Opus Clip

Opus Clip is a short-form video repurposing tool that uses AI to identify the most engaging moments in long-form video recordings, podcasts, interviews, webinars, YouTube videos, and automatically clips, captions, and formats them for social media distribution. Its core AI score analyzes the video for content quality, speaker energy, and hook strength, ranking each potential clip by estimated virality. For a 60-minute podcast episode, Opus Clip might surface 15–20 candidate clips, each already trimmed to an appropriate length, captioned, and formatted in the aspect ratio you specify (9:16 for TikTok/Reels, 16:9 for YouTube). The AI speaker tracking keeps the active speaker centered in frame even during multi-person conversations, handling the reframing that would otherwise require manual editing.

The result is a significant reduction in the time required to produce a week of short-form content from a single long recording, a workflow that previously required 2–3 hours of editing now takes 20 minutes of review and selection. The free plan provides 60 upload minutes per month. Pro plans start at $15/month. Opus Clip is a widely used tool in its category for podcasters and YouTubers managing a short-form clip distribution strategy.