Guide

Turn a long video into short social clips

A short clip should make sense without the rest of the recording. Start with a video you own or can publish, choose the moments worth preserving, and review the original speaker's meaning before sending the excerpts to a social account.

By LoopBatch · Checked 6 October 2026

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What you will have
One to five short clips, each 15 to 60 seconds, prepared for review.
What you need
A source video uploaded to Assets, permission to reuse it and a connected destination account.
How long it takes
One production run plus a review of each clip; duration depends on the source and steps.

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Open the Clips template

Before you start

  • Upload the source video to Assets. The template works from a video in the library rather than promising direct import from every recording service.
  • Confirm permission to reuse the recording, speakers, music and other included media. A public URL alone does not establish publication rights.
  • Choose YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or Facebook as supported by the Clips template. Connect the intended account before planning delivery.

What the Clips template produces

The built-in template produces one to five clips in a run. Each clip is 15 to 60 seconds. These are the template's limits, rather than the maximum duration accepted by every destination.

YouTube supports longer Shorts in eligible formats, but that does not expand the Clips template's 60-second upper bound. The template has no measured paid-run cost in the published dataset; inspect your own run's estimate.

Choose a moment with enough context

A useful excerpt has a clear opening, a complete thought and an ending that does not reverse the speaker's meaning. In a product demo, one complete explanation is usually easier to review than a sequence cut across unrelated features.

Use the source as the reference when checking a clip. Look for missing qualifications, references to slides the viewer cannot see, or a question whose answer was cut away.

Cut short, complete explanations of this feature from my uploaded demo. Keep the speaker's meaning, use readable vertical framing and captions, and prepare the clips for review before publishing.

The steps

  1. Select the source. Open the Clips template and choose the uploaded video you intend to reuse. Check that it is the correct recording and contains the relevant speaker and footage.

  2. Set the brief and destination. Describe the moments you need and the supported platform. Choose a count within the template's one-to-five range and review the generated workflow.

  3. Review the estimate and run. Check the creation cost before starting. Production can include transcription, selecting segments, rendering and platform checks; the plan price is separate from a run's cost.

  4. Watch every clip. Check the opening, ending, captions, audible speech and vertical crop. Compare questionable edits with the original recording before approving them.

  5. Authorize each post. Review its account, caption, privacy and publishing time in the Queue. TikTok requires a person's decision on each post. Read the delivery record afterward.

Check the result

  • Each excerpt is a complete thought and retains the original speaker's meaning.
  • The vertical crop keeps the subject visible and captions do not hide essential information.
  • Names, technical terms and any product claims are correct in the captions.
  • Each destination has passed its required checks and the account is the one you intend to publish to.

If something goes wrong

  • If the selected asset is missing, upload the video and choose it again. A scheduled workflow also needs its source to remain available.
  • If captions or framing are wrong, adjust the instructions and rerun a small example. Do not approve an unreadable or misleading excerpt.
  • If you need clips longer than 60 seconds, the built-in Clips template does not cover that request. Review a different workflow before spending credits.
  • If posting fails after creation, inspect the delivery response and connection. A complete render is not a successful public upload.

The platforms' own rules

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