### SendShort pricing - Starter: $19/month or $15/month billed yearly, 20 shorts per month of up to 90 seconds, 1080p, no long video to shorts - Professional: $29/month or $23/month billed yearly, 50 shorts per month of up to 3 minutes, 2K, long video to shorts, API - Business: $59/month or $47/month billed yearly, unlimited shorts of up to 10 minutes, 4K at 60 fps ## Why choose Snipri over SendShort ### Counted by the hour, not by the short SendShort's Professional plan makes 50 shorts a month, so ten clips from each of five episodes use all of them. Snipri counts a recording as one video for each hour of it, whether it keeps 3 clips or 10. ### Long videos on the first paid plan SendShort turns long videos into shorts from Professional, $29/month; its Starter makes shorts but does not cut long videos. Every Snipri plan does, the free one included, and Starter is $29.90/month for 10 hour-long recordings. ### Every edit is on the house Trim a clip, split it in two, change its captions or retype its title card as often as you like. Snipri re-renders it from the clip you already have and never counts another video for it. ### When SendShort is the better fit - You publish every day and want TikTok and YouTube posts scheduled from the same tool - You want B-roll and zooms added to your shorts - You want exports in 2K, or 4K at 60 fps on Business - You need captions in a language Snipri lacks (SendShort lists over 100) ## How SendShort and Snipri work ### SendShort SendShort's home page says it is built for people who publish every day. 1. Upload a video file or paste a YouTube link. 2. SendShort picks moments it scores for retention and adds captions, B-roll and zooms. 3. Schedule the shorts to TikTok and YouTube from the same account. Source: [SendShort home page](https://sendshort.ai/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from SendShort to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the long recordings or paste the same YouTube links. Each counts in Snipri as one video for each hour of it, whatever number of clips it gives. - **What stays with SendShort:** Scheduled posts, connected accounts and B-roll stay with SendShort. Snipri gives you finished files to post yourself. ## SendShort: common questions ### Does SendShort's Starter plan turn long videos into shorts? No. Its pricing page lists long video to shorts from Professional, $29/month or $23/month billed yearly. Starter makes 20 shorts a month of up to 90 seconds. Every Snipri plan clips long recordings, the free one included. ### Is SendShort cheaper than Snipri? Its Starter costs less, $19/month, but makes 20 shorts of up to 90 seconds and does not clip long videos. For that SendShort starts at Professional, $29/month or $23/month billed yearly, for 50 shorts. Snipri's Starter is $29.90/month for 10 videos of up to 2 hours each, counted by the hour. ### Does Snipri add B-roll or post to TikTok? No to both. Snipri keeps the speaker's own footage, reframed to 9:16 and captioned, and it connects to no social account. You download each clip and post it yourself. ### How long can my recording be in Snipri? Up to 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale. From one recording Snipri keeps up to 10 clips, and the recording counts as one video for each hour of it, rounded up. ### Can I try SendShort and Snipri for free? SendShort gives 3 free videos to start. Snipri's free plan clips 2 long recordings of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark: the long-video clipping its paid plans do, which SendShort sells from Professional. ## Other tools like SendShort - [Cutlabs alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/cutlabs) - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip) - [Klap alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap) - [Vizard alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard) - [Vidyo.ai alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vidyo-ai) - [WayinVideo alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wayinvideo) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the SendShort comparison - [SendShort pricing](https://sendshort.ai/pricing) (sendshort.ai) - [SendShort home page](https://sendshort.ai/) (sendshort.ai) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check SendShort's pages before you buy. SendShort is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # The Cutlabs alternative with every limit published **Choose Snipri if** you want to know a plan's price, length limit and upload size before you sign up, and see how each clip scored. **Choose Cutlabs if** you want Moment Search to find a particular moment in a video, and are happy to learn its paid prices after signing up. Cutlabs finds highlights in a video but publishes no prices or limits. Snipri lists both: 10 videos a month of up to 2 hours each on Starter, for $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/cutlabs - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against Cutlabs' own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/cutlabs#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Cutlabs Set the month you expect to see the Snipri plan that covers it. Cutlabs' site publishes no prices, so a month cannot be priced. The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/cutlabs#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Cutlabs We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Cutlabs, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Cutlabs | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Not stated | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Not stated; the site links no pricing page | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | Yes, with watermarked downloads and a limit on projects and clips | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Not stated; free downloads carry one | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Not stated | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | Not stated | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | Not stated | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Not stated | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Not stated | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Not stated | Source: [Cutlabs home page](https://cutlabs.ai/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Cutlabs pricing - Free: watermarked downloads, a limited number of projects and clips - Paid plans: not published on the site as of October 22, 2026 ## Why choose Snipri over Cutlabs ### Limits you can read before you upload Cutlabs' site says its free plan limits projects and clips without giving numbers, and links no pricing page. Snipri states each limit: Starter is 10 videos a month, each up to 2 hours and 3 GB, for $29.90/month. ### The scores behind each highlight Cutlabs' AI Clipper finds highlights automatically. Snipri prints five scores beside each one and keeps it only when its hook, payoff and standalone sense all reach 7 out of 10. ### Captions you can restyle after the job Cutlabs lists captions among its tools without saying in which languages. Snipri captions all 25 languages it transcribes, and you can change the style, fonts, colours and highlighted word long after the clip is made. ### When Cutlabs is the better fit - You want Moment Search to find a particular moment in a video - You want to start on a free plan and see the paid prices after signing up ## How Cutlabs and Snipri work ### Cutlabs Cutlabs' home page offers an AI Clipper, Moment Search and captions. 1. Add a video, by upload or by link: the site does not say which. 2. AI Clipper finds its highlights automatically, or Moment Search looks for a moment in it. 3. Add captions and download the clips; downloads from a free account carry a watermark. Source: [Cutlabs home page](https://cutlabs.ai/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Cutlabs to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the source videos. Each counts in Snipri as one video for each hour of it, rounded up, up to your plan's length and upload size. - **What stays with Cutlabs:** Projects and clips made in Cutlabs stay there, so download the ones you want to keep. ## Cutlabs: common questions ### How much does Cutlabs cost? Its site links no pricing page and lists no prices, as of October 22, 2026; it mentions a free plan with watermarked downloads. Snipri prints every plan's price; the first, Starter, is $29.90/month for 10 videos a month, one per hour of a recording. ### Are Cutlabs' free clips watermarked? Yes, its site says downloads from a free account carry a watermark. Snipri's free plan does too, on 2 videos of up to 1 hour, and every paid plan exports without one. ### Can I point Snipri at one moment in a recording? Yes, before the job: say in up to 300 characters what moments you want found, or keep one stretch of an upload by its start and end times as One clip, up to 10 minutes long. ### Can I change a clip's captions after the job? Yes. Pick another caption style, change fonts, colours, the highlighted word or the position, correct a word, or turn captions off. The clip re-renders from the one you have, and edits never count another video. ## Other tools like Cutlabs - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip) - [Klap alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap) - [Vizard alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard) - [Vidyo.ai alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vidyo-ai) - [WayinVideo alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wayinvideo) - [2short.ai alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/2short-ai) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Cutlabs comparison - [Cutlabs home page](https://cutlabs.ai/) (cutlabs.ai) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check Cutlabs' pages before you buy. Cutlabs is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # Ssemble pricing vs Snipri **Choose Snipri if** your recordings run past 20 minutes and you want every part of them considered, with the reasons for each clip shown. **Choose Ssemble if** you clip streams or videos under 20 minutes, want posting and channel automation, and want a lower price, from $6/month billed yearly. Clip the whole episode, not a 20-minute slice of it. Snipri reads recordings of up to 3 hours and keeps the moments that stand on their own, from $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/ssemble - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against Ssemble's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/ssemble#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Ssemble Ssemble counts credits and Snipri counts videos. Set the month you expect, and each side shows the cheapest plan that covers it. Monthly prices are compared with monthly ones, and yearly with yearly. Three example months, billed monthly: | Month | Snipri | Ssemble | | --- | --- | --- | | A weekly hour-long show: 4 recordings of 60 minutes | Starter, $29.90/month | Pro, $15/month. Only 20 minutes of each recording are processed. | | Three 45-minute interviews a week: 12 recordings of 45 minutes | Pro, $89.90/month | Pro, $15/month. Only 20 minutes of each recording are processed. | | A 90-minute stream every day: 30 recordings of 90 minutes | Scale, $299/month | Pro, $15/month. Only 20 minutes of each recording are processed. | The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/ssemble#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Ssemble We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Ssemble, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Ssemble | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Video credits: one credit per video, for a part of up to 20 minutes | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Pro: $15/month, or $6/month billed yearly ($72), 30 credits per month (360 a year) | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | Not stated; plans from $6/month | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Not stated | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | A part of up to 20 minutes of each video | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | Not stated | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | Over 30 languages for AI clipping | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Yes, public videos; also Vimeo, Kick and Twitch links and MP4, MOV or WEBM files | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes. Schedule and post to TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, with 1 social account on Pro and 3 on Expert | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Yes, from Pro | Sources: [Ssemble pricing and FAQ](https://www.ssemble.com/pricing), [Ssemble home page](https://www.ssemble.com/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Ssemble pricing - Pro: $15/month or $6/month billed yearly ($72), 30 credits per month or 360 a year, 1 social account - Expert: $30/month or $12/month billed yearly ($144), 70 credits per month or 840 a year, 3 social accounts - Business: $60/month or $24/month billed yearly ($288), 150 credits per month or 1,800 a year, unlimited social accounts - Custom: $100/month or $40/month billed yearly ($480), 2,600 credits (the page gives this figure for a month and for a year) ## Why choose Snipri over Ssemble ### The whole recording, not 20 minutes of it Ssemble's FAQ says each video is clipped from a part of up to 20 minutes, so a 60-minute episode gives clips from a third of it. Snipri reads all of it, up to 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale, as in the job pictured. ### Every pick shows its scores Snipri scores each candidate on hook, payoff, standalone sense, arc and quotability, and shows the scores beside every clip it keeps, so you can see why a moment made it. ### Two speakers, one vertical frame When two people share a wide shot, as on most podcast sets, Snipri can stack them in one 9:16 frame or cut to whoever is talking, so neither drops out of the clip. ### When Ssemble is the better fit - You clip Twitch or Kick streams from a link, or gameplay with its Game Video option - You want clips scheduled to TikTok, Shorts and Reels, or a YouTube channel watched and clipped automatically - Your videos are under 20 minutes and you want the lowest price per video ## How Ssemble and Snipri work ### Ssemble Ssemble's home page covers YouTube videos, Twitch and Kick streams and gameplay. 1. Paste a public YouTube, Vimeo, Kick or Twitch link, or upload an MP4, MOV or WEBM file, and pick a part of up to 20 minutes. 2. The AI finds moments and adds captions, face tracking and a hook line; gameplay gets its own Game Video option. 3. Schedule the clips to TikTok, Shorts and Reels, or let Channel Automation clip and post each new video from a YouTube channel. Source: [Ssemble home page](https://www.ssemble.com/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Ssemble to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the full recording, or paste the same public YouTube link. Snipri reads all of it, up to your plan's length, and counts one video for each hour of it, rounded up. - **What stays with Ssemble:** Scheduled posts, Channel Automation and unused credits stay with Ssemble. Snipri does not post for you. ## Ssemble: common questions ### How much of a long video does Ssemble clip? Ssemble's pricing page says one credit covers one video of up to 20 minutes, and its FAQ says you select a part of up to 20 minutes from each video, so from a 60-minute recording you choose a third. Snipri reads the whole recording, up to 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale. ### Is Ssemble cheaper than Snipri? Per month, yes. Ssemble's Pro is $15/month, or $6/month billed yearly, for 30 credits a month, and each credit is one video's 20 minutes. Snipri's Starter is $29.90/month for 10 videos of up to 2 hours each, counted by the hour. If your recordings are long, compare what each plan reads of them, not only the price. ### Can Snipri clip streams and gameplay? Yes, from the recording. Choose Gaming as the kind of video and Snipri keeps a play from its setup to its outcome, or a question from chat with its answer. Live streams are not supported: upload the replay once the stream ends, up to 3 hours on Pro. ### Does Snipri schedule posts like Ssemble? No. Snipri connects to no social account and has no scheduler or channel automation. You download each clip and post it where you like, which also means nothing goes out under your name without you. ### Does Ssemble have a free plan? Its pricing page does not list one: plans start at Pro, $15/month or $6/month billed yearly. Snipri's free plan gives 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark and no credit card, and Snipri reads all of each one, where an Ssemble credit covers 20 minutes. ## Other tools like Ssemble - [Nexus Clips alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/nexus-clips) - [Spikes Studio alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/spikes-studio) - [Submagic alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic) - [VEED alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed) - [Wisecut alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wisecut) - [Zubtitle alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/zubtitle) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Ssemble comparison - [Ssemble pricing and FAQ](https://www.ssemble.com/pricing) (ssemble.com) - [Ssemble home page](https://www.ssemble.com/) (ssemble.com) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check Ssemble's pages before you buy. Ssemble is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # Nexus Clips pricing vs Snipri **Choose Snipri if** you want to know what a month costs before signing up, and want each clip's scores beside it. **Choose Nexus Clips if** you want to connect a YouTube or Twitch account and post to TikTok and YouTube from the same tool, and are fine seeing the Pro price after signing up. Know the price before you sign up. Snipri lists every plan, from $29.90/month for 10 videos, and turns podcasts and streams into captioned vertical clips. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/nexus-clips - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against Nexus Clips' own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/nexus-clips#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Nexus Clips Set the month you expect to see the Snipri plan that covers it. Nexus Clips shows no price on its site, so a month cannot be priced. The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/nexus-clips#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Nexus Clips We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Nexus Clips, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Nexus Clips | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Not stated; Pro lists unlimited processing minutes | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Pro; no price on the site | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | A free account, no card needed | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Yes, HD downloads without a watermark on Pro | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Not stated | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | HD | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | Not stated | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Yes. Connect YouTube or Twitch, paste a link or pick a file | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes. Posting to TikTok and YouTube on Pro | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Not stated | Source: [Nexus Clips home page](https://www.nexusclips.com/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Nexus Clips pricing - Free: a free account, no card needed - Pro: unlimited processing minutes, watermark-free HD downloads, posting to TikTok and YouTube; no price on the site ## Why choose Snipri over Nexus Clips ### Every price on the page Nexus Clips lists a free account and a Pro plan on its site, with no price for Pro. Snipri prints a price on every plan, from $29.90/month for Starter's 10 videos to $299/month for Scale's 100. ### Moments you ask for still have to stand alone Nexus Clips lets you say what to look for, and so does Snipri, in up to 300 characters. A moment you ask for still has to reach 7 on hook, payoff and standalone sense before it becomes a clip. ### Wide podcast shots, made vertical Face tracking keeps the speaker in a 9:16 frame when the camera was set up for a landscape episode, so the clip does not need cropping by hand. ### When Nexus Clips is the better fit - You want to connect your YouTube or Twitch account rather than add each video - You want clips posted to TikTok and YouTube from the same tool - You want processing without a limit on minutes (Nexus Clips lists unlimited processing minutes on Pro) ## How Nexus Clips and Snipri work ### Nexus Clips Nexus Clips' home page names podcasters, streamers and creators. 1. Connect YouTube or Twitch, paste a link or pick a file. 2. Say what to look for, which caption style to use and where the clips should go. 3. Nexus Clips frames faces, adds captions and exports in HD, posting to TikTok and YouTube on Pro. Source: [Nexus Clips home page](https://www.nexusclips.com/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Nexus Clips to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the recordings or paste the same links; there is no account to connect. Snipri reads each recording whole, up to your plan's length. - **What stays with Nexus Clips:** Your connected YouTube or Twitch account and any posting set up in Nexus Clips stay there. Snipri gives you files to post yourself. ## Nexus Clips: common questions ### How much does Nexus Clips cost? Its site lists a free account and a Pro plan but no price for Pro, as of October 22, 2026, so you see it after signing up. Snipri's start at $29.90/month, and every one is on its pricing page. ### Can I tell Snipri what moments to look for? Yes. Before a job you can describe moments to look for in up to 300 characters, as well as the kind of video and how long clips run. Snipri still keeps a moment only if hook, payoff and standalone sense each reach 7/10, so asking for something does not lower the bar. ### Does Snipri connect to my YouTube or Twitch account? No. Snipri takes file uploads, video links, public YouTube videos included, Dropbox and Google Drive, and asks for no social account. It does not post for you either. ### Are Snipri's free clips watermarked? Yes. Clips from the 2 free videos carry a watermark, at the same size as paid clips. Every paid plan exports without one. Nexus Clips' site lists watermark-free HD downloads on Pro. ## Other tools like Nexus Clips - [Spikes Studio alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/spikes-studio) - [Ssemble alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/ssemble) - [Submagic alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic) - [VEED alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed) - [Wisecut alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wisecut) - [Zubtitle alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/zubtitle) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Nexus Clips comparison - [Nexus Clips home page](https://www.nexusclips.com/) (nexusclips.com) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check Nexus Clips' pages before you buy. Nexus Clips is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # The Spikes Studio alternative for full episodes **Choose Snipri if** you clip several long recordings a month, since PRO+'s 300 minutes run out after five hours, and want your clips kept with no end date. **Choose Spikes Studio if** you want transitions, zooms and branded captions added for you, scheduling on PRO+ or captions in over 99 languages. Spikes Studio counts minutes; Snipri counts recordings by the hour. Bring a stream replay or an episode of up to 3 hours and get captioned vertical clips, from $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/spikes-studio - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against Spikes Studio's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/spikes-studio#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Spikes Studio Spikes Studio counts minutes and Snipri counts videos. Set the month you expect, and each side shows the cheapest plan that covers it. Monthly prices are compared with monthly ones, and yearly with yearly. Three example months, billed monthly: | Month | Snipri | Spikes Studio | | --- | --- | --- | | A weekly hour-long show: 4 recordings of 60 minutes | Starter, $29.90/month | PRO+, $32.99/month | | Three 45-minute interviews a week: 12 recordings of 45 minutes | Pro, $89.90/month | Enterprise, $115.99/month | | A 90-minute stream every day: 30 recordings of 90 minutes | Scale, $299/month | No plan covers it. This month needs 2,700 minutes. The largest Spikes Studio plan with a monthly price gives 1,200 per month. | The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/spikes-studio#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Spikes Studio We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Spikes Studio, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Spikes Studio | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Minutes per month | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | PRO+: $32.99/month, or $14.09/month billed yearly, 300 minutes per month | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | Basic: free, watermarked, 720p, clips stored for 7 days; its FAQ mentions videos of up to 30 minutes | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Yes | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Not stated for paid plans; videos of up to 30 minutes on Basic, per the FAQ | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | 1080p on PRO+ and Enterprise; 720p on Basic | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | Over 99 languages | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Not stated; the home page shows a file upload | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes. A Social Media Scheduler on PRO+ | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | On application, with Enterprise | Sources: [Spikes Studio pricing and FAQ](https://spikes.studio/pricing), [Spikes Studio home page](https://spikes.studio/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Spikes Studio pricing - Basic: free, watermarked, 720p, clips stored for 7 days - PRO+: $32.99/month or $14.09/month billed yearly, 300 minutes per month (3,600 a year), 1080p, no watermark, clips stored for 90 days, scheduler - Enterprise: $115.99/month or $56.34/month billed yearly, 1,200 minutes per month, 1080p, clips stored with no limit, API on application ## Why choose Snipri over Spikes Studio ### Ten hour-long streams on the first plan Ten one-hour streams are 600 minutes, twice what PRO+ gives each month, so on Spikes Studio they need Enterprise at $115.99/month, or $56.34/month billed yearly. On Snipri they are ten videos, which Starter covers for $29.90/month. ### Retitle a clip after 90 days Spikes Studio stores clips for 7 days on Basic and 90 days on PRO+, with no limit only on Enterprise. Snipri keeps every clip on every plan, the free one included, so an old clip can be retitled and downloaded again. ### Both people in a podcast frame Spikes Studio names podcasters among its users. When a podcast is filmed as one wide shot, Snipri stacks the two speakers in a single 9:16 frame or cuts to the one talking, so nobody is cropped out. ### When Spikes Studio is the better fit - You want transitions, zooms and branded captions added to each clip for you - You want a scheduler for your social accounts on PRO+ - You need captions in a language Snipri lacks (Spikes Studio lists over 99) ## How Spikes Studio and Snipri work ### Spikes Studio Spikes Studio's home page speaks to aspiring creators, video professionals, small businesses and podcasters. 1. Upload a video file. 2. Spikes Studio finds moments in it and adds transitions, zooms and branded captions, in several formats. 3. Edit videos of up to 5 minutes in its web editor, then schedule the clips to your social accounts. Source: [Spikes Studio home page](https://spikes.studio/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Spikes Studio to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the stream replays and episodes you were sending to Spikes Studio. Each counts in Snipri as one video for each hour it runs, rounded up, up to your plan's length. - **What stays with Spikes Studio:** Scheduled posts and the clips stored in Spikes Studio stay there, so download any you want to keep before their storage ends. ## Spikes Studio: common questions ### How many minutes does Spikes Studio's PRO+ plan include? 300 minutes per month, which is five one-hour recordings, or 3,600 for a year billed yearly. Enterprise gives 1,200 per month. Snipri does not count minutes: a recording is one video for each hour of it, rounded up, up to its plan's length. ### How long does Spikes Studio keep my clips? Its pricing page lists 7 days on the free Basic plan, 90 days on PRO+ and no limit on Enterprise. Snipri keeps clips on every plan with no end date, so you can edit and download them again later. ### Can Snipri clip a Twitch or YouTube stream? Yes, once it is a recording. Upload the replay, up to 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale, and choose Gaming as the kind of video to keep each play from its setup to its outcome. Snipri does not clip a stream while it is live. ### How long can a Snipri clip be? Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead. To keep one long stretch, One clip turns up to 10 minutes into a single clip. ### Is Spikes Studio's free plan like Snipri's? Both are free and watermarked. Spikes Studio's Basic exports at 720p and keeps clips for 7 days, and its FAQ mentions videos of up to 30 minutes. Snipri's free plan takes 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, exports them at 1080 by 1920 and keeps them with no end date. ## Other tools like Spikes Studio - [Ssemble alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/ssemble) - [Nexus Clips alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/nexus-clips) - [Submagic alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic) - [VEED alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed) - [Wisecut alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wisecut) - [Zubtitle alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/zubtitle) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Spikes Studio comparison - [Spikes Studio pricing and FAQ](https://spikes.studio/pricing) (spikes.studio) - [Spikes Studio home page](https://spikes.studio/) (spikes.studio) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check Spikes Studio's pages before you buy. Spikes Studio is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # Submagic pricing vs Snipri **Choose Snipri if** you start from a full episode or webinar of up to 3 hours and want the clips found for you, with the reasons for each pick. **Choose Submagic if** your videos are already short and you want styled captions, B-roll, silence removal and scheduled posts, or captions translated into other languages. Start from the full episode, not a finished short. Snipri finds the clips in a long recording and captions them, from $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against Submagic's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Submagic Set the month you expect to see the Snipri plan that covers it. Submagic's standard plans caption videos of up to 2, 5 or 30 minutes and do not list Magic Clips, its long video clipping, which only its custom plan mentions. So no standard plan prices a month of clipping long recordings. The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Submagic We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Submagic, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Submagic | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Videos per month, each with a maximum length (2 minutes on Starter) | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Starter: $19/month, or $12/month billed yearly, 15 videos up to 2 minutes each | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | No free plan listed; you can try it free, no credit card required | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Yes | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | 2 minutes on Starter, 5 on Pro and 30 on Business | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | Up to 4K at 60 fps, per the home page | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | Subtitle pages for 44 languages; the home page says 123 | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Yes, a video file or a YouTube link, per the home page | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes. Scheduled posts to TikTok, Reels and Shorts from Pro, 1 profile per platform (3 on Business) | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Yes, included in paid plans with a monthly allowance of API minutes | Sources: [Submagic pricing](https://www.submagic.co/pricing), [Submagic home page](https://www.submagic.co/), [Submagic social media scheduler](https://www.submagic.co/social-media-scheduler), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Submagic pricing - Starter: $19/month or $12/month billed yearly, 15 videos up to 2 minutes - Pro: $39/month or $23/month billed yearly, 40 videos up to 5 minutes - Business: $69/month or $41/month billed yearly, 100 videos up to 30 minutes ## Why choose Snipri over Submagic ### Made for full-length recordings Submagic's standard plans cap each video at 2 to 30 minutes. Snipri takes videos of up to 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale, and finds the clips in them. ### What Submagic's first paid plan buys Snipri's Starter is $29.90/month for 10 videos of up to 2 hours each, counted by the hour. Submagic's Starter is $19/month, or $12/month billed yearly, for 15 videos of up to 2 minutes each. ### The clips are chosen for you Long video clipping is not listed on Submagic's standard plans. In Snipri it is the core of every plan, with the scores behind each pick shown beside the clip. ### When Submagic is the better fit - Your videos are already short and you mainly want styled captions and B-roll - You publish in a language Snipri doesn't support yet (Submagic's pricing page lists 44) - You want captions translated into another language ## How Submagic and Snipri work ### Submagic Submagic's home page is built around short videos for social media: captions, B-roll and posting. 1. Drop in a video file or a YouTube link. 2. Submagic adds captions, removes silences, adds B-roll and finds the key moments, and you edit the video like text. 3. Pick a date and a platform to schedule it to TikTok, Reels or Shorts. Source: [Submagic home page](https://www.submagic.co/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Submagic to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the full recordings instead of finished shorts; Snipri finds the clips and captions them. Your caption look can be rebuilt with your own font and saved brand colours. - **What stays with Submagic:** Templates, scheduled posts and captions translated into other languages stay with Submagic. Snipri captions in the spoken language and does not post. ## Submagic: common questions ### Can Submagic turn a long video into clips? Submagic has a long video clipping feature called Magic Clips, but its standard plans did not list it when we checked; its custom plan mentions custom Magic Clips limits. Check with Submagic before relying on it for full episodes. ### Can I use my own fonts and colours in Snipri captions? Yes. You can upload your own font, save brand colours to pick from again, and restyle captions on any clip afterwards without using another video. ### How long can my source video be in Snipri? Up to 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale. Uploads can be up to 1 GB on Free, 3 GB on Starter and 10 GB on Pro and Scale, and imported links and cloud files up to 1 hour long. From a longer upload you can keep one continuous part before the job starts, and only that part counts, one video for each hour of it. ### Can Snipri caption a short video without cutting it into clips? Yes. Choose One clip before the job starts and up to 10 minutes of the video becomes a single captioned clip, with no moments picked. A link or a cloud file is used whole, so it has to be 10 minutes or shorter; from an upload you choose the part. ### Is there a free Submagic plan? Its pricing page lists none, though you can try Submagic free without a credit card. Snipri has a free plan: 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, clipped and captioned as a paid plan's are, with a watermark. ## Other tools like Submagic - [VEED alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed) - [Wisecut alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wisecut) - [Zubtitle alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/zubtitle) - [Munch alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/munch) - [Short AI alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/short-ai) - [ClipGoat alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/clipgoat) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Submagic comparison - [Submagic pricing](https://www.submagic.co/pricing) (submagic.co) - [Submagic home page](https://www.submagic.co/) (submagic.co) - [Submagic social media scheduler](https://www.submagic.co/social-media-scheduler) (submagic.co) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check Submagic's pages before you buy. Submagic is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # The VEED alternative built only for clips **Choose Snipri if** clipping long recordings is the job, and you want it in full on the first paid plan, counted by the hour of recording rather than in AI credits. **Choose VEED if** you edit whole videos in the browser with a team, need subtitles translated into 50+ languages, or want a clip generator inside the editor you already use. VEED is a full video editor with a clip generator inside. Snipri does the clipping alone: upload a long recording and get captioned vertical clips, from $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against VEED's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and VEED Set the month you expect to see the Snipri plan that covers it. VEED's pricing page gives AI credits per month but not how many the clip generator uses, so a month of clips cannot be priced. The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. VEED We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and VEED, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | VEED | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Per editor, per month, with AI credits each month; the credits a clip uses are not stated | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Creator: $20/month, or $10/month billed yearly ($116), per editor, 500 AI credits per month | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | Not stated on the pricing page; the clip generator is free to try | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Creator lists no watermark; the clip generator page puts watermark-free exports on Pro | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Not stated | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | Not stated | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | Not stated for captions; translation into 50+ languages on Pro and Studio | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Not stated | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Not stated | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Not stated | Sources: [VEED pricing](https://www.veed.io/pricing), [VEED AI clip generator](https://www.veed.io/tools/auto-video-editor/ai-clip-generator), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### VEED pricing - Creator: $20/month or $10/month billed yearly ($116), per editor, 500 AI credits per month, no watermark - Pro: $44/month or $21/month billed yearly ($257), 2,500 AI credits per month, translation into 50+ languages - Studio: $70/month or $35/month billed yearly ($414), 15,000 AI credits per month - Enterprise: custom pricing ## Why choose Snipri over VEED ### Recordings, not AI credits VEED's plans give AI credits each month, and its pricing page does not say how many the clip generator uses. A Snipri plan names its count of recordings: 10 a month on Starter, each up to 2 hours. ### Scores that decide, not only describe VEED rates each clip out of 10 on flow, impact, clarity and relevance. Snipri scores each moment too, and drops it unless hook, payoff and standalone sense each reach 7, so a low score never becomes a clip. ### Full clipping on the first paid plan VEED's clip generator page says to upgrade to Pro, $44/month or $21/month billed yearly, for full access to it and for exports without a watermark. Every paid Snipri plan clips in full, from Starter at $29.90/month. ### When VEED is the better fit - You edit whole videos in the browser, with a team on the same plan - You need subtitles translated into 50+ languages (Pro and Studio) - You want the clip generator inside the editor you already use for the rest of your videos ## How VEED and Snipri work ### VEED VEED is a browser video editor; its AI clip generator is one tool inside it, for podcasts, webinars and long videos. 1. Upload a video with speech and pick the format, length and caption style, with a prompt if you like. 2. The AI finds quotes and moments and rates each clip out of 10 on flow, impact, clarity and relevance. 3. Extend or trim a clip in the transcript editor, then export it. Source: [VEED AI clip generator](https://www.veed.io/tools/auto-video-editor/ai-clip-generator) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from VEED to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the long recordings you were giving the clip generator. Each counts in Snipri as one video for each hour of it, rounded up, up to your plan's length. - **What stays with VEED:** Full video edits, translated subtitles and team workspaces stay in VEED. Snipri makes clips from recordings and nothing else. ## VEED: common questions ### Is VEED's clip generator free? VEED calls it free to try, and its page says to upgrade to Pro for full access to the clip generator and for exports without a watermark. Pro is $44/month, or $21/month billed yearly, per editor. Snipri's free plan clips 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark, which every paid plan from Starter removes. ### Is VEED cheaper than Snipri? Billed yearly, VEED's Creator costs less, $10/month, but its clip generator page points to Pro for full access: $44/month, or $21/month billed yearly. Snipri's Starter is $29.90/month for 10 videos of up to 2 hours each, counted by the hour, and every paid plan clips in full. ### Can I tell Snipri what to look for, like VEED's prompt? Yes. Before the job you can describe the moments you want in up to 300 characters, and pick the kind of video and the clip length. A moment you ask for is still kept only when it makes sense on its own. ### Can I edit a Snipri clip from its transcript? Yes. The editor shows each clip's words with their timings: cut a word or a phrase from the clip, correct a caption, or hide one, and the clip re-renders without counting another video. ## Other tools like VEED - [Wisecut alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wisecut) - [Zubtitle alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/zubtitle) - [Submagic alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic) - [Munch alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/munch) - [Short AI alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/short-ai) - [ClipGoat alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/clipgoat) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the VEED comparison - [VEED pricing](https://www.veed.io/pricing) (veed.io) - [VEED AI clip generator](https://www.veed.io/tools/auto-video-editor/ai-clip-generator) (veed.io) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check VEED's pages before you buy. VEED is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # The Wisecut alternative for clipping long recordings **Choose Snipri if** what you need is clips from long recordings, from a plan that says how many recordings it covers. **Choose Wisecut if** you also edit whole videos, cutting silences and adding music and subtitles, or want to schedule posts from its Social Hub. Wisecut edits a video; Snipri finds the clips in it. Upload a long recording and get captioned vertical clips that stand on their own, from $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wisecut - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against Wisecut's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wisecut#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Wisecut Set the month you expect to see the Snipri plan that covers it. Wisecut's pricing page sets credits per processed minute for its editor and Autopilot but not for Highlights, the part that makes clips, so a month of clips cannot be priced. The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wisecut#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Wisecut We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Wisecut, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Wisecut | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Credits: 1 per processed minute in the editor, 2 in Autopilot; not stated for Highlights | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Starter+: $33/month, 300 credits per month | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | 30 credits per month, 480p, no watermark, outputs up to 3 minutes | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Yes; the free plan lists no watermark either | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Outputs up to 60 minutes on Starter+ and 90 on Professional+; uploads up to 4 GB and 5 GB | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | 1080p on Starter+, 4K on Professional+, 480p on Free | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | Not stated on the pricing page | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Not stated; Highlights takes an upload or a pasted link | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes. The Social Hub on Professional+ schedules to Shorts, Reels, TikTok and Facebook Reels | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Not stated | Sources: [Wisecut pricing](https://wisecut.ai/pricing), [Wisecut home page and Highlights](https://wisecut.ai/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Wisecut pricing - Free: $0, 30 credits per month, 480p, outputs up to 3 minutes - Starter+: $33/month, 300 credits per month, 1080p, 4 GB uploads, outputs up to 60 minutes - Professional+: $118/month, 1,200 credits per month, 4K, 5 GB uploads, outputs up to 90 minutes, Social Hub ## Why choose Snipri over Wisecut ### Clipping is the whole job Wisecut's Highlights is one tool beside a full editor and Autopilot. In Snipri, finding the moments in a long recording is what every plan is for, as in the job pictured. ### A plan that names what it covers Wisecut counts credits per processed minute for its editor and Autopilot, and its pricing page does not say how many Highlights uses. Snipri's plans count videos: 10 a month on Starter, each up to 2 hours. ### 1080 by 1920 from the first clip Every Snipri clip is exported at full vertical size, the free plan's included. Wisecut's free plan exports at 480p and its paid plans at 1080p or 4K. ### When Wisecut is the better fit - You want silences cut and music added to a whole video, not only clips - You want a free plan with no watermark (Wisecut's lists none), even at 480p - You want 4K exports on Professional+ - You schedule posts to Shorts, Reels, TikTok and Facebook Reels from a Social Hub ## How Wisecut and Snipri work ### Wisecut Wisecut is a video editor first, with Highlights for clips and a Social Hub for posting. 1. Upload a file or paste a link into Highlights. 2. Wisecut finds standalone moments in the footage and turns each into a short video with subtitles and reframing. 3. Schedule them from the Social Hub, or open a video in the editor to cut silences and add music. Source: [Wisecut home page](https://wisecut.ai/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Wisecut to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the long recordings you were running through Highlights. Snipri counts each as one video, up to your plan's length. - **What stays with Wisecut:** Silence cuts, music beds and Autopilot edits of whole videos stay with Wisecut. Snipri makes clips, not full edits. ## Wisecut: common questions ### Does Wisecut find clips in long videos? Yes, with Highlights, which finds standalone moments in long footage and turns each into a short video. Its pricing page does not say how many credits Highlights uses, so check before counting on a plan's credits for clipping. ### Does Snipri cut silences from a whole video? No. Snipri does not edit a full video: it picks clips from it, reframes them to 9:16 and captions them. Inside a clip you can trim the ends or split it in two, and a clip starts and ends on a complete thought. ### Can I add music to a Snipri clip? Yes. In the editor you can upload a music track (MP3, M4A, WAV or OGG, up to 50 MB), set its volume, start and fades, loop it to the end of the clip, and turn the original sound down. ### Which free plan shows more of the product? Wisecut's free plan gives 30 credits a month at 480p with no watermark and renews. Snipri's gives 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, at full size with a watermark. One lasts longer; the other shows the clips as paid plans make them. ## Other tools like Wisecut - [Zubtitle alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/zubtitle) - [Submagic alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic) - [VEED alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed) - [Munch alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/munch) - [Short AI alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/short-ai) - [ClipGoat alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/clipgoat) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Wisecut comparison - [Wisecut pricing](https://wisecut.ai/pricing) (wisecut.ai) - [Wisecut home page and Highlights](https://wisecut.ai/) (wisecut.ai) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check Wisecut's pages before you buy. Wisecut is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # The Zubtitle alternative that finds the clips for you **Choose Snipri if** your recordings run past 20 minutes, or you want the clips found for you rather than trimmed by hand. **Choose Zubtitle if** your videos are already short and need captions, a headline and a progress bar, or you want caption files, 4K exports or 2 free videos every month. Zubtitle captions a video you have already cut. Snipri finds the clips in a long recording first, then reframes and captions them, from $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/zubtitle - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against Zubtitle's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/zubtitle#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Zubtitle Set the month you expect to see the Snipri plan that covers it. Zubtitle captions and resizes the videos you upload, under 20 minutes each, but does not find clips in a long recording, so a month of clipping cannot be priced. The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/zubtitle#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Zubtitle We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Zubtitle, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Zubtitle | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Videos per month, each under 20 minutes and 1 GB | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Guru: $19/month, or $190 billed yearly, 10 videos per month | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | Bootstrapper: 2 videos per month, 720p, watermarked | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Yes | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Under 20 minutes and 1 GB per video | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | Up to 4K on Guru; 720p on Bootstrapper | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | Not stated | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Not stated; uploads in .mp4, .mov or .m4v | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Not stated | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Not stated | Sources: [Zubtitle pricing](https://zubtitle.com/pricing), [Zubtitle home page](https://zubtitle.com/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Zubtitle pricing - Bootstrapper: free, 2 videos per month, 720p with a watermark - Guru: $19/month or $190 billed yearly, 10 videos per month, no watermark, up to 4K - Agency: $49/month or $490 billed yearly, 30 videos per month ## Why choose Snipri over Zubtitle ### Clips found, not trimmed by hand Zubtitle captions the video you upload, and you trim it yourself. Snipri reads the whole recording, up to 3 hours on Pro, and cuts out the moments that stand on their own, as in the job pictured. ### A reason behind every cut Each clip Snipri keeps shows five scores, for hook, payoff, standalone sense, arc and quotability, so you can see why it starts and ends where it does before you post it. ### Set your brand once Zubtitle adds a headline, a logo and a progress bar to each video you caption. Snipri's brand kit holds your caption look, fonts, logo and handle, and every new clip arrives already wearing them. ### When Zubtitle is the better fit - Your videos are already short and only need captions, a headline and a progress bar - You want caption files to download, as .srt or .txt - You want exports up to 4K on Guru - You want a free plan with 2 videos every month ## How Zubtitle and Snipri work ### Zubtitle Zubtitle is built to turn talking videos into captioned social posts. 1. Upload a video under 20 minutes and 1 GB, as .mp4, .mov or .m4v. 2. Zubtitle captions it; you fix words and timing and add a headline, a logo and a progress bar. 3. Trim it, resize it to square, vertical or wide, and download the video or its .srt file. Source: [Zubtitle home page](https://zubtitle.com/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Zubtitle to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the whole recording instead of a trimmed part. Snipri finds the clips and captions them, and the recording counts as one video for each hour of it, rounded up. - **What stays with Zubtitle:** Caption files in .srt and .txt and the progress bar stay with Zubtitle. Snipri burns the captions into each clip. ## Zubtitle: common questions ### Does Zubtitle find clips in a long video? Its site does not say it does. Zubtitle captions a video you upload, under 20 minutes and 1 GB, and you trim and resize it yourself. Snipri reads the whole recording and picks the clips for you. ### Can Snipri export an SRT file? No. Snipri burns the captions into the clip in the style you pick, and you can correct their words in the editor before you download. For a separate .srt file, Zubtitle is the better fit. ### Can Snipri make square or landscape clips? Yes. Clips come out vertical at 1080 by 1920, and in the editor you can switch any clip to square or landscape and move or zoom each view. ### Does Snipri take videos over 20 minutes? Yes. A recording can run up to 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale, with uploads of up to 1 GB on Free, 3 GB on Starter and 10 GB on Pro and Scale. Snipri reads all of it and counts one video for each hour of it, rounded up. ### Is Zubtitle's free plan like Snipri's? Zubtitle's Bootstrapper gives 2 videos a month, at 720p and under 20 minutes each, captioned whole with a watermark. Snipri's free plan gives 2 videos once, up to 1 hour each, cut into clips at 1080 by 1920, with a watermark too. ## Other tools like Zubtitle - [Submagic alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic) - [VEED alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed) - [Wisecut alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wisecut) - [Munch alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/munch) - [Short AI alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/short-ai) - [ClipGoat alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/clipgoat) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Zubtitle comparison - [Zubtitle pricing](https://zubtitle.com/pricing) (zubtitle.com) - [Zubtitle home page](https://zubtitle.com/) (zubtitle.com) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check Zubtitle's pages before you buy. Zubtitle is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # The Munch alternative for clips from long recordings **Choose Snipri if** you only need clips from your recordings, want to start with 2 free videos, and want a first plan that costs less than Munch Studio's. **Choose Munch Studio if** you want an AI to plan, write and post your social media across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and TikTok, with clips as one part of it. Munch became Munch Studio, a social media marketer that plans and posts for you. If what you need is clips from long recordings, Snipri does that one job, from $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/munch - Updated: November 3, 2026 **Renamed.** Munch now runs as Munch Studio: getmunch.com's pricing page redirects to munchstudio.com, which describes an AI that plans, creates and posts social media content. [Munch Studio home page](https://www.munchstudio.com/) Checked on October 22, 2026 against Munch's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/munch#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Munch Munch counts repurposing minutes and Snipri counts videos. Set the month you expect, and each side shows the cheapest plan that covers it. Monthly prices are compared with monthly ones, and yearly with yearly. Three example months, billed monthly: | Month | Snipri | Munch | | --- | --- | --- | | A weekly hour-long show: 4 recordings of 60 minutes | Starter, $29.90/month | Essential, $68/month | | Three 45-minute interviews a week: 12 recordings of 45 minutes | Pro, $89.90/month | Premium, $85/month | | A 90-minute stream every day: 30 recordings of 90 minutes | Scale, $299/month | Scale, $398/month | The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/munch#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Munch We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Munch, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Munch | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | A monthly subscription with repurposing minutes and generated videos per month | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Essential: $68/month, or $38/month billed yearly ($456), 500 repurposing minutes per month | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | No free plan; a 7-day free trial | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Not stated | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Not stated | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | Not stated | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | All languages written left to right, per the FAQ | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Not stated | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes. Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and TikTok | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Not stated | Sources: [Munch Studio pricing and FAQ](https://www.munchstudio.com/pricing), [Munch Studio home page](https://www.munchstudio.com/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Munch pricing - Essential: $68/month or $38/month billed yearly ($456), 500 repurposing minutes and 10 generated videos per month, 100 GB storage - Premium: $85/month or $60/month billed yearly ($720), 1,000 repurposing minutes and 30 generated videos per month, 1 TB storage - Studio, for several brands: $148/month, 2,500 repurposing minutes and 50 generated videos per month, 400 GB storage - Scale, for several brands: $398/month, 7,500 repurposing minutes and 150 generated videos per month, 1 TB storage ## Why choose Snipri over Munch ### Clips from a recording, for less Munch Studio's first plan, Essential, is $68/month, or $38/month billed yearly, with 500 repurposing minutes per month. Snipri's Starter is $29.90/month for 10 videos, and an hour-long recording is one of them. ### Cut on whole sentences Snipri works from a transcript with every word timed, so a clip starts and ends on a complete thought, and in the editor you can cut a single word from it. ### You keep the last word Munch Studio's AI drafts posts for you to approve. In Snipri you edit each clip yourself: trim or split it, rewrite its title card, change its look, then download it. ### When Munch is the better fit - You want an AI to plan, write and post social media for your brand, not only clips - You run several brands (its Studio and Scale plans) - You want posts made from your website, photos and Zoom recordings together ## How Munch and Snipri work ### Munch Munch Studio is an AI that plans, creates and posts social media content for a brand. 1. Add your website, videos, photos or Zoom recordings and pick your platforms. 