Turn Long Videos Into Short Clips Worth Posting

Paste or upload a podcast, stream, YouTube video, webinar, or interview. OptimaClip finds the moments worth sharing, helps you finish them in Studio, and lets you schedule them for your short-form channels.

Paste a YouTube, podcast, or video link — or drop a fileGet free clips

Creates a free account — 30 credits, 7 days, no credit card required.

Cancel anytime from your dashboard's Billing page. No contracts, no "contact sales" wall. See every feature

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Real product footage, on mute, on loop — nothing sped up. Link in, AI picks the moments, captioned clips out, scheduled to publish.

What you'll see in a few seconds

1

What you put in

A podcast, stream, YouTube video, webinar, or interview — pasted as a link or uploaded as a file.

2

What OptimaClip does

The AI watches the whole thing and surfaces the moments worth sharing.

3

What comes out

Captioned, reframed vertical clips — scored and ready to review.

4

What you do next

Finish the edit in Studio, then export or schedule it to your short-form channels.

New · Clip Everything

Clip everything. In one click.

Vlogs, gaming VODs, interviews, sports, explainers — paste one link and OptimaClip's agent watches the whole thing, finds the moments worth cutting, and hands them back captioned, reframed to 9:16, and scored. No timeline to scrub. No second tool.

OptimaClip · Clip EditorFinding moments — 3 of 8
A long gaming VOD loaded into the OptimaClip Clip Editor while the AI agent scans it for viral moments
Find the moment most likely to go viral
Source: gaming VOD · 3:58:12Smart Reframe: on

8 clips found

0:32
94virality

The 1v3 clutch nobody saw coming

Reaction spike + hard cut on the win

0:47
88virality

“That’s the part nobody talks about”

Contrarian take, clean setup and payoff

0:24
85virality

Buzzer-beater, and the bench erupts

Peak crowd noise, self-contained moment

A styled preview of the Clip Editor flow. Footage, titles, and scores are illustrative — see the “See it in action” grid above for real product screens.

Whatever the long-form is, this is the short-form

One clipping agent, every format you already record.

Vlogs footage being turned into short-form clips by OptimaClipVlogs

→ captioned 9:16 clips

Gaming footage being turned into short-form clips by OptimaClipGaming

→ captioned 9:16 clips

Interviews footage being turned into short-form clips by OptimaClipInterviews

→ captioned 9:16 clips

Sports footage being turned into short-form clips by OptimaClipSports

→ captioned 9:16 clips

Explainers footage being turned into short-form clips by OptimaClipExplainers

→ captioned 9:16 clips

★★★★★

Everything OpusClip and Vugola do — clipping, captions, Smart Reframe — plus scheduling, publishing, and a real editor in the same login.

1 click

from a raw link to scored, captioned clips

8⁠–⁠12

standalone moments pulled from a typical long-form

0

timelines to sit through — the agent does the scrubbing

StreamersPodcastersClippersBrands & agencies

Clip once, publish everywhere

YouTube Shorts
TikTok
Instagram Reels
Facebook
X
Threads
LinkedIn
Bluesky

Built for streamers, podcasters, and clippers

Whoever you are, the same AI clipping agent — and the same Studio editor and auto-publishing — adapts to how you actually work.

Streamers

Turn a 4-hour VOD into a week of Shorts and Reels without opening an editor.

Submit last night's stream before bed. By morning, a full week of ready-to-post clips is waiting — captioned, cropped, and scored for which ones are worth pinning to the top of your feed.

Podcasters

Every episode becomes 8-12 standalone moments your audience can find you through.

Long-form audience growth increasingly happens one clip at a time. OptimaClip finds the specific 45-second answer, story, or disagreement that makes someone stop scrolling and go find the full episode.

Clippers

Run clipping as a service for multiple creators from one team workspace.

Seat-based access and per-client history mean you can operate several creators' clip pipelines from a single login without anything crossing over.

Brands & Agencies

Repurpose webinars, demos, and interviews into on-brand short-form, at volume.

Client workspaces, brand templates, and full API access are built for agencies repurposing content for more than one account at a time.

The AI that finds your viral clips — and a studio that finishes them.

