Turn a long video into clips

Clips reads what’s said in a long video, such as a podcast, an interview or a talk, finds the moments that stand on their own, and cuts each into its own edit. It’s free.

Make clips

1. Open Tools → Clips, or open a video in your Library and choose Make clips.
2. Pick a video with people talking, then Next: options.
3. Choose how the clips come out (below), then Find clips · free.

• How many: 3, 5 or 8. The strongest moments come first.
• Length: 15–30s, 30–60s or 60–90s. Clips are cut on whole sentences.
• Shape: 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9. The video fills the frame with a centred crop.
• Captions: a look, timed to each word, or None.
• About: optional. Say what you want, like “only moments about pricing”, and Clips keeps to it.

Finding the moments takes a minute or two for a long video. You can close the tool while it works.

What you get

A new project called “Clips from” and the video’s name, with one edit per clip. Each clip shows its length, and on a desktop why it was picked. Choose Edit to open it, or Open the project to see them all. Trim, reframe or restyle any of them in the editor, then export. Not what you wanted? Find different ones.

If it says no

• Clips works from the transcript Shotz makes of every upload. If the video was just uploaded, wait a minute or two for it.
• It needs enough speech to work with, and a video longer than the clips you asked for. For a short video, open it in an edit and trim it there.
• It reads videos up to 3 hours long.
• A workspace can start Clips 10 times an hour.

To put captions on a whole video instead, use Captions.