Turn a long video into clips, captions and a thread
Get a week of content out of one recording.
Upload your long video to a clip tool — it finds the best moments, reframes to vertical, and captions them automatically. Opus Clip or Klap for one-click shorts; CapCut or Choppity when you want more editing control.
One long video is a content mine if you work it. These tools transcribe it, score segments for 'virality', cut them, reframe to 9:16 and caption them — turning an hour of footage into a week of shorts in minutes. The skill that's left is picking the genuinely good clips and writing the hook.
- ▸Opus Clip — AI virality scoring, clips an hour of footage in ~10 min, auto 9:16 + captions
- ▸Klap — one-click TikToks, Reels and Shorts from long videos, podcasts and webinars
- ▸CapCut — handles videos up to 3 hours, highlight detection, multilingual subtitles, one-click posting
- ▸Choppity — transcript-native editing, multi-speaker face tracking, scheduling + analytics
- ▸VEED — AI Clips plus a full browser-based editor for finishing touches
Run it through a clip tool
Upload the long video and let the tool transcribe, find highlights, reframe to vertical and caption. Watching a one-hour video become a dozen captioned verticals in minutes is the moment the whole workflow clicks. Start there before worrying about anything fancy.
Pick clips that stand alone
The failure mode is clipping a moment that only makes sense if you watched the ten minutes before it. A good clip is atomic: a single complete idea, with a hook in the first second and a payoff by the end. Skim the tool's suggestions, keep the self-contained ones, and use AI to sharpen each hook and caption per platform.
Build a hub-and-spoke workflow
Treat the long video as a hub and extract a week of spokes: clips, a thread, a newsletter, quote graphics. Make repurposing automatic — the moment a video is done, the transcript goes into your extraction prompt and the outputs go into a scheduler. Record once, publish ten times; it's the highest-leverage habit in content.
- 1Upload your long video to a clip tool (e.g. Opus Clip).
- 2Let it transcribe, find highlights, reframe to vertical, and caption.
- 3Skim the suggested clips and keep only the genuinely good ones.
- 4Tweak the hook and caption, then schedule or post.
Repurposing prompts
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