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The pipeline

Four passes over your footage, none of them yours.

Keptbits runs the route an editor would, in the order an editor would. It just does it while you get coffee.

  1. 00:00

    Bring the source

    Drop the episode in. A two-hour interview uploads in the background, straight from your browser — the file never sits on a server of ours in between. Then narrow the range if you only want part of it read.

  2. 00:04

    Read every word

    A word-level transcript with speaker separation. Nothing is summarised: the scoring pass works from what was actually said, with timings accurate enough to cut on.

  3. 00:09

    Judge the moments

    Every candidate is scored on whether it opens and resolves inside itself. A clip that needs the ten minutes before it is worth nothing, so it does not survive.

  4. 00:12

    Cut and caption

    Boundaries snap to real word timings, the frame cuts to whoever is speaking rather than drifting, and captions burn in word by word in the style you picked.

The two decisions that matter

Where a clip starts and stops

The model proposes a window; the window is then snapped to real word timings, preferring the start of a sentence. That snapping does more for how finished a clip feels than the model’s own precision does — a cut that lands mid-syllable reads as broken no matter how good the moment was.

Who is in frame

The transcript already knows who is speaking, so the only question left is where they are. The frame cuts to them and holds — it never slides across the room, because a sliding crop reads as a mistake rather than an edit.

Try it on one episode
One full episode58:24 · 16:9
00:0029:1258:24
TRANSCRIBE · SCORE · CUT

What it costs to run

One token is one clip. You choose how many clips a run makes, and that is what it costs — a four-hour episode and a ten-minute one cost the same for the same five clips. Re-exporting a clip you already have, in another caption style or aspect ratio, is free.

Reading the video is the part that costs us money, and it costs more on a long one. We price by the clip anyway, because what you came for is clips — how long the source happened to be is our problem, not something you should have to do arithmetic about.