Auto cut

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Auto cut turns a long video into short clips. It reads the speech, finds the passages that stand on their own, each opening on a hook and ending on a finished thought, and cuts them into clips that are framed on the speaker and captioned. You can also choose the moments yourself. Each clip opens in the video editor, ready to export.

Add a video

From a file: press Choose a video, or drop it on the page. Large files are sent in parts; if your connection drops, choose the same file again and it carries on where it stopped.

From YouTube: paste the address under Address of one video, tick I have the rights to use this video, and press Fetch the video. Use a single video, not a playlist.

The video is read in the background, with progress for each stage: fetching, storing, separating the speech, reading it, choosing moments, cutting clips. One video is read at a time.

Pick the moments

Choose one of two tabs.

Pick the best moments for me

Set How many clips (as many good ones as there are, up to 8, or a number from 1 to 8) and How long (About 30 seconds, About 60 seconds or Up to 90 seconds).
Set the Format (9:16 portrait, 1:1 square or 16:9 landscape), Captions on or off, and the caption Look.
Press Pick the best moments.

Each clip appears as a card with a poster, a title, its start time, a score, and why it was picked. Clip edges land between words, in the silence beside them.

I’ll choose them myself

The player sits beside the transcript. Press a sentence to choose it, then ⇧-press another (or drag) to choose everything between. Play it to check, then Make a clip. Search the transcript finds a moment by its words. If the speech hasn’t been read, choose by time with Starts at and Ends at.

Open a clip

Press Open in editor on a card. A new edit opens with the clip trimmed, filling the frame in your chosen format, and captioned from its own words. Each clip has three seconds of extra footage on both sides, so you can extend it in the editor.

Framing finds the main person and centres on them for the whole clip. Someone who walks across the frame isn’t followed; adjust the position in the editor if needed. Each card says how it was framed: Framed on the speaker, Framed on the centre or Whole picture.

The × on a card removes it; an edit you already made from it stays.

Videos with no speech

For a video in which nobody speaks, Auto cut picks moments from the loudness and the changes in the picture, for free. These cards are marked From loudness and picture.

Cost

Step	Price
Reading a video’s speech	10 credits (a captions job, once per video)
Pick the best moments	20 credits (given back if nothing is cut)
Choosing clips yourself, framing, captions and exporting	Free

Limits

Videos up to 60 minutes, 1 GB and 4K, in MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV or M4V.
YouTube: one public video at a time, fetched at up to 1080p. Live streams that haven’t finished can’t be fetched.
Clips are 5 to 90 seconds, up to 8 per pick and 40 per video.
Up to 10 videos a day and about 3 GB of space per person; the page shows how many are left today.
Read the speech can be started three times a day per video.

Troubleshooting

You see	What to do
This file is … GB. Auto cut takes videos up to 1 GB.	Compress or trim the video before adding it.
This video is … min long.	Split it into parts of 60 minutes or less.
Auto cut takes MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV and M4V videos.	Convert the file to one of these formats.
This is a playlist.	Open one video from it and paste that address.
A YouTube video is refused (age-restricted, private, members-only or region-locked)	Download it yourself, if you have the rights, and add the file instead.
The speech of this video has not been read.	Press Read the speech.
Nobody speaks in this video.	Choose clips yourself, or let Auto cut pick from loudness and picture.
Picking was cancelled. The clips already cut are kept.	Pick again to get more.