2. The AI drafts a strategy and the posts, reels and videos to go with it. 3. Approve them, post in one click and follow how they perform. Source: [Munch Studio home page](https://www.munchstudio.com/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Munch to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the recordings you were repurposing in Munch. Each counts in Snipri as one video for each hour of it, rounded up, up to your plan's length. - **What stays with Munch:** Your content plan, generated posts, scheduling and performance tracking stay with Munch Studio. Snipri makes clips and nothing else. ## Munch: common questions ### What happened to Munch? getmunch.com's pricing page now redirects to Munch Studio at munchstudio.com, which describes itself as an AI that plans, creates and posts social media content. Video repurposing is one part of each plan, counted in minutes per month. ### How much does Munch Studio cost? Essential is $68/month or $38/month billed yearly, Premium $85/month or $60/month billed yearly, and the Studio and Scale plans for several brands $148 and $398 a month. There is no free plan, only a 7-day trial. ### Does Snipri write posts or plan a calendar? No. Snipri burns the words spoken into each clip as captions and writes a hook title card you can change; it does not write post text, plan a calendar or publish. You download the clips and use them where you like. ### Can I try Snipri before paying? Yes, with no time limit, where Munch offers a 7-day trial and no free plan. Snipri's free plan gives 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with no credit card. Clips carry a watermark until you move to a paid plan, and they never expire. ## Other tools like Munch - [Short AI alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/short-ai) - [ClipGoat alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/clipgoat) - [Qlip alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/qlip-ai) - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip) - [Klap alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap) - [Vizard alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Munch comparison - [Munch Studio pricing and FAQ](https://www.munchstudio.com/pricing) (munchstudio.com) - [Munch Studio home page](https://www.munchstudio.com/) (munchstudio.com) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check Munch's pages before you buy. Munch is a trademark of its owner, as is Munch Studio. Snipri is not affiliated with either. --- # The Short AI alternative for long recordings **Choose Snipri if** your source is a long recording rather than a script, larger than 300 MB, or you want to pay month to month. **Choose Short AI if** you make faceless videos from text, want posting to seven networks, or need captions in its 32+ languages. Short AI makes faceless videos and clips on the side. Snipri only clips: bring a long recording of up to 3 hours and get captioned vertical clips, from $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/short-ai - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against Short AI's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/short-ai#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Short AI Set the month you expect to see the Snipri plan that covers it. Short AI's pricing page says auto clipping uses 20 credits per minute but not whether that is a minute of the recording or of the clips, so a month cannot be priced. The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/short-ai#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Short AI We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Short AI, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Short AI | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Credits; auto clipping uses 20 credits per minute | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Basic: $19/month billed yearly, 1,600 credits per month | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | Not stated | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Not stated | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Uploads up to 300 MB on Basic and Pro, 500 MB on Enterprise | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | Not stated | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | 32+ languages | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Not stated | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes. TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook on every plan | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Not stated | Sources: [Short AI pricing](https://www.short.ai/pricing), [Short AI home page](https://short.ai/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Short AI pricing - Basic: $19/month billed yearly, 1,600 credits per month (80 minutes of auto clipping), 300 MB uploads - Pro: $30/month billed yearly, 3,600 credits per month, 300 MB uploads - Enterprise: $60/month billed yearly, 7,200 credits per month, 500 MB uploads ## Why choose Snipri over Short AI ### Room for the whole recording Short AI's Basic and Pro plans take uploads of up to 300 MB, which an hour of 1080p video usually passes. Snipri's cap grows with the plan, from 1 GB on Free to 10 GB on Scale. ### Pay month to month Short AI's pricing page shows only prices billed yearly, from $19 a month. Snipri's plans can be paid monthly, from $29.90 for 10 videos. ### The reasons for every clip Short AI says its clip maker pulls out hooks, insights and reactions. Snipri shows what it measured: five scores per clip, three of which every clip must pass. ### When Short AI is the better fit - You make faceless videos from scripts or prompts, not from recordings - You want posting to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn and Pinterest - You need a language Snipri lacks (Short AI lists 32+) ## How Short AI and Snipri work ### Short AI Short AI is built for faceless short videos generated by AI, with a clip maker for long videos beside it. 1. Give the AI clip maker a long video; the site does not say whether by upload or link. 2. It pulls out hooks, insights and reactions and turns one long video into ten or more shorts. 3. Schedule them to TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest. Source: [Short AI home page](https://short.ai/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Short AI to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the full recordings, even ones over 300 MB, up to your plan's upload size. Each counts as one video for each hour of it, rounded up. - **What stays with Short AI:** Faceless videos made from scripts, the scheduler and anything generated from text stay with Short AI. Snipri only clips recordings. ## Short AI: common questions ### What does a minute of clipping cost on Short AI? Its pricing page lists auto clipping at 20 credits per minute, so Basic's 1,600 credits a month cover 80 minutes. It does not say whether that is a minute of the recording or of the clips, which is why the cost check on this page does not price Short AI. ### Can I pay Short AI monthly? Its pricing page shows only prices billed yearly: Basic $19/month, Pro $30 and Enterprise $60. Snipri's plans can be paid month to month, from $29.90. ### Does Snipri make faceless videos? No. Snipri does not generate video from a script or a prompt; it clips recordings where someone speaks, such as a podcast, an interview, a webinar or a talk, and it handles a shared screen without a face too. ### How large can my upload be in Snipri? Up to 1 GB on Free, 3 GB on Starter and 10 GB on Pro and Scale. Links and cloud files can be up to 1 hour long, and from a long upload you can keep one part of it before the job, and only that part counts. Each job returns up to 10 clips. ### Does Short AI have a free plan? Its pricing page does not mention one, and it shows only yearly prices, from $19/month for Basic. Snipri's free plan gives 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark and no credit card. ## Other tools like Short AI - [ClipGoat alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/clipgoat) - [Qlip alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/qlip-ai) - [Munch alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/munch) - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip) - [Klap alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap) - [Vizard alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Short AI comparison - [Short AI pricing](https://www.short.ai/pricing) (short.ai) - [Short AI home page](https://short.ai/) (short.ai) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check Short AI's pages before you buy. Short AI is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # The ClipGoat alternative for your own recordings **Choose Snipri if** your source is a file you recorded, you want to see a plan's price before signing up, and you want the reasons for each clip. **Choose ClipGoat if** you make shorts from Reddit posts or AI stories, want up to 20 TikToks from one YouTube video, or want them scheduled to TikTok, Reels and Shorts. ClipGoat starts from YouTube links, Reddit threads and AI stories. Snipri starts from your own recording: upload it and get captioned vertical clips that stand on their own, from $29.90/month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/clipgoat - Updated: November 3, 2026 Checked on October 22, 2026 against ClipGoat's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/clipgoat#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and ClipGoat Set the month you expect to see the Snipri plan that covers it. ClipGoat's site lists Pro Creator's 600 minutes per month but no price, so a month cannot be priced. The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/clipgoat#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. ClipGoat We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and ClipGoat, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | ClipGoat | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | Processing minutes per month | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | Pro Creator: 600 minutes per month, 1080p; no price on the site | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | Starter: 100 processing minutes once, 720p | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Not stated | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Not stated | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | 1080p on Pro Creator; 720p on Starter | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | Not stated | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Yes; the home page starts from YouTube links and Reddit posts | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Yes. Scheduled posts to TikTok, Reels and Shorts | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Not stated | Source: [ClipGoat home page and plans](https://clipgoat.com/), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### ClipGoat pricing - Starter: free, 100 processing minutes once, 720p - Pro Creator: 600 processing minutes per month, 1080p; no price on the site ## Why choose Snipri over ClipGoat ### Your own files, uploaded ClipGoat's home page starts from YouTube links and says nothing about uploading a file. Snipri starts from the file you recorded, up to 10 GB on Scale and Pro, 3 GB on Starter and 1 GB on Free, and turns each landscape shot into a 9:16 frame that follows the speaker's face. ### A price before you sign up ClipGoat lists Pro Creator, with 600 minutes per month at 1080p, but not what it costs. Every Snipri plan shows its price and its count of videos, from Starter's 10 a month at $29.90/month. ### Kept only if it stands alone ClipGoat promises up to 20 TikToks from one YouTube video. Snipri keeps at most 10 from a recording, and only moments whose hook, payoff and standalone sense each reach 7 out of 10. ### When ClipGoat is the better fit - You make shorts from Reddit posts or AI stories, not only from video - You want up to 20 TikToks from a single YouTube video - You want posts scheduled to TikTok, Reels and Shorts ## How ClipGoat and Snipri work ### ClipGoat ClipGoat's home page turns YouTube videos, Reddit posts and AI stories into TikToks, Reels and Shorts. 1. Paste a YouTube link, or start from a Reddit post or an AI story. 2. ClipGoat makes up to 20 TikToks from a single YouTube video. 3. Schedule them to TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Source: [ClipGoat home page](https://clipgoat.com/) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from ClipGoat to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload the original recordings or paste the same YouTube links. Snipri counts each one as one video for each hour of it, rounded up, up to your plan's length. - **What stays with ClipGoat:** Reddit and AI story videos, and your posting schedule, stay with ClipGoat. Snipri only clips recordings and does not post. ## ClipGoat: common questions ### How much does ClipGoat cost? Its site lists a free Starter with 100 processing minutes, once, and Pro Creator with 600 minutes per month at 1080p, with no price for Pro Creator as of October 22, 2026. Snipri's are all on its pricing page, and Starter costs $29.90/month. ### Can Snipri make videos from Reddit posts? No. Snipri clips recordings in which someone speaks or a screen is shown; it does not turn text into video. For Reddit or AI story videos, ClipGoat is the better fit. ### Why does Snipri make fewer clips than ClipGoat? Because a moment has to make sense on its own to be kept. Snipri drops any candidate whose hook, payoff or standalone sense falls below 7 out of 10, so one recording may give two clips and another 10. The recording counts the same either way. ### Does Snipri take YouTube links? Yes, links to public YouTube videos, like other video pages, up to 1 hour long. Snipri fetches them at up to 720p; the original file, uploaded, keeps its own resolution. ### How do ClipGoat's and Snipri's free plans compare? Both come once. ClipGoat's free Starter gives 100 processing minutes at 720p; Snipri's gives 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, exported at 1080 by 1920 with a watermark, and its clips never expire. ## Other tools like ClipGoat - [Qlip alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/qlip-ai) - [Munch alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/munch) - [Short AI alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/short-ai) - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip) - [Klap alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap) - [Vizard alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the ClipGoat comparison - [ClipGoat home page and plans](https://clipgoat.com/) (clipgoat.com) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check ClipGoat's pages before you buy. ClipGoat is a trademark of its owner. Snipri is not affiliated with it. --- # The Qlip alternative for recordings from any tool **Choose Snipri if** your recordings come from anything other than Livestorm, or you want to pay month to month instead of €2,000 a year. **Choose Livestorm AI Studio if** you already host webinars on Livestorm's Pro or Enterprise plan and want clips of each replay's Q&A and key moments, with unlimited use. Livestorm bought Qlip in June 2026, and its AI Studio clips Livestorm's own webinar replays. Snipri clips recordings made with any tool, from $29.90/month, paid month to month. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/qlip-ai - Updated: November 3, 2026 **Acquired.** Livestorm announced on June 2, 2026 that it had acquired Qlip, and qlip.ai now redirects to Livestorm. Livestorm's first product from the deal is AI Studio, which clips Livestorm's own webinar replays, so this page compares Snipri with it. [Livestorm on acquiring Qlip, June 2, 2026](https://livestorm.co/blog/livestorm-we-acquired-qlip) Checked on October 22, 2026 against Qlip's own pages; every link is under [Sources](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/qlip-ai#sources). Written by [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds Snipri. ## Price a month on Snipri and Qlip Set the month you expect to see the Snipri plan that covers it. Livestorm AI Studio is sold by the year in euros, as an add-on to a Livestorm plan, and clips only Livestorm webinars, so a month of recordings cannot be priced against it. The month is set on the page, in [the cost receipt](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/qlip-ai#cost). ## Comparing Snipri vs. Qlip We build Snipri, so read this as one side's comparison. Snipri and Qlip, feature by feature, checked October 22, 2026: | Feature | Snipri | Qlip | | --- | --- | --- | | What you pay for | Videos per month, one for each hour of a recording, rounded up: three clips or ten from it count the same, and a recording that gives no clips is not counted. | A yearly add-on to Livestorm's Pro and Enterprise plans, with unlimited use | | Lowest paid plan | Starter: $29.90/month for 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, or $23.91/month billed yearly ($286.90) | €2,000 a year as an add-on, on top of a Livestorm Pro or Enterprise plan | | Free plan | 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Clips never expire. | Not stated; in private beta from July 2026 | | Watermark-free on the lowest paid plan | Yes | Not stated | | Longest video | 1 hour on Free, 2 hours on Starter and 3 hours on Pro and Scale; links and cloud files up to 1 hour | Not stated | | Export quality | 1080 by 1920 on every plan, the free one included; square or landscape in the editor. Video pages are fetched at up to 720p. | Vertical, square and landscape | | Caption languages | 25 languages for transcription and captions, chosen when you add the video or detected automatically | 7 at launch: English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese and Catalan | | YouTube link import | Yes, public videos. Also file upload, other video links, Dropbox and Google Drive. | Not stated; it works on Livestorm webinar replays | | Posting and scheduling | No. You download the clips and post them yourself. | Not stated | | API | Yes, on Starter, Pro and Scale, with a signed webhook when a job ends | Not stated | Sources: [Livestorm on acquiring Qlip, June 2, 2026](https://livestorm.co/blog/livestorm-we-acquired-qlip), [Livestorm AI Studio](https://livestorm.co/features/ai/livestorm-ai-studio), checked October 22, 2026. Prices in USD. ### Snipri pricing Free, Starter, Pro and Scale. Every plan's price and limits are on the [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing). ### Qlip pricing - Livestorm AI Studio: an add-on for Livestorm's Pro and Enterprise plans, €2,000 a year, unlimited use, in private beta - Qlip's own plans: no longer shown, since qlip.ai redirects to Livestorm ## Why choose Snipri over Qlip ### Any recording, from any tool Livestorm AI Studio works on webinars hosted in Livestorm. Snipri takes an upload or a link from any source, and a webinar's slides with a webcam inset can be laid out with the slides above and the speaker below. ### Monthly plans instead of a yearly add-on AI Studio is an add-on to Livestorm's Pro and Enterprise plans at €2,000 a year. Snipri's plans start at $29.90/month for 10 videos and can be paid month to month. ### A title on every clip, yours to rewrite Livestorm AI Studio titles each clip automatically. Snipri writes a hook title card for each clip too, and in the editor you can retype it, show it for 1 to 10 seconds, or remove it. ### When Qlip is the better fit - You already run webinars on Livestorm's Pro or Enterprise plan - You want clips of each replay's Q&A and key moments without uploading anything - You want unlimited use for one yearly price ## How Qlip and Snipri work ### Qlip Livestorm AI Studio is for teams that host their webinars on Livestorm. 1. Host a webinar on Livestorm. 2. AI Studio finds the Q&A, peaks of engagement, speaker changes and topic shifts in the replay. 3. Each moment becomes its own titled, captioned clip, in vertical, square or landscape. Source: [Livestorm AI Studio](https://livestorm.co/features/ai/livestorm-ai-studio) ### Snipri Snipri keeps the moments of a long recording that stand on their own, with their scores, framed to 9:16 and captioned word by word. [How each feature works](https://www.snipri.com/features) ## Switching from Qlip to Snipri - **What you bring:** Upload your webinar replays or any other recording to Snipri. Each counts as one video for each hour of it, rounded up, up to your plan's length. - **What stays with Qlip:** Your Livestorm webinars, their replays and anything made in Qlip stay where they are. Snipri does not host webinars. ## Qlip: common questions ### What happened to Qlip? Livestorm announced on June 2, 2026 that it had acquired Qlip, and qlip.ai now redirects to Livestorm. Livestorm calls AI Studio the first visible result of that work; the announcement does not say what happens to Qlip's own product. ### How much does Livestorm AI Studio cost? Livestorm lists it as an add-on for its Pro and Enterprise plans at €2,000 a year, with unlimited use, in a private beta from July 2026. The Livestorm plan itself is paid separately. ### Can Snipri clip webinars? Yes. Choose Webinar as the kind of video and Snipri keeps a framework with its example, and leaves out agendas, housekeeping, logistics, and recording or slide notices. A webcam inset over slides can get a layout with the slides above and the speaker below. ### Does Snipri caption more languages than Livestorm AI Studio? Yes. Snipri transcribes and captions 25 languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Choose the spoken language when you add a video, or let Snipri detect it. Livestorm lists 7 for AI Studio at launch: English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese and Catalan. ### Can I try Livestorm AI Studio for free? Livestorm does not say. AI Studio is a paid add-on for its Pro and Enterprise plans, in private beta from July 2026. Snipri's free plan clips 2 recordings of up to 1 hour each, a webinar's included, once, with a watermark and no credit card. ## Other tools like Qlip - [Munch alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/munch) - [Short AI alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/short-ai) - [ClipGoat alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/clipgoat) - [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip) - [Klap alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap) - [Vizard alternative](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard) - [All 19 comparisons](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) - [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts) - [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives) ## Sources for the Qlip comparison - [Livestorm on acquiring Qlip, June 2, 2026](https://livestorm.co/blog/livestorm-we-acquired-qlip) (livestorm.co) - [Livestorm AI Studio](https://livestorm.co/features/ai/livestorm-ai-studio) (livestorm.co) Checked on October 22, 2026. Prices change, so check Qlip's pages before you buy. Qlip is a trademark of its owner, as is Livestorm AI Studio. Snipri is not affiliated with either. --- # Best Time to Post YouTube Shorts: Use Your Data YouTube names no best time to post Shorts. Find when your viewers are on YouTube in Studio, schedule Shorts for those hours and compare their views. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/blog/best-time-to-post-youtube-shorts - Author: [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri, and wrote this guide - Topic: [Growing a channel](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/growth) - Published: November 5, 2026 ![No best hour: find yours. 28 days of your viewers' hours in YouTube Studio, a schedule set by date, time and time zone, and each Short's views compared with your typical Shorts, beside a vertical clip Snipri reframed of a singer on a stage.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/best-time-to-post-youtube-shorts/cover.webp) **Short answer.** There is no single best time: YouTube's help pages name no hour or day for posting Shorts. The best time is when your own viewers are on YouTube, which YouTube Studio shows under Analytics, then Audience, for the last 28 days. Schedule Shorts for those hours, then compare each one's views with your Shorts' typical performance in the Content tab. - YouTube's help pages on audience, scheduling and Shorts analytics name no best hour or day to post a Short. - The report When your viewers are on YouTube, under Analytics, then Audience, shows when your viewers were online across YouTube over the last 28 days, and YouTube counts viewers of every format in it, Shorts included. - Scheduled publishing keeps a video private until the date, time and time zone you set; on a computer, a Short goes through the same upload page as any video. - The Shorts chip of the Content tab compares each Short's views with your Shorts' typical performance, which YouTube says can help you figure out when to upload new Shorts. - Compare Shorts with Shorts: YouTube advises comparing videos of the same type and not measuring each one against a viral hit. Any list of best hours is drawn from other channels' audiences. YouTube's own help pages, read on November 5, 2026, point to yours instead: a report of when your viewers are on YouTube, scheduled publishing, and the Shorts numbers that let you compare one posting time with another. ## YouTube names no best hour YouTube's help pages on audience, scheduling and Shorts analytics name no best hour or day to post a Short. What they give you are three tools in YouTube Studio, and together they make a test you can run on your own channel. | Tool | Where it is | What it does | Where it comes from | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | When your viewers are on YouTube | Analytics, then Audience | Shows when your viewers were online across YouTube in the last 28 days | YouTube Help: Understand your YouTube audience | | Scheduled publishing | The Schedule card on the upload page | Makes a private video public at the date, time and time zone you set | YouTube Help: Schedule video publish time | | The Shorts chip | Analytics, then Content | Sets each Short's views against your Shorts' typical performance | YouTube Help: Content tab analytics tips | [Video: Finding your viewers' hours, scheduling a Short and comparing it in YouTube Studio](https://www.snipri.com/blog/best-time-to-post-youtube-shorts/find-schedule-compare.mp4) *A Short Snipri reframed from a recording of a singer plays as your Short while three steps are drawn beside it: the path to When your viewers are on YouTube, over the last 28 days; the Schedule card's date, time and time zone, with the Short turning from private to public; and four of the Content tab's Shorts metrics, Views against your typical Shorts first. The recording has no sound, so the clip has no captions; the steps, fields and metric names are drawn from YouTube's help pages, not its screens.* Recording: “Hallelujah - Éric Chenard” by comvou, from the [YouTube UGC dataset](https://media.withyoutube.com/ugc-dataset), under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), cut and without sound. ## Find when your viewers are on YouTube The report sits in YouTube Studio's Audience tab and covers the last 28 days. [YouTube's page on understanding your audience](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9314416?hl=en) gives the way in: 1. Sign in to YouTube Studio. 2. In the left menu, select Analytics. 3. From the top menu, select Audience. 4. Find the report When your viewers are on YouTube. YouTube says the report shows when your viewers are online across YouTube in the last 28 days, and suggests it for building your community, choosing when to schedule a Premiere and planning your next live stream. Shorts are not on that list, but the same page says that viewers who watch any of your channel's formats are included in its viewer numbers, Shorts among them. The hours in the report belong to everyone who watches the channel, the viewers of your Shorts included. Two cautions before you read hours off it. The page does not say which time zone the report uses, while the Schedule card asks you for one, so make sure the two match. And the report says when your viewers are online across YouTube, not when they watch Shorts or your channel in particular, so its busiest hours are where a test starts, not its result. ![The path to YouTube's report as four numbered steps: YouTube Studio, sign in; Analytics, in the left menu; Audience, from the top menu; and When your viewers are on YouTube, one of the Audience tab's cards covering the last 28 days, its hours left undrawn. Under it, what YouTube suggests the report for, building your community, when to schedule a Premiere and planning your next live stream, and that its viewer numbers count viewers of every format, Shorts included.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/best-time-to-post-youtube-shorts/report-path.webp) *Where your viewers' hours are in YouTube Studio, drawn as the steps YouTube's help page gives. The report's hours are your channel's own, so none are drawn.* ## Schedule a Short for those hours [Scheduled publishing](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1270709?hl=en) keeps a video private and makes it public at a specific time. On a computer, [YouTube's page on uploading Shorts](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12779649?hl=en) sends a Short through the same CREATE, then Upload videos path as any other video, so the scheduling steps apply to it as they stand: 1. Sign in to YouTube Studio. 2. Select CREATE, then Upload videos. 3. Select the file and enter its details. 4. Set the video as Scheduled or Private on the upload page. 5. Click the Schedule card and set the date, time and time zone. 6. Select Schedule. YouTube Studio takes up to 15 short videos in one upload from a computer, and each needs its details completed under EDIT DRAFT before it is published, so a batch of Shorts can be spread across several hours in one sitting. A scheduled time can be changed later from Content, again through EDIT DRAFT, while the video is still private. Two details from the same pages. The date on a video's watch page is based on Pacific Standard Time, so a video can show a different date there from the one where you live. And if your account has a Community Guidelines strike, a scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. ![Two frames of a vertical clip of a singer, the first hatched and tagged Private, the second outlined in lime and tagged Public, with the Schedule card between them: Date, a day from your report; Time, an hour from your report, in lime; Time zone, the same as your report's; and a Schedule button. Under them, YouTube's six scheduling steps and three notes: up to 15 Shorts in one upload on a computer, the watch page's date in Pacific Standard Time, and a Community Guidelines strike holding a scheduled video back.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/best-time-to-post-youtube-shorts/schedule-a-short.webp) *Scheduling a Short, drawn from YouTube's help pages rather than its screens. The frames are of a clip Snipri reframed from a recording by comvou, CC BY 4.0.* ## Compare your Shorts with each other Once Shorts have gone out at different hours, the Content tab shows how each one did. [YouTube's page on content performance](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12220281?hl=en) puts it under Analytics, then Content, where Shorts have a chip of their own. There, [YouTube's analytics tips for Shorts](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12942217?hl=en&co=YOUTUBE._YTVideoType%3Dshorts) explain, each Short's views are compared with your Shorts' typical performance, and over time that comparison can help you spot high-performing Shorts, anticipate seasonal changes and figure out when to upload new Shorts. | Metric | What YouTube says it counts | Where it comes from | | --- | --- | --- | | Views | How many times your Shorts were viewed, compared with your Shorts' typical performance | YouTube Help: Content tab analytics tips | | Shown in feed | How many times your Shorts showed in the Shorts Feed | YouTube Help: Content tab analytics tips | | How many chose to view | The share of times viewers viewed your Shorts rather than swiping away | YouTube Help: Content tab analytics tips | | Stayed to watch | The share of times viewers stayed past the initial seconds of a Short | YouTube Help: Understand your YouTube content performance | | Engaged views | Views past the initial seconds, not counting loops | YouTube Help: Understand your YouTube content performance | | Average view duration | Average minutes watched among those who stayed to watch | YouTube Help: Understand your YouTube content performance | Views alone count every start: since August 24, 2026, YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts to play, Shorts included. Stayed to watch and engaged views show whether the people who saw a Short at a given hour kept watching it. YouTube's tips add two rules for the comparison. Compare videos of the same type, because audience behaviour differs across formats, so a Short is measured against Shorts, not long videos or live streams. And avoid comparing each video against a viral hit. One Short at a new hour tells you about that Short as much as about the hour, so try each hour with more than one Short before you settle on it. ![The path Analytics, Content, Shorts, then six Shorts metrics with YouTube's definitions shortened: Views, in lime, against your Shorts' typical performance; Shown in feed; How many chose to view; Stayed to watch; Engaged views; and Average view duration. Below, compare a Short with your typical Shorts and your other Shorts, not with a viral hit or with long videos and live streams.