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OptimaClip — AI video clippingTurn 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.
Creates your account — free 3-day trial with 30 credits, $0 today.
14-day money-back guarantee — if it doesn't find clips worth posting, we refund you.
For first-time subscribers who use 20% or less of their monthly plan's included credits. Refund terms apply.
Cancel anytime from your dashboard's Billing page. No contracts, no "contact sales" wall. See every feature
Your clips and projects stay in your library — you can re-download them any time, even on a free plan.
We don't sell your data. Your videos are processed to generate clips and stored in your library — see our Privacy Policy for details.
A real captioned clip, start to finish — paste a link, let the AI pick the moment, then fine-tune it in Studio. Tap the speaker for sound.
What you'll see in a few seconds
What you put in
A podcast, stream, YouTube video, webinar, or interview — pasted as a link or uploaded as a file.
What OptimaClip does
The AI watches the whole thing and surfaces the moments worth sharing.
What comes out
Captioned, reframed vertical clips — scored and ready for about twenty minutes of human review.
What you do next
Finish the edit in Studio, then export or schedule it to your short-form channels.
What clips from OptimaClip actually do
187 → 1,460
average views per clip
+681% average views in 30 days
1.2% → 3.1%
engagement rate
2.6× more engagements per view
42% → 68%
retention rate
+26 points retention rate in 30 days
“We went from posting clips that barely got seen to having a repeatable way to test stronger hooks and moments from every episode.”
30-day comparison · 16 clips before vs. 24 clips after · YouTube Shorts + TikTok
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.
8 clips found
0:32The 1v3 clutch nobody saw coming
Reaction spike + hard cut on the win
0:47“That’s the part nobody talks about”
Contrarian take, clean setup and payoff
0:24Buzzer-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→ captioned 9:16 clips
Gaming→ captioned 9:16 clips
Interviews→ captioned 9:16 clips
Sports→ captioned 9:16 clips
Explainers→ captioned 9:16 clips
★★★★★
Everything OpusClip and Vizard 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
Clip once, publish everywhere
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
The AI picks your best moments — and shows its reasoning
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.
Finish clips in Studio
Captions, reframing, and editing tools — a real timeline editor, not a black box.
Publish from one workflow
Export manually, or schedule and publish straight to your connected platforms.
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
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.
★★★★★
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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
The clip that explains itself, not just a render.
Everything OpusClip and Vizard 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every clip comes back scored — pick the winners in seconds.
The whole price list
1 credit = 1 minute of video.
Every clip and export is free.
A 10-minute video costs 10 credits — whether the AI finds 3 clips or 15, and however many formats you export. No per-clip fees, no caption fees, no surprise charges. Start with a 3-day free trial: 30 credits, $0 today.
✓ Unlimited AI clips
Every moment the AI finds — free
✓ Every export, free
9:16, 1:1, 16:9, 4:5 — first render of each
✓ Captions included
Animated, 21 languages + auto-detect, brand-styled
✓ Virality score + reasoning
Know why each clip should work
| Plan | Minutes / month | Cost per minute |
|---|---|---|
| OptimaClip Starter$14.25/mo annual · $19 monthly | 300 | $0.048 |
| OptimaClip Creator$29.25/mo annual · $39 monthly | 600 | $0.049 |
| OpusClip Pro (annual)$14.5/mo | 300 | $0.048 |
| OpusClip Starter$15/mo | 150 | $0.100 |
OpusClip figures from its public pricing page, September 2026 (1 credit = 1 minute of source video). Agency: 1,000 credits for $79/mo. Add-on credit packs cost more per minute than plans, so pick the plan that fits. Full OpusClip comparison
Everything the big tools have — for a fraction of the cost
Clipping, captions, reframing, scheduling and an editor, plus a few things you can't get at OpusClip's price.
AI clip finder with a virality score
Every clip gets a 0–100 score and a one-sentence reason it should work — no black-box guessing.
Animated captions in 21 languages
Brand-styled, single-word pop or classic, custom colors, fonts and positions. Included free on every export.
Curse-word censor
One toggle masks profanity in captions and silences it in the audio — brand-safe clips without an editor.
Find any moment by describing it
Type “the funniest fail” or “every mention of pricing” — search reads the transcript and watches the frames, even in silent video.
Twitch & Kick VOD import
Paste a VOD link and get the highlights. Streamers and clip channels are first-class here.
Highlight Reels
Auto-stitch every matching moment into one compilation clip. No manual stitching.
Studio: edit by chatting
A full timeline editor driven by AI chat — transitions, music, sound effects, text, your own footage, voice-over. Replaces the CapCut round-trip.
Smart Reframe with face tracking
The crop follows the main speaker's face across the clip, so wide video becomes vertical with the person always in frame.
Premiere Pro & DaVinci Resolve export
Download an edit list (EDL) and SRT captions for any clip and open the cut in your editor. Free on every plan.
AI voice-over
Type text, pick a voice, and drop natural narration onto your Studio timeline. 1 credit per voice-over, paid plans.
AI dubbing in 17 languages
Re-voice any finished clip in another language. 10 credits per minute of video, charged only when the dub finishes; paid plans.
Post everywhere, on a schedule
Built-in scheduling to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads, LinkedIn and Bluesky.
Developer API on Creator
Automate clipping from Zapier, n8n or your own code — API access starts at $39/mo, not a custom enterprise quote.
Teams & client workspaces
Seats, roles, brand templates per client. Agency-ready without the enterprise price tag.
Renders that don’t get stuck
Automatic failover to a backup renderer and self-healing job recovery — clips finish, or you’re never charged.
Before you check pricing
The three questions people ask us most before signing up.
In accounts we've tracked, average views per clip went from 187 to 1,460 (+681%) over 30 days after switching to OptimaClip — with engagement rate climbing from 1.2% to 3.1% and retention rate from 42% to 68%. That's not fully automatic, though: the AI finds and scores the moments, but clips that get a quick review and polish in Studio before publishing consistently outperform clips posted straight off the raw AI pick.
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
300 credits / month
- • 300 credits / month
- • AI Clipping Agent + auto-captions
- • 1 brand template
- • Clip Planner AI tool
Creator
For creators who want repurposing to run in the background.
$39/mo
600 credits / month
- • 600 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)
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
Honest about what's not ready yet, not just what is.
About OptimaClip (Optima Clip)
OptimaClip — sometimes written Optima Clip — is AI video clipping software made by Hypersmarty LLC. It turns podcasts, streams, and YouTube videos into captioned short-form clips and schedules them to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Threads, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Facebook. It isn't related to the car, ceiling-grid, or garden clips sold under the Optima name. What is OptimaClip? · About us
Stop stitching three tools together.
Clipping, captions, scheduling, publishing, and a team editor — in one product, one login, one price.
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