What OpusClip does
OpusClip analyzes long videos, proposes short highlights, reframes speakers, generates animated captions, and helps edit, schedule, or export social clips.
OpusClip is most useful when a team already owns strong long-form recordings. It imports a podcast, interview, webinar, stream, or talking-head video; finds self-contained moments; creates vertical candidates; and adds animated captions and hooks. Higher plans provide a fuller editor, multiple ratios, B-roll, brand assets, scheduling, and professional-editor exports.
The Free plan includes 60 monthly credits but applies a watermark and makes clips unexportable after three days. Starter costs $15 monthly for 150 credits. Pro costs $29 monthly, or $174 annually, and includes 3,600 annual credits, two workspace seats, 100GB storage, broader sources, six social connections, and limited API access. Business pricing is custom.
Automation reduces scrubbing but cannot understand every editorial risk. A high Virality Score does not promise views, and an isolated clip can distort what a speaker meant. Editors must watch the source context, repair names and jargon in captions, check face tracking, clear music and guest rights, and tailor the hook to each network.
How OpusClip works
OpusClip transcribes and analyzes an imported long video, identifies candidate moments using speech and audiovisual signals, then reframes, captions, scores, and packages clips for editing or social delivery.
Import a strong source
Provide a rights-cleared podcast, interview, webinar, stream, or other long video. OpusClip transcribes it and analyzes spoken meaning alongside visual, sound, emotion, and genre cues available to the selected plan.
Propose self-contained moments
The system identifies candidate passages, creates hooks, assigns a Virality Score on eligible plans, and offers length or topic controls. Treat the score as a sorting aid, then compare each excerpt with its surrounding source.
Reframe and caption
OpusClip crops for the chosen aspect ratio, tracks visible subjects, adds animated captions, and may suggest B-roll, layouts, titles, descriptions, and hashtags. Correct the transcript and repair framing before styling.
Apply editorial judgment
Confirm that the clip preserves meaning, speaker permission, caption accuracy, brand rules, music rights, and safe margins. Then download, export to an editor, or schedule through an authorized social connection and measure actual retention.
How to set up OpusClip
Select a rights-cleared source
Choose a recording with clear speech and documented permission to republish speakers, music, slides, and other visible material.
Import and set constraints
Upload a supported file or link, choose language, target duration, framing, and topic cues, then confirm expected credit consumption.
Review proposed moments
Watch each candidate against the surrounding source and reject clips that lack context, overstate a claim, or open too slowly.
Edit the social version
Correct captions, adjust crop and speaker tracking, refine the hook, add approved branding, and replace questionable AI or stock B-roll.
Export or schedule
Preview the actual aspect ratio, verify platform-safe margins and metadata, then download, send to a professional editor, or schedule through an authorized account.
OpusClip FAQs
Is OpusClip free?
Yes. Free includes 60 monthly credits and watermarked clips, but projects have a three-day export window and no full editing capability.
How much is OpusClip Starter?
Starter is listed at $15 per month with 150 monthly credits.
Does the Virality Score guarantee views?
No. It is an internal prioritization signal. Distribution, audience fit, timing, source quality, and editorial judgment still determine performance.
Can OpusClip publish clips directly?
Paid plans support posting, and Pro adds multiple social connections and scheduling. Users should still preview every platform-specific version.
Listing reviewed 2026-07-15. Product details and pricing can change; verify important terms on the provider's website.
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