Viral Clip Finder: Score Every Moment Before You Post
Upload one long recording and get a ranked grid of clips, each scored 0 to 100 with five sub-scores and a written reason, so your strongest moment goes out first.
Viral Clip Finder: Score Every Moment Before You Post Features
EchoWave's AI clipping tools are used by creators, podcasters, and marketing teams worldwide
Viral Score explained
A score with a reason, not just a number
A viral clip finder should tell you why a moment scored high, not hand you a bare number. EchoWave's AI clip generator reads a word-timed transcript of your podcast, interview, webinar, or stream VOD, then layers in signals from the recording itself: audio energy, reaction peaks, silences, speaker turns, and scene cuts. Every candidate moment gets a Viral Score from 0 to 100 built from five sub-scores, Hook, Clarity, Emotion, Value, and Trend, plus a plain-English reason like strong hook or big reactions. Clips land in a ranked grid so you compare them side by side, open the winner, tighten it in the text-based video editor, and export. Pull the full transcript any time with video to text.
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0-100
Viral Score on every candidate clip, all on one comparable scale
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5
Named sub-scores per clip: Hook, Clarity, Emotion, Value, and Trend
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1-30
Clips per run, ranked in a grid, or let auto pick the count
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~99
Languages auto-detected during transcription before scoring starts
What you get
Scoring you can read, argue with, and act on
One opaque number is hard to trust. Five sub-scores with a written reason turn picking a clip from a guess into a decision.
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Viral Score From 0 to 100
Every candidate clip gets a single 0-100 Viral Score built from the transcript plus measured signals: audio energy, reaction peaks, silences, speaker turns, and scene cuts. Compare any two moments on the same scale.
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Five Named Sub-Scores
Hook, Clarity, Emotion, Value, and Trend show what drove the number. A clip with a huge Hook but soft Value suits a teaser, while high Clarity and Value fit a product post.
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Reasons in Plain English
Each clip carries a short written reason, like strong hook, back-and-forth, or big reactions. You can defend a pick to a client or a cohost with an explanation, not just a score.
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Ranked Grid of Candidates
Every moment from one source file comes back sorted by score, side by side. Skim the top of the leaderboard, preview three contenders, and skip the rest instead of reviewing two hours manually.
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Prompt Search and Keyword Boosts
Type find moments about pricing objections and EchoWave searches the transcript for matching passages. Add keyword boosts so topics that matter to your goal climb the ranking instead of the loudest moment winning by default.
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Length and Count Controls
Set Short 15-30 s, Medium 30-60 s, Long 60-90 s, or a custom range, and ask for 1 to 30 clips. Scores reflect the cut you would actually post, not an arbitrary slice.
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Scores Arrive as Clips Are Found
Watch the evidence come in: frames read with faces tracked, the waveform, scene cuts and the transcript, then each clip lands in the grid with its score attached. Leave and the job resumes where it was.
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Real Clips, Not Screenshots
Every scored moment becomes an ordinary EchoWave project with word-timed captions in any of 60+ presets, editable shot by shot. Works the same for a podcast clip or a webinar highlight.
How it works
How to find viral clips
From one long file to a ranked, explained shortlist in four steps.
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Upload Your Recording
Add one long video or audio file from your device, library, a direct media link, or an existing project. Podcasts, interviews, webinars, meetings, sermons, lectures, and stream VODs all work, and transcription auto-detects around 99 languages.
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Set the Analysis
Pick a genre preset, choose clip length and how many candidates you want, and select 9:16, 1:1, 4:5, or 16:9. Optionally limit analysis to a time range or add a Find moments about prompt to steer the search.
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Compare the Scores
Read the ranked grid. Check each clip's Viral Score, its Hook, Clarity, Emotion, Value, and Trend sub-scores, and the written reason, then preview the leaders and decide which moment earns your posting slot.
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Edit and Export
Open the winner in the full editor, adjust captions, camera moves, and trims, then export. Free exports carry a small watermark and a 720p cap; Creator renders 1080p and Pro renders 4K.
Who uses it
Who runs their footage through a viral clip finder
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Creators picking a post
Compare three candidate clips on the same 0-100 scale and post the one with the strongest Hook, not a hunch.
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Podcasters
Score a 90-minute episode, read the reasons behind the top moments, and choose the clip that earns the feed slot.
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Streamers
Feed a VOD in after the stream and let reaction peaks and big moments float to the top of the grid.