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/best-time-to-post-youtube-shorts/compare-shorts.webp) *The Shorts metrics in YouTube Studio's Content tab, named and defined as YouTube's help pages give them, with the comparisons YouTube's tips advise. No numbers are drawn.* ## Shorts to test with, from one recording A test of posting times needs several Shorts that are alike enough to compare. One long recording, such as an episode, a talk or a stream, can hold several moments worth a Short. Snipri's [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts) finds them, reframes each to 1080 × 1920 and burns the captions in, with a written reason for every clip it keeps; [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) explains how it picks them. Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead. Download the clips, upload them together and schedule each one for a different hour from your report. The clip in this guide's pictures and video is one Snipri reframed from a recording of a singer on a stage, published for reuse with credit. The recording has no sound, so the clip has no captions. What makes a Short worth posting in the first place, from the opening to the payoff, is in [how to make YouTube Shorts from long videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos), and how Shorts earn once they are up is in [YouTube Shorts monetization](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-monetization). More guides on growing a channel are in [growing a channel with short clips](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/growth). ## Common questions ### What is the best day to post YouTube Shorts? YouTube does not name one. Its report of when your viewers are on YouTube covers your own channel's last 28 days, so the days worth trying are the ones it shows, each tried with more than one Short. ### What time zone does YouTube use when you schedule a Short? The one you choose: the Schedule card asks for a date, a time and a time zone. YouTube's help page on the audience report does not say which zone the report uses, so make sure the hour you schedule and the hour you read are in the same one. The date on a video's watch page follows Pacific Standard Time. ### Does the time you post a Short change how it does? YouTube does not say how much timing matters. It does say that a Short's views, compared with your typical Shorts, can help you figure out when to upload new Shorts, which makes timing something to test on your own channel. ### Can you change the time of a scheduled Short? Yes, while it is still private. YouTube's scheduling page says to find the video under Content in YouTube Studio, click EDIT DRAFT and choose the new time under Schedule. ## Sources 1. [YouTube Help: Understand your YouTube audience](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9314416?hl=en), checked November 5, 2026. 2. [YouTube Help: Schedule video publish time](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1270709?hl=en), checked November 5, 2026. 3. [YouTube Help: Upload YouTube Shorts](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12779649?hl=en), checked November 5, 2026. 4. [YouTube Help: Content tab analytics tips (Shorts)](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12942217?hl=en&co=YOUTUBE._YTVideoType%3Dshorts), checked November 5, 2026. 5. [YouTube Help: Understand your YouTube content performance](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12220281?hl=en), checked November 5, 2026. Read next: [YouTube Shorts Monetization: How Shorts Pay](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-monetization) --- # YouTube Shorts Size: Dimensions and Aspect Ratio Export YouTube Shorts at 1080 × 1920 pixels (9:16). Square and vertical videos up to 3 minutes count as Shorts, and a Short's thumbnail is 2160 × 3840. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-size - Author: [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri, and wrote this guide - Topic: [Formats and specs](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/formats) - Published: November 4, 2026 ![Shorts size: 1080 × 1920. 9:16 is the shape best suited to Shorts, a square video counts as a Short too, up to 3 minutes, and 2160 × 3840 is a Short's custom thumbnail, beside a vertical clip Snipri reframed from a lecture filmed wide.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-size/cover.webp) **Short answer.** Export a Short at 1080 × 1920 pixels, a 9:16 frame: YouTube's 1080p size turned upright. YouTube counts any square or vertical video of up to 3 minutes as a Short and treats a wider one, such as 16:9, as a regular video. For a custom Short thumbnail, YouTube gives 2160 × 3840 and suggests 9:16. - 1080 × 1920 is the 9:16 frame of a Short: YouTube's 1080p size, 1920 × 1080, turned upright. - Square and vertical videos of up to 3 minutes count as Shorts; 16:9 and other wider shapes upload as regular videos. - Export the vertical frame on its own: YouTube advises against adding padding or black bars to the video itself. - YouTube recommends H.264 video in an MP4, the frame rate you recorded at, and 8 Mbps for 1080p at 24 to 30 frames per second. - YouTube gives 2160 × 3840 for a Short's custom thumbnail, at least 640 pixels high, added in YouTube Studio on a computer. A Short has one size worth exporting and a plain rule for which shapes count. The numbers below are YouTube's own, from its help pages, read on November 4, 2026. Where a size is worked out from them rather than quoted, the post says so. ## Export at 1080 × 1920 | Setting | Value | Where it comes from | | --- | --- | --- | | Shape | 9:16; any square or vertical shape counts as a Short | YouTube Help; Google Ads Help calls 9:16 best suited to Shorts | | Size | 1080 × 1920 | YouTube's 1080p size, 1920 × 1080, turned upright | | Length | Up to 3 minutes | YouTube Help | | File | MP4, H.264 video, AAC-LC or Opus audio at 48 kHz | YouTube's upload encoding settings | | Frame rate | The rate you recorded at; 24, 25, 30, 48, 50 and 60 are common | YouTube's upload encoding settings | | Bitrate at 1080p | 8 Mbps at 24, 25 or 30 fps; 12 Mbps at 48, 50 or 60 fps | YouTube's upload encoding settings, for SDR | | Thumbnail | 2160 × 3840 (9:16), at least 640 pixels high | YouTube Help | YouTube's table of resolutions is written for 16:9, the standard shape on a computer, and lists 1080p as 1920 × 1080. A Short's frame is the same one turned on its side: 1080 × 1920. That is also the size Snipri renders every clip at, so a clip from Snipri is ready to upload at the size this table names. ![YouTube's sizes upright. The lecture as filmed, 1920 × 1080 at 16:9, beside the clip Snipri reframed from it, 1080 × 1920 at 9:16, drawn to one scale; under them, YouTube's 16:9 sizes and the same sizes upright: 1280 × 720 and 720 × 1280 at 720p, 1920 × 1080 and 1080 × 1920 at 1080p, marked as the size to export, and 3840 × 2160 and 2160 × 3840 at 2160p, also a Short's thumbnail.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-size/upright-sizes.webp) *YouTube lists its sizes for 16:9, and a Short's frame is the same one turned upright. The lecture as filmed and the clip Snipri reframed from it, one moment drawn to one scale.* ## The shapes that count as a Short YouTube's page on uploading Shorts asks for a square or vertical aspect ratio, and its page on three-minute Shorts says that a square or vertical video of up to 3 minutes counts as a Short. So a 1:1 or 4:5 video is as much a Short as a 9:16 one. At 1080 pixels wide, those shapes are 1080 × 1080, 1080 × 1350 and 1080 × 1920, and only the last fills a vertical frame. A wider shape is the way out of Shorts: for a video you do not want classified as a Short, YouTube's advice is a wider aspect ratio, such as 16:9. Its guidance for Shorts ads draws the same line from the other side, calling 9:16 the shape best suited to the Shorts format. How long a Short can run, and the catch with copyright claims past a minute, are in [how long YouTube Shorts can be](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be). ![One 1080 × 1920 frame of a vertical clip of a lecturer, with lines where each shape would end at 1080 pixels wide: 9:16 fills it at 1080 × 1920, 4:5 is 1080 × 1350 and 1:1 is 1080 × 1080, all Shorts; 16:9, dashed, is wider than tall and a regular video at any length.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-size/shorts-dimensions.webp) *The shapes YouTube counts as a Short, each at 1080 pixels wide on one frame of a 9:16 clip. A 16:9 video is a regular video at any length.* ## Turning a wide recording into a Short A recording filmed for a computer screen is 16:9, and a 9:16 window as tall as that frame keeps 32% of its width. Where that window sits decides whether the speaker is in the Short at all. Snipri's [auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) follows the speaker's face to place it and renders the result at 1080 × 1920; the lecture in this post's pictures was reframed that way. [How to make YouTube Shorts from long videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos) puts a centred crop and a reframe side by side on one recording. ## Export without black bars YouTube's resolution page asks you not to add padding or black bars to the video itself, because they get in the way of its player, which changes shape to fit the video and the viewer's device. On a computer, YouTube may add padding beside a 9:16 video on its own, white by default and dark grey in Dark theme. Bars also change what the file is. A vertical clip exported inside a 1920 × 1080 frame, with black on both sides, is a 16:9 video, the shape YouTube suggests for keeping a video out of Shorts. Export the 9:16 frame on its own. [Video: A wide lecture, cut upright at 1080 × 1920 and exported without bars](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-size/upright-without-bars.mp4) *A lecture filmed wide at 1920 × 1080, a regular video at any length; the 9:16 clip Snipri's reframe cut from it, measured at 1080 × 1920, beside a 16:9 outline turning upright; then the same clip inside a 16:9 file with black bars, which makes it a regular video, beside the clip as a 9:16 file, a Short. The recording has no sound, so the clip has no captions; the measures and the barred file are drawn.* Recording: “Riemannian geometry, PhD Evgeny Malkovich, Lecture 10” by Лекции по теоретической физике, from the [YouTube UGC dataset](https://media.withyoutube.com/ugc-dataset), under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), cut and without sound. ## Where text and captions can sit YouTube's help pages give no safe zone figures for Shorts. Its Shorts editor on Android shows visual guides instead: as you move text or a sticker, it marks where the like button, the comments and the video's description may appear for viewers, and animated white lines warn when an overlay comes so near an edge that it may be partly hidden on some devices. Snipri burns captions with the bottom of the caption block 14% above the bottom of the frame, under the speaker's face. In the editor you can move them to the top or the middle, or drag them to another spot in the frame. Meta does publish numbers for its Reels ads, and [Instagram Reel size](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size) sets them against where Snipri's captions sit. ## The thumbnail YouTube's page on custom thumbnails gives 2160 × 3840 pixels for a Short, with a minimum height of 640 pixels, and suggests a 9:16 ratio. The file can be a JPG or PNG, up to 50 MB on a computer. Custom thumbnails for Shorts can only be added in YouTube Studio on a computer, and only on a verified account: 1. Sign in to YouTube Studio and select Content, then Shorts at the top. 2. Go to the Short and click its edit icon. 3. Below Thumbnail, click Upload file and choose the image. 4. Click Save. ![A Short's thumbnail: a 9:16 frame of a lecturer drawn as 2160 × 3840 beside the same frame at the least height of 640 pixels, to one scale, with the specs: 2160 × 3840, 9:16, 50 MB on a computer as a JPG or PNG, and the steps in YouTube Studio on a computer: Content, then Shorts, the Short's edit icon, Upload file below Thumbnail, Save, for a verified account.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-size/shorts-thumbnail.webp) *The size YouTube gives for a Short's custom thumbnail, with the least height drawn to the same scale. The frame stands for a thumbnail you would upload.* More guides on lengths and sizes are in [short video formats and specs](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/formats). ## Common questions ### What size is a YouTube Short in pixels? 1080 × 1920 for a full 9:16 frame at 1080p. YouTube lists its sizes for 16:9, such as 1920 × 1080 for 1080p, and a Short uses the same frame turned upright. 720 × 1280 and 2160 × 3840 follow the same way from 720p and 2160p. ### What aspect ratio should a YouTube Short be? 9:16. YouTube counts any square or vertical video of up to 3 minutes as a Short, so 1:1 and 4:5 qualify too, but its guidance for Shorts ads calls 9:16 the shape best suited to the Shorts format. ### Can a YouTube Short be horizontal? No. A Short is square or vertical, and YouTube suggests a wider shape, such as 16:9, for a video you do not want classified as a Short. A horizontal video uploads as a regular video, whatever its length. ### What is the YouTube Shorts thumbnail size? YouTube's thumbnail page gives 2160 × 3840 pixels for Shorts, with a minimum height of 640 pixels, and suggests a 9:16 ratio. Upload a JPG or PNG of up to 50 MB in YouTube Studio on a computer; the account has to be verified. ### Should I add black bars to fit a vertical video into 16:9? No. A vertical clip inside a 16:9 frame makes a 16:9 file, which YouTube does not count as a Short, and YouTube advises against adding padding or black bars because they stop its player from fitting itself to the video and the viewer's device. ### What frame rate should a YouTube Short be? The rate you recorded at. YouTube's encoding settings say to upload at the frame rate the video was recorded in, and name 24, 25, 30, 48, 50 and 60 frames per second as common rates. ## Sources 1. [YouTube Help: Upload YouTube Shorts](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12779649?hl=en), checked November 4, 2026. 2. [YouTube Help: Understand three-minute YouTube Shorts](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15424877?hl=en), checked November 4, 2026. 3. [YouTube Help: Video resolution & aspect ratios](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6375112?hl=en), checked November 4, 2026. 4. [YouTube Help: YouTube recommended upload encoding settings](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en), checked November 4, 2026. 5. [YouTube Help: Add custom thumbnails](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72431?hl=en), checked November 4, 2026. 6. [YouTube Help: Enhance your Shorts](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/16215842?hl=en), checked November 4, 2026. 7. [Google Ads Help: YouTube Shorts ads: Asset specs and best practices](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/16041697?hl=en), checked November 4, 2026. Read next: [How Long Can YouTube Shorts Be? 2026 Limits](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be) --- # How to Clip a YouTube Video: 3 Ways Clip a YouTube video three ways: the Clip button shares 5 to 60 seconds, Edit into a Short cuts your own video, and Snipri makes vertical clips from a file. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-clip-a-youtube-video - Author: [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri, and wrote this guide - Topic: [Clipping long videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/clipping) - Published: November 3, 2026 ![Three ways to clip a YouTube video: the Clip button, a looping link to 5 to 60 seconds of a video; Edit into a Short, up to a minute of your own video; and Snipri, vertical 9:16 clips with captions from your file. Beside it, a vertical clip Snipri reframed from a scene of the film Meridian: a man at his desk, the caption beach at that huge rock burned in, the word rock in green.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-clip-a-youtube-video/cover.webp) **Short answer.** To clip a YouTube video, select More and then Clip under it to share 5 to 60 seconds that play on a loop from the video's page, or use Edit into a Short in the YouTube app to make a Short from up to 60 seconds of your own public video. For vertical clips with captions you can post anywhere, upload a file you own to a clipping tool such as Snipri. - The Clip button marks 5 to 60 seconds of a video and plays them on a loop from the video's own watch page, shared as a link, an embed, a post or an email. - A clip lasts as long as its video: it is removed when the original is deleted, set to private or breaks YouTube's Community Guidelines, and creators can switch clipping off. - Edit into a Short, in the YouTube app, takes up to 60 seconds of a public long-form video you uploaded and links the Short back to it. - YouTube Studio's video clips tool cuts clips or Shorts from your own long-form videos too, with suggested moments in ten countries and seven languages. - A video downloaded from YouTube Studio is 720p or 360p, so a 9:16 crop of it is enlarged 2.67 or 5.33 times; clip the original file instead. - Snipri finds the moments in a file you own, cuts each to 9:16 around the speaker and burns the captions in, and you download MP4 files to post anywhere. YouTube has two ways to clip a video, and a third way starts from your own file. YouTube's rules below come from its help pages, read on November 3, 2026, and Snipri's from its own code. ## Which way should you use? Use the Clip button to share a moment of a video you are watching, Edit into a Short to turn part of your own video into a Short, and a clipping tool when you want vertical clips with captions that you can post anywhere. | Way | Whose video | How long | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | The Clip button | Yours or anyone's, if the creator allows clipping | 5 to 60 seconds | A link or embed that loops the part on the video's page | | Edit into a Short | Only your own public long-form videos | Up to 60 seconds of the video | A Short on your channel, linked back to the video | | A clipping tool such as Snipri | A file you own or may use | A length you choose before the job | MP4 files in 9:16 with the captions burned in | ![Three columns, one for each way to clip a YouTube video. The Clip button: a drawn player with a frame of a man at his desk from the film Meridian, a lime stretch on its bar and a loop mark, labelled loops on the video's page; 5 to 60 seconds; other people's videos too, if the creator allows clipping; a clip on YouTube, shared as a link or an embed. Edit into a Short: an empty dashed 9:16 frame, your layout chosen in the app; up to 60 seconds of the video; only your own public long-form videos; a Short on your channel, linked to the video. Snipri: the vertical clip of the same man with the caption beach at that huge rock burned in; 15 to 60 seconds by default, up to 3 minutes; a file you own; MP4 files in 9:16 with the captions burned in.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-clip-a-youtube-video/three-ways.webp) *The three ways side by side. YouTube's rules are from its help pages; the player and the Short's frame are drawn, and the vertical clip is a scene of the film Meridian, reframed and captioned by Snipri.* ## How do you clip a YouTube video with the Clip button? On a computer, the Clip button sits under the video, behind More: 1. **Sign in and open the video.** It can be yours or someone else's. 2. **Select More, then Clip.** 3. **Add a title** of up to 140 characters. 4. **Select the part.** Drag the slider over 5 to 60 seconds of the video. 5. **Select Share clip,** then embed it, post it to a social network, email it or copy its link. A clip is public. Anyone who can watch the original video can watch and share it, and it plays its part on a loop from the original video's watch page. It lasts as long as the video does: a clip is removed when the original is deleted, set to private or breaks YouTube's Community Guidelines, while clips of unlisted videos remain available. A live stream can be clipped only when it has DVR. Creators find every clip of their videos on their Library page. Clipping is on by default. To stop viewers clipping your videos, open YouTube Studio's settings, select Channel and then Advanced settings, untick Allow viewers to clip my content under Clips, and save. To stop only some people, add them to your channel's hidden users. ![A drawn video player over a frame of a man at his desk from the film Meridian, with a lime stretch on its bar where the scene sits in the film and a loop mark above it. Under it, four steps: More, then Clip, under the video you want to clip; add a title of up to 140 characters; drag the slider over 5 to 60 seconds; share the clip by embedding it, posting it, emailing it or copying its link. Then when a clip stays, for anyone who can watch the video, unlisted videos included, and when it is removed: when the video is deleted, set to private or breaks the Community Guidelines.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-clip-a-youtube-video/clip-button.webp) *A drawing of the Clip button as YouTube's help page describes it on a computer, not YouTube's screen. The lime stretch on the bar is where the scene sits in the film.* ## How do you turn your own video into a Short? Edit into a Short, in the YouTube app for Android, iPhone and iPad, makes a Short from part of a long-form video you uploaded: 1. **Open your video's watch page** in the app. 2. **Tap Remix, then Edit into a Short.** 3. **Select up to 60 seconds.** Select less, and you can record more in the Shorts camera, up to 60 seconds. 4. **Tap Layout** to choose a different layout. 5. **Tap Next,** add text or filters if you want them, and upload the Short. It works only on public long-form videos you uploaded. Private and unlisted videos, and videos with a third-party copyright claim, cannot be used. If the option is missing on a video that qualifies, opt the video in to sampling: in YouTube Studio, open Content, select the video, select Show more, tick Allow people to sample this content under Shorts remixing, and save. The Short is linked back to your original video, which gives its viewers a way to find the rest. YouTube Studio has a second tool for your own videos. Its video clips tool cuts segments from a long-form video, chosen on the transcript or by timestamps, and publishes them as clips or Shorts; a Short made with it gets captions from the transcript, where available. Its suggested moments are available in ten countries and in seven languages: English, French, German, Hindi, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. ![A bar standing for your long-form video with a lime stretch marked up to 60 s, an arrow to an empty dashed frame marked Short, linked back to the video. Under it, which videos: a public long-form video you uploaded is ticked; private or unlisted videos, a third-party copyright claim and a video not opted in to sampling are crossed out, with where to tick Allow people to sample this content. Beside it, the steps: open your video, tap Remix and then Edit into a Short, select up to 60 seconds, choose a layout, then Next and upload.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-clip-a-youtube-video/edit-into-a-short.webp) *A drawing of what YouTube's help page on making Shorts from your videos says for its phone apps, not YouTube's screen. No layout in it is YouTube's.* ## How do you make vertical clips with captions from a YouTube video? Both of YouTube's ways keep the clip on YouTube. For a clip you can also post on TikTok, Instagram or LinkedIn, you need a vertical video file, and the best place to start is the original recording of your video, not a copy downloaded from YouTube. [Upload the file](https://www.snipri.com/docs/upload-a-video) to Snipri. It transcribes the speech, picks the moments that make sense on their own, cuts each to a 9:16 window that follows the speaker and burns the captions in. Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead. You [download each clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/download-clips) as an MP4 file and post it where you like. Snipri's [YouTube clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/youtube-clip-maker) page has more on clipping YouTube videos. ![A 1920 × 1080 frame of a man at his desk from the film Meridian, dimmed except for a lime 9:16 window around him, with an arrow to the 1080 × 1920 vertical clip Snipri reframed from it, the caption separated from the burned in, the word from in green. Under them: 608 × 1080, the 9:16 window, as tall as the 1080p frame; 1.78 times, enlarged to fill 1080 × 1920; 2.67 and 5.33 times, the same crop from a 720p or 360p download.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-clip-a-youtube-video/snipri-clip.webp) *A scene from the film Meridian, reframed by Snipri, with the window it cut on this frame. The words are the film's own captions, burned by Snipri's renderer; the enlargements are worked out from the window's height.* Start from the original because a vertical clip is a crop. In a 1080p frame, a 9:16 window as tall as the frame is 608 × 1080 pixels, enlarged 1.78 times to fill a 1080 × 1920 clip. YouTube Studio lets you download a video you uploaded, up to five times a day, but as an MP4 at 720p or 360p, depending on the video's size. The same crop of that download is 405 × 720 or 203 × 360 pixels, enlarged 2.67 or 5.33 times, and every enlargement softens the picture. The video plays one scene through all three ways: in a drawn player that loops it as a clip does, beside the rules for a Short, and as the vertical clip Snipri reframed from it. [Video: One scene clipped three ways: the Clip button, a Short and Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-clip-a-youtube-video/one-scene-three-ways.mp4) *A scene from the film Meridian taken through the three ways. First in a drawn player, played to its end and back to its start as a clip loops, its 6.1 seconds marked on a scale of what a clip may be, 5 to 60 seconds; then beside the videos Edit into a Short takes and an empty frame for the Short; then as the vertical clip Snipri reframed from it, beside the file with the 9:16 window it followed. The player, its bar, the scale and the Short's frame are drawn; the captions are the film's own words, burned by Snipri's renderer.* Film: “Meridian” by Netflix, from [Netflix Open Content](https://opencontent.netflix.com/), under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), cut, reframed and captioned, without sound. For the rest of the work, from picking the moments to measuring them, read [How to make YouTube Shorts from long videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos), and for the length limits, [How long can YouTube Shorts be](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be). More guides like these are under [Clipping](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/clipping). ## Common questions ### Can I clip someone else's YouTube video? With the Clip button, yes, unless its creator switched clipping off: clipping is on by default, and the clip plays from the original video's page for anyone who can watch that video. Edit into a Short works only on your own videos, and a clipping tool needs a file you have the right to use. ### How long can a YouTube clip be? Between 5 and 60 seconds, by YouTube's help page on clips. Edit into a Short takes up to 60 seconds of your video, and when you select less you can record more, up to 60 seconds. ### Can I download a YouTube clip? YouTube's help page on clips lists four ways to share one: embed it, post it to a social network, email it or copy its link. It names no download. For a file, clip a video you own from its original recording. ### Why can't I find Edit into a Short on my video? The option needs a public long-form video you uploaded, with no third-party copyright claim, that is opted in to sampling. To opt in, tick Allow people to sample this content under Shorts remixing in the video's details in YouTube Studio. ## Sources 1. [YouTube Help: Learn about managing Clips](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10332730?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en), checked November 3, 2026. 2. [YouTube Help: Create YouTube Shorts from your videos](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12836917), checked November 3, 2026. 3. [YouTube Help: Video Clips & Shorts in YouTube Studio](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15824265), checked November 3, 2026. 4. [YouTube Help: Download YouTube videos that you've uploaded](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/56100), checked November 3, 2026. Read next: [How to Make YouTube Shorts from Long Videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos) --- # How to Start a Video Podcast That Clips Well Start a video podcast that clips well: a camera for each voice, faces framed big enough for a 9:16 crop, 4K files, and the specs YouTube and Spotify publish. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-start-a-video-podcast - Author: [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri, and wrote this guide - Published: November 2, 2026 ![Plan the crop before you record: one camera and one microphone for each voice; 19% of the frame's height, the face size that gets a full-height crop; and 4K, a 1215 × 2160 crop, more than the clip's 1080 × 1920. Beside it, two vertical clips Snipri's reframing cut from the film Tears of Steel: a close-up of a grey-haired man, and a two-shot split into two panes, a young woman above him.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-start-a-video-podcast/cover.webp) **Short answer.