The clipping tool for clippers

Editing a thirty-second clip takes minutes. Finding it inside a three-hour video is what takes the afternoon. SnapMedia does the finding: it reads the full transcript and returns the moments with a strong first line and a clean ending, with the timestamps, so you can check ten candidates in the time it takes to scrub through one.

It also shows you what the audience has already voted on. YouTube’s Most Replayed graph marks the parts viewers go back to, and clips that contain those parts are labelled. When you are choosing which of ten clips to post first, that is the closest thing to evidence you will get before posting.

• Read the campaign rules. Most forbid third-party watermarks, so use Pro exports for anything you submit; the free plan’s watermark is for testing.
• Clip only what the campaign or the creator has cleared. A view-count payout does not survive a takedown.
• It works on videos that are on YouTube with captions. Twitch and Kick VODs are not supported unless the stream is also uploaded to YouTube.
• It picks, frames and captions. Layouts with gameplay underneath, emoji and sound effects are still your editor’s job; take the SRT with you.