Klipper / Clipper Stack
Find the moments worth clipping, cut them, caption them, and ship multiple shorts from one long video.
- Built for:
- Clippers turning long podcasts, streams or interviews into short-form clips
- Outcome:
- One long-form video → several captioned vertical clips ready to post.
Aira: This is the Klipper / Clipper Stack. Follow it from the first step, and only add the next tool when you actually need it.
The workflow
- 1~$20/mo
ChatGPT
Transcript scanning & hook writing
Paste the transcript, find the segments with a real payoff, then write titles and hooks for each clip.
- 2~$19/mo
Opus Clip
Auto-clipping
First pass at finding clip-worthy segments and reframing to vertical. Treat its picks as suggestions, not final.
- 3Free tier works
CapCut
Final edit & captions
Fix the cuts the auto-clipper got wrong, style the captions, add b-roll and sound.
- 4Free tier works
Canva
Thumbnails & covers
Batch-produce clip covers that stay visually consistent per channel.
Cheaper or different swaps
Free, and you keep full control over where cuts land. Costs you time instead of money.
Handles very long transcripts in one pass more comfortably — useful for 2h+ podcasts.
Where this stack falls short
- Auto-clippers consistently miss context-dependent jokes and callbacks — a human pass is still required.
- Clipping someone else's content needs permission or a clear licence; many creators allow it, many don't.