** To start a video podcast that clips well, plan the vertical crop before you record. Give each voice its own camera and microphone, frame each person from the chest up so the face is at least a fifth of the frame's height, record in 4K if you can, and publish the full episode in 16:9 on YouTube or Spotify. Then cut 9:16 clips from it. - Give each voice a camera and a microphone, and add a wide camera that holds everyone for the exchanges. - Frame each face at a fifth of the frame's height or more: in Snipri, a face under 12% keeps the whole shot, and one of 19% or more gets a crop as tall as the frame. - Two people can share a camera when they sit far apart: Snipri gives each a pane once their faces are more than 22% of the frame's width apart. - Record in 4K if you can: a 9:16 crop as tall as a 4K frame is 1215 × 2160, more than the 1080 × 1920 a vertical clip needs. - Publish the full episode in 16:9, and keep clips out of the YouTube playlist you mark as a podcast. A video podcast is published as one long horizontal episode, and its clips are cut vertical from the same recording. This setup plans for both. The platform specs come from YouTube's, Spotify's and Apple's own pages, read on November 2, 2026, and the framing numbers from Snipri's reframing code. ## What do you need to start a video podcast? You need a camera and a microphone for each voice, a wide camera that holds everyone, light on every face, and a way to record each camera and microphone on its own track. | Part | What to start with | What it changes for the clips | | --- | --- | --- | | Cameras | One for each person, plus one wide shot of everyone | A close camera gives a vertical clip one face to crop to | | Microphones | One for each person, just below the chin | A clean voice makes accurate captions, and a mouth in view lets speaker detection see who talks | | Resolution | 4K, or 1080p at least | How much a 9:16 crop has to be enlarged | | Frame rate | One rate from recording to export, such as 24, 25 or 30 frames a second | YouTube asks for the frame rate you recorded | | Light | A soft light in front of each face | An evenly lit face is easier to find and follow | | Recording | Every camera and microphone on its own track | The edit can cut to whoever is talking | ## Where should the cameras go? Put a close camera beside each person, aimed across the table at the other, and a wide camera on the open side that holds everyone. Each close camera sees its person almost face on while they talk to the other, and the wide one keeps the exchanges, the reactions and anyone the close cameras miss. The edit cuts between the three, and a clipping tool reframes whichever shot is on screen. So the framing of each camera decides what a vertical clip can show. ![A plan of two people at a table seen from above, the host on the left and the guest on the right, each with a microphone in front. Camera A faces them from the open side, camera B stands beside the guest aimed at the host, and camera C beside the host aimed at the guest. Below, the shot each gives: A holds both people, each inside a pane; B and C each hold one person from the chest up inside one window as tall as the frame.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-start-a-video-podcast/camera-plan.webp) *A drawing, not to scale: three cameras for two voices, and the 9:16 windows Snipri's reframing puts in each shot by the rules this guide describes.* ## How big should a face be in the frame? Frame each person from the chest up, so the face, from forehead to chin, is at least a fifth of the frame's height. At that size, a vertical crop of one person can use the frame's full height. Snipri's [auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) measures each face against the frame's height, and two thresholds in its code decide the crop: - **Under 12%,** it keeps the whole shot and fills the rest of the vertical frame with a darkened, blurred copy of it. - **From 12%,** it crops to the face, with a tighter window that it enlarges more, up to 2.5 times. - **From 19%,** the window is as tall as the frame, the most a 9:16 crop of it can hold. A wide shot of a room puts faces far under the first threshold. In the scene below, the largest face is 6 to 7% of the frame's height. A close-up from the shoulders up puts it near half. ![A meter of face height from 0 to 60% of the frame's height. Under 12% is hatched: the whole shot. 12 to 19%: a tighter window, enlarged up to 2.5 times. 19% and over is lime: one window as tall as the frame. A wide shot of a room, its largest face at 6%, is marked under 12%, and a close-up of a grey-haired man, his face about half the frame's height, is marked in the lime part. Each frame is shown with its face box beside the vertical clip Snipri cut from it: the whole shot over a blurred copy for the wide one, a full-height crop of his face for the close-up.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-start-a-video-podcast/face-size.webp) *Two scenes from the film Tears of Steel as Snipri's reframing cut them. The thresholds are the ones in its code, and the face shares are the worker's own measures on these frames.* ## Can two people share one camera? Yes, if they sit far enough apart. Snipri gives two people a pane each, one above the other, when their faces are more than 22% of the frame's width apart and neither pane would show the other's face. Seated closer, they stay together in one window. In a two-person shot, Snipri can also cut to whoever talks alone for a while, judged from the movement of each mouth and the sound. A quick exchange keeps both on screen. Keep each microphone below the chin, so it does not hide the mouth. ![A frame of a young woman and a grey-haired man standing apart in a room of books and red lamps, with a lime window round each face, beside the vertical clip Snipri cut from it: the woman in the top pane, the man in the bottom one. Measured over the shot: 49 to 54% of the frame's width between their faces against the 22% rule, 6.2 to 8.4 face widths against 1.8, and the smaller face's area 44 to 80% of the larger's against 10%.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-start-a-video-podcast/two-people.webp) *A two-shot from the film Tears of Steel, split by Snipri's reframing into two panes. The rule's numbers are from its code; the measures are the worker's on this shot.* The video puts the three shots side by side, from the farthest camera to the closest, each with the number that decided its crop. [Video: A wide shot, a two-shot and a close-up, each as Snipri's reframing cut it](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-start-a-video-podcast/three-framings.mp4) *Three shots from the film Tears of Steel, from the farthest camera to the closest, each as Snipri's reframing cut it, beside the frame it came from. The wide shot's largest face is 6 to 7% of the frame's height, so the whole shot is kept; the two faces of the two-shot are 49 to 54% of the width apart, so each gets a pane; the close-up's face is about half the frame's height, so one window as tall as the frame follows it. The windows, face boxes and gauges are drawn from the worker's model, and the clips have no captions.* Film: “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, from [mango.blender.org](https://mango.blender.org/), under [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), cut and reframed, without sound. ## What resolution and frame rate should you record? Record in 4K if your cameras can, and in 1080p at least. A vertical clip is 1080 × 1920. A 9:16 window as tall as a 4K frame is 1215 × 2160, so it is scaled down to fit. From 1080p the window is 608 × 1080 and has to be enlarged 1.78 times, and from 720p 2.67 times, which leaves the clip softer. The gap grows when a face is small. For a face at 12% of the frame's height, the smallest Snipri crops to, a 1080p clip is enlarged 2.5 times and a 4K clip 1.41 times. ![Four rectangles drawn to scale: the 9:16 window as tall as a 720p frame, 405 × 720, enlarged 2.67 times; as tall as a 1080p frame, 608 × 1080, enlarged 1.78 times; as tall as a 4K frame, 1215 × 2160, scaled down to 0.89; and the 1080 × 1920 clip. A table adds that for a face at 12% of the frame's height, the smallest Snipri crops to, the clip is enlarged 2.67 times from 720p, 2.5 times from 1080p and 1.41 times from 4K.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-start-a-video-podcast/record-in-4k.webp) *A drawing to scale, with the factors worked out from the clip size Snipri renders and the window rules in its reframing code.* Keep one frame rate from the cameras to the export. YouTube asks for video encoded at the frame rate it was recorded and names 24, 25, 30, 48, 50 and 60 as common rates; Spotify takes 24, 25, 30, 50 or 60. A 4K file is large. At the 35 to 45 Mbps YouTube recommends for 4K at 24 to 30 frames a second, an hour is about 16 to 20 GB, so check the upload limit of the tool you clip with, Snipri's [plans](https://www.snipri.com/pricing) included, before you export. ## How should you record the sound? Give each person their own microphone on its own track, just below the chin and angled up at the mouth. Separate tracks let you fix one voice without touching the other, and a close, clean voice makes the transcript, and with it the captions on every clip, more accurate. [Captioning podcast clips](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips) covers what to check before a caption goes out. For the upload, YouTube recommends AAC-LC or Opus audio at 48 kHz, and Spotify AAC-LC, PCM or FLAC at 128 kbps or higher, in stereo. ## Where should you publish the episode? Publish the full episode in 16:9 on YouTube and Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts through a hosting provider that supports video. On YouTube, create a podcast in YouTube Studio, from a new playlist or one you already have, and put only full-length episodes in it, in order. YouTube's help asks you not to add podcast features to a playlist of clips. | Platform | What it asks for | Where it comes from | | --- | --- | --- | | YouTube | Full-length episodes in a podcast playlist, in order; MP4 with H.264 at the frame rate recorded; 16:9; 35 to 45 Mbps for 4K and 8 Mbps for 1080p at 24 to 30 frames a second | YouTube Help: Create a podcast in YouTube Studio, and recommended upload encoding settings | | Spotify | MP4 recommended, MOV compatible; H.264 or H.265; 1080p or higher; 16:9; under 10 GB and 4 hours recommended, up to 60 GB and 12 hours | Spotify: Video specs | | Apple Podcasts | Video through a hosting provider that supports it, which publishes for you; file types vary by provider; standard RSS video feeds remain available | Apple Podcasts for Creators: How to publish video on Apple Podcasts | ## How do you turn the episode into clips? Upload the edited episode, the one that cuts between the cameras, and let the clipping tool find the moments and reframe each shot. Snipri's [podcast clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker) reads the transcript for moments that stand alone, cuts each to 9:16 by the rules above and burns the captions in. Then review each clip as [How to make podcast clips](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips) describes: a moment that makes sense without the rest of the episode, cut from its question to the end of its answer. For YouTube, [How long can YouTube Shorts be](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be) has the length limits, and [How to make YouTube Shorts from long videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos) the rest of the workflow. ## Common questions ### How many cameras do I need for a video podcast? One for each person and one wide shot is the setup in this guide. A single wide camera can work when everyone sits far enough apart and each face is at least 12% of the frame's height, so a vertical crop has a face to follow. ### Should I record a video podcast vertically? No. Record the episode in 16:9, the standard shape on YouTube and the one Spotify recommends, and cut the vertical clips from it. Spotify shows a video of any other shape letterboxed or pillarboxed in some of its apps. ### Can I start a video podcast with a phone? Yes. Record at least 1080p with the phone held horizontally, give each voice its own microphone, keep one frame rate for the whole recording, and frame each person from the chest up as you would with any camera. ### How big is a 4K video podcast file? At the 35 to 45 Mbps YouTube recommends for 4K at 24 to 30 frames a second, an hour of video is about 16 to 20 GB. Spotify recommends files under 10 GB and takes up to 60 GB. ## Sources 1. [YouTube Help: Create a podcast in YouTube Studio](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12751636), checked November 2, 2026. 2. [YouTube Help: YouTube recommended upload encoding settings](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171), checked November 2, 2026. 3. [Spotify: Video specs](https://support.spotify.com/us/podcasters/article/video-specs/), checked November 2, 2026. 4. [Apple Podcasts for Creators: How to publish video on Apple Podcasts](https://podcasters.apple.com/support/5593-how-to-publish-video), checked November 2, 2026. Read next: [How to Make Podcast Clips That Stand Alone](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips) --- # YouTube Shorts Monetization: How Shorts Pay How YouTube pays for Shorts: a monthly pool of ads, a share for music, a split by views and 45% for the creator. Who qualifies, and what changes in 2027. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-monetization - Author: [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri, and wrote this guide - Topic: [Growing a channel](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/growth) - Published: October 28, 2026 - Updated: November 5, 2026 ![Shorts pay from one shared pool: creators keep 45% of their share, joining for ads takes 10 million Shorts views in 90 days with 1,000 subscribers, and from February 1, 2027 a channel needs 10 million every 90 days to keep sharing in Shorts revenue. Beside it, three vertical clips Snipri reframed, a woman talking to the camera, stone steps in a mossy passage and an animated sphere, over a drawn row of the ads between Shorts that go into one pool a month.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-monetization/cover.webp) **Short answer.** Shorts earn from the ads that play between videos in the Shorts Feed. YouTube adds that money up each month, sets part of it aside for music, splits the rest among monetizing creators by their share of engaged views in each country, and pays each creator 45% of their share. To earn it, a channel needs 1,000 subscribers and either 10 million Shorts views in 90 days or 4,000 watch hours in a year. - A Short is not paid for the ads shown around it: YouTube pools a month of the ads between Shorts and shares that out. - Music is paid first: a Short with one track sends half of its share to music partners, and one with two tracks sends two thirds. - The Creator Pool is split by each creator's share of engaged views in each country, and the creator keeps 45% of their part. - Ads and Premium revenue take 1,000 subscribers and 10 million qualified Shorts views in 90 days, or 4,000 long-form watch hours in a year. - From February 1, 2027, sharing in Shorts ad revenue takes 10 million qualified Shorts views every 90 days, counted to the 15th of the month before. YouTube does not pay a Short for the ads shown next to it. It pays out of a pool, by rules its help pages set out, which this guide quotes as they read on October 28, 2026, together with the changes YouTube has announced for February 1, 2027. ## How Shorts make money Shorts earn from the ads that run between videos in the Shorts Feed. YouTube's Shorts monetization policies describe the same four steps every month: 1. **The pool.** The revenue from ads running between videos in the Shorts Feed is added together. 2. **Music.** Part of it pays for the music in Shorts. A Short with no music puts all of the revenue tied to its views into the Creator Pool; a Short with music shares it with music partners. 3. **The split.** The Creator Pool goes to monetizing creators by their share of the total engaged views on monetizing creators' Shorts in each country. 4. **Your share.** Creators keep 45% of the revenue allocated to them, whether their Shorts used music or not. YouTube's own example puts numbers on it. In Country A, Shorts from monetizing creators have 100 million engaged views in a month, and the ads between Shorts earn $100,000. A fifth of those Shorts use one music track, so $10,000 covers music licensing and the Creator Pool is $90,000. Shorts with 1 million engaged views are allocated 1% of it, $900, and their creator keeps 45%: $405. YouTube calls the example hypothetical, and it is not a rate: every number in it moves with the month and the country. ![YouTube's worked example as four steps, the first three on one scale. The pool: $100,000 from ads between Shorts in Country A in a month, $80,000 of it tied to Shorts with no music and $20,000 to Shorts with one track. Music: $10,000 covers music licensing, leaving a Creator Pool of $90,000. The split: the pool as a hundred cells with one lit, $900 for 1 million of the 100 million engaged views. Then that cell drawn at full width: the creator keeps 45%, $405, and the other 55% is left grey.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-monetization/revenue-path.webp) *The four steps of YouTube's Shorts revenue sharing, with the numbers of the example its policy page gives. YouTube calls the example hypothetical: the amounts change by month and by country.* [Video: How a Short's ads reach its creator, step by step](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-monetization/how-shorts-pay.mp4) *Three Shorts play with a drawn ad sliding over between them while a month's pool counts up to $100,000. Then YouTube's hypothetical example: $10,000 covers music, leaving a Creator Pool of $90,000; one cell in a hundred, 1 million of 100 million engaged views, is $900; and the creator keeps 45% of it, $405. Last, an example channel's qualified Shorts views over 90 days against the 10 million line from February 1, 2027: below it, sharing on Shorts pauses while long-form earnings go on, and above it, sharing resumes. The Shorts are real recordings passed through Snipri's reframe; everything else is drawn.* Recordings: “VLOG 2” by MiSSxo STEPH, “Sam on the Wishing Steps” by samschirmer and “3D Animation Project Beat Sphere HD 2014” by Loki 3D, from the [YouTube UGC dataset](https://media.withyoutube.com/ugc-dataset), under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), cut and without sound. YouTube Premium adds a second, smaller stream. YouTube pays monetizing creators 45% of the net Premium revenue it allocates to Shorts, after a part of it covers music licensing. ## Music takes its share before the split The music rule changes what a Short adds to the pool, not what its creator keeps of it. If a monetizing creator's Short uses no music, all of the revenue tied to its engaged views goes into the Creator Pool. With one track, half of it does; with two tracks, a third does, and the other two thirds cover the costs of music licensing. ![Three bars for the revenue tied to one Short's engaged views. No music: all of it goes into the Creator Pool. One track: half to the Creator Pool, half to music licensing. Two tracks: a third to the Creator Pool, two thirds to music licensing. Beside each bar, the creator keeps 45% of their allocation.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-monetization/music-share.webp) *What a Short's views add to the Creator Pool with no music, one track and two tracks, as YouTube's Shorts monetization policies give them. The creator's 45% of their allocation is the same in all three.* Once the pool is divided, each monetizing creator is allocated 100% of the engaged views on their Shorts, music or not. Only music from YouTube's music industry partners, or made with Dream Track, is credited this way; no other kind of third party content counts as a contribution to a Short. Length adds a second rule. A Short over one minute that contains claimed content is blocked and not eligible for monetization, which [how long YouTube Shorts can be](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be) covers with the dates and the exceptions. ## Which views pay Not every view on the counter pays. Since August 24, 2026, YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts to play, in every format, Shorts included. Earnings are still based on engaged views, and Partner Program eligibility on qualified views. YouTube's policy leaves out views of: - Non-original Shorts, such as unedited clips from others' movies or TV shows. - Artificial or fake views, such as from automated click or scroll bots. - Shorts that are inconsistent with its advertiser-friendly content guidelines. Some revenue never reaches the pool at all: ads shown when someone opens the Shorts Feed, before a Short is viewed; ads on the navigational pages of the Shorts player; Image Posts in the Shorts Feed; and views of Shorts uploaded by music partners or by creators who have not accepted the Shorts Monetization Module. Views from before a channel accepts the module are not eligible either. ## Who can earn from Shorts The YouTube Partner Program has two tiers, and Shorts views can open both. The first takes 500 subscribers, 3 qualified uploads in the past 90 days, and either 3,000 qualified long-form watch hours in the past 365 days or 3 million qualified Shorts views in the past 90 days; it opens fan funding, such as channel memberships, gifts, Supers and Shopping. The second takes 1,000 subscribers and either 4,000 qualified long-form watch hours in the past 365 days or 10 million qualified Shorts views in the past 90 days, and adds revenue from ads and YouTube Premium, which is where the Shorts pool sits. ![The YouTube Partner Program's two tiers on two scales. Qualified Shorts views in the past 90 days: 3 million opens fan funding with 500 subscribers and 3 uploads, 10 million opens ads and Premium revenue with 1,000 subscribers, and 20 million is what new applicants need from February 1, 2027. Qualified long-form watch hours in the past 365 days: 3,000, 4,000 and, for new applicants from that day, 8,000.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-monetization/partner-tiers.webp) *Either scale opens a tier: Shorts views or long-form watch hours, beside the subscribers each tier asks for. The third bar on each is what new applicants need from February 1, 2027, from YouTube's announcement of August 10, 2026.* Qualified Shorts views are views of Shorts you have set public that appear in the Shorts Feed, and watch hours from Shorts in the Shorts Feed do not count toward the 4,000 long-form hours. Both tiers also ask that you follow the channel monetization policies, live in a country or region where the program is available, have no active Community Guidelines strikes, turn on 2-Step Verification, have advanced features access on YouTube and link an AdSense for YouTube account. To share in Shorts ad revenue, a partner then accepts the Shorts Monetization Module. ## What changes on February 1, 2027 YouTube announced on August 10, 2026 that from February 1, 2027 a channel needs 10 million qualified Shorts views over the last 90 days to be eligible for ads and subscription revenue sharing on Shorts, however it joined the program. Its policy page says how they are measured: over the 90 days ending on the 15th of the month before the month being paid. A channel below the line stays in the program and keeps earning on long-form content, and its Shorts revenue sharing resumes on its own once it is back above 10 million. ![A calendar from October 2026 to April 2027 with the 90-day windows of the 10 million view rule that starts on February 1, 2027. February 2027 is paid on the 90 days ending January 15, a window already open on October 28, 2026, when this guide was written; March 2027 on the 90 days ending February 15; April 2027 on the 90 days ending March 15.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-monetization/window-2027.webp) *Which 90 days decide each month from February 2027, by the measure YouTube's Shorts monetization policies give: the 90 days ending on the 15th of the month before. The first window was already open when this guide was written.* That puts the first window in the present. February 2027 is paid on the 90 days that end on January 15, 2027, which began in October 2026. Two more changes start the same day. New applicants will need 8,000 qualified watch hours in the last 365 days or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days, and creators already in the program are not affected. Shorts ads targeted to small groups of five or fewer channels will be eligible to earn those channels direct revenue, of which creators keep 45%. The entry thresholds for fan funding and shopping stay as they are. For channels under 10 million views, YouTube names bonuses for YouTube Shopping, incentives for brand deals and earnings boosts for trends, with details to come. Its Shorts bonus program already pays select creators in specific regions, by invitation only, with no guarantee of a bonus. | Rule | Until January 31, 2027 | From February 1, 2027 | Where it comes from | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Joining for ads and Premium | 1,000 subscribers and 10 million Shorts views in 90 days, or 4,000 watch hours in 365 days | New applicants: 20 million Shorts views in 90 days, or 8,000 watch hours in 365 days | YouTube's Partner Program pages and its post of August 10, 2026 | | Sharing in the Creator Pool | Partners who accepted the Shorts Monetization Module | Those partners with 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days | YouTube's Shorts monetization policies | | The creator's share | 45% of their allocation | 45% of their allocation, and of targeted Shorts ads | YouTube's Shorts monetization policies | ## Shorts cut from your own recordings The policy's example of a Short that earns nothing is an unedited clip of someone else's movie or TV show. A Short cut from a recording you made yourself, such as an episode, a talk or a stream, is your own material, and without claimed content it can run past a minute without being blocked. That is the kind of Short Snipri makes. Its [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts) cuts one long recording into vertical clips with captions burned in. Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead. The two longest run past a minute, so keep claimed music out of them. None of it changes what YouTube pays: the pool, the music rule and the thresholds above decide that. To pick the moments worth posting in the first place, [how to make YouTube Shorts from long videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos) covers the opening, the payoff, captions and the vertical crop. When to post them is a question your own analytics answer, and [the best time to post YouTube Shorts](https://www.snipri.com/blog/best-time-to-post-youtube-shorts) shows where to look. ## Common questions ### How much do YouTube Shorts pay per 1,000 views? YouTube publishes no rate. A month's payment depends on the ad revenue between Shorts in each country, how many Shorts used music and your share of engaged views. In YouTube's own hypothetical example, 1 million engaged views out of 100 million in a country earn $405. ### Do Shorts views count toward the YouTube Partner Program? Yes. 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days, with 1,000 subscribers, qualifies a channel for ads and YouTube Premium revenue, and 3 million, with 500 subscribers and three uploads in 90 days, opens fan funding. Watch hours from Shorts in the Shorts Feed do not count toward the 4,000 long-form hours. ### Does using music in a Short lower its earnings? It lowers what the Short adds to the Creator Pool: half of its revenue goes to music partners with one track, two thirds with two. The 45% a creator keeps of their allocation stays the same either way. ### What happens to Shorts earnings below 10 million views from 2027? From February 1, 2027, a channel under 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days stops sharing in Shorts ad and subscription revenue. It stays in the Partner Program, keeps earning on long-form videos, and its Shorts revenue sharing resumes once it is back above the line. ### Do I have to opt in to earn from Shorts? Yes. A partner has to accept the Shorts Monetization Module, and views from before the day it is accepted are not eligible for Shorts ad revenue sharing. ## Sources 1. [YouTube Help: YouTube Shorts monetization policies](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12504220?hl=en), checked October 28, 2026. 2. [YouTube Help: YouTube Partner Program overview & eligibility](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72851?hl=en), checked October 28, 2026. 3. [YouTube Creators: YouTube Partner Program](https://www.youtube.com/creators/earn/youtube-partner-program/), checked October 28, 2026. 4. [YouTube Official Blog: New opportunities to earn and changes to the YouTube Partner Program (August 10, 2026)](https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-partner-program-updates-2027-new-opportunities-earn/), checked October 28, 2026. 5. [YouTube Help: How engagement metrics are counted](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2991785?hl=en), checked October 28, 2026. 6. [YouTube Help: Learn about the Shorts bonus program](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/18336041?hl=en), checked October 28, 2026. Read next: [How to Make YouTube Shorts from Long Videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos) --- # How Long Can Instagram Reels Be? 2026 Limits Instagram Reels run up to 20 minutes, but reels over 3 minutes are not recommended to new audiences. The limits, the ads cap and how to plan a reel's length. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-instagram-reels-be - Author: [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri, and wrote this guide - Topic: [Formats and specs](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/formats) - Published: October 27, 2026 ![Reels run up to 20 minutes: 20:00 is the longest a reel can run, past 3:00 a reel is not recommended to new audiences, and 15:00 is the longest a Reels ad can run. Beside it, three vertical clips of one reel, a snow day, a walk in the rain and a hilltop selfie, over one bar of their lengths, 0:45, 1:30 and 1:05, that crosses the 3:00 line: 3:20 in all, 20 seconds past it.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-instagram-reels-be/cover.webp) **Short answer.** Up to 20 minutes. Instagram lets you record and edit a reel of up to 20 minutes, made from one clip or several that add up to it. The catch: Instagram says reels over 3 minutes won't be recommended to new audiences, so a reel meant to reach people who do not follow you yet should run 3 minutes or less. - A reel can run up to 20 minutes, recorded as one clip or as several that add up to that length. - Instagram does not recommend reels over 3 minutes to new audiences, so 3 minutes is the length to plan for when a reel should find new viewers. - The 3-minute line counts the whole reel: every clip in it, added together. - Reels ads have their own cap: Meta's ad specs list a duration of 0 seconds to 15 minutes. - Instagram's help page names no minimum length for a reel. A reel has two lengths worth knowing: the most it can run, and the point past which Instagram stops recommending it to new audiences. Both are on Instagram's help page about recording reels, and the cap for Reels ads is in Meta's ad specs, all three read on October 27, 2026. ## Reels can run up to 20 minutes A reel can run up to 20 minutes. [Instagram's help page on recording reels](https://help.instagram.com/2720958398006062) says you can record and edit videos of up to 20 minutes, as one clip or as several that add up to 20 minutes, with a progress bar at the top showing how long you have recorded. The same page adds the line that matters more for most reels: reels over 3 minutes will not be recommended to new audiences. | Limit | Length | Where it comes from | | --- | --- | --- | | Longest reel | 20 minutes | Instagram Help Center | | Recommended to new audiences | 3 minutes or less | Instagram Help Center | | Reels ads | 0 seconds to 15 minutes | Meta Ads Guide | | Shortest reel | No minimum given | Instagram Help Center | ![A scale from 0 to 20 minutes: Instagram Reels run up to 20 minutes, hatched past 3 minutes, where a reel is not recommended to new audiences, and Reels ads run from 0 seconds to 15 minutes. Below it, 0:00 to 3:30 drawn wide, with Snipri's five clip lengths, the 15 to 60 second default marked, all ending at or before 3:00.