Captions And Clipping
The long-form-to-Shorts + sound-off captions mini-skill (Opus Clip / CapCut / Submagic). Use when someone wants to "clip my podcast/webinar/long vi…
By Frank Heijdenrijk, MIT licence. Shared here with credit.
captions-and-clipping
The transform producer of the video cluster — it turns existing long-form into native short clips with sound-off captions, the engine behind the Shorts funnel and cross-platform reach. Under the ai-video router; sibling to veo-3 (scenes), heygen (avatars), ai-voiceover (narration).
The POV: a clip is a standalone Short, not a random 30 seconds
AI tools find candidate moments and auto-caption fast — but the virality score is a hint, not a verdict (clips rated 40 beat 85; ~70% need cleanup), so a human still picks the moment that stands alone with its own hook, reframes so the subject stays in frame, captions for mute viewing, and ships clean (no other-platform watermark — it trips the Originality Score on Reels/ Shorts). One long video → ~10–30 native clips, each a real Short.