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ClipIt. Find the exact moment. Make the clip.

ClipIt is an AI video search and clipping tool. Ask a question of a long recording, see why each moment matched, and export only the clips you choose — subtitled or dubbed.

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ClipIt workflow

From one question to a shareable moment

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Episode 142 · 3 matches
Source timeline00:43:10 / 01:47:23

01 Discover

Ask for the moment, not a generic highlight reel.

Search the transcript and inspect why each range answers your question.

The $40k pricing mistake

Direct comparison of two pricing models and what it cost.

Selected match · 00:43:10 → 00:45:12

What ClipIt is

ClipIt is an AI video search and clipping tool at clipit.now. You upload a long recording — a two-hour interview, a lecture, a podcast episode, an all-hands — and ask for the moment you need in ordinary language. ClipIt searches the transcript, returns the time ranges that answer the question, and shows why each range matched: the quote, a short rationale, and the start and end times on the source. A tool that claims to have found something has to show its reasoning, or you cannot tell a real find from a confident-sounding miss.

The product is built by Abdul Hamid Achik in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, through the studio The Lacanians. Support is support@clipit.now. Recordings stay private to your account; nothing you upload is used to train a model.

Ask a recording, then keep the range

Keyword search needs you to remember the phrasing. A question can be the thing you actually need — the refund policy, the three best host questions, every mention of a competitor — even when the speaker never used those words. Each result stays attached to evidence so you can reject a near miss instead of trusting a percentage.

The same recording answers more than one kind of ask: retrieval, chapters, ranking, and exhaustive “every time” events. Asking again does not spend more source minutes. Minutes are billed on the length of the file you uploaded, not on how many questions you run or how many clips you export.

A clip is a time range, not a rendered file

When a result is right, you save it as a clip: timestamps on the source recording held by Mux, not an MP4 sitting in a bucket. Nothing is transcoded up front. Export happens later, only when you need a file, captions, or a share link, and that export expires after seven days. The recording and the range both persist, so re-rendering is one operation rather than a library of files you pay rent on.

Finding the moment is half of being understood. Translate a recording’s captions once and every clip cut from it afterwards carries those subtitles, trimmed to its own range. When the audience needs to hear it, a clip can also be delivered as dubbed audio — a file, not an alternate track on a clipped asset.

When to use ClipIt

Use ClipIt when you already have a recording file and a job that looks like retrieval: find the quote, chapter the episode, pull every mention, rank the best answers, then ship a clip someone else can follow — including in another language. It is the right tool for podcasters pulling a listener question out of a long episode, researchers clipping an evidence-linked quote, teams extracting a decision from an all-hands, and educators lifting an explanation from a lecture.

Do not use ClipIt when you need a meeting bot that joins live calls, a virality scorer that auto-posts vertical clips, a qualitative research repository with tagging and participant management, or a public API that programs against other people’s videos. Those are different products; the comparison pages say so in public. Agents that need the machine-readable map should start at /llms.txt and /developers rather than guessing routes.

One recording, four useful verbs

Discover. Clip. Refine. Share.

ClipIt keeps the expensive work until you decide a moment is worth exporting.

Discover

Ask the whole recording

Upload once, then search for a topic, a chapter, a ranking, or every occurrence of a moment.

Clip

Keep the useful range

Each answer is a time range with the words and rationale beside it, ready to play in context.

Refine

Review before delivery

Use the source playback, transcript and timecodes to make sure the moment earns its cut.

Share

Render only what you send

Nothing is rendered up front. Export the moments you choose — then subtitle or dub them, so the people you send them to can follow along in their own language.

Use the same recording in more than one way

From a long recording to a useful moment.

The question changes what you find. The source recording stays the same.

  • Discoverchapters

    A two-hour lecture

    “Where does each new topic start?”

    Find the structure without replaying the whole lecture.

  • Clipevents

    A week of user interviews

    “Every time someone got stuck”

    Keep the evidence that belongs in the research readout.

  • Refineranking

    A 90-minute interview

    “The three most useful things anyone said”

    Review the strongest answers against their source moment.

  • Shareretrieval

    A recorded all-hands

    “Every time they mention the roadmap”

    Export the exact segment when it is ready to leave the timeline.

Inside ClipIt

See the answer before you make the cut.

Search finds a candidate. The transcript, rationale, and source timeline help you decide whether it is the moment worth sharing.

ClipIt / studio
SOURCE / founder-interview.mp4
Show the strongest answer about what failed
Find moments
Source timeline00:00 / 42:18
Best matchBest match · 27:14–28:39

The launch failed because the first audience was wrong

The rationale explains the match so you can approve, reject, or refine it quickly.

Illustrative workspace viewTry it with a real recording

The last step is being understood

A clip nobody can follow is a clip nobody watches.

Finding the moment is half of it. The other half is the person you send it to.

Subtitles, once

Translate the recording, not every clip

Translate a recording's captions into a language and every clip you cut from it afterwards carries those subtitles, trimmed to its own range. Pay once per recording, not once per clip — included in paid plans.

Dubbed audio

Or let them hear it in their own language

Create a separate dubbed audio delivery for a clip when hearing the message in another language matters. It is delivered as an audio file, not attached as a selectable alternate track on a clipped asset. Paid plans include a few dubbed minutes a month; beyond that, dubbing is charged per use.

Start with the source

Bring in a recording. Leave with moments you can use.

Upload it once, then keep asking, reviewing and exporting only what matters.

Start free

Create a workspace to upload

Your free allowance covers 120 source minutes in total — no card. We ask first so your recordings have somewhere to live.

From the ClipIt journal

Ideas for the recording you already have.

Practical workflows for finding moments, making clips, and sharing them with the right audience.

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Questions & Answers

Everything you need to know before you start.

We support MP4, MOV, M4V, WEBM, MKV, and AVI files up to 2 GB in size. Most modern codecs (H.264, HEVC, VP9) work out of the box. If you hit a snag, reach out and we'll help.