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-instagram-reels-be/reels-length-scale.webp) *Instagram's 20 minutes and Meta's 15 for Reels ads on one scale, with the first three and a half minutes drawn wide: every clip length Snipri offers ends at or before the 3-minute line.* ## The 3-minute line for new audiences Past 3 minutes a reel still posts, but Instagram says it will not be recommended to new audiences. Recommendation is how a reel reaches people who do not follow you yet, so 3 minutes is the length to plan for when a reel should find new viewers. A longer reel can still make sense, such as a full tutorial for the people who already follow you; what it gives up is that recommendation. [Video: The 20-minute limit and the 3-minute line on one scale](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-instagram-reels-be/limits-and-the-3-minute-line.mp4) *Instagram's 20 minutes and Meta's 15 for Reels ads on one scale, which then zooms into the first four minutes, where every clip length Snipri offers ends by the 3-minute line. All of it is drawn.* The line counts the whole reel, not each clip in it. Instagram adds the clips you record toward the 20 minutes on one progress bar, so a reel of three clips runs as long as the three together, and it is that total that has to stay at 3 minutes or less. [Video: One reel, three clips: how the 3-minute line counts the whole reel](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-instagram-reels-be/one-reel-three-clips.mp4) *Three clips recorded one after another fill one bar: 0:45 of a snow day, 1:30 of a walk in the rain and 1:05 on a hilltop come to 3:20, 20 seconds past the 3-minute line. Trimming 20 seconds off the end of the second clip and 10 off the third brings the same reel to 2:50. The clips are real recordings passed through Snipri's reframe; their lengths are an example, each second of the video standing for 20 of the reel.* Recordings: “Snow day vlog” by Tyzzon XxSavagexX, “TT Vlog: гуляем под дождем” by Tatiana Tolmacheva and “Lent Vlog #12 - The challenge is not over!” by Ant0knee0zzz, from the [YouTube UGC dataset](https://media.withyoutube.com/ugc-dataset), under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), cut and without sound. ## Why some answers still say 3 minutes Because the 3-minute figure is still on Instagram's own page. On October 27, 2026, the short description that Instagram's help page on recording reels gives search engines still said reels could be up to 3 minutes, while the text of the page says 20. A search result that quotes the description gives the 3-minute number. Go by the page text: 20 minutes is the limit, and 3 minutes is the line for new audiences. ## Reels ads stop at 15 minutes A reel you run as an ad has a shorter cap. [Meta's ad specs for Instagram Reels](https://www.facebook.com/business/ads-guide/update/video/instagram-reels) list a video duration of 0 seconds to 15 minutes, 5 minutes short of an ordinary reel. Meta also publishes the size for Reels ads and the areas of the frame to keep free of text, which [Instagram Reel size](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size) covers. ## Bringing a reel under 3 minutes Trim it before you share. Instagram's help page describes trimming in the reel's editor: on a phone, the trimmers on each clip under Edit video; on a computer, the slider below Trim, which cuts the beginning or the end. Trim where a thought ends rather than in the middle of a sentence, so the reel still makes its point. ![An example reel of three clips on a scale from 0:00 to 3:30, each clip a strip of frames from its recording. As recorded, clips of 0:45, 1:30 and 1:05 add up to 3:20, 20 seconds past the 3-minute line. Trimmed by 20 seconds from the second clip and 10 from the third, the same three clips add up to 2:50.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-instagram-reels-be/reel-adds-up.webp) *The example reel from the video above, as recorded and trimmed, with clip lengths picked for the drawing: the 3-minute line falls on the reel's total, so trimming any of its clips brings it back under.* When the reel comes from a longer recording, set the length before the clips are cut. In Snipri you choose it before the job starts. Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead. Every one of those lengths ends at or under 3 minutes, so each clip comes back inside the line. Two choices can take a clip past it: - **Extending it in the editor.** You can extend a clip by up to 10 seconds on either side, when that footage is in the part of the video Snipri processed, so a 3-minute clip can grow to 3:20. Check the length again after you extend. - **One clip.** Chosen before the job instead of Best moments, it keeps the part of the video you use as a single clip of up to 10 minutes. For a reel meant for new audiences, use a part of 3 minutes or less. [Video: Choosing a clip length, then One clip, in Snipri's Studio](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-instagram-reels-be/lengths-and-one-clip.mp4) *The Clips settings in Snipri's Studio, as the app draws them, with each clip length chosen in turn and the range it stands for laid on a scale to 4 minutes: every length ends by 3:00, the line past which Instagram stops recommending a reel to new audiences. Then One clip, which keeps the part you use as a single clip of up to 10 minutes, far past that line. The ring around each choice, the scale and the bars are drawn.* ![Three bars on a scale from 0:00 to 4:00, with everything past 3:00 hatched. Best moments, 90 seconds to 3 minutes: up to 3:00, ending at the line. Extended in the editor by 10 seconds on each side: up to 3:20. One clip: up to 10:00, running off the scale.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-instagram-reels-be/past-the-line.webp) *Snipri's own limits against the 3-minute line, from the Studio and the editor: Best moments cuts no clip past 3 minutes, while extending a clip or choosing One clip can take it over.* Each clip comes back at 1080 × 1920 with its captions burned in. [Long video to Shorts](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts) shows what one job returns from a full recording, and the [clip editor](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor) covers trimming and extending a clip. ## How reels compare with Shorts | Rule | Instagram Reels | YouTube Shorts | | --- | --- | --- | | Longest | 20 minutes | 3 minutes | | The earlier line | Over 3 minutes, not recommended to new audiences | Over 1 minute, an active copyright claim blocks the Short | A clip of 3 minutes or less fits both: it is inside the Shorts limit and inside the line for new audiences on Instagram. Over a minute, a Short with someone else's music or footage in it can be blocked, which [how long YouTube Shorts can be](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be) explains with YouTube's own pages. Every format guide is in [short video formats and specs](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/formats). ## Common questions ### Can an Instagram Reel be 10 minutes long? Yes. Reels can run up to 20 minutes, so a 10-minute reel posts like any other. Instagram notes that reels over 3 minutes won't be recommended to new audiences, so a 10-minute reel gives up that recommendation. ### Is there a minimum length for an Instagram Reel? Instagram's help page on recording reels gives a maximum of 20 minutes and names no minimum. Meta's specs for Reels ads list a video duration of 0 seconds to 15 minutes. ### How long can an Instagram Reels ad be? Meta's ad specs for Instagram Reels list a video duration of 0 seconds to 15 minutes, 5 minutes short of the 20 an ordinary reel can run. ### Why do some answers say Instagram Reels stop at 3 minutes? Because 3 minutes still matters: past it, Instagram does not recommend a reel to new audiences. And on October 27, 2026, the short description Instagram's help page gives search engines still said 3 minutes, while the page itself says 20. ### Are Instagram Reels longer than YouTube Shorts? Yes. A reel can run 20 minutes and a Short 3. Each has an earlier line: a reel over 3 minutes is not recommended to new audiences, and a Short over 1 minute with an active copyright claim is blocked. ## Sources 1. [Instagram Help Center: Record a reel on Instagram](https://help.instagram.com/2720958398006062), checked October 27, 2026. 2. [Meta Ads Guide: Video ad specs for Instagram Reels](https://www.facebook.com/business/ads-guide/update/video/instagram-reels), checked October 27, 2026. 3. [YouTube Help: Understand three-minute YouTube Shorts](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15424877?hl=en), checked October 27, 2026. Read next: [Instagram Reel Size: 1080 × 1920 and Safe Zones](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size) --- # How Long Can YouTube Shorts Be? 2026 Limits YouTube Shorts can run up to 3 minutes, but a Short over a minute with an active copyright claim is blocked. The rules, the dates and how to plan clip length. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be - Author: [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri, and wrote this guide - Topic: [Formats and specs](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/formats) - Published: October 26, 2026 - Updated: November 4, 2026 ![Shorts run up to 3 minutes: 3:00 is the longest a Short can run, past 1:00 a copyright claim blocks it, and the limit covers uploads from October 15, 2024. Beside it, a scale from 0:00 to 3:00, hatched from 1:00 up, next to a vertical clip Snipri cut from an interview filmed wide.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be/cover.webp) **Short answer.** Up to 3 minutes. Since October 15, 2024, YouTube treats a square or vertical video of 3 minutes or less as a Short, whether you film it in the app or upload it. The catch: a Short longer than 1 minute that has an active copyright claim is blocked until the claim is resolved. - The limit is 3 minutes, and only square or vertical videos count as Shorts. - Videos uploaded before October 15, 2024 keep the status they had, so an older vertical video over a minute stays a regular video. - Between 1 and 3 minutes, an active copyright claim of any type stops a Short from playing, being recommended or earning. - YouTube's upload page sets a maximum and a shape, and no minimum length. - To keep a short vertical video out of Shorts, YouTube's advice is a wider frame, such as 16:9. YouTube raised the Shorts limit from one minute to three on October 15, 2024. Most of what still trips people up about Shorts length comes from two details of that change: which videos it applies to, and what happens to a Short between one and three minutes long that uses someone else's material. ![A time scale from 0 to 3 minutes. A Short can run the whole scale; from 1 minute on, an active copyright claim blocks it. Under the scale, Snipri's five clip lengths, the 15 to 60 second default marked.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be/shorts-length-scale.webp) *The 3-minute limit and the 1-minute line where a copyright claim starts to block a Short, with the clip lengths Snipri offers laid on the same scale.* ## The 3-minute limit, in YouTube's words YouTube's help page on three-minute Shorts says it in one line: you can create Shorts up to three minutes long. Its page on uploading Shorts from a computer gives the file two conditions, up to 3 minutes and a square or vertical aspect ratio, and lists no minimum length. The limit is the same whether you record in the YouTube app or upload a finished file, which is the case for clips cut from a longer recording. Anything longer than 3 minutes cannot be a Short. ## What makes a video a Short Three things decide it, and all three are on YouTube's side of the upload: 1. **Shape.** Square or vertical. A 16:9 video is a regular video at any length, which is also how YouTube tells you to keep a short video out of Shorts. Each shape's size in pixels is in [YouTube Shorts size](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-size). 2. **Length.** 3 minutes or less. 3. **Upload date.** The 3-minute rule covers videos uploaded on or after October 15, 2024. Earlier uploads kept the status they had, so a vertical video over a minute from before that day is still a long-form video. For Official Artist Channels the same switch came on December 8, 2025. ![Three checks, one after another: square or vertical, 3 minutes or less, uploaded on or after October 15, 2024. Passing all three makes a Short. A wider frame or a longer video makes a regular video, and an earlier upload keeps the status it had.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be/short-or-regular.webp) *The three checks YouTube's help pages name. A video has to pass all three to be a Short.* [Video: The three checks that make a Short, taken on one interview](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be/three-checks.mp4) *One interview through the three checks. Filmed wide, at 16:9, it is a regular video at any length, while the 9:16 clip Snipri's reframe cut from it, following the speaker's face, can be a Short. An example Short of 2:45 runs past the minute where an active copyright claim blocks a Short and stays inside 3:00. An upload on October 27, 2026 falls after October 15, 2024, the day the 3-minute rule began, and an earlier upload of 1:40 stays a regular video. The length and the dates are an example, and the scale, the dates and the checks are drawn.* Recording: “Эксклюзивное интервью Руслана Бортника информационному агентству Новости мира 24.09.15 Киев” by novostimira.tv, from the [YouTube UGC dataset](https://media.withyoutube.com/ugc-dataset), under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), cut and without sound. ## The catch between 1 and 3 minutes The longer limit came with a condition. YouTube says a Short over one minute with an active copyright claim of any type, manual claims included, is not playable or recommended on YouTube and is not eligible for monetization. The channel is not penalized, and the Short comes back, monetization included, once the claim is resolved. Shorts under a minute work as they did before. How an eligible Short earns, from the ads between Shorts to the 45% its creator keeps, is in [YouTube Shorts monetization](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-monetization). In practice that splits Shorts in two: - **Under a minute**, music and other claimed material behave as they always have in Shorts. - **Over a minute**, anything that draws a claim, such as a song in the background, a scene from a show or a sports highlight, blocks the whole Short. So when a clip carries material you do not own, keep it under a minute or settle the claim before you post. The rule only applies when a claim exists, which makes clips cut from your own recording, with no outside music or footage, the ones to run past a minute. ## How long should a Short be? The limit is not a target. YouTube publishes no ideal length. Its search and discovery tips say its systems use average view duration and average percentage viewed as ranking signals, and that they favor no particular format. That points to one working rule: end the clip when the idea ends. A clip that makes its point and stops gives viewers less reason to leave before the end than the same point stretched toward the limit. ![Two bars. A 30-second clip cut where the idea ends, watched for 30 seconds: 100% of the clip watched. The same idea stretched to 60 seconds and watched for the same 30 seconds: 50% of the clip watched, the rest hatched as not watched.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be/share-watched.webp) *YouTube counts average percentage viewed as the average share of a video watched by viewers who stayed to watch. For a viewer who leaves once the point is made, padding the point to twice the length halves that share.* Then compare clips on similar topics at different lengths in YouTube Analytics before you settle on a length for your channel. The [guide to making Shorts from long videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos) covers the opening and the payoff that decide where a clip starts and ends. ## Planning clip lengths in Snipri When Snipri cuts a long video into clips, you choose how long they run before the job starts. Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead. Every one of those lengths fits inside the 3-minute limit. The two longest run past a minute, so the copyright rule above applies to them: keep them for material you own. [Video: Choosing a clip length in Snipri's Studio, and the share watched](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be/limit-and-share-watched.mp4) *First, the Clips settings in Snipri's Studio, as the app draws them, with each clip length chosen in turn and the range it stands for laid on YouTube's 3-minute scale: every length fits inside the limit, and the two longest run past the minute where an active copyright claim blocks a Short. Then the clip Snipri cut from an interview, in two players: one stands for a clip cut where its idea ends, the other for the same idea stretched to twice its length, and a viewer who leaves once the point is made watches all of the first and half of the second. The ring around each choice, the scale and the players' bars are drawn.* Recording: “Эксклюзивное интервью Руслана Бортника информационному агентству Новости мира 24.09.15 Киев” by novostimira.tv, from the [YouTube UGC dataset](https://media.withyoutube.com/ugc-dataset), under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), cut and without sound. Each clip comes back at 1080 × 1920, the vertical frame a Short fills, with captions burned in. To see what one job returns from a full recording, read [long video to Shorts](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts). ## Shorts length next to Reels | Rule | YouTube Shorts | Instagram Reels | | --- | --- | --- | | Longest | 3 minutes | 20 minutes | | Shape | Square or vertical | 1.91:1 to 9:16 | | The catch | Over 1 minute, a copyright claim blocks the Short | Over 3 minutes, a reel is not recommended to new audiences | Instagram's limits are in [how long Instagram Reels can be](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-instagram-reels-be), its sizes, cover crop and safe zones in [Instagram Reel size](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size), and every format guide is in [short video formats and specs](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/formats). ## Common questions ### Can a YouTube Short be longer than 60 seconds? Yes. Since October 15, 2024, a square or vertical video of up to 3 minutes counts as a Short. A Short over 1 minute with an active copyright claim is blocked until the claim is resolved. ### Is there a minimum length for a YouTube Short? YouTube's page on uploading Shorts lists a maximum of 3 minutes and a square or vertical shape, and names no minimum length. ### Why does my vertical video show up as a regular video instead of a Short? Check the three things YouTube's help pages name: the shape, which has to be square or vertical; the length, 3 minutes at most; and the upload date, because a vertical video over a minute uploaded before October 15, 2024 kept its long-form status. ### Can Shorts over 1 minute make money? Yes, unless the Short has an active copyright claim. YouTube says a Short over one minute with an active claim of any type is not playable, not recommended and not eligible for monetization until the claim is resolved, and that the channel is not penalized. ### How do I stop a short video from becoming a Short? Give it a wider frame. YouTube's advice for videos you want treated as long-form is an aspect ratio such as 16:9. ## Sources 1. [YouTube Help: Understand three-minute YouTube Shorts](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15424877?hl=en), checked October 26, 2026. 2. [YouTube Help: Upload YouTube Shorts](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12779649?hl=en), checked October 26, 2026. 3. [YouTube Help: YouTube Shorts upload tips](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12921536?hl=en), checked October 26, 2026. 4. [YouTube Help: Search and discovery tips](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11914225), checked October 26, 2026. 5. [YouTube Help: Understand your YouTube content performance](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12220281?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid), checked October 26, 2026. 6. [Instagram Help Center: Record a reel on Instagram](https://help.instagram.com/2720958398006062), checked October 26, 2026. Read next: [Instagram Reel Size: 1080 × 1920 and Safe Zones](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size) --- # Instagram Reel Size: 1080 × 1920 and Safe Zones Export Instagram Reels at 1080 × 1920 pixels (9:16). Instagram accepts 1.91:1 to 9:16 at 720p or more and 30 fps, and the cover is 420 × 654. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size - Author: [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri, and wrote this guide - Topic: [Formats and specs](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/formats) - Published: October 26, 2026 - Updated: October 28, 2026 ![Reel size: 1080 × 1920. 9:16 is the shape that fills the screen, 30 fps the least frame rate and 420 × 654 the cover, beside a vertical clip with Snipri's captions and the top and bottom areas Meta asks Reels ads to keep free hatched.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size/cover.webp) **Short answer.** Export reels at 9:16, 1080 × 1920 pixels. Instagram accepts any shape from 1.91:1 to 9:16, with a minimum of 30 frames per second and 720 pixels, and recommends a 420 × 654 cover. Keep words and faces away from the bottom of the frame, where the app lays its caption and buttons over the video. - 9:16 is the full-screen shape; Instagram accepts shapes from 1.91:1 (wide) to 9:16 (tall). - The minimums are 30 frames per second and 720 pixels, and 1080 × 1920 clears both. - The cover is 420 × 654 pixels (1:1.55), and Instagram says it cannot be changed after upload. - A reel can run 20 minutes, but reels over 3 minutes are not recommended to new audiences. - Instagram publishes no safe zone for ordinary reels. Meta's guidance for Reels ads keeps the top 14%, the bottom 35% and 6% of each side free of text. A reel has one shape that fills the screen and a range of shapes Instagram will take anyway. The numbers below are Instagram's own, from its help pages, and the safe zone figures are Meta's, from its guidance for Reels ads, because Instagram publishes none for ordinary reels. ## The size to export: 1080 × 1920 | Setting | Value | Where it comes from | | --- | --- | --- | | Aspect ratio | 9:16 to fill the screen; anything from 1.91:1 to 9:16 is accepted | Instagram Help Center | | Resolution | 720 pixels at least; 1080 × 1920 for a full-screen reel | Instagram Help Center; 1080 × 1920 is 9:16 at 1080 pixels wide | | Frame rate | 30 frames per second at least | Instagram Help Center | | Cover | 420 × 654 pixels (1:1.55) | Instagram Help Center | | Length | Up to 20 minutes; over 3 minutes, not recommended to new audiences | Instagram Help Center | | Reels ads | 1440 × 2560 recommended | Meta Ads Guide | 1080 × 1920 is the working size because it is the full 9:16 frame at a resolution well past Instagram's 720-pixel minimum. It is also the size Snipri renders every vertical clip at. ![The same vertical clip drawn to one scale at three sizes: 720 × 1280, the minimum at Instagram's 720 pixels; 1080 × 1920, outlined as the size to export, the full 9:16 screen Snipri renders; and 1440 × 2560, what Meta's ad specs recommend for Reels ads.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size/reel-sizes.webp) *One 9:16 shape at the three sizes in the table, drawn to one scale. 1080 × 1920 fills the screen at a resolution well past Instagram's minimum.* ## Every shape Instagram accepts Instagram takes reels from 1.91:1, wider than a 16:9 video, to 9:16. Only 9:16 fills a phone held upright. Drawn at the full width of a 9:16 screen, a 1.91:1 video covers 29% of the screen's height, a square 56% and a 4:5 video 70%. ![The same aerial shot cropped to four shapes, each drawn at the full width of a 9:16 phone screen: 1.91:1 covers 29% of its height, 1:1 covers 56%, 4:5 covers 70% and 9:16 covers all of it.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size/reel-shapes.webp) *The shapes Instagram accepts for a reel, each drawn at the full width of a phone held upright, with the share of the screen's height it covers.* So a wide recording is worth reframing rather than posting as it is. Cropping a 16:9 frame to 9:16 keeps about a third of its width, and the third that matters moves whenever the speaker does. Snipri's [auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) tracks the speaker's face to place that crop, and can stack two or three people when they share the shot; [long video to Shorts](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts) shows what a full job returns. ## Safe zones: where words stay readable Instagram lays the account name, the reel's caption, the audio line and the like, comment and share buttons over the video. Instagram itself publishes no safe zone for ordinary reels. The nearest official figure is Meta's guidance for Reels ads: leave at least 14% of the top, 35% of the bottom and 6% of each side free of text, logos and other important elements. Meta adds two notes. A Reels ad with a disclaimer should keep the bottom 40% free, and on screens taller than 9:16 an ad may be zoomed to fill the screen, which can crop what sits outside the safe zone. ![A 9:16 frame of an animated clip with Snipri's captions, the top 14%, bottom 35% and 6% of each side hatched as Meta's Reels ad guidance asks, a dashed line where the captions end, 14% above the bottom, and the reel specs beside it.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size/reel-safe-zones.webp) *A Snipri sample clip at 1080 × 1920 with its captions as they burn by default. Hatched: the areas Meta asks Reels ads to keep free. The line marks where Snipri's default captions end, 14% above the bottom.* Snipri burns captions with the bottom of the caption block 14% above the bottom of the frame, under the speaker's face, which puts them inside the bottom 35% Meta keeps clear for ads. For a reel you will run as an ad, or one with a long caption under it, move the captions up: the editor offers top, middle and bottom positions, and you can drag the captions to another spot in the frame. Then check the reel in Instagram's preview before you share it. The [caption review workflow](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips) covers the rest of that check. [Video: Reel shapes and safe zones on a phone screen](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size/shapes-and-safe-zones.mp4) *A Snipri sample clip on a 9:16 phone screen. First, each shape Instagram accepts at the screen's full width, from 1.91:1 at 29% of the height to 9:16 at all of it; then Meta's Reels ads safe zone over the clip with Snipri's captions where they burn by default, inside the bottom 35%; then the captions moved to the middle, clear of every zone. The zones and the bands outside each shape are drawn.* ## How long a reel can be Instagram lets you make a reel of up to 20 minutes, from one clip or several. Its help page adds that reels over 3 minutes will not be recommended to new audiences, so a reel meant to reach people who do not follow you yet should stay under that. [How long Instagram Reels can be](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-instagram-reels-be) covers the limits in full, with the cap for Reels ads and how to bring a reel under 3 minutes. YouTube's numbers are different: a Short stops at 3 minutes, and a copyright claim blocks one over a minute. The comparison is in [how long YouTube Shorts can be](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be). ![Two bars on one scale from 0 to 20 minutes. Instagram Reels run up to 20 minutes, hatched past 3 minutes, where a reel is not recommended to new audiences. YouTube Shorts run up to 3 minutes, hatched past 1 minute, where an active copyright claim blocks the Short.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size/reel-length.webp) *Reels and Shorts on one scale, each hatched from the line where its rules change.* ## Upload at the highest quality Instagram has a setting that always uploads reels at the highest quality. Its help page describes where to find it on a phone: 1. Tap Profile or your profile picture in the bottom right. 2. Tap Menu in the top right. 3. Below Your app and media, tap Media quality. 4. Turn on Upload at highest quality. Instagram notes that a reel at a higher quality may take longer to upload. ## The cover The cover is the image that stands for a reel before it plays. The recommended size is 420 × 654 pixels, a 1:1.55 ratio, and you can pick a frame from the reel or upload an image. Instagram says the cover cannot be edited after the reel is uploaded, so set it before you share. More guides on lengths and sizes are in [short video formats and specs](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/formats). ## Common questions ### What size is an Instagram Reel in pixels? 1080 × 1920 for a full-screen 9:16 reel. Instagram's own minimum is 720 pixels, and Meta's ad specs recommend 1440 × 2560 for Reels ads. ### Can I post a horizontal video as a reel? Yes. Instagram accepts reels as wide as 1.91:1, but a wide video fills less than a third of the height of a phone held upright, so the rest of the screen goes unused. ### What is the Instagram Reel cover size? 420 × 654 pixels, a 1:1.55 ratio. Instagram's help page says the cover cannot be edited once the reel is uploaded, so choose it before you share. ### How long can an Instagram Reel be? Up to 20 minutes, made from one clip or several. Instagram notes that reels over 3 minutes will not be recommended to new audiences. ### Where should captions go on a reel? Above the bottom of the frame, where the app shows the account name, the caption and the buttons. Instagram gives no figure for ordinary reels; Meta asks Reels ads to keep the bottom 35% free of text, and 40% when the ad carries a disclaimer. ## Sources 1. [Instagram Help Center: Reel size and aspect ratios on Instagram](https://help.instagram.com/1038071743007909), checked October 26, 2026. 2. [Instagram Help Center: Record a reel on Instagram](https://help.instagram.com/2720958398006062), checked October 26, 2026. 3. [Meta Ads Guide: Video ad specs for Instagram Reels](https://www.facebook.com/business/ads-guide/update/video/instagram-reels), checked October 26, 2026. 4. [Meta Business Help Centre: About text overlays and the Safe Zone for ads in Stories and Reels](https://www.facebook.com/business/help/980593475366490), checked October 26, 2026. 