Managing and editing video clips

Answer

After uploading a video, short clips are automatically generated for social media (TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts). On the Video Clips page you can review these clips, correct the transcript, request a re-render, and publish them to your website. You can also upload standalone videos directly as clips.

Viewing clips

1. Go to Content Engine > Video Clips.
2. Clips are grouped by source recording in collapsible sections. Click a section to expand it.
3. Each clip shows the title, hook, source video, duration, and virality score, plus a preview of the rendered video.

Uploading a clip directly

You can upload a standalone video as a clip without going through the full episode workflow:

1. Click Upload clip at the top of the Video Clips page.
2. Select your video file. The clip will be formatted in 9:16 automatically.
3. Choose the language of the spoken audio so the transcript is generated correctly.
4. Optionally enable Silence removal to automatically strip silent pauses from the clip.
5. Click Upload. The clip is transcribed and rendered automatically.

Publishing to your website

You control whether each clip appears publicly on your website using the publish toggle:

1. Next to each clip you will see a globe icon with a switch.
2. Turn the toggle on (published) to make the clip visible on your website under /clips.
3. Turn the toggle off (approved) to keep the clip in your dashboard only.

The first time you publish a clip, a URL slug is automatically generated. On your website, clips appear with a video player, the full transcript (great for discoverability), and a link to the source episode.

Correcting the transcript

Sometimes speech recognition mishears a name or term. For example, a proper name might become a completely different word. You can easily fix this:

1. Hover over the transcript below the clip. A pencil icon appears.
2. Click the pencil to edit the transcript.
3. Fix the incorrect words. This works best for personal names, brand names, and technical terms.
4. Click Save.

Important: Only fix misheard words. If you rewrite the entire transcript, the subtitles will no longer match what the speaker actually says in the video.

Re-rendering

After correcting the transcript, you can have the clip re-rendered:

1. Click Re-render below the clip. If your account uses the v5 cinematic renderer, you will see a sparkles icon on the re-render button.
2. Confirm in the dialog. Rendering takes 3-4 minutes.
3. The status automatically switches from "queued" to "completed". You can continue working in the meantime.

The v5 cinematic renderer produces a more polished visual style. If you see the sparkles icon, your clips are already using it automatically.

Generating thumbnails

On the right side of the action bar you will find three style options for social media thumbnails:

• Bold (accent color) — click the colored square
• Dark editorial — click the dark square
• Minimal — click the light square

Click a style to generate a thumbnail immediately. Click an existing thumbnail to download it.

Downloading and sharing

• Click Download to download the rendered clip as MP4.
• Via the menu (three dots) you can also download the original or open the clip in Cloudflare Stream.

Tips

• Captions for Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn are fully written out below each clip. Hover over them to reveal the copy icon and grab them in one click.
• Each clip shows which source recording it comes from. Clips are grouped by source in the overview, making it easy to find everything from a single episode.
• Published clips automatically appear in your website navigation, sitemap, and llms.txt.
• When uploading a clip directly, enabling silence removal is especially useful for interview footage with long pauses.