Editing · Pro

Turn a long podcast into short clips.

Auto Clipper finds the moments worth posting in a long podcast or video, trims each into its own 9:16 short with captions, and opens them in the full editor.

A 16:9 podcast episode split into five 9:16 shorts — original landscape video plus auto-framed speaker clips, including split 50/50 layouts

How it works

Long video in. Shorts you can actually finish.

  1. 01

    Upload one long video

    On the upload screen, switch to Auto Clipper. Drop a single long video — a podcast episode, interview, or lecture — not a multi-clip queue. Choose clip count (1–10, default 5) and length (~50s, from 15–90s). Auto frame is on by default.

  2. 02

    AI finds the moments

    We transcribe the whole video once, then pick self-contained highlights near your target length. Starts and ends snap to real sentences — not random timestamps.

  3. 03

    Each moment becomes a short

    The range is physically trimmed into its own file, with a clip-local transcript and waveform. Auto frame fills 9:16 and keeps the speaker centered.

  4. 04

    Edit any clip in the same editor

    The session opens with a clip switcher. Every short is a full captionrich project — captions, cuts, B-roll, zooms — not a window on the long timeline.

  5. 05

    Save the shorts, not the long file

    Clips auto-save as one folder named after the original video. Opening it restores every short. Export one clip, or turn on “Export all clips” on the Export screen.

After the clips land

Not a gallery of MP4s. A session of editors.

Other clip makers dump ranked downloads. Auto Clipper opens each short in captionrich — the same text-based editor you already use for captions, bad takes, B-roll, and export. Switch clips without leaving the page. On /projects, the run is one folder with the original video name, not five lookalike cards.

  • Word-level captions already on every short
  • Switcher above the preview to jump clips
  • Folder on your projects list, named after the source file
Auto Clipper5 clips

podcast-interview.mp4

Original duration · one folder, every clip inside

Captions land on every short from the one transcript.

Auto frame fills 9:16 and keeps the speaker centered.

Switcher jumps between clips without reloading.

Projects list shows one folder, original video name.

Export one clip, or all clips sequentially from Export.

The long source is not stored as a cloud project.

Built for podcasts, not multi-hour live streams

Accurate limits — so the page matches the product.

  • Pro: sources up to 30 minutes, 10 Auto Clipper runs per month. Max Pro: up to 60 minutes, 30 runs. Yearly plans get 12× the run count. The regular Edit path is still 3 / 4 / 7 minutes.
  • Tuned for podcasts, interviews, and long recordingsyou want to clip for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. It does not score clips for virality, auto-post to social apps, or ingest multi-hour YouTube URLs.
  • Free users see an upgrade prompt. Processing and export run in your browser. Highlight detection uses the same AI budget as other captionrich AI features.

FAQ

Questions about Auto Clipper

Open captionrich, choose Auto Clipper, and upload one long podcast or video. Set how many clips you want (1–10, default 5) and a target length (~50 seconds by default). Auto Clipper transcribes the video once, finds self-contained highlights, trims each into its own short, and opens them in the editor so you can polish captions and export.

Auto Clipper is captionrich's long-video-to-shorts tool. It turns one podcast episode or long recording into a session of independent short clips — each a full project with its own transcript, captions, and export — instead of windows on the original file. The long source is processed in your browser and is not saved as a cloud project.

No. Auto Clipper is included on Pro and Max Pro. The Free plan can still edit and caption videos you record as shorts, but long-video clipping requires a paid plan.

Pro accepts 5 Auto Clipper videos a month, each up to 3.5 hours. Max Pro accepts 10, each up to 6 hours. The regular editor path (Edit video) is still 3 / 4 / 7 minutes by plan — Auto Clipper is the long-form path.

You choose 1–10 clips per run. The default is 5 clips at about 50 seconds each (adjustable from 15–90 seconds). If the video isn't long enough for every requested clip, Auto Clipper creates as many as the footage supports and tells you.

Yes, when Auto frame is on (the default). It uses the same face detection as the rest of captionrich, sets the canvas to 9:16, fills the frame, and keeps the speaker centered. If no face is found, the short stays letterboxed 9:16 and the session still succeeds.

Yes — that's the point. Each short opens in the full text-based editor: captions, styles, silence and filler cuts, B-roll, zooms, music, and export. A clip switcher lets you jump between shorts in the same session without leaving the editor.

No. Only the trimmed short clips are saved. On your projects page they appear as one folder named after the original file. Opening the folder restores every clip so you can keep switching between them.

Yes. Open Export on any clip in the session and turn on the “Export all clips” toggle (off by default). captionrich then exports each short sequentially as its own MP4. You can also export just the active clip.

Those tools are built to manufacture lots of shorts from hour-long streams, often with virality scores and auto-posting. Auto Clipper is for podcasts and long videos up to 3.5–6 hours, and every result is a real captionrich project you finish by hand — captions, cuts, and all. It does not auto-post to social apps or score clips for virality.

More features

One recording. A week of shorts.

Auto Clipper is on Pro and Max Pro. Open the editor, pick Auto Clipper, and drop a long podcast or video.