Framing chosen per shot
Faces are followed. Screen recordings and big on-screen text are shown whole over a blurred fill instead of being cropped away.
For clip channels
Your clip channel,
cut for you.
Paste a video or a stream. ClipLab finds the moments that stand on their own and cuts each one into a captioned vertical Short. On Pro it watches the channels you clip and starts on every new upload by itself.
Free: one 10 second clip from a video up to 10 minutes, watermarked, no card. Plans from $30 a month. See plans
Channels we run with ClipLab
Live from YouTubePublic numbers from the YouTube Data API, refreshed every 30 minutes. Nothing here is typed by hand.
Auto-clip
New video on a watched channel? It is already being clipped.
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Your main channelNew upload found · picking moments
Clipping
B
Your stream channelLive now · clips start when the stream ends
Waiting
A
Last runClips ready · you were notified
Ready
Clips
Framed for 9:16, captioned, graded.
THE REAL REASON
NO WAY THAT WORKED
here is how it works
Catalyst · lessons for this channel
Written from your own YouTube numbers. Used on the next run.
- WorkedOpenings that start on a direct question held viewers longer than this channel's usual Short.
- Did notClips that needed the earlier part of the episode to make sense lost viewers early.
- Next runPrefer self-contained stories with the payoff inside the clip.
Source: YouTube Analytics for this channel only
Performance loop
Every Short is judged against your channel, not the internet.
A run missed, so its scheduled clips were pulled back.Set to private, flagged for a rework. Nothing deleted.
Four steps, one loop. Click a step, or let it play.
How it works
One loop that gets better with every Short.
Most clippers stop when the file is exported. ClipLab keeps going: it reads what your Shorts actually did and changes what it picks next.
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Watch
Add a YouTube channel. YouTube tells ClipLab when a new video goes up, and ClipLab checks the channel itself every few minutes as a backup. New long uploads get clipped straight away. Live streams get clipped once they end.
Runs on its own · Pro -
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Clip
It reads the whole video and picks the moments that stand alone, each one graded. Or paste any link yourself. The clips you export come back framed for 9:16 with word by word captions burned in.
Picking runs on its own -
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Post
Export the clips you like, then publish one now or spread a whole batch over the coming days. Each one goes up to YouTube scheduled, and YouTube releases it at its time.
One click from you -
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Learn
Every 15 minutes it reads your channel's YouTube Analytics: views, how much of each Short people watched, likes, comments, shares and subscribers gained. When the numbers move, it rewrites that channel's lessons, at most once an hour.
Runs on its own -
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Judge
Once a channel has at least 5 measured Shorts, each new one is compared with that channel's own median. When a run clearly misses, its clips still waiting to post are pulled back to private and flagged for a rework.
Runs on its own
No fine print
Exactly what runs on its own, and what waits for you.
Autonomy is only useful if you know where it stops. Here is the line, as the product works today.
Runs on its own
- Checking watched channels for new uploads and finished streams
- Picking and grading the moments for every run, including runs it started itself
- Telling you when a run's clips are ready, in the app and by email if you leave email on
- Reading your YouTube Analytics every 15 minutes and updating your channel's lessons
- Using those lessons on the next run for that channel
- Pulling a missed run's scheduled clips back to private, on every connected channel
- Releasing a scheduled batch on its dates (YouTube does this) once you set it going
Waits for your click
- Which clips get exported as finished files
- Publishing a clip, or scheduling a batch
- Connecting a YouTube channel and choosing which channels to watch
ClipLab never makes a video public without you starting it. The only thing it changes on its own is pulling a scheduled clip back to private, and it never deletes anything.
The cut itself
Learning only helps if the clip is good.
The parts people see first, done with care.
Split screen, found for you
A streamer's facecam over gameplay becomes a stacked layout automatically. Switch any clip between single and split framing, and draw the boxes yourself.
Word by word captions
Burned into every clip, in the caption style you pick, with an edit style from clean to loud.
Four grades, not one score
Every clip is graded on hook, flow, value and trend, with a line on what the moment is. No single mystery virality score.
A length rule that sticks
Set a length once for your account, like every Short under 30 seconds, and the runs you start follow it. A watched channel picks it up when you add the watch.
Ask about your channel
Ask why a Short did well or badly. The answer comes from your channel's real numbers against its own median, not a guess.
Per channel, always
Each channel learns alone.
Each channel's lessons are written from that channel's own numbers and used on that channel's runs. A gaming channel and a finance channel each get their own playbook, built from their own viewers.
Until a channel has at least 3 measured Shorts, ClipLab uses a general playbook rather than inventing lessons from too little data.
For teams and agencies
Client workspaces.
Keep each client in their own workspace with their own connected YouTube channel and projects. Invite teammates who have a ClipLab account as editors, approvers or viewers.
See plans and seatsReviews
What paying creators say
Questions
Straight answers.
Will ClipLab post to my channel without asking?
No. Publishing or scheduling always starts with your click. Once you schedule a batch, it goes out on the dates you set. The one change ClipLab makes by itself is pulling a scheduled clip back to private when its run is clearly underperforming.
What does it learn from?
Your channel's YouTube Analytics: views, average percentage viewed, view duration, likes, comments, shares and subscribers gained. It needs at least 3 measured Shorts on a channel before it writes lessons for it. Until then it uses a general playbook.
Which videos can I clip?
Links from YouTube, Twitch, Rumble, Kick, X, Vimeo and more, up to 8 hours long, or a file you upload, up to 25 GB. Channel watching is for YouTube channels.
Where can I post the clips?
ClipLab publishes and schedules to YouTube. You can also queue clips for X, which post from your own computer through a small worker you run. Every exported clip is an MP4 you can download and post anywhere.
What does it cost?
Plans and what each includes are on the pricing page. You can make one free watermarked Short first, no card needed.
Give it one video.
See the moment it picks, then let it clip the whole channel for you.