5. [YouTube Help: Understand three-minute YouTube Shorts](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15424877?hl=en), checked October 26, 2026. Read next: [How Long Can YouTube Shorts Be? 2026 Limits](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be) --- # Open Captions vs Closed Captions: Which to Use Open captions are burned into the picture; closed captions are a track viewers can switch off. When each suits a short clip, in W3C's own definitions. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/blog/open-captions-vs-closed-captions - Author: [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri, and wrote this guide - Topic: [Captions](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/captions) - Published: October 26, 2026 - Updated: October 27, 2026 ![Open or closed captions: open captions are burned into the picture and always on, closed captions are a track the viewer switches on. The same frame of a scene from Meridian twice, a man in a hat on the phone by his car: once with Snipri's burned captions, once with the film's own caption track in a player.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/open-captions-vs-closed-captions/cover.webp) **Short answer.** Open captions are part of the picture: burned into the video, always on and the same in every app. Closed captions are a separate text track that viewers switch on or off. For a short clip posted to Shorts, Reels or TikTok, open captions are the dependable choice; for a long video on a player that takes caption files, add a closed track. - W3C defines open captions as always displayed and impossible to turn off, and closed captions as ones viewers can hide or show. - Captions carry the speech, and the sounds needed to follow it, in the same language; subtitles translate it. - Burned-in text looks the same everywhere and travels with the file, but fixing a typo means a new export. - A closed track can be corrected without touching the video, and YouTube can make one automatically, in the video's default language only. - A caption track switched on over burned-in text puts the words on screen twice, so check the preview with captions on. Captions come in two kinds, and the difference is where the words live. Open captions are drawn into the video itself. Closed captions travel beside it as text that a player draws on top when the viewer asks for it. Which one a clip needs depends on where it will be watched and who decides whether words appear. ## The difference in one picture ![The same frame twice, Captain Foster saying no, just his car. On the left, the words burned into the picture by Snipri. On the right, the frame without them and the film's own caption for the line drawn the way a player shows one, with its WebVTT cue under it.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/open-captions-vs-closed-captions/open-and-closed.webp) *A scene from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, reframed by Snipri. Left: open captions, burned into the frame by Snipri's renderer. Right: the same frame with the film's own caption for the line as a WebVTT track, drawn in a player's usual default, white letters in a black box.* The W3C's accessibility guidance puts it in two lines. Most captions are closed captions, which people watching can hide or show. Open captions are always displayed and cannot be turned off. It adds that most web videos show closed captions in the player's default style, usually white characters in a black box, and that support across browsers and players is inconsistent. | What differs | Open captions | Closed captions | | --- | --- | --- | | Where the words live | In the video's pixels | In a separate track or file, such as WebVTT | | Can a viewer turn them off | No | Yes | | Who sets the look | You, once, for every viewer | The player, and in some players the viewer | | Fixing a mistake | Export the video again | Edit the track | | Where a platform takes no caption file | Still shown | Not available | | More than one language | One per export | One track per language | Both kinds can carry the same words. What differs is who controls them once the video is exported: with open captions you do, and with closed captions the player and the viewer do. [Video: Captions switched off: open captions stay, a closed track goes](https://www.snipri.com/blog/open-captions-vs-closed-captions/captions-off.mp4) *A radio call from the film Meridian twice: on the left with captions burned in by Snipri's renderer, on the right with the film's own caption track. Switched off, the track goes and the burned words stay; with the track over burned words, every line is on screen twice. The players and the track are drawn the way a player shows a track by default.* Film: “Meridian” by Netflix, from [Netflix Open Content](https://opencontent.netflix.com/), under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), cut, reframed and captioned, without sound. ## Captions, subtitles and the other names W3C defines captions as a text version of the speech and the non-speech audio needed to understand a video, in the same language as the speech. Subtitles are the speech translated into another language. Captions are needed for accessibility, and subtitles in another language are not, by themselves, an accessibility accommodation. The film in the video above has captions of that kind: besides the words, its track names sounds and voices, such as [thunderclap] and [female dispatcher]. The other names map onto those two kinds. Burned-in and hardcoded captions are open captions. CC, the button on a player, stands for closed captions. ## When open captions are the better choice Open captions suit a clip that will be watched in a feed, reposted or downloaded: - **The words travel with the file.** A clip saved, reposted or sent in a message keeps its captions, because they are part of the picture. - **They need nothing from the viewer.** A closed track has to be found and switched on; open captions are on screen from the first frame. - **The look is yours.** Fonts, colours, position and a highlight on the word being spoken stay exactly as you set them in every app. - **They work where no caption file can go.** Wherever a platform takes only the video, open captions are the only captions it will show. ![One frame of a scene from Meridian with the words no, just his car burned in four of Snipri's caption styles: Karaoke, white capitals with the spoken word in green; Panel, capitals on a dark panel; Typewriter, monospaced words that appear as they are spoken; Editorial, serif type.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/open-captions-vs-closed-captions/caption-styles.webp) *Four of Snipri's caption styles, each burned by its renderer over the same frame of “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0. Burned in, a style looks like this in every app.* The cost is that the words cannot be changed after export. A misheard name or a wrong number means fixing the text and exporting again, which is why the [caption review workflow](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips) checks every word against the audio before the final export. ## When closed captions are the better choice Closed captions suit a long video on a player that accepts caption files, such as YouTube: - **Viewers decide.** Someone who does not need captions can hide them, and some players let viewers set how and where captions are displayed. - **Corrections are cheap.** A typo is fixed in the track; the video is not touched. - **Languages stack.** Each language is its own track, so one upload can serve several. On YouTube you can upload a caption file with timing, upload a transcript without timing and let YouTube sync it, or start from the automatic captions its speech recognition creates. YouTube does not recommend syncing a transcript for videos over an hour long or with poor audio, and automatic captions come in the video's default language only, so review them before you rely on them. ## Doing both without showing the words twice A clip with burned-in captions and a closed track shows the same words twice once a viewer switches captions on. Platforms that make automatic captions can add a track you did not upload, so check the published preview with captions switched on. ![Captain Foster saying hang on a minute, with the words burned in by Snipri and, just above them, the same line again in the film's caption track, white letters in a black box, shown once captions are switched on.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/open-captions-vs-closed-captions/words-twice.webp) *A scene from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, with Snipri's burned captions, and the film's own caption for the same line drawn the way a player shows one by default. A viewer who switches captions on reads every line twice.* One split avoids the clash: keep the full recording on YouTube with a closed track, and burn captions into the short clips cut from it. Each viewer then gets one set of words. ## How Snipri handles captions Snipri burns open captions into every clip it cuts, [animated word by word](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions), in the style you pick: font, size, colour, position and the highlight on the spoken word. Snipri transcribes and captions 25 languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Choose the spoken language when you add a video, or let Snipri detect it. You can correct any word in the editor before you download, or leave captions off. Snipri does not export a separate caption file, so for a closed track on a long video, use your video platform's own captions or a captioning tool. The [podcast clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker) shows those captions on real clips, and every caption guide is in [captions and subtitles for short videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/captions). ## Common questions ### Are burned-in captions the same as open captions? Yes. Burned-in, hardcoded and open captions all mean words rendered into the video's frames, which are always displayed and cannot be turned off. ### What does CC mean on a video? CC stands for closed captions: a caption track the viewer can show or hide, usually with a CC button in the player. ### What is the difference between captions and subtitles? W3C uses captions for text in the same language as the speech, including the sounds needed to follow it, and subtitles for speech translated into another language. ### Can YouTube add closed captions automatically? Yes. YouTube uses speech recognition to create automatic captions, in the video's default language only. Check them before you rely on them, or upload your own caption file. ### Which is better for accessibility, open or closed captions? Both make speech readable. Closed captions let viewers hide them and, in some players, set how they look; open captions reach viewers in apps that take no caption file. W3C counts captions as needed for accessibility either way. ## Sources 1. [W3C Web Accessibility Initiative: Captions/Subtitles](https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/captions/), checked October 26, 2026. 2. [YouTube Help: Add subtitles and captions](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796?hl=en), checked October 26, 2026. Read next: [Add Captions to Podcast Clips: A Review Workflow](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips) --- # Add Captions to Podcast Clips: A Review Workflow Check podcast captions for transcription errors, timing, contrast and placement, then review the exported clip before publishing. Includes a reusable checklist. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips - Author: [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri, and wrote this guide - Topic: [Captions](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/captions) - Published: September 23, 2026 - Updated: October 27, 2026 ![Check the words before the look: the words, with names, numbers and negatives against the audio; the timing at both ends of the cut; the look, with contrast and placement over the real footage. Beside it, a vertical clip of a scene from Tears of Steel split in two, a young man shouting at a robot hand above and a young woman below, with Snipri's caption BY MY ROBOT HAND? on a dark panel.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips/cover.webp) **Short answer.** Check the words before the look. Compare every caption with the audio, names, numbers and negatives first; then the timing at both ends of the cut; then the contrast over the real footage and the placement in the platform's preview. Last, watch the exported file through with the sound on and off. - Choose an excerpt that makes sense without the full episode before captioning anything. - Losing a single “not” can reverse an answer, so check negatives, names and numbers against the audio. - Fix timing before adding animation; motion cannot repair a transcription error. - Review contrast over the lightest and darkest shots, on a phone-sized screen. - Burned-in captions need a new export when corrected, so review the downloaded file, not only the editor. A captioned podcast clip needs to work in two ways: the text must preserve what the speaker said, and a viewer must be able to read it while following the picture. Review those separately before choosing an animated style. This is a practical review workflow, not a claim about a tested increase in views. You can use it with Snipri or another editor that supports captions. ![The six checks of this guide in order, grouped as the cut, the words, the look and the file: choose a complete excerpt, check the words against the audio, check the timing, make the text readable over the footage, check placement in the preview, and watch the exported file with sound on and off.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips/review-order.webp) *The order this guide follows. The words come before the look, because styling cannot fix a wrong word and every fix to a burned-in caption is a new export.* ## 1. Choose a complete excerpt Listen to the exchange immediately before and after your selected moment. A short answer such as “that never works” becomes misleading when the question explaining “that” is missing. Keep enough context to identify the topic, or select another passage. Write a one-sentence description of the clip. If that description needs information absent from the recording, revisit the cut. Our [podcast clip selection guide](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips) covers the selection process, and the same test decides which answers Snipri's [interview clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/interview-clip-maker) keeps: only those with enough context to stand alone. ## 2. Check the transcript against the audio Play the clip at normal speed and compare each caption with the speech. Pause for names, numbers, abbreviations and unfamiliar terms. Check negative words especially carefully: losing “not” can reverse the meaning of an answer. W3C's accessibility guidance says the same of automatic captions in general: they are often wrong, usually need significant editing, and are a starting point rather than a finished set. Its definition of a caption also covers the non-speech audio needed to understand the content; in a podcast clip, that can be laughter that changes how a line is meant. Use this review order: 1. Correct words that change the meaning. 2. Verify names and specialist vocabulary with the recording or speaker's supplied notes. 3. Check punctuation and sentence boundaries. 4. Remove accidental duplicate words introduced by transcription, without silently rewriting the speaker's claim. If overlapping speech makes a sentence impossible to verify, choose a clearer excerpt or ask the speaker. Guessing creates a caption that looks certain while the source is not. ## 3. Check timing before animation Watch when each phrase appears and disappears. Text should follow the spoken words and remain readable through the phrase. Check the first and final words after trimming: a cut can leave a partial sentence or a caption that disappears before its last word is heard. ![Fourteen seconds of an argument's captions on a time scale, one row per caption block. Seven blocks end at 20 letters, such as WE HAVE TO FOLLOW OUR and WHY DON'T YOU JUST ADMIT; six end where a sentence ends, from SPACE. and BY MY ROBOT HAND? to the single words ALRIGHT! and FINE!; the last, I'M FREAKED OUT!, ends with the clip. Each word is a bar at the time it was spoken.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips/caption-blocks.webp) *The caption blocks Snipri burned in its default style for a scene from “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0. A block holds up to 6 words, 20 letters and 3.5 seconds; a sentence's end or a pause over 0.8 seconds starts the next, and each word stays lit until the next is spoken. Short, broken lines like “Fine!” each get a block of their own.* [Video: Three caption checks: timing, the end of a cut, contrast](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips/caption-checks.mp4) *An argument from the film Tears of Steel, reframed by Snipri, with the film's own caption text burned in by Snipri's renderer. First, each word lit at the second it was spoken, beside the blocks the burn drew; then the same clip cut before its last block, so the answer “I'm freaked out!” is never heard; then the captions moved to the top in three styles, where a thin edge fades over pale leaves. The chart is drawn from the words and times Snipri burned.* Film: “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, from [mango.blender.org](https://mango.blender.org/), under [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), cut, reframed and captioned, without sound. Word highlighting adds a second timing check. If emphasis arrives on the wrong word, fix the timing or choose a simpler presentation. Motion cannot repair a transcription error. ## 4. Make the text readable over the actual footage Start with a plain style and review the lightest and darkest shots. A font that works over a dark shirt may disappear over a bright wall. Adjust text colour, outline or background support as needed, then check the moving video again. ![One frame of a scene from Tears of Steel with the caption BY MY ROBOT HAND? burned at the top of the frame, running from pale leaves over a young man's dark hair, in three Snipri styles: Clean, white words with a 3-pixel edge; Karaoke, a 10-pixel black ring; Panel, the words on a dark plate.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips/captions-over-leaves.webp) *White words over light and dark: one frame of “Tears of Steel” by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, reframed by Snipri with the captions moved to the top. Over the pale leaves a thin edge is the faintest of the three; a heavy ring or a dark plate keeps every word readable.* In Snipri's [podcast clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker), caption presentation includes font, size, colour, position and highlight controls; [animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) shows how each word is timed and styled. Use a consistent style across clips, but make exceptions when a particular shot needs a different position or stronger contrast. Review on a phone-sized display at normal playback speed. If you need to pause to finish a caption, reconsider the line breaks, amount of text or clip pacing. A fixed word count does not fit every font and speaking speed. ## 5. Check placement in the publishing preview Keep captions away from the speaker's mouth and any essential demonstration. Then check the destination platform's preview with its interface visible. Controls and descriptions can cover text that looked clear in your editor. There is no single safe pixel position for every destination, device and interface. Review each platform where you intend to publish. Meta's figures for Reels, and where Snipri's captions sit against them, are in [Instagram Reel size](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size). See our [Shorts editing guide](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos) for the wider framing workflow. ## 6. Watch the exported file all the way through Open the downloaded video, not only the editor preview. Check spelling, first and last frames, caption wrapping, audio sync and any highlighted words. Captions burned into a video need a new export when corrected. Keep a note of the exact export reviewed so an earlier draft is not uploaded by mistake. If the destination also offers a separate caption track, review that track and check whether displaying it alongside burned-in text creates overlapping captions. [Open captions vs closed captions](https://www.snipri.com/blog/open-captions-vs-closed-captions) explains when each kind fits. ## A reusable publishing check Before uploading, confirm: - The excerpt makes sense without the full episode. - Names, numbers and negative words match the audio. - Caption timing follows the speech through both ends of the cut. - Text stays readable across changing backgrounds. - Highlighting does not obscure or misrepresent words. - Captions and essential visuals survive the destination preview. - The final downloaded file has been reviewed with sound on and with sound off. [Download the podcast clip review checklist](https://www.snipri.com/resources/podcast-clip-review-checklist.txt) and [the clip decision log](https://www.snipri.com/resources/podcast-clip-decision-log.csv). Both are free to use without registration. Keep a row for rejected moments too; it records why a tempting excerpt did not make a reliable standalone clip. Ready to apply the checks? [Open Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/signin) with footage you own or have permission to edit and publish. ## Common questions ### Where should captions sit on a podcast clip? Away from the speaker's mouth and any essential demonstration, and clear of the platform's own buttons. There is no single safe position for every platform, so check each one's preview. ### Can I fix a caption after exporting the clip? Not in the file you exported. Captions burned into a video need a new export once corrected, which is why the final check is on the downloaded file. ### Should captions animate word by word? Only if the highlight lands on the right word. Check the plain text and timing first, then add highlighting, and choose a simpler style when the emphasis drifts. ## Sources 1. [W3C Web Accessibility Initiative: Captions/Subtitles](https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/captions/), checked October 26, 2026. Read next: [How to Make Podcast Clips That Stand Alone](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips) --- # How to Make Podcast Clips That Stand Alone Make podcast clips from moments that stand alone: check each one's context, payoff and captions, and log which clips bring viewers back to the episode. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips - Author: [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri, and wrote this guide - Topic: [Clipping long videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/clipping) - Published: May 4, 2026 - Updated: November 2, 2026 ![Clip the moments that stand alone: context, so a new viewer can tell what it is about; payoff, so the answer or the story finishes; and a log of every candidate, kept or rejected. Beside it, a vertical clip of a scene from Meridian, a young detective in a squad room asking A WITNESS? in Snipri's captions.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips/cover.webp) **Short answer.** To make podcast clips, cut the moments that make sense without the rest of the episode: a question with its complete answer, a short story with its ending, a disagreement with its qualification kept. Check each against the audio, caption it, and log what you published and what you rejected so the set can be traced back to the episode. - There is no fixed number of good clips in an hour; keep only what the recording supports. - Five checks per moment: context, payoff, accuracy, presentation and substance. - Good moments can come from anywhere in the episode, so review the whole recording. - Log every candidate with its timestamps and a keep, revise or reject decision. - Pick one primary platform, then check each other platform's preview before reusing an export. To clip a podcast, find the moments that make sense without the rest of the episode, cut each from its question to the end of its answer, check it against the audio, caption it and log the decision. The checklist below takes each step in turn. Podcast clips give a new viewer a short introduction to an episode. Choose the episode using audience questions, your own analytics and the quality of the source recording, and use footage you own or have permission to repurpose. If the show is not recorded yet, [How to start a video podcast](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-start-a-video-podcast) sets up the cameras and the framing a vertical crop needs. ## How many clips one episode really holds There is no fixed number of useful clips in an hour. Reject passages with missing context, unclear audio or an incomplete payoff. A narrow topic can still be valuable when it answers your audience's question. Keep only what the recording supports instead of stretching weak passages to fill a posting schedule. ![A timeline of a 46-minute fireside chat with seven numbered marks where its clips were cut and four grey ticks at the moments that came closest. Under it the seven clips, strongest first, from Why Godot's Multiplayer Hosting Was Paused at 12:06 to A Build Pipeline Hack That Saves QA Hours at 27:54, 273 seconds in all, and the four left out with the gate each missed, such as There Are Jobs for Godot Developers, 6 on hook.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips/one-interview.webp) *A real Snipri job, the one on Snipri's home page: of a 46-minute fireside chat, seven moments reached the bar and the four that came closest were left out.* ## What makes a moment clip-worthy Review each candidate against the original conversation: 1. **Context:** Can a new viewer identify the subject without the previous exchange? 2. **Payoff:** Does the excerpt answer its question or finish its story? 3. **Accuracy:** Does the edit preserve qualifications and the speaker's meaning? 4. **Presentation:** Are speech, captions and important visuals understandable on a phone? 5. **Substance:** Is it the conversation itself, not an intro, a sponsor read or “before we start” housekeeping? Keep the question in when the answer needs it. Fail any of the five and skip the moment. Forcing a clip out of mediocre source material is how an afternoon disappears. ![Five checks for every moment, each with when to skip it. Context: it starts mid-thought. Payoff: the answer or story is cut off. Accuracy: a trimmed but or only when changes what was said. Presentation: the audio is unclear or the crop hides the demonstration. Substance: it is the intro, a sponsor read or housekeeping. All five: clip it. One miss: skip the moment.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips/five-checks.webp) *The five checks above, each with what fails it. A moment that passes all five is worth clipping.* Context and payoff are the two checks the cut itself can fail. A clip that starts one sentence late keeps its payoff but loses what the payoff refers to, and the fix is to start the cut earlier rather than skip the moment. [Video: The same scene cut at its answer, then with its question first](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips/a-moment-that-stands-alone.mp4) *Two detectives talking about a witness, in a scene from the film Meridian reframed by Snipri, with the film's own caption text burned in by Snipri's renderer. Played from 9.6 seconds, where the answer starts, it fails the context check, because a new viewer never hears the question. Played as the whole exchange, question first, it passes context and payoff. The clip and its captions are Snipri's output; the cuts were chosen for this example and the checks beside them are drawn.* Film: “Meridian” by Netflix, from [Netflix Open Content](https://opencontent.netflix.com/), under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), cut, reframed and captioned, without sound. ## Review the whole recording Useful moments can occur anywhere in the episode. Use the transcript or your own notes to find: - A specific question with a complete answer. - A demonstration with the necessary visual context. - A short story with a clear ending. - A disagreement where both the claim and its qualification are preserved. Do not assume that a particular timestamp range contains the best material. ## The actual workflow Manual: 1. Listen at 1.5x and take a timestamp whenever something catches your ear. 2. Open those timestamps in your editor and cut a 60 to 90 second window around each. 3. Trim, reframe to 9:16, add captions, add a hook overlay if needed. 4. Export, publish, repeat. Record your own time spent selecting, editing and checking the export. With an AI video clipper: 1. Upload the episode. The tool scores every candidate moment instead of slicing on a timer. 2. Review the shortlist and reject anything you wouldn't post yourself. 3. Take the vertical reframe and the burned-in captions as they come. 4. Trim, rewrite the hook title card, publish. Review time depends on the audio, transcription errors and composition of the source. Compare the two workflows using the same recording and your actual editing time. Scoring is where these tools differ. Snipri's [podcast clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker) rates every candidate from 1 to 10 on hook, payoff, standalone sense, arc and quotability, then discards anything under 7 on hook, payoff or standalone sense. A thin episode comes back with three clips instead of ten, and sometimes with none. You see all five scores and the reason each moment was picked, so you're reviewing a judgement rather than guessing. ![Five scores from 1 to 10 for two moments of one job. Hook, payoff and standalone sense each have a bar at 7, with everything under it hatched; arc and quotability have no bar. The kept moment, clip 1, scores 8, 7 and 7 on the three with a bar. The one left out scores 8 on payoff and 7 on standalone sense, but 6 on hook.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips/score-bar.webp) *The scores, their definitions and the bar from Snipri's selection code, with two moments of the job on Snipri's home page: a clip it kept and one it left out. One score under 7 on hook, payoff or standalone sense leaves a moment out.* ## Keep a selection and rejection log For each candidate, record the original start and end timestamps, the question it answers, and a keep, revise or reject decision. Include the reason: a missing question, an unfinished answer or a crop that hides the demonstration. Record rejected moments as well as published clips so the final set can be traced back to the full conversation. ![The columns of the blank clip decision log in four groups: where it came from, with the episode, source and permission references, timestamps and topic; the decision, its reason and the context, caption and frame checks; the review, with reviewer, date and approved export; and after publishing, with URL, date, views, watch time, episode referrals and notes. Keep, revise and reject each come with a reason.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips/decision-log.webp) *The columns of the blank clip decision log this guide links to, in four groups. Leave the results blank until you have measured them.