Video to LinkedIn

The webinar nobody rewatched, cut into posts people read

An hour of a recorded talk is not a LinkedIn post. Six ninety-second clips, each making one point, captioned for a muted feed, are six of them.

500 free credits every month, no card.

Why it stalls

The recording is not the problem. The hour is.

Most companies already have the footage: the webinar that went well, the panel from the conference, the podcast episode, the internal talk somebody said should have been public. It sits in a drive because nobody has an afternoon to cut it up.

So it gets posted as a link to a sixty-minute recording, which is a request for an hour of someone's working day, from a stranger, on a Tuesday. Almost nobody agrees to that.

The clip is a smaller ask. It is also the only version of that talk that will ever be quoted, because a quote has to be short enough to repeat.

How it works

From a recording to a LinkedIn post

  1. Bring the recording

    Upload the file, or paste a YouTube, Twitch or Zoom link.

  2. Generate

    Short vertical clips with burned-in captions and your branding.

  3. Read them

    They are talks, not memes - it is worth checking which points landed.

  4. Post to LinkedIn

    Publish to your feed with the generated description, or download the file.

Captions

The feed plays your video with the sound off

A video that only works with audio is a video that only works after someone decides to give it audio, and in a scrolled feed that decision comes second, not first. Captions are burned into the frame word by word, so the first sentence is readable before anyone chooses.

They matter more here than anywhere else in this set, for an unglamorous reason: a good deal of LinkedIn is read at work, on a laptop, in a room with other people in it.

When the transcript mishears a name

It will, and on LinkedIn it is your client's company name or your colleague's surname. Open the clip, retype the word, done - the rest of the batch is untouched.

Consistency

One recording is a month of posts.

Set the caption style, font, logo and crop once as a template, and every clip from every future recording comes out matching - so the tenth post looks like it came from the same company as the first, which is the entire argument for doing this at all.

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.

Framing

A panel shot is the hardest thing to crop

Conference and webinar footage is wide, and a centre crop through a four-person panel gets you two half-faces. Auto crop follows whoever is speaking. When the framing matters more than the fill - a slide, a screen share, a demo - fit with blurred edges keeps the whole frame visible, and black bars leave it untouched.

Screen recordings are their own case: text that was legible on a desktop is not legible cropped to a phone, which is worth checking before the batch goes out.

Being straight with you

What this does not do

Posting goes to your own LinkedIn feed, the profile you connect. Company pages are not supported - if the clip belongs on the company page, download it and upload it there.

And no tool decides whether a point was worth making. Automatic selection finds the moments that look like moments; whether the argument holds up in front of people who do your job for a living is still your call. That is the read-them step above, and on LinkedIn it is not optional.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Can SnapDub post to a LinkedIn company page?

No. It posts to the personal feed of the profile you connect. For a company page, download the clip and upload it there.

What length works for a LinkedIn video?

You choose the clip length. One clear point per clip is the useful rule, and auto mode lets each clip run to the natural length of its topic rather than a fixed number.

Do I need captions?

Effectively yes - the feed autoplays muted, so a clip without them starts as silent moving footage. They are burned in by default.

Can I use a Zoom recording?

Yes. Zoom links work alongside YouTube and Twitch, and you can upload the file directly.

Can I post the same clip to LinkedIn and elsewhere?

Yes. One generation produces one clip, and you publish it to whichever connected accounts you want.

Is the video uploaded to LinkedIn or linked from somewhere?

Uploaded, so it plays natively in the feed rather than sending people off to another site.

Get started

Start with the recording you already have

500 free credits every month, no card. The webinar from last quarter is enough to see whether this works for you.

Clip your first talk

Also worth reading: posting on a schedule you can keep, the same clips in a Telegram channel, or clips built to be uploaded as Reels.