AI Clip Maker: Turn Long Videos into Short Clips

What is an AI clip maker?

An AI clip maker takes a long video, finds the moments that work on their own, and cuts them into short vertical clips for Shorts, Reels and TikTok. In BINAI this tool is called Clip a link. You paste a YouTube, Twitch or X link, or upload a file from your phone or computer, and BINAI does the listening, picking and cutting. What comes back is not a flat export: each clip opens as a project in the editor, where captions and inserts are still separate pieces you can change.

How does BINAI pick the moments?

BINAI first reads the video's title and length, then asks what you want, because a three-hour stream and a four-minute talk need different answers. You can work on the whole video or drag out a stretch of up to four hours.

Then the speech is transcribed with a timestamp for every word. The transcript is split into candidate moments that already start and end at natural pauses, where the speaker breathed. Only then is an AI model asked one question: which of these moments would make a stranger stop scrolling, and why? It scores them on whether the opening grabs attention, whether the moment makes sense on its own, and whether it pays off before it ends. It is told to be harsh, and to look across the whole video, not just the first ten minutes.

The model never chooses the timestamps itself. That split matters: a model asked for both tends to give a confident answer with a cut a second and a half inside a word. In BINAI the cut points come from the transcript, so clips do not start mid-sentence.

What are the two editing styles?

• Best moments cuts short, punchy clips that each stand alone, in vertical 9:16 with the frame following whoever is talking. You choose 3, 5 or 8.
• One throughline keeps a single explanation intact from setup to payoff instead of chopping it into highlights. You get 1, 2 or 3 longer clips in the video's own shape, with nothing cropped, and only captions and inserts added.

You can also set the length yourself: about 30 seconds, about 1 minute or about 2 minutes. If you would rather choose the moment, drag it out on the bar and BINAI turns exactly that stretch into one clip, in vertical, square or original shape.

What gets added to each clip?

Every clip gets captions synced to the words, in a scrolling style by default, which you can restyle in the editor. On top of that you choose what the on-screen inserts are for:

• Engagement: a cut-out photo of the person or place being named, with the name under it, or a quick overview card for a term most people would not know, on nearly every sentence.
• Explainer: cards that explain who someone is or what a term, number or reference means.
• Fact check: each verifiable claim is looked up online and marked as confirmed, false, imprecise or unverifiable, with its source.

Names are looked up on Wikipedia first, and each article is checked against what was actually said, so a namesake does not slip in. Each insert is placed on a part of the frame that covers no face and stays clear of the captions. Every insert lands as its own layer, so removing one you do not like is one tap and one undo.

Can I translate or dub the clips?

Yes. Keep the captions in the original language, translate them, or choose dubbing for translated captions plus a new voice track. The languages offered are English, Italian, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese.

How much does it cost, and which plan do I need?

Clip a link is on every paid plan: Solo, Pro, Business and Studio. A free account can look around but cannot start a job, because clipping uses paid AI models. As a rule of thumb it uses about 40 credits per minute of finished clip. Before you start, BINAI shows an estimate based on the stretch you chose, so dragging out two minutes of a long stream costs two minutes, not three hours. You can pick 720p for sharper footage or 480p for a faster job; quality does not change the price. On Solo, downloaded videos carry a small "made with binai.it" mark; from Pro they do not. See pricing for what each plan includes.

What should I know before posting clips?

Clipping is only as safe as your rights to the source. Your own videos, and creators who have given you permission, are fine. Reposting other people's work is where channels get into trouble: read how YouTube treats reused content before building a channel on it. Posting often matters too, but quality matters more than volume, as covered in our guide to turning long videos into shorts and repurposing a podcast.

Before you post, run the content check. It looks for what makes platforms show a post less or take it down, such as material used without permission, wrong facts or captions too fast to read, and points to the second where each problem happens. It lowers the risk; how far a post travels is always up to the platform. If reach suddenly drops, this article on TikTok shadowbans explains what usually causes it.

What are the limits?

• One job works on at most four hours of video. A longer file is fine; you choose which part.
• The selection must be at least ten seconds.
• Some platforms occasionally block automated downloads for a given video. BINAI says so instead of failing silently, and uploading the file yourself always works.
• The AI is told to return fewer, better clips rather than filler, so a video with little worth posting can come back with fewer clips than you asked for.