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Marketers
Justify which clip gets the ad budget with Clarity and Value sub-scores instead of a gut call in a meeting.
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Editors triaging footage
Triage a two-hour shoot, cut only the moments that score, and skip the review pass that eats an afternoon.
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Agencies and teams
Run scoring jobs in a shared workspace so every member sees the ranked clips and the reasons behind each pick.
Know which clip wins before you post it
Upload one recording and get every moment scored, ranked, and explained. Your first 30 minutes of analysis each month are free.
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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.
Viral clip finder FAQ
How do I find viral clips?
Upload one long video or audio file to EchoWave, from your device, library, a direct media link, or an existing project. Pick a genre preset, a clip length, and how many candidates you want, then run the analysis. EchoWave returns a ranked grid where every clip carries a Viral Score from 0 to 100, five sub-scores, and a plain-English reason. Preview the top moments, open the strongest one in the editor, adjust captions and trims, and export. The whole pass on a two-hour recording is faster than manually scrubbing the first twenty minutes.
What is a virality score for video clips?
A virality score is a number that estimates how likely a clip is to hold attention and get shared, so you can compare moments before posting. In EchoWave it runs from 0 to 100 and is built from five named sub-scores: Hook, Clarity, Emotion, Value, and Trend. The point is comparison, not prophecy. A clip scoring 84 is a stronger candidate than one scoring 52 from the same recording, and the sub-scores tell you where that gap comes from, so you can match the clip to what you want it to do.
How is the Viral Score calculated?
EchoWave combines two kinds of evidence. A language model reads the word-timed transcript to judge how the moment opens, how clearly the idea lands, and what value it delivers. Audio and visual signals add what the transcript cannot show: audio energy and reaction peaks, silences, who-is-speaking turns, and scene cuts. Those feed the five sub-scores, Hook, Clarity, Emotion, Value, and Trend, which roll up into the 0-100 Viral Score. Each clip also gets a written reason, like strong hook or back-and-forth, so the number is never a black box.
Can AI score a clip's hook, or is it just one overall number?
EchoWave scores the hook specifically. Hook is one of five named sub-scores alongside Clarity, Emotion, Value, and Trend, and it measures how well the opening seconds grab attention: a bold claim, a question, a big reaction, or a mid-conflict entry. That matters because a single overall number hides tradeoffs. A clip with a strong Hook and modest Value can work as a teaser, while a clip with high Clarity and Value but a slower open may perform better with an audience that already follows you.
How do I know which clip from my video to post first?
Start at the top of the ranked grid, but read the sub-scores and reasons before committing, because the best clip depends on your goal. Chasing new viewers? Weight Hook and Emotion, the reasons will flag things like strong hook or big reactions. Selling something? Favor Clarity and Value. Two clips within a few points of each other are both worth posting; the ranking tells you the order. Marketers also use the sub-scores to justify which clip gets the primary slot or the ad spend, with evidence instead of a gut call.
Is a viral clip finder accurate?
No tool can guarantee a clip will go viral or predict exact view counts, and EchoWave does not claim to. Performance also depends on your audience, timing, and platform. What the Viral Score does reliably is compare moments from the same recording on one consistent scale, using the transcript plus measured signals like audio energy, reaction peaks, and speaker turns. That consistently surfaces strong hooks and high-energy exchanges that manual scrubbing misses, and the written reasons let you sanity-check every ranking yourself before you spend a posting slot on it.
Can I search a long video for clips about a specific topic and get them scored?
Yes. Use the Find moments about prompt to search the transcript for a topic, for example find moments about pricing objections, and EchoWave pulls candidate clips from the matching passages and scores each one. Keyword boosts push terms that matter to your niche higher in the ranking, so a quieter but on-topic moment can outrank a loud tangent. You can also limit the analysis to a time range, or drag a custom clip from any point on the source strip and have it scored alongside the AI picks.
Is there a free tool to score or rank video clips?
Yes. EchoWave's free plan includes 30 minutes of analysis per month, enough to score a typical podcast episode or webinar, with the full ranked grid, all five sub-scores, and the written reasons included. Free exports carry a small watermark and a 720p cap; Creator raises that to 1080p with 180 analysis minutes a month, Pro renders 4K with 600 minutes, and Ultra includes 3,000 minutes for teams. Scoring and ranking work the same on every plan, so you can test the results before paying anything.
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