Clips: How Clip Generation Works

Video Tap automatically pulls the best moments from your video and turns them into short clips. Here’s how.

Automatic Clip Generation

When your video finishes processing, Video Tap’s AI analyzes the full transcript and picks out the most interesting, engaging, or valuable moments. You don’t need to do anything. Clips appear automatically.

Each clip includes:

• A title describing the moment
• The transcript text with word-level timing
• An explanation of why it was selected

Minimum video length: Your video needs to be at least 60 seconds long for automatic clip generation. Shorter videos skip this step (but still get transcripts, blog posts, and other content).

Viewing Your Clips

1. Open your video from the dashboard
2. Click Clips in the left sidebar
3. You’ll see a grid of all generated clips with their titles and durations

Click any clip to open the editor where you can preview it, adjust the text styling, change the aspect ratio, and render it.

Creating Clips Manually

Want to make a clip from a specific part of your video? You can do that too.

1. Go to the Clips section of your video, click Create Clip.
2. You’ll see the full transcript with timestamps
3. Highlight the text you want to turn into a clip by clicking and dragging
4. Click the Create Clip button that appears (it shows the clip duration)

The clip is created instantly from whatever text you selected. You can then edit it just like any auto-generated clip.

Caption Entire Video

If your video is under 3 minutes, you’ll see a Caption Entire Video button. This creates a single clip from the full video with captions overlay, perfect for posting a short video with subtitles.

Adjusting Clip Boundaries

After a clip is created, you can expand or shrink it:

1. Open the clip in the editor
2. Click Adjust Clip Text (or the equivalent button in the header)
3. You’ll see the surrounding transcript context (150 words before and after)
4. Highlight the text you want to include
5. Confirm your selection

Renaming Clips

Click the pencil icon next to the clip title in the editor header. Type your new title and click Save. This is handy for organizing clips when you have a lot of them.

Deleting Clips

At the bottom of the clip editor, click Delete. You’ll be asked to confirm (“Are you sure?”) before the clip is permanently removed.

What Clips Include

Every clip comes with:

• The video segment with word-by-word captions
• Customizable text styling (colors, 22 font families, position, 7 animation effects)
• Multiple aspect ratio options (wide, vertical, portrait, square)
• Reframe controls for vertical and square crops
• Social media tweets generated for each clip
• A real-time preview that updates as you make changes