Clipping automation

How do you automate video clipping, from a new upload to a posted clip?

Clipping by hand is four jobs in a row: noticing the new video, cutting it, making every clip look the same, and posting them at the right times. Each one can run without you. Here is what that looks like, and the part you set up once.

Automate your clips See the four jobs

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The four jobs between a new video and a posted clip

Each one is a moment where clipping usually waits for you. Here is what happens to it instead.

  1. 1
    Runs on its own

    A new video goes up

    By hand: you check the channel, copy the link, start a new project.

    Add the YouTube or Twitch channel once. Every new upload is picked up and clipped, with nobody pressing a button.

  2. 2
    Runs on its own

    It gets cut into clips

    By hand: you scrub through an hour looking for the moments worth posting.

    The strongest moments are found from what is said and what is on screen, then cut to vertical and framed on whoever is talking, with captions.

  3. 3
    You set it once

    Every clip gets your look

    By hand: the same caption style, font, logo and crop, again, on every single clip.

    Save your style as a template and attach it to the channel. Every clip from every future video comes out matching.

  4. 4
    You set it once

    The clips go out

    By hand: you download, upload to each app, write a caption, and remember to come back tomorrow.

    Pick your posting times once and tick "Add clips from new videos automatically". Clips from every new video go into the content plan and out on those days to the accounts you connected.

What you set up once

About ten minutes, once. After that the work is looking at clips, not making them.

  1. Add your channel. Paste the YouTube or Twitch channel link and choose how many videos a day it may clip, so nothing runs past what you planned.
  2. Make a template. Caption style, font, logo, crop and anything you pin to every clip. Attach it to the channel and imported videos use it.
  3. Connect your accounts. TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Telegram, Bluesky, Pinterest and X, whichever you post to.
  4. Set your posting times. Choose the days and hours for each account, and tick "Add clips from new videos automatically" in the plan's settings. From then on every new batch fills the next free slots by itself. Rather look first? Leave it off and add a batch with one tap.
Same look, every time

The template is what makes it hands-off.

Without one, every clip still needs a minute of fixing before it can go out. With one, the clips from tonight's video look exactly like last week's, so there is nothing left to touch.

Podcast 60s Template
Crop
Auto reframe
Captions
Bold white
Font
Your uploaded font
Logo
Brand kit on
Assets
2 pinned
Your title, your font every single clip
Your title, your font every single clip
Your title, your font every single clip

One setup, every clip

Pick the template on the configure step and the whole batch inherits it - not one clip, all of them.

Your fonts and assets, baked in

Upload a font and pin your overlays once. They land in the same spot on every render, automatically.

It keeps running without you

Point it at your YouTube or Twitch channel and new uploads get clipped to that same template on their own.

What stays in your hands

Which channels get clipped, how many videos a day, and whether new clips go straight into the plan or wait for you. You get an email when new clips are ready and another when the plan is running low, so even with everything switched on you can glance at a batch before it posts.

Adding clips automatically is off until you switch it on, and that is on purpose: clips go out publicly under your name, and a clip that breaks a campaign's rules is best caught by you. Full autopilot or a quick look first, the choice is yours.

What comes out of one video

Three clips from one conversation, cut, framed and captioned in the same style, ready to go into the plan.

Questions

Clipping automation

Can SnapDub clip my new YouTube videos automatically?

Yes. Add your YouTube or Twitch channel and every new upload is turned into clips without you opening anything. Shorts and very short uploads are skipped, and only videos posted after you add the channel are clipped, never the whole back catalogue.

Can it also post the clips for me?

Yes. Connect your accounts, set your posting times in the content plan and tick "Add clips from new videos automatically". Clips from every new video then go out on schedule to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and the other accounts you connected, with no tap in between.

Will every clip look the same?

If you use a template, yes. It holds the caption style, font, logo, crop and pinned assets, and a channel can carry its own template, so every imported video comes out in that look.

Can I stop it from spending all my credits?

Yes. Each channel has a limit on how many videos a day it may clip and how many credits a day it may use. When a limit is reached it waits for the next day instead of going over.

Do I need a paid plan?

Channel auto-import is part of the paid plans, and so is posting every day for as long as you like. On the free plan the content plan posts your first five clips, so you can see it run, and every clip can still be made and downloaded by hand.

Does it work for clipping campaigns?

Yes, as long as you check the brief. Put the campaign's required style into a template so every clip follows it, and look through the batch before it goes into the plan, since every campaign has its own rules.

Let the next video clip itself

Start free, no card. Clip one video by hand first to see the result, then switch it on for the whole channel.

Automate your clips

Also worth reading: a posting schedule you can keep, the same branding on every clip, or how many clips to post a day.