Opus Clip
Opus Clip turns long-form video into short, ranked, ready-to-post social clips with automatic captions and virality scoring.
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About Opus Clip
What it is
Opus Clip cuts long video into short vertical clips. It transcribes the recording, picks the segments it expects to perform, reframes to keep the speaker centred, adds animated subtitles, and scores each clip for its likely reach.
Why it's different
The reframing and subtitling are genuinely good, and on interview footage with two people it tracks whoever is speaking, which is the tedious part of doing this by hand. The virality score is the part to be sceptical about: it is a guess presented as a number, and treating it as a ranking will have you posting the confident clip over the good one. The free tier watermarks its output, so it is a demonstration rather than something to build on.
How people use it
Turning podcasts, webinars and talks into social clips. Producing vertical versions of horizontal footage. Getting subtitles burned in without opening an editor. Reviving a back catalogue of long recordings. Read the transcript of each clip and fix the start point by hand, because clips that begin mid-thought are the most common failure.
Step by step
- Upload a recording that is mostly talking, such as an interview, webinar or podcast. It has almost nothing to work with on a screen share or a slide deck.
- Set the clip length to match where you are posting before you generate, because changing it afterwards regenerates everything.
- Ignore the virality score as a ranking. Read each clip transcript instead and keep the ones that make a complete point.
- Fix the start point by hand on every clip you keep. Beginning mid-sentence is the most common failure and it is a two-second edit.
- Check the speaker tracking on any clip with two people, because the reframing follows whoever it thinks is talking and gets crosstalk wrong.
- Treat the free tier as a trial rather than a pipeline. It watermarks output, so nothing from it is publishable.
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