There is a whole category now between edit it yourself and hire an editor: the AI video clipping SaaS tool. You upload a long video, it finds candidate moments, adds captions, hands you vertical clips.
- Opus Clip: the name everyone knows. Treat it as the baseline. - Descript: from the transcript side, you edit words and the video follows. - Podcast-first clippers: tend to handle RSS feeds and episode artwork better than generalists. - CapCut desktop and web: AI clipping worth comparing if you already edit there. - The tool you already pay for: sometimes the best fit is the platform that added clipping as a feature.
Compare clip quality, caption accuracy on your accent and jargon, export limits on the plan you would actually buy, and how your file gets in. These tools are great at volume and mediocre at taste; budget ten minutes to curate every batch. Or hand the whole job to ReelCut: finished captioned clips for $4.99 a video.