* [Download a blank clip decision log](https://www.snipri.com/resources/podcast-clip-decision-log.csv) to use in your spreadsheet application. Leave unmeasured results blank. The template contains no example performance figures. After selecting a moment, follow the [podcast caption review workflow](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips) and use the [downloadable publishing checklist](https://www.snipri.com/resources/podcast-clip-review-checklist.txt). Check the exported file before marking a row approved. ## Distribution: pick a primary platform, mirror to the rest Choose a primary channel based on where your intended viewers already watch. Review each platform's preview before reusing an export; titles, caption placement and surrounding context may need changes. Track the published URL, topic, watch-time measures and traffic to the full episode where available. Compare similar posts over time instead of treating one upload as proof of a strategy. ## What to do next Pick your best-performing episode and [start with that one](https://www.snipri.com/signin). The free tier covers two videos for life, each up to an hour long, so a full hour-long episode fits in one. Free clips carry a watermark. For a weekly show, [our pricing](https://www.snipri.com/pricing) starts at $29.90 a month for 10 videos, one for each hour of a recording, so a month of hour-long episodes fits with room to spare. You're billed per video Snipri clips, never for exports, so pulling ten clips out of an episode costs exactly what pulling three costs, and an episode that comes back without clips does not count. Clips never expire. Processing continues if you close the tab; return to your clips to check the result. Once you have the moments, the question is what to do with them. [How to Make YouTube Shorts from Long Videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos) covers the six steps, hook patterns, captions and vertical framing. ## Common questions ### How many clips can one podcast episode make? There is no fixed number. Reject passages with missing context, unclear audio or an unfinished payoff, and keep only what the recording supports. ### How long should a podcast clip be? As long as the answer it holds, within the platform's limit, which is 3 minutes for a YouTube Short. End the clip when the answer ends. ### Should I clip the intro or a sponsor read? No. Clip the conversation itself, not the intro, a sponsor read or housekeeping before the talk starts, and keep the question in when the answer needs it. ## Sources 1. [YouTube Help: Understand three-minute YouTube Shorts](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15424877?hl=en), checked October 26, 2026. Read next: [How to Make YouTube Shorts from Long Videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos) --- # 5 Best Opus Clip Alternatives in 2026 Prices, watermarks and feature gaps across five Opus Clip alternatives. Honest notes on which AI video clipper fits your workflow in 2026. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives - Author: [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri, and wrote this guide - Topic: [Clipping long videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/clipping) - Published: April 29, 2026 - Updated: October 27, 2026 ![Choose by what you are billed for: Snipri and Submagic count videos, Klap counts the clips it makes, and Vizard and 2short.ai count time, in minutes and in hours. Beside it, a vertical clip Snipri reframed from a cafe conversation, a pane for each of the two people.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives/cover.webp) **Short answer.** Choose by what you are billed for. Snipri counts videos and puts no watermark on paid plans; Submagic is built around styled captions and B-roll for short videos; Klap meters the clips it generates; Vizard bills minutes of uploaded video; 2short.ai sells hours of analysis. Test the one that fits on a recording you already have before you subscribe. - Snipri: a video counts once for each hour of it, whether it gives three clips or ten, and only when it comes back with clips. - Submagic: plans count videos with a duration limit per plan, aimed at captioning short videos. - Klap: an allowance of generated clips, with social accounts on every plan. - Vizard: one credit is one minute of uploaded video. - 2short.ai: hours of analysis plus fast server-side exports. Clipping tools differ in their billing unit, input sources and editing controls. Compare those constraints against a recording you actually want to repurpose before choosing a subscription. We build Snipri, which appears first below. This is a comparison of published plans and product scope, not an independent hands-on ranking. Each provider's own pages were checked on October 22, 2026, for our [comparison pages](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives), and every figure and picture below comes from that check. Prices are USD, monthly unless a yearly price is given beside them. Check the provider's checkout for current availability and taxes. [Video: One episode on five clipping tools' meters, then their free plans](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives/one-episode-five-meters.mp4) *An example episode of 60 minutes that gives 8 clips runs under a playhead, and each tool's first paid plan counts it in its own unit: Klap a clip at a time, Vizard and 2short.ai with every minute, and Snipri once, when the job comes back with clips, while Submagic's Starter plan turns it away past its 2-minute limit. Then the minutes of video each free plan takes, beside the same episode. The episode, its clips and every bar are drawn from the plans as each site listed them on October 22, 2026.* ## 1. Snipri (that's us) **Consider for:** predictable billing and no watermark on any paid plan. Snipri counts videos, once for each hour of a video, rounded up, so an hour-long episode is one video and a 90-minute one is two. Each video you hand over can give up to ten clips, and three clips or ten from the same video count the same. A video counts only when it comes back with clips, and each plan sets how long a video can be, so a longer upload can be clipped a part at a time, each part counted on its own. Other providers use different combinations of source minutes, credits and clip limits; compare the included unit as well as the price. - $29.90/mo for 10 videos of up to 2 hours each, counted by the hour - $89.90/mo for 30 videos of up to 3 hours each, counted by the hour - $299/mo for 100 videos of up to 3 hours each, counted by the hour - Every paid plan: no watermark, word-level captions burned in, vertical 9:16 output sized for TikTok, Reels and Shorts Snipri's [clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker) scores every candidate moment on hook, payoff, standalone sense, arc and quotability, then shows those five scores beside each clip it picks so you can see why it made the cut. Before a job you can tell it the kind of video, the clip length and the moments to look for. Weak moments get dropped rather than padded into the list, so a quiet recording can come back with fewer clips than you expected. Snipri is built and run by one person, which is why the limits sit on the page instead of in the support queue. Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30 seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead. A job returns up to ten clips and at most 10 minutes of clips in total. The One clip option instead keeps up to 10 minutes of a video as a single clip. Output is 1080x1920, the editor can switch a clip to square or landscape, and transcription and captions cover 25 languages. Upload a video file or paste a supported video link, including a public YouTube video. Only import videos you own or have permission to use. Private, members-only and live videos are not supported. Dropbox and Google Drive imports are available when enabled in the app. ![A frame of a vertical clip Snipri reframed from a cafe conversation, a pane for each of the two people, beside what one Snipri job returns: up to 10 clips and at most 10 minutes in all; 15 to 60 seconds each by default, or one of four other lengths; 1080 × 1920, or square or landscape in the editor; 25 languages; and 5 scores shown beside each clip.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives/snipri-job.webp) *What one Snipri job returns, with the limits as Snipri's code sets them. It counts the same however many clips it gives: one video for each hour of the recording. The clip beside them is one Snipri's reframing cut from a cafe conversation, “A Show About A Show: Episode 3 - Tactical to Operational” by FingerPuppet ManagementTV, CC BY 4.0; the recording comes without sound, so the clip has no captions.* The free tier is two videos of up to an hour each, once, with a watermark: enough to clip a couple of episodes and decide. [Start free](https://www.snipri.com/signin) and judge the output yourself. ## 2. Submagic **Consider for:** styled captions and B-roll. Submagic's home page is built around short videos for social media: captions, B-roll and posting. Each plan counts videos and caps how long each one can be. - Starter: $19/month, or $12/month billed yearly, for 15 videos of up to 2 minutes each. - Pro: $39/month, or $23/month billed yearly, for 40 videos of up to 5 minutes each. - Business: $69/month, or $41/month billed yearly, for 100 videos of up to 30 minutes each. - Starter exports without a watermark, and scheduled posts to TikTok, Reels and Shorts start on Pro. - Magic Clips, its long video clipping, is not listed on these plans; only the custom plan mentions it. Confirm it with Submagic before relying on it for full episodes. Sources: [Submagic pricing](https://www.submagic.co/pricing) and [home page](https://www.submagic.co/). Evaluate its editor with the captions and media you expect to use. ## 3. Klap **Consider for:** a clip-based allowance with social account management. Klap's pricing page counts the clips it generates each month. Its yearly prices are lower per month but are paid for the whole year. - Basic: $29/month, or $14/month billed yearly, for 100 clips a month. - Pro: $79/month, or $39/month billed yearly, for 300 clips a month. - Pro+: $189/month, or $94/month billed yearly, for 1,000 clips a month. - Every plan lists unlimited social accounts, with publishing and scheduling to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn. The pricing page does not say whether exports carry a watermark. Sources: [Klap pricing](https://klap.app/pricing) and [home page](https://klap.app/). Compare the clip volume, and monthly against yearly billing, with the output you expect. ## 4. Vizard.ai **Consider for:** source-minute billing and shared-workspace options. Vizard's pricing page defines one credit as one minute of uploaded video, so a 60-minute episode uses 60 credits however many clips it gives. - Free: 60 credits a month, 720p exports, media kept for 3 days. - Creator: $29/month for 600 credits, or $14.50/month billed yearly ($174 for 7,200 credits), in tiers up to 2,600 credits for $124/month. Exports without a watermark, up to 4K. - Business: from $39/month for 600 credits, or $19.50/month billed yearly ($234), with 20 social accounts and team tools. - Scheduling starts on Creator, and every plan includes API access. Source: [Vizard pricing](https://vizard.ai/pricing). Pick the credit tier from the minutes you upload in a month, not the clips you expect. ## 5. 2short.ai **Consider for:** an analysis-hour allowance with fast server-side exports. 2short.ai is built around pasting a YouTube link, and from Lite, Google Drive and other public links work too. Its site says it can only process videos that already have captions. - Lite: $9.90/month, 5 hours of analysis and 60 minutes of fast server-side exports. - Pro: $19.90/month, 15 hours of analysis and unlimited fast server-side exports. - Premium: $49.90/month, 50 hours of analysis. - Prices are monthly only. The site advertises watermark-free 1080p exports. - Its free plan lists 30 minutes of analysis a month, while another part of the site says 15. Confirm the allowance in the app before relying on it. Source: [2short.ai home page and plans](https://2short.ai/). ## How to decide The short version: | Need | Pick | | --- | --- | | Predictable monthly cost, no watermarks | Snipri | | Styled captions and B-roll on short videos | Submagic | | Clip-based allowance and posting to social accounts | Klap | | Minute-based credits, 4K export and team tools | Vizard.ai | | Hours of analysis for videos that already have captions | 2short.ai | ![A worked example: a 60-minute episode that gives 8 clips, on each tool's first paid plan. Snipri Starter, 1 of 10 videos, 10% of the month. Submagic Starter, too long, since each video can run 2 minutes. Klap Basic, 8 of 100 clips, 8%. Vizard Creator 600, 60 of 600 credits, 10%. 2short.ai Lite, 1 of 5 hours of analysis, 20%.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives/one-episode.webp) *One example episode on each tool's first paid plan, as the pricing pages listed them on October 22, 2026. What a tool counts decides how much of the month one episode uses.* No tool wins across the board. The right one is whichever matches how you already work. For a side by side table against one tool, see the [Opus Clip](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip), [Klap](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap), [Vizard](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard), [Submagic](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic) and [2short.ai](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/2short-ai) comparisons. [Every comparison](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives) cites its sources and the date it was checked, and the hub prices one month on all of them at once. ## What to do next Test the output before you pay for it. [The free tier](https://www.snipri.com/signin) covers two videos of up to an hour each. Upload an episode and compare the clips against whatever you use now. ![Bars of the minutes of video each free plan takes, on a scale to 120 minutes. Snipri, 2 videos of up to 1 hour each, once, with a watermark. Vizard, 60 credits a month, 720p exports, media kept for 3 days. 2short.ai, 30 minutes of analysis a month, 15 in another part of its site. Klap, one free video of unstated length. Submagic, no free plan listed, a free trial without a card.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives/free-plans.webp) *The free plans as each provider's site described them on October 22, 2026, and Snipri's from its plans. A hatched bar means no length is given.* Our [pricing page](https://www.snipri.com/pricing) lays out the videos on each plan, the yearly prices and what counts as a video, if you have already settled on a workflow. For the craft side of short-form, read [How to Make YouTube Shorts from Long Videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos). ## Common questions ### Which Opus Clip alternatives export without a watermark? Snipri's paid plans export without a watermark, and so do the first paid plans of Submagic and Vizard. 2short.ai's site advertises watermark-free exports, and Klap's pricing page does not say. Check each provider's plan page before you pay, because plans change. ### How does Snipri count usage? Snipri counts videos, once for each hour of a video, rounded up. Each video you hand over can give up to ten clips, three clips or ten from the same video count the same, and a video counts only when it comes back with clips. ### When were these prices checked? Each provider's own pages were checked on October 22, 2026, for Snipri's comparison pages, and every figure in this post comes from that check. Prices are in USD, monthly unless a yearly price is given beside them. ## Sources 1. [Submagic pricing](https://www.submagic.co/pricing), checked October 22, 2026. 2. [Submagic home page](https://www.submagic.co/), checked October 22, 2026. 3. [Klap pricing](https://klap.app/pricing), checked October 22, 2026. 4. [Klap home page and FAQ](https://klap.app/), checked October 22, 2026. 5. [Vizard pricing](https://vizard.ai/pricing), checked October 22, 2026. 6. [2short.ai home page and plans](https://2short.ai/), checked October 22, 2026. Read next: [How to Make YouTube Shorts from Long Videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos) --- # How to Make YouTube Shorts from Long Videos Turn a long video into YouTube Shorts in six steps: pick moments that stand alone, open on the promise, check captions and the vertical crop, then measure. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos - Author: [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about), who builds and runs Snipri, and wrote this guide - Topic: [Clipping long videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/clipping) - Published: April 22, 2026 - Updated: October 28, 2026 ![One Short, one complete idea: open on the line that says what the clip is about, end on the line that pays it off, and check the captions and the crop before you post. Beside it, a vertical clip Snipri reframed from a talk show's two-shot, a pane for each of the two people.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos/cover.webp) **Short answer.** Record or pick a long video you may use, bring it into a clipping tool or editor, and keep only the moments that make sense on their own. Open each Short on the line that says what it is about and end on the line that pays it off, check the captions and the vertical crop, then post and compare results in YouTube Analytics. - Six steps: record long-form, pick a video you may use, paste the link or upload, read what comes back, tighten what you keep, then post and compare. - One Short, one complete idea: if the clip needs the rest of the recording to make sense, cut a different one. - An opening only works when the clip pays it off; name the promise, then find the line that keeps it. - Check names, numbers and technical terms in the captions against the audio, and the crop at every speaker change. - YouTube names average view duration and average percentage viewed as ranking signals, not a three-second cutoff. A useful Short delivers one complete idea. Turning a long video into Shorts means finding the passages that make sense without the rest of the recording, then checking each one's opening, captions and framing before you post. The six steps below work with any editor or clipping tool. They are editing suggestions to test with your audience, not promises about views or a fixed number of clips per episode, because no editing pattern guarantees a viral result. ## How to turn a long video into Shorts, step by step 1. **Record long-form.** A podcast, a livestream, a talking-head video: anything with real speech in it. The words are what give a clip a beginning and an end you can find again. 2. **Pick a video you may use.** A public YouTube video you own or have permission to use, or a video file. Private, members-only and live videos are not supported for link imports. 3. **Paste the link or upload.** In Snipri, paste the link into the [YouTube clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/youtube-clip-maker) or upload the file, and it picks the moments, reframes them to 9:16 and captions them; the [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts) page shows what one job returns. Dropbox and Google Drive imports are available when enabled in the app. In a manual editor, this is the step where you scrub the timeline for candidates. 4. **Read what comes back.** Cut any clip whose opening does not tell a new viewer what it is about, and any that needs the rest of the recording to make sense. [An opening the clip pays off](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos#an-opening-the-clip-pays-off), below, says what to look for. 5. **Tighten each one you keep.** Trim the in and out points, check the captions against the audio and confirm the crop holds on the speaker. The checks for [captions](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos#make-captions-readable-with-or-without-sound) and for [the vertical crop](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos#vertical-reframing-is-not-cropping) follow. 6. **Post, then compare.** Post on a cadence you can keep, and compare clips in your channel's analytics before you decide what to repeat. [What YouTube measures](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos#measure-performance-without-invented-thresholds) closes this guide. ![Six numbered steps from one long video to Shorts: record long-form; pick a video you may use; paste the link or upload; read what comes back; tighten each one you keep; post, then compare with your channel's analytics.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos/shorts-workflow.webp) *The six steps in one picture. Steps 4 and 5 are your own review, whatever tool did the cutting.* Record your own editing time if you want to compare manual and assisted workflows. Review and correction time varies by source. ## An opening the clip pays off This is step 4 in detail. Choose an opening that accurately describes the payoff. These patterns are editorial options; test them rather than assuming they improve every clip. 1. **Pattern interrupt.** Open on something visually unexpected: an abrupt angle, a line of text on screen, a movement already in progress. The thumb pauses. 2. **The promise.** Say exactly what the viewer gets for staying. "The three settings that make any Short look professional" beats "here are some tips". 3. **The contrarian take.** Lead with a claim that contradicts the usual advice. Viewers who agree stay to nod, viewers who disagree stay to argue. 4. **The numbered list.** A number tells the viewer how much is coming. Check in your analytics whether it keeps them watching longer. 5. **The mid-clip reset.** Around the halfway mark, hint that the best part is still coming. It buys you the second half. Use only what fits the source. Keep enough context to preserve the speaker's intended meaning. ## What a strong opening means in each format An opening only works when the clip pays it off, and what counts as either depends on the recording. These are the rules Snipri's AI judges each format by, when you pick [the kind of video](https://www.snipri.com/tools#kinds) or it names one on Auto: | Format | A strong opening | A finished payoff | |---|---|---| | [Podcast](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker) | A surprising answer, a strong opinion or the start of a story | The answer lands or the story resolves | | [Webinar](https://www.snipri.com/tools/webinar-clip-maker) | The problem a framework solves, or its one-line rule | A takeaway someone could act on | | Q&A | A sharp question, or the first line of a direct answer | The question is settled completely | | Commentary | The take itself, stated sharply | The reasoning that backs the take | | Motivational speech | The first line of a story, or a striking claim | The lesson the story builds to, or a line that lands on its own | The same test works by hand: name what the first line promises, then find the line that delivers it. If you cannot find that line, the clip is not finished. ![Two frames of a 12-second scene from Meridian over its timeline. A, the opening: a detective in a car turns round to the back seat under a title card reading What the witness saw on the rock, which stays up for the first 4 seconds, while the first sentence ends: the guy's gone. B, the payoff: a woman's face in his rear-view mirror as the last line ends, not moving. Under them, the caption blocks and both halves of the scene on a seconds scale.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos/opening-and-payoff.webp) *A scene from “Meridian” by Netflix, CC BY 4.0, reframed by Snipri and burned by its renderer with a title card written for this example. The first sentence sets up a mystery and the rest answers it, so the clip ends where the idea does.* ## Make captions readable with or without sound Step 5 starts with the words. Captions help people follow speech when audio is unavailable or difficult to hear. Check names, numbers and technical terms against the original audio before publishing. Use readable contrast and keep text away from faces and platform controls. Word highlighting is optional; it should help the viewer follow the sentence. Burned-in captions remain visible as part of the video. Review any platform subtitle track separately. Watch the final export at phone size with sound both on and off. ## Vertical reframing is not cropping Then the picture. Film horizontal, crop to 9:16, and you cut half your own face out of frame. The clips that hold up use subject-aware reframing: the crop window tracks the face, so it stays in frame as they move. ![A 16:9 frame drawn three times with two people seated apart and a 9:16 window that keeps 32% of its width. Fixed in the middle, the window misses both people. Tracking speaker 1, it sits on the first. Tracking speaker 2, it moves to the second.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos/reframe-window.webp) *Drawn to scale. Cut from a 16:9 frame, a vertical clip keeps about a third of the width, so where the window sits decides who stays in the shot.* [Video: Centre crop or reframe: a talk show's two-shot as a vertical clip](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos/centre-crop-or-reframe.mp4) *The same talk show shot cut to 9:16 two ways. Fixed in the middle, the window holds the screen between the two people; Snipri's reframe cuts a window on each face and stacks them as two panes. The windows over the recording are where each clip is cut from, and the clip on the right is the one Snipri rendered.* Recording: “The Matt Ligor Show Episode 5 - Sarah Tugender” by NORCAM, from the [YouTube UGC dataset](https://media.withyoutube.com/ugc-dataset), under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), cut and without sound. Automatic reframing still needs review at speaker changes and movement. Where a shot has no face to follow, Snipri keeps the whole picture over a blurred copy of itself rather than guess at a crop. A face also has to be large enough: with one person in the shot, Snipri crops to it only when it is at least 12% of the frame's height, so someone filmed from far off stays in the whole shot. [Clip one of your own videos](https://www.snipri.com/signin) and inspect the crop through the whole result, especially when a slide or second speaker matters. ![Two vertical clips beside the frames of the recordings they were cut from. A talk show's host, whose face is 27% of the frame's height: Snipri's 9:16 window crops to the face and follows it. A garden filmed wide, whose gardener's face is 4% of the frame's height, under 12%: the clip keeps the whole picture over a darkened, blurred copy of itself.](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos/two-layouts.webp) *Each clip as Snipri's reframing cut it, before captions, beside the frame of the recording it came from. The window and the face boxes are drawn where Snipri's worker put them.* [Video: Cropped to the face, or the whole shot kept: how Snipri fills a vertical frame](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos/face-or-whole-shot.mp4) *The same two cases in motion. The host's face, 26 to 28% of the frame's height, gets one 9:16 window that follows it. The gardener's face, 3 to 4%, is under the 12% Snipri needs to crop to one person's face, so the clip keeps the whole picture. Each clip plays beside its recording, and the window, the face box and the gauge of the face's height are drawn from what Snipri's worker decided.* Recordings: “The Matt Ligor Show Episode 5 - Sarah Tugender” by NORCAM and “Cheap and easy watering method” by saanichreport, from the [YouTube UGC dataset](https://media.withyoutube.com/ugc-dataset), under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), cut and without sound. ## How many Shorts one long video makes Repurposing lets you reuse a recording you own or have permission to edit. The number of usable moments depends on its content and audio quality, not on its length alone. For each candidate, check: - The opening explains the subject without missing context. - The ending delivers a complete answer or story. - Captions, audio and the crop remain clear throughout. Keep the clips that pass those checks; do not stretch weak material to fill a posting schedule. ## Measure performance without invented thresholds Step 6 is where you learn what to repeat. YouTube describes recommendations as using viewer personalization and performance signals including average view duration and average percentage viewed. Topic interest, competition and seasonality also matter. Its guidance does not provide a universal three-second retention cutoff. See [YouTube's official search and discovery guidance](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11914225). Compare clips with similar topics and lengths. Review your channel's retention and watch-time data over several uploads before deciding which approach to repeat. A Short can run up to 3 minutes, with one catch past the first minute; [how long YouTube Shorts can be](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be) covers the rules. ## Try it on a video you already have Paste the link to a public YouTube video you have already published, or upload the file, and see which moments come back. [Start free](https://www.snipri.com/signin) with two videos of up to an hour each and no card. Snipri will find the moments worth posting, reframe them to vertical for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, and burn in word-by-word captions. Free clips carry a watermark. Paid plans do not. At volume, [our pricing](https://www.snipri.com/pricing) starts at $29.90 a month for 10 videos of up to 2 hours each, counted by the hour. You pay for the hours of video you feed in, never per export, so cutting one video into ten Shorts costs exactly what cutting it into three costs, and a video that comes back without clips does not count. For a side-by-side on the tools in this space, read [Opus Clip alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives). ## Common questions ### How do I turn a long video into YouTube Shorts? Pick the passages that make sense without the rest of the recording, cut each to a vertical 9:16 clip that opens on its promise and ends on its payoff, caption it, and check the crop at every speaker change. A clipping tool such as Snipri does the cutting, reframing and captions from an upload or a public YouTube link; the review is still yours. ### Is there a three-second rule for YouTube Shorts? YouTube's guidance gives no universal three-second cutoff. Its search and discovery tips name average view duration and average percentage viewed as signals that inform ranking. ### How many Shorts can one long video make? As many as it has moments that stand on their own, which depends on the recording. Snipri returns up to ten clips per job, and fewer when the recording holds fewer. ### How long should a Short made from a long video be? As long as the idea it holds, up to YouTube's limit of 3 minutes. YouTube publishes no ideal length, so end the clip when the idea ends and compare lengths in your analytics. ## Sources 1. [YouTube Help: Search and discovery tips](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11914225), checked October 26, 2026. Read next: [5 Best Opus Clip Alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives)