AI Clip Generator: Find, Score, and Frame Your Best Moments
Upload one long recording. EchoWave finds the highlight moments, scores each one, reframes for vertical, adds captions, and hands you a real editor to finish, all in one pass.
AI Clip Generator: Find, Score, and Frame Your Best Moments Features
EchoWave's AI clipping tools are used by podcasters, marketing teams, and streamers worldwide
AI clip generation
One upload, a ranked grid of ready clips
An AI clip generator earns its keep when it treats a two-hour recording the way a producer would, not as a file to slice at even intervals. EchoWave transcribes long-form video in around 99 auto-detected languages, then pairs a language model reading the word-timed transcript with what the picture and sound show: audio energy, reaction peaks, silences, speaking turns, and scene cuts. Every highlight moment gets a Viral Score, an AI title, hashtags, and word-timed auto captions sized for portrait. Point it at a podcast episode, a webinar, or a stream VOD, or use it to turn long YouTube videos into Shorts. It doubles as a viral clip finder: review the ranked grid and post the winners first.
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0-100
Viral Score on every clip, split into Hook, Clarity, Emotion, Value, and Trend sub-scores with plain-English reasons
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~99 languages
Transcription auto-detects the spoken language before highlight detection starts, and titles arrive in that language
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1-30 clips
Pick an exact number per run or leave it on auto and let the engine decide how many moments deserve a cut
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30 min free
Free analysis minutes every month, then Basic 180, Pro 600, and Business 3,000, a plain number instead of credits
What you get
The whole pipeline: watch, listen, score, frame, caption
One analysis pass produces finished, editable clips, not a list of timestamps you still have to cut yourself.
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Highlight Detection Built On Real Signals
A language model reads the word-timed transcript while audio energy, reaction peaks, silences, speaking turns, and scene cuts are measured as separate signals. Moments where the words and the room agree land at the top of your ranked grid.
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Viral Score With Reasons
Every clip carries a 0-100 Viral Score built from five sub-scores: Hook, Clarity, Emotion, Value, and Trend. Plain-English notes like strong hook or big reactions tell you which clip deserves to go out first.
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Smart Camera With Seven Layouts
On-screen speaker detection (lip movement matched to the voice) cuts between people on their turns, moves like an operator, and never pans across a scene cut. Choose Follow speaker, Split, Grid, Presenter plus slides, Picture in picture, Fill, or Letterbox over blur.
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Titles, Hooks, and Hashtags Written For You
Each clip arrives with an AI title under 60 characters, a hook line, a description, 3-6 hashtags, and keywords, all in the video's own language and grounded in the transcript excerpt it came from.
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Word-Timed Captions Included
Every clip lands with auto captions in any of 60+ presets, including Hormozi-style word punch, karaoke, and boxed, sized for vertical video 9:16. Restyle them anytime with animated captions in the editor.
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Find Moments About Anything
Type find moments about pricing to search the transcript directly, boost keywords the model should favor, restrict analysis to a time range, and set clip length: Short 15-30 s, Medium 30-60 s, Long 60-90 s, or a custom range.
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Watch the Analysis as It Happens
No spinner and no guessing. You see frames being read with faces tracked, the waveform, scene cuts and the transcript as the pass runs, then clips arriving ranked. Leave and come back, and the job picks up where it left off.
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A Real Editor, Not a Dead End
Every clip becomes an ordinary EchoWave project you can refine in the text-based video editor, and each camera move is a plain keyframe, adjustable shot by shot. Bulk-select clips and export the whole batch at once.
How it works
How to use the AI clip generator
Four steps from a raw recording to a batch of exports.
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Upload Your Recording
Drop in a long video or audio file, pick one from your library, paste a direct media link, or start from an existing project. Podcasts, webinars, meetings, sermons, lectures, and stream VODs all work.
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Set The Brief
Choose a genre preset, an aspect ratio (9:16, 1:1, 4:5, or 16:9), a clip length, and 1-30 clips or auto. Optionally limit the time range, boost keywords, or type a prompt like find moments about onboarding.
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Review The Ranked Grid
Scan clips sorted by Viral Score, read the reasons behind each rating, and check the titles and hashtags. Missed a favorite moment? Add a custom clip from the source strip, or ask Echo, the AI editor, to find the part you mean.
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Finish And Export
Open any clip in the full editor to adjust captions, layout, or camera keyframes, then bulk-select and export. Free exports carry a small watermark at 720p; Basic renders 1080p and Pro renders 4K.
Who uses it
Built for people who record long and post short
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Podcasters
Turn a 52-minute interview episode into eight captioned vertical clips, ranked by Viral Score, enough short-form posts for the whole week.
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Marketers and agencies
Repurpose webinars and conference talks into short takeaways without hiring an editor, with Presenter plus slides keeping every screen share readable.
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Streamers
Scan a three-hour VOD for reaction spikes and get a shortlist of ranked clips ready to bulk-export, without rewatching the stream.
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Teams and workspaces
Clip meeting and webinar recordings into shareable highlights, with jobs scoped to the workspace, visible to members, and drawn from shared minutes.
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Educators and speakers
Pull the clearest explanations out of lectures and sermons, with transcription that auto-detects around 99 languages before scoring begins.
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Developers
Generate clips through the REST API, the hosted MCP server, or Zapier, and trigger workflows the moment a batch is ready.
Your best 30 seconds are already recorded
Upload one long file and get back a ranked grid of captioned, vertical-ready clips. Every account starts with 30 free analysis minutes a month.
What people are saying about EchoWave
About the EchoWave team
EchoWave is a browser-based video and audio editor built by Lemon Vault LLC since 2018. The people who build the editor write these guides and test every step in the production app before publishing.
AI clip generator FAQ
How do I use an AI clip generator?
Open EchoWave's Clips tool and upload a long video or audio file, or pick one from your library, a direct media link, or an existing project. Choose a genre preset, an aspect ratio like 9:16, a clip length, and how many clips you want, from 1 to 30 or auto. The generator transcribes the recording, scores every candidate moment, reframes each clip for vertical, and adds captions, titles, and hashtags. Review the ranked grid, open any clip in the editor to adjust it, then export.
Can AI really find the best moments in a long video automatically?
Yes, and the trick is combining more than one signal. A language model reads the word-timed transcript looking for hooks, exchanges, and payoffs, while signal analysis of the recording itself measures audio energy, reaction peaks, silences, who-is-speaking turns, and scene cuts. Moments that score well on both rank highest, each with a 0-100 Viral Score, five sub-scores, and a plain-English reason like strong hook or back-and-forth. If the model misses something, search the transcript with a prompt, boost keywords, or add a custom clip from any range on the source strip.
Is there a free AI clip generator?
Yes. Every EchoWave account includes 30 free analysis minutes each month, so a half-hour episode fits inside the free tier. Free exports carry a small watermark and are capped at 720p. Paid plans raise both limits: Basic includes 180 minutes a month and 1080p exports, Pro includes 600 minutes and 4K, and Business includes 3,000 minutes for teams. Minutes are a plain, predictable number per month rather than an opaque credit system, so you always know how much footage you can analyze.
Can I edit the clips the AI generator creates?
Fully. Each clip is an ordinary EchoWave project, not a locked export. Open it in the multi-track editor to trim the in and out points, change the caption preset, swap the layout, or rewrite the title overlay. Every smart camera move is stored as normal keyframes, so you can adjust the framing shot by shot, tell the camera to focus on a chosen speaker, or tune steadiness, zoom, and cut-versus-pan behavior. When a batch looks right, bulk-select the clips and create projects and exports at once.
Do the clips come with captions automatically?
Yes. Every clip comes with word-timed captions generated from the transcript, sized for portrait, in any of 60+ caption presets, including Hormozi-style word punch, karaoke, and boxed styles. Clips also carry an AI title overlay and 3-6 suggested hashtags. Because transcription auto-detects roughly 99 languages, captions and titles arrive in the language your video was spoken in. If you want a different look after generation, open the clip in the editor and restyle the captions without regenerating anything.
Does it work with podcasts and audio-only files?
Yes. You can feed the Clips tool a pure audio file, which makes it a natural fit for podcast episodes; highlight detection still works from the transcript, audio energy, silences, and speaking turns. Genre presets for podcast, interview, and talking head tune what the model looks for. For video podcasts, the smart camera detects on-screen speakers by matching lip movement to the voice and cuts between them on their turns, with layouts like Split and Grid built for two or more people in frame.
How many clips can I get from one video?
You choose. Set an exact number from 1 to 30 per run, or leave it on auto and let the engine decide how many moments are genuinely worth cutting. Clip length is adjustable too: Short 15-30 seconds, Medium 30-60, Long 60-90, or a custom range. A 52-minute interview typically yields a solid batch of vertical clips with captions and titles, ranked by Viral Score so you post the strongest first. If a favorite moment is missing, add a custom clip from any range on the source strip.
Can I change AI-generated clips just by asking?
Yes. Echo, EchoWave's AI editor, works on the clips in plain language, both on the results page and inside the clip editor. Ask it for a specific moment ("find the part about pricing"), change one clip ("make #2 shorter", "new title for #1") or change all of them at once ("bigger captions on every clip", "make them all square"). If a change misses, ask Echo to undo it. You can still do everything by hand in the full editor, so Echo is a shortcut rather than the only way in.
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