Two hard jobs, one subscription. OptimaClip's AI agent watches your whole podcast, stream VOD or YouTube video and pulls the moments actually worth posting — each with a virality score and the reasoning. Then OptimaClip Studio — a full timeline editor you drive by chat — turns them into finished videos: transitions, music, captions you edit right on the frame, your own footage, a cover image. Then it schedules them to 8 platforms. No CapCut round-trip. No second app.

▶ See it in 20 seconds
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OptimaClip Clip Editor showing an AI-picked clip with a 90/100 virality score and the AI's reasoning for the pick

The AI picks your best moments — and shows its reasoning

01

AI finds the moments

It reviews the long-form video and surfaces clips worth reviewing — each with a score and the reason it was picked.

02

Finish clips in Studio

Captions, reframing, and editing tools — a real timeline editor, not a black box.

03

Publish from one workflow

Export manually, or schedule and publish straight to your connected platforms.

Screen recording · the whole loop

One link in, a week of clips out

Paste a YouTube, Twitch, or Kick VOD and OptimaClip transcribes it, finds the moments worth cutting, and hands back a full library of captioned vertical clips — then queues them to post on a schedule. The entire workflow, start to finish, in about 15 seconds.

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A content creator editing video clips at a multi-monitor streaming setup

Upload once from wherever you already record — OptimaClip does the rest.

Built so a stuck render never turns into a support ticket.

8

connected platforms to publish to directly

21

languages transcribed & captioned

60

days every credit rolls over — nothing expires the moment the month flips

Screen recording · virality scoring

Every clip comes back with a virality score

No guessing which cut to post first. The AI agent scores each clip 0–100 on how likely it is to land, so you open the 96 and skip the 71. Sort the library by score and your strongest moments are already at the top.

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See it in action

Real screens from the real product — not mockups. Every clip below was picked, scored, and captioned by the same AI agent your account uses.

Real OptimaClip Clip Editor screen showing an AI-picked clip titled 'Massive Chinese Caves With Zero Historical Records' with a 90/100 virality score and the AI's plain-English reasoning for the pick
Every clip ships with a virality score and the AI's actual reasoning — not a black box.
Real OptimaClip Clip Library screen showing four AI-generated clips with real durations and virality scores, from 78/100 to 90/100
One source video, a full library of ready-to-post vertical clips.
Real OptimaClip New Clip Job screen showing YouTube, Twitch, and Kick VOD import all supported, plus the AI moment-search field for finding specific moments like dramatic arguments or a name
Paste a link from YouTube, Twitch, or Kick — and tell the AI exactly what to look for.
Real OptimaClip Brand Templates screen showing caption font, color, and position controls with a live preview
Set your brand style once — every future clip matches it automatically.
Real OptimaClip Connected Platforms screen listing YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook, X, Threads, LinkedIn, and Bluesky
All 8 platforms live in one dashboard — connect once, publish everywhere.

★★★★★

What creators are saying

Real words from real OptimaClip accounts — podcasters, agencies, YouTubers, and streamers running their whole short-form workflow through one login.

OptimaClip turned my weekly podcast into a full month of short clips with almost no effort — the AI finds the hooks, adds captions in my brand style, and queues everything across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram for me.
Alex R.Podcaster
As a small agency, the workspace-per-client setup and end-to-end pipeline from source video to scheduled posts finally made repurposing retainers profitable — we can keep all of a client's clips, calendars, and brand presets in one place.
Jordan M.Agency owner
I used to bounce between three different tools for clipping, captioning, and scheduling — now OptimaClip handles it all under one login and price, so my team just uploads a webinar and the short-form content is ready to ship.
Taylor S.Content lead
The free trial made it easy to test on a few long-form YouTube videos without pulling out a card, and seeing the AI pull out strong opinions and hooks I'd missed convinced me to move my entire short-form workflow into OptimaClip.
Riley K.YouTuber
For my livestreams, I just drop in the VOD and OptimaClip finds moments that actually feel post-worthy, adds captions, and drops them into my posting schedule — my shorts output went up without needing an editor on every stream.
Morgan D.Livestreamer

The clip that explains itself, not just a render.

Screen recording · the AI's reasoning

It shows its work on every pick

Open any clip in the editor and the AI explains, in plain English, why it chose that moment — the hook, the payoff, the reason it should hit. Not a black box that spits out clips, but a clipping partner you can second-guess.

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Everything OpusClip and Vugola do. Plus what they don't.

