OpusClip

What it does

OpusClip scans a long video, scores which moments are most likely to work as standalone short-form clips, and reformats the strongest ones with captions baked in for vertical platforms like TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts. It’s widely regarded as the category-leading tool for creators and teams who have hours of podcast, webinar, or interview footage they’ve never turned into short-form content, and it’s usually the first tool worth trying when clip-finding — not editing polish — is the actual bottleneck.

Ideal users

• Solo podcasters and YouTubers sitting on hours of long-form footage they've never turned into short-form clips
• Creators building a short-form presence (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) from an existing long-form show or channel
• Marketing teams turning recorded webinars or interviews into a batch of social clips
• Anyone whose main bottleneck is finding the right 30-60 seconds in a long recording, not editing polish

Who should avoid it

• You need written assets — show notes, a blog draft, a newsletter — rather than video clips; Castmagic is built for that
• Your bottleneck is distributing already-finished pieces across many destinations, not creating clips; Repurpose.io is built for that
• You'd rather have clipping bundled with design, writing, and scheduling in one subscription than a video specialist; see Simplified
• You process a high volume of long footage on a tight budget — credit-based pricing scales with usage and can add up quickly

Key features

• AI virality scoring that ranks which moments in a long video are most likely to perform as standalone clips
• Automatic captioning in 20+ languages, with animated caption styles
• Multi-aspect-ratio reframing for vertical, square, and horizontal platforms
• Speaker detection for podcasts and interviews
• AI B-Roll insertion (Pro and above)
• Brand kit with custom fonts and templates
• Direct multi-platform posting and a built-in social scheduler (Pro and above)

Pricing

Free — $15/month (Starter)

As of mid-2026: Free ($0, 60 processing minutes/month, watermarked exports, 3-day storage), Starter ($15/month, 150 credits/month, no watermark, 1 brand template), Pro ($29/month or $174/year, 3,600 credits/year, 2 seats, AI B-Roll, social scheduler, all aspect ratios), Business (custom pricing, API access, unlimited seats, SOC 2 Type II). Per OpusClip's help documentation, credits convert to processing minutes at a flat 1 credit per 1 minute of source video imported (a sub-1-minute clip rounds up to a 1-credit minimum; a video with partial minutes rounds down to the nearest whole minute), and posting a clip directly to X also costs 1 credit per post.

Typical workflows

• A podcaster uploads a raw 45-60 minute episode; OpusClip transcribes it, identifies the highest-scoring moments, and produces several vertical, captioned clips ready to review and publish within minutes.
• A marketing team imports a recorded webinar or customer interview and generates a batch of short clips, which they then hand off to a distribution tool or their own social scheduler for wider posting.

Integrations

• YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram (direct publishing)
• Google Drive, Vimeo, Zoom, Rumble, and StreamYard (import sources)
• Export to professional editing software
• API access (Business plan)

Privacy & security notes

OpusClip's help documentation states that individual-plan users (Free, Starter, Pro) may have their data used to improve its AI models, with any training data anonymized to strip personally identifiable information; enterprise and business customers are contractually excluded from this and are not used for model training. OpusClip is SOC 2 Type II compliant. Free-tier exports are stored for only 3 days.