How TeraClip Makes Creating Shorts Effortless
Short-form video is the highest-leverage distribution channel most creators have, and also the most tedious to feed. Turning one hour of podcast, stream, or webinar footage into a week of Shorts, Reels, and TikToks traditionally means scrubbing a timeline, guessing which moments will land, cropping every clip to vertical, and typing captions by hand.
TeraClip exists to delete that entire afternoon. You upload one long video; the pipeline hands back up to ten vertical clips with animated captions already burned in, each ranked by how likely it is to perform. Here is what actually happens between upload and download — and why each step matters.
Step 1: Upload anything long
TeraClip accepts the formats long-form creators actually produce: podcast recordings, stream VODs, webinars, interviews, and talking-head videos. You can upload a file directly or import from a link. Processing is metered simply — one credit per minute of source video — so a 45-minute episode costs 45 credits, with no per-clip or per-export fees stacked on top.
Step 2: The AI reads your whole video
First, TeraClip transcribes the full recording with word-level timestamps. That transcript is the foundation for everything else: instead of looking for loud moments or scene changes, the AI reads what was actually said and scores candidate moments the way a human clip editor would — hunting for hooks, payoffs, confessions, hot takes, and quotable one-liners.
Every candidate gets a Clip Potential score from 0 to 100. Only the strongest survive, up to ten per upload. Because clips are cut on sentence boundaries rather than arbitrary timestamps, each one starts and ends like it was edited deliberately.
Step 3: Vertical reframing, automatically
Landscape footage does not work on vertical feeds, and center-cropping blindly cuts speakers in half. TeraClip reframes every clip to 9:16 while keeping the person talking in frame, so a two-host podcast shot in 16:9 becomes a clean vertical clip of whoever is speaking — no crop keyframes, no manual tracking.
Step 4: Captions people can actually follow
Most short-form viewing happens with the sound off, which is why word-by-word animated captions are the single most reliable retention upgrade a clip can get. TeraClip times captions to the audio and burns them into the export. On paid plans you can edit any caption line and re-render the clip if the transcription needs a fix.
Step 5: Post in score order
Exports are ready-to-post MP4s that start playing instantly on every platform. Because each clip carries its score, you never have to guess which one deserves prime time — post the 98 first, keep the 85s for midweek.
The whole pipeline — transcription, moment detection, scoring, reframing, captions, exports — runs in minutes while you do something else. Try it on your last long video: the free plan includes 30 credits every month and does not ask for a credit card.
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