Opus Clip

Opus Clip is an AI-powered video editing tool that automatically identifies and extracts the most engaging short clips from long-form videos for repurposing on social media platforms. Content creators producing long-format content like YouTube videos, podcasts, webinars, and live streams face the challenge that modern social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and LinkedIn favor brief, attention-grabbing vertical video. Manually reviewing hours of content to identify compelling moments, editing multiple short clips, reformatting for different aspect ratios, and adding captions is extraordinarily time-consuming work that prevents many creators from effectively distributing their content across platforms. Opus Clip addresses this repurposing challenge through AI that analyzes long videos, identifies the most engaging segments based on content quality and virality potential, automatically edits these segments into platform-optimized clips, and adds captions and formatting suitable for social distribution. This automation transforms what would be hours of manual editing into a streamlined process producing dozens of ready-to-post clips from a single source video.

How It Works

Using Opus Clip begins by uploading a long-form video or providing a URL from YouTube or other platforms. The AI analyzes the entire video, processing visual content, audio, and spoken words to understand context, topics, and moments of interest. Using proprietary algorithms trained on viral content characteristics, Opus Clip identifies segments most likely to perform well as standalone clips based on factors like topic hooks, emotional moments, valuable insights, entertainment value, and narrative completeness. The system then automatically edits selected segments into individual clips, adding appropriate beginning and ending points that make sense as standalone content. Each clip is reformatted to vertical aspect ratio suitable for TikTok and Instagram Reels, with intelligent cropping that maintains focus on speakers or important visual elements. AI-generated captions are added automatically, synchronized with speech for accessibility and engagement. The platform generates multiple clips per video-often 10-20+ clips from a single hour-long source-each with virality scores indicating predicted performance.

Core Features

AI Content Analysis and Selection automatically identifies the most engaging, valuable, or entertaining moments in long videos without manual review.

Automatic Clip Editing transforms identified segments into polished, ready-to-post clips with appropriate beginnings and endings, transitions, and pacing suitable for short-form consumption.

Vertical Video Reformatting converts horizontal long-form content to vertical aspect ratios optimized for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, with intelligent cropping.

Automated Caption Generation transcribes speech and adds synchronized captions to all clips, improving accessibility and engagement.

Virality Score Prediction assigns each generated clip a score indicating predicted performance based on analysis of successful social media content characteristics.

Multi-Clip Batch Generation produces numerous clips from single source videos efficiently, giving creators substantial social media content libraries.

Brand Customization Options allow application of consistent visual styling, color schemes, fonts, and template elements across all generated clips.

Who This Is For

Opus Clip serves YouTube creators and podcasters who want to expand their reach to short-form platforms without spending hours on repurposing edits. Content marketers and social media managers maximize ROI from video content by efficiently distributing it across multiple platforms and formats. Coaches, consultants, and educators share knowledge through long-form content but need bite-sized pieces for social media discovery. Live streamers and webinar hosts repurpose recordings into promotional and educational clips.