Clipper finds the best moments in a long video, like a podcast, an interview, or a stream, and turns each one into a short clip with captions and a headline, ready to post. Clipper is built into the Selects desktop app, so there is nothing to install. To open Clipper, click the [Apps] tab beside [Project] at the top of the project panel, then click [Clipper].

Clipper has three tabs: [Source] to make clips, [Clips] for the clips it made, and [Templates] for how your clips look.

To make short clips from a long video:

Clipper analyzes the video if it hasn't been analyzed yet, finds the best moments, cuts each one, reframes it, and puts your template on it. Clipper opens [Clips] as soon as it starts, shows what it is working on and how long it has been running, and lists each clip as soon as it is made. To stop, click [Stop].

To use a different caption look without changing your template, choose it under [Caption style] before you start. It stays until you click the × beside it.

You can make clips from three kinds of source in [Add video or link]:

By default, clips are made from what people say, so the video needs speech. To find clips by what is on screen instead, set [Find clips by] to [Scene] in your template's [Clip rules].

To make clips from several videos at once, select them in [Add video or link] and click [Add N files]. You can select everything with the box at the top, sort the list, or search it when it's long. Each video gets its own set of clips, and [No. of clips] becomes [Maximum clips per source].

Choose all your videos before you click [Start clipping]. While Clipper is making clips, you can't start another run.

To ask Clipper for specific moments, open [Additional request] and describe what you want. You can leave it empty for your first try. For example: Pick moments where one story starts and finishes, with enough context for a first-time viewer.

Under it, Clipper lists the clip rules your template already sets, such as clip length. To change those, edit the template's [Clip rules].

Clipper uses credits at a few points:

Your clips are listed in [Clips], each with its headline, its length, where it comes from in the source, and an AI score. They're sorted by score, highest first. To sort by [Timestamp] instead, or to flip the order, click the sort button above the list.

If you've made clips more than once in a project, choose a run from the menu at the top of [Clips], or choose [All clips] to see them all. Each clip is its own timeline in your project, saved in the Clipper folder in the project panel, with one folder for each run.

The AI score shows how well a clip should work as a short, from 0 to 99. AI rates the clip's [Hook], [Flow], and [Payoff] out of 10 each and combines them into one score. Hover over the score to see the three ratings and the reason behind them.

The color shows the range: purple for 90 and up, green for 70 to 89, yellow for 50 to 69, and red below 50. AI scores what is said in the clip, so it can't see the video or know how a post will perform. Use the score as a guide, and play each clip before you decide.

To open a clip, click it in [Clips]. Its timeline opens, so you can edit it like any other timeline, and Clipper shows the clip's page:

If the clip failed or needs a look, a warning card at the top says why. To go back to the list, click [Clips].

To make a thumbnail, open a clip and click [Create thumbnail] under [Thumbnails]. Clipper makes three. Click one to see it larger, then click [Add to video] to use it as the first frame of the clip, or [Remove from video] to take it off.

A thumbnail marked "Needs review" may have a problem, such as a person being cut off. Hover over it to see what. To delete a thumbnail, hover over it and click the trash icon.

To have Clipper make thumbnails for every clip as it goes, turn on [Generate thumbnails] in your template's [Thumbnail] tab. It's off by default.

To post or export clips, select the ones you want, then click:

Right-click a clip for more options:

Templates decide how your clips look, like the frame, captions, headlines, logo, and effects, and which moments Clipper picks. Clipper comes with four ready-made templates: Talking head captions, Dynamic keyword, Bold kinetic captions, and Podcast split screen.

When you make clips, [Template] starts on [Auto-select], so AI picks a template for each video. To use one template every time, choose it under [Template], or open its menu in [Templates] and choose [Use this template]. Its name then shows "Default". To make clips with no template at all, choose [None]: you get the footage in a 9:16 frame, with no headline or captions.

In [Templates], click a template to open it, or open its menu to choose [Use this template], [Duplicate], [Export template], [Apply to timeline], or [Delete]. Deleting a template keeps the clips you already made with it.

To make your own template, click the [New template] tile under [Your templates] and choose:

To edit a template, click it in [Templates]. Changes save on their own as you go. The template's page has three tabs:

AI decides where effects go, and [Show comments] needs a YouTube video as the source. To style the template by hand, click [Open template] at the bottom of the [Template] tab to open its timeline, make your changes there, then click [Update template].

To adjust how speakers are framed, open the template's [Template] tab and set [Reframe] to [Auto]. Then:

You can also choose who stays in the shot under [Subjects], how often wide shots appear under [Wide shots], and how fast the framing changes under [Pacing].

A brand kit puts your colors, font, and logo on every clip a template makes. To create one, click [Brand kit] at the top of [Templates], choose [New brand kit], then set the [Channel name], [Main color], [Second color], [Text color], [Font], and logo. To use it, open a template, click [+] next to [Layers], choose [Brand kit], and pick your kit.

When you change a brand kit, every template that uses it updates too.

To share a template, open its menu in [Templates] and choose [Export template]:

To add a template someone shared, click the [New template] tile, choose [Import template], then paste the code and click [Add to my templates], or choose [File] and pick the file. A template added with a code is a separate copy, so it never overwrites one you have. If a file matches a template you already have, choose [Replace settings] or [Add a copy] for each one, then click [Apply].

If clipping stops partway, Clipper shows how far it got at the top of [Clips]. Click [Resume] to pick up from there, or [Dismiss] to clear it. You can resume an unfinished run for up to 14 days. A few other things you might see:

Clipper makes up to 30 clips from one video. With [No. of clips] set to [Auto], it makes as many good clips as the video holds, up to 30.

Your Clipper clips are saved as timelines in your project, in the Clipper folder in the project panel, with one folder for each run. They're also listed in Clipper's [Clips] tab.

Yes, Clipper uses credits. Analyzing a video that hasn't been analyzed yet uses analysis credits, which Selects asks you to approve first. Finding the moments, writing headlines, scoring and reframing clips, and adding effects use chat credits, or your connected model if you use one. Making thumbnails with AI also uses credits.

Yes, you can edit any Clipper clip. Click it in [Clips] to open its timeline, then edit it like any other timeline.

The Shortform Clips app is now part of Clipper. You don't need to install anything: your Shortform Clips templates and results are in Clipper. The first time you open Clipper, it also brings in your templates from the earlier Clipper, and your earlier clips come in the first time you open Clipper in each project. Effects, brand kits, backgrounds, filters, and split screens from earlier Clipper templates don't come across, and square or 4:5 templates become 9:16, so set those again on the template's page.