#122:14–23:04You’re made of star stuffSuggested
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Trim or restyle
One video in, the moments worth cutting
Paste a link. It reads the whole recording, ranks every passage that could stand on its own, and shows you the reasoning before it cuts a single one.
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What we did with it ourselvesOur own account, not a customer’s — two weeks, one clip a day, posted by hand.
How it chooses200,000
views in the first two weeks
1 a day
one clip, every day, from one recording
3
platforms at once — YouTube, Facebook, Instagram
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posted for us. Nothing here posts for you either
It chooses. You decide. Then it cuts.
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Paste a link, or drop a file
A YouTube URL is fetched once, on our side — you never download a six-gigabyte recording in order to upload it again. You confirm you have the rights before it starts.
Paste one now - 2
Read the list, keep what you want
Every passage that could stand on its own, ranked, with its score and the sentences that made it a candidate. Nothing has been cut yet, and nothing will be until you say so.
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It cuts only the ones you kept
Vertical, captioned, framed on whoever is talking, in the shape the clip asked for. The MP4 lands in your library and stays there.
The shapes it uses
The moment list
It shows its work before it cuts anything
Most tools hand you finished files and no argument — you can see what was chosen, never why. This hands you candidates: a frame of each one, four scores, and the reason it is a candidate. Open one and the sentences behind it are there too.
MomentsSearch
Neil deGrasse Tyson: what we are actually made of
The Diary of a CEO1h 47m18,402 words
- #122:14–23:04
Candidates
Ranked, with a frame of each one and the reasoning beside it.
Score
91
Four sentences, taken whole.
Hook94
Flow88
Value93
Travel89
Why it is first
Opens on a flat contradiction and resolves it inside the same passage. Nothing earlier in the episode is needed to follow it.
The finished file
Then it cuts, in the shape the clip asked for
A podcast and a gameplay stream have the same transcript — a person talking — so the words cannot tell them apart. Each clip is watched instead, and what the frame should be made of follows from what is in it.
RenderSearch
Render
Five shapes, and it takes the one this clip earns
ClipsSearch
Clip library
Kept for as long as your plan says.
You’re made of star stuff
22:14 → 23:04
32.3 MBMP4
What’s inside a black hole
41:38 → 41:58
12.7 MBMP4
The space junk thresholdTyson, 11 Jul · 9 min ago54.2 MB
Delivery
The MP4 is already on your disk.
- Full 9:16 — edge to edge, the frame following whoever is talking
- Boxed 1:1 — the speaker in a square, room above and below for the words
- Cam bubble — the screen fills the frame and the webcam rides over it
- Face over screen — the camera across the top, the screen filling the rest
- The whole picture — the source in a vertical frame and otherwise left alone
A banner burned into your source is found and cropped out — real footage is never perfectly still, a graphic pasted on top always is.
One real run
One episode, and two of the clips it gave back
Ten seconds of each, playing at once. A published episode, an hour and forty-nine minutes of it, exactly as it went in — and two of the files that came back out of the render: different passages, different shapes, nothing added here for the picture.
The recording
Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Whistleblowers Were Right About Aliens
The Diary Of A CEO · 1:48:50 · on YouTube
AI clips
What came out
Boxed 1:1 in front, Full 9:16 behind it
20s and 1:30 — two passages, two of the five shapes.
Built for recordings where the good part is buried
Four kinds of video, and a different reason it works on each.
Podcasts and interviews
Two hours of talk with four minutes worth cutting somewhere inside it. This is the material the ranking was built and tested on.
Streams and gameplay
A camera composited over a screen is a shape it knows: the webcam kept as a circle where it already was, or moved to the top with the game filling the rest.
Webinars, calls and courses
The passage that answers the question people actually turned up for, found without anybody scrubbing a timeline for it.
Whatever you recorded last
Over thirty languages, Italian included. The ranking reads the transcript rather than the audio, so it works wherever the transcription does.
Reasoning or control — most tools make you pick
Auto-clippers give you finished files and no argument: fast, and impossible to disagree with. Editing it yourself gives you every decision, at an hour a clip. This is the third option.
Every candidate scored on named pillars
InTheClipsAuto-clippersBy handThe reasoning shown before the cut
InTheClipsAuto-clippersBy handOnly the seconds you keep are downloaded
InTheClipsAuto-clippersBy handThe whole recording ranked, back half included
InTheClipsAuto-clippersBy handCuts land on whole sentences
InTheClipsAuto-clippersBy handThe intro excluded before ranking
InTheClipsAuto-clippersBy handNothing cut until you approve it
InTheClipsAuto-clippersBy handThe frame follows whoever is talking
InTheClipsAuto-clippersBy handA finished MP4 in a house style
InTheClipsAuto-clippersBy handMinutes per clip, not an hour
InTheClipsAuto-clippersBy hand
| Capability | InTheClips | Auto-clippers | Editing it yourself |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every candidate scored on named pillars | |||
| The reasoning shown before the cut | |||
| Only the seconds you keep are downloaded | |||
| The whole recording ranked, back half included | |||
| Cuts land on whole sentences | |||
| The intro excluded before ranking | |||
| Nothing cut until you approve it | |||
| The frame follows whoever is talking | |||
| A finished MP4 in a house style | |||
| Minutes per clip, not an hour |
What it costs to start paying, here and elsewhere
The cheapest paid plan at each of the five tools this page has just compared itself to, averaged. Read off their own pricing pages on 2 September 2026, with every billing switch set to monthly.
$21.60 /mo
average, across the five
Opus Clip · Descript · Submagic · Klap · Vizard
$19 /mo
ours — Starter
240 credits a month — 4 hours of video
That compares the price on the door and not what is behind it, on purpose. Those five meter in credits, media hours, clips and two-minute videos — four different units, only one of them the same as ours — so any table of hours-per-dollar across them would be conversions we invented. What each one actually meters is a page of its own, and it sends you to their site for the figure rather than reprinting it here.
Thirty minutes free, and no card to find
A plan buys minutes of video read a month. The clips rendered out of them are never metered — export as many as the recording has in it.
Questions
What does InTheClips actually do?
You give it one long recording — a podcast, an interview, a stream. It transcribes the whole thing, ranks every passage that could work as a short on its own, and shows the score and the sentences behind each one. You keep the ones you want, and it cuts those into vertical clips with captions.
Can I paste a YouTube link instead of uploading a file?
Yes. It fetches the video once, so you never have to download a six-gigabyte recording just to upload it again. You confirm you have the rights to use it before it starts, and that confirmation is recorded with the import.
What languages does it work in?
Over thirty, Italian included. The ranking reads the transcript rather than the audio, so it works wherever the transcription does, and captions are timed word by word in the same language.
How long can my video be, and how long do you keep the clips?
Two hours per video on Starter, four on Creator and Studio. A longer one is not refused: it reads as many minutes as your plan includes and you choose which part of the recording those are, before the upload starts. Clips are kept seven days on the free trial, ninety days on Starter, a year on Creator and indefinitely on Studio — set by the plan you were on when the clip was made, so cancelling later does not shorten it.
Does it post to TikTok or Instagram for me?
No. Nothing is published anywhere on your behalf. The finished MP4 sits in your library until you download it and post it yourself.
Is it really free to try?
Thirty minutes of video, free, with no card. It is a one-off trial rather than a monthly allowance, so it does not renew — thirty minutes is one half-hour recording and every clip you can cut out of it.