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Notes on cutting clips.
What makes a moment work on its own, why so many automatic clips open on a fragment, and how to get more out of an episode you have already recorded.
11 September 2026 · 4 min read
Why your clips start halfway through a sentence
Almost every automatic clipper cuts on a timer, which is why so many clips open on a fragment. Here is what is actually going wrong, and how to fix it whatever tool you use.
11 September 2026 · 6 min read
How to turn a podcast episode into short clips
A practical order of operations for getting vertical clips out of a long episode, whether you are cutting them yourself or having something cut them for you.
11 September 2026 · 5 min read
What makes a clip work on its own
The difference between a good moment and a good clip is whether it survives being taken out of the conversation. Here is what that actually requires.
11 September 2026 · 4 min read
Captions that get read with the sound off
Most people will see your clip muted. That makes captions the primary channel, not an accessibility add-on, and it changes what good captions look like.
11 September 2026 · 4 min read
How many clips should you cut from one episode?
More than most people cut, and from fewer episodes. The reasoning is about where the cost actually sits, and where it does not.
11 September 2026 · 6 min read
What to compare when you are choosing a clipping tool
Every clipping tool claims to find the best moments. The differences that actually change your output are in four places, and pricing is only one of them.
11 September 2026 · 5 min read
9:16, 1:1 or 16:9: which ratio for which platform
Three shapes, and the choice is less about platform rules than about how much of the frame you are willing to throw away. A practical guide to picking one.
11 September 2026 · 5 min read
How long should a clip be?
The honest answer is that length is a consequence, not a setting. What the number should actually be decided by, and why the popular advice is backwards.
11 September 2026 · 5 min read
The first three seconds decide the rest
Almost every clip that fails, fails at the start. What the opening has to do, why most auto-generated openings do not do it, and how to fix one without re-editing.
11 September 2026 · 5 min read
Posting the same clip to Shorts, TikTok and Reels
One clip, three feeds. What genuinely needs to change between them, what does not, and the small differences that decide whether cross-posting works or looks lazy.
11 September 2026 · 6 min read
Turning a webinar or a conference talk into clips
Recorded talks are the most under-used clip source there is, and the hardest to cut well. What makes them different from interviews, and how to handle slides.
11 September 2026 · 5 min read
Why automatic cropping cuts people's heads off
Going from a wide frame to a vertical one means deleting most of the picture. Why the naive approaches fail, what speaker tracking has to get right, and how to spot a bad reframe.
11 September 2026 · 5 min read
Burned-in captions or uploaded subtitles?
Two ways to put words on a video, and they are not interchangeable. Which to use for short-form, which for long-form, and why the answer is sometimes both.
11 September 2026 · 5 min read
Why a transcript's timing decides where the cut lands
The difference between a transcript that knows when each sentence started and one that knows when each word started is the difference between a clean clip and a clipped syllable.
11 September 2026 · 6 min read
Clipping a conversation with two people in it
Interviews produce the best clips and are the hardest to cut. Where the boundaries go, what to do about interruptions, and why the question usually belongs in the clip.