How to make multiple clips from one video

To make multiple clips from one video, give every clip one idea, its own time range and its own opening line. Edit the recording once, then cut the clips from the finished video. Clips built this way stand alone and never repeat each other.

Steps to cut several clips from one recording

1. Get a transcript. ClipsPal transcribes your recording on your Mac and sends only the transcript to the AI account you already use, so the footage never leaves your computer.
2. List the ideas. Write each point the speaker makes as one sentence, keep only the points that make sense without the rest of the video, and merge points that answer the same question.
3. Mark one start and one end per idea, cutting where the speaker finishes the point. No sentence belongs to two clips.
4. Edit the long recording once, so every clip inherits the same cleanup. Drop it into ClipsPal and one click cuts failed takes, silences and filler, and adds zoom-ins, subtitles, visuals and sound effects. Change anything in the multi-track timeline by hand, or type a request to Director.
5. Turn the finished video into shorts and export them to your computer. You upload them yourself. The AI clip maker page covers the clip side, and the homepage shows the full editor.

A long recording with five separate ideas gives you five clips, not fifteen.

Check that the clips are not duplicates

No sentence should appear in two clips, and each clip should open with a different line. The free hook generator and the hook library give you patterns for writing those openings.