One long podcast or webinar can hide a week of viral short videos — if you can find the best moments. Opus Clip uses AI to scan long videos, pull out the most engaging moments, and turn them into captioned, perfectly framed Shorts, Reels, and TikToks in minutes.
What is Opus Clip?
Opus Clip is an AI video clipping and repurposing tool built for the short-form era. Paste a YouTube link or upload a long recording — a podcast, interview, webinar, livestream, or vlog — and its ClipAnything engine analyses speech, visuals, and emotion to find the moments most likely to perform.
Every clip it creates comes with a Virality Score, animated captions, and automatic reframing that keeps the active speaker in frame. Creators who also edit in tools like VEED or Kapwing often use Opus Clip as the fast first step: it finds and cuts the highlights, ready for YouTube Shorts and other short-form platforms.
Key Features of Opus Clip
Here are the features that make Opus Clip a favourite with podcasters and creators:
- AI Video Clipping (ClipAnything): The AI watches your whole video and extracts the strongest moments — hooks, insights, and emotional peaks — instead of random timestamps.
- Virality Score: Every clip is scored for its viral potential, so you can publish the clips most likely to grow your channel first.
- Animated Auto Captions: Eye-catching animated captions with emoji and keyword highlighting, generated automatically in 20+ languages on paid plans.
- Auto Reframe and Active Speaker Detection: Landscape footage is intelligently reframed to 9:16, keeping faces centred and switching between speakers in interviews.
- AI B-Roll and Hooks: Pro plans add relevant B-roll automatically and let you customise the opening hook so viewers stop scrolling.
- Social Scheduler: Post or schedule clips directly to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and more without leaving the dashboard.
- Brand Templates and Pro Exports: Save your colours, fonts, and caption style, remove filler words and silences, and export XML to Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve on Pro.
How to Use Opus Clip
You can turn one long video into a batch of short clips in a few simple steps:
- Create a free account: Sign up at opus.pro — no credit card is needed, and the free plan includes 60 credits every month.
- Add your video: Paste a YouTube, Vimeo, or Google Drive link, or upload a file, then choose the timeframe you want processed to save credits.
- Let the AI clip it: Opus Clip analyses the video and generates a ranked set of short clips, each with a Virality Score and captions.
- Edit and brand your clips: Trim in the built-in editor, adjust captions, remove fillers and silences, and apply your brand template.
- Publish or schedule: Download your clips or post them straight to Shorts, TikTok, and Reels — or schedule a week of content in one sitting.
Pro tip: Start with your highest Virality Score clips, and process only the strongest section of very long recordings to make your credits go further.
Opus Clip Pricing Plans
Opus Clip is freemium — one credit processes roughly one minute of source video:
- Free – $0: 60 credits per month, clips rendered up to 1080p, auto reframe and AI captions. Exports carry a watermark, there is no editing, and clips stop being exportable after 3 days.
- Starter – $15/month: 150 credits per month, no watermark, AI clipping with Virality Score, animated captions in 20+ languages, the clip editor, filler and silence removal, and 1 brand template.
- Pro – $29/month (or $14.50/month billed annually): 300 credits per month (3,600 upfront on annual), a 2-seat team workspace, AI B-roll, multiple aspect ratios, social scheduler, custom fonts, and XML export to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.
- Business – Custom: Custom credits and seats, API access, priority processing, and a dedicated support channel for agencies and larger teams.
For most regular creators, Starter removes the watermark and unlocks the editor, while Pro is the sweet spot for teams publishing daily. If you prefer generating videos from text instead, Pictory is worth a look.
Pros and Cons of Opus Clip
Pros:
- Finds genuinely strong moments — saves hours of manual scrubbing
- Virality Score helps you prioritise which clips to post first
- Animated captions and auto reframing are excellent out of the box
- Direct scheduling to Shorts, TikTok, and Reels
- Free plan with 60 monthly credits to test real footage
Cons:
- Free exports are watermarked and expire after 3 days
- Credits are charged by source-video length, so long videos burn through plans quickly
- Best features like AI B-roll and the scheduler are Pro-only
- AI picks still need a quick human review before publishing
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Opus Clip free to use?
Yes. Opus Clip has a free plan with 60 credits per month — about an hour of source video — with clips up to 1080p, auto reframe, and AI captions. Free exports carry a watermark and can only be exported within 3 days. Paid plans start at $15 per month.
What is the Virality Score in Opus Clip?
The Virality Score is Opus Clip’s AI rating of how likely each generated clip is to perform well on short-form platforms. It analyses the hook, content, and emotional peaks, helping you publish your strongest clips first instead of guessing.
Which platforms can Opus Clip post to?
Opus Clip can post and schedule clips directly to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels, with more social accounts and scheduling options on the Pro plan. You can also download clips and upload them anywhere manually.
What is the difference between Opus Clip Starter and Pro?
Starter ($15/month) gives 150 credits, removes the watermark, and unlocks the editor and Virality Score. Pro ($29/month, or $14.50 billed annually) doubles the credits and adds AI B-roll, a team workspace, multiple aspect ratios, the social scheduler, and exports to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.