Clipping and captioning are table stakes now. OptimaClip's edge is the workflow around them — one product instead of three tools stitched together.

AI Clipping Agent

Feed it a podcast, webinar, stream VOD, or YouTube video. It transcribes the whole thing, reasons over the transcript, and finds the hooks, punchlines, and teaching moments worth cutting — each candidate clip comes back with a virality score and a plain-English reason it was picked.

Auto-Captions & Brand Styling

Every clip comes back captioned and reframed for vertical, with word-level highlight styling — or skip captions entirely. Save fonts, colors, and logo placement once as a Brand Template and every future clip matches automatically.

Creator+

Smart Reframe

Instead of a fixed center-crop, Smart Reframe follows the visual subject as it moves — built for interviews, gaming footage, and anyone who doesn't sit dead-center in frame.

Creator+

Scheduling & Publishing

Queue a month of clips in one sitting. OptimaClip rotates them across 8 connected platforms — including LinkedIn and Bluesky — on the cadence you set, so "post something today" stops being a daily decision.

Advanced Clip Editor

Trim, restyle captions, swap the platform mix, and preview before it ships — a real editor, not a black box, so you're always one click from a manual override.

Creator+

OptimaClip Studio — the agentic editor

Open any finished clip in a full timeline editor you drive by chat. Sequence several clips, add transitions, music and sound effects, title cards and lower-thirds, drop in your own footage or a voiceover, and drag captions and text right on the video frame to place them. Live per-clip speed, click-and-drag trimming, split anywhere, and a cover-image picker for the thumbnail. "Describe the edit, watch the timeline change." Replaces the round-trip to CapCut or Premiere — and never leaves OptimaClip.

Render Reliability Fallback

If our primary render pipeline is ever under load, jobs automatically fail over to a dedicated backup renderer instead of getting stuck. Your clip finishes — you never have to notice, retry, or ask support where it went.

Team Workspaces

Invite editors and account managers with role-based access. Agencies get per-client workspaces so nothing from Client A ever bleeds into Client B's brand templates or history.

Creator+

Bring OptimaClip Into Any AI Agent

A documented REST API and per-key access means OptimaClip isn't locked to our dashboard — drop it into Zapier, n8n, or your own AI agent and trigger clip jobs programmatically.

One upload. A week off your plate.

The center-crop problem — solved automatically.

An overhead view of a creator's desk: a laptop editing a long video timeline, surrounded by phones each showing a different vertical clip

One long recording, cut into a full week of platform-ready clips.

Built to actually finish the job

The parts of a clipping tool you don't see until something goes wrong — handled by default.

Automatic render failover

A dedicated backup renderer picks up any job that hits a snag on the primary pipeline — so a busy day never turns into a stuck job with no explanation.

Built-in content moderation

Every clip is screened before it publishes — protecting your accounts and your brand from an AI pick you'd never have approved yourself.

Transparent, honest limits

If something can't be done reliably yet, we say so in the product instead of shipping a feature that quietly fails. No surprises after you've upgraded.

Every platform you publish to, one queue.

A hand holding a phone showing a library grid of clips, each with a small score badge

Every clip comes back scored — pick the winners in seconds.

Credits that scale with you

Three tiers, transparent credits, no opaque "contact sales" wall.

Starter

For solo creators just starting to repurpose content.

$19/mo

200 credits / month

  • 200 credits / month
  • AI Clipping Agent + auto-captions
  • 1 brand template
  • Clip Planner AI tool
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Creator

For creators who want repurposing to run in the background.

$39/mo

500 credits / month

  • 500 credits / month
  • Everything in Starter
  • OptimaClip Studio — chat-driven timeline editor: multi-clip sequencing, transitions, music & SFX, text, your own footage + voiceover, captions you edit right on the frame, a cover-image picker. Replaces the CapCut/Premiere round-trip.
  • Scheduling & multi-platform publishing (+ LinkedIn, Bluesky)
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Agency

For agencies and teams repurposing content for multiple clients.

$79/mo

1000 credits / month

  • 1,000 credits / month
  • Everything in Creator
  • Unlimited brand templates
  • 5 team seats + client workspaces
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Honest about what's not ready yet, not just what is.

Stop stitching three tools together.

Clipping, captions, scheduling, publishing, and a team editor — in one product, one login, one price.

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