Clip Machine
Long-form video → short vertical clips

1 long video, up to 60 clips. Repurpose 10× faster.

Paste a YouTube or video link and Clip Machine finds the best moments, then cuts them into ready-to-post vertical clips for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.

Start with your Ounie account — no subscription, pay in credits by video length and clips.

Smart highlight detectionAuto vertical reframe1–60 clips per video9:16 · 1:1 · 4:5 · 16:9Permanent downloads
5 highlights found · cut to 9:16

Real clips from one long video — tap to play.

No subscription — pay in Ounie credits Up to 60 clips per video Unused reserves refund automatically
The engine

AI that finds every moment worth clipping

Give it a long recording; it does the watching, the picking, and the cutting — and hands back short vertical clips you can post as they are.

Smart highlight detection

Clip Machine watches the whole video and surfaces the moments most worth posting — hooks, punchlines, and payoffs — then ranks them so the strongest clips come first. You choose how many to pull, from a single hero clip up to 60 in one pass.

1–60 clipsranked by momenthands-off

Auto vertical reframe

Every clip is recut to the aspect ratio you pick — 9:16 for TikTok and Shorts, 4:5 and 1:1 for the feed, or 16:9 and beyond. The subject stays in frame, so a widescreen source becomes a native vertical clip with no manual cropping.

9:161:14:516:94:33:4
Priced on the video — 20 credits / minute + 20 / clip
Charged only for the clips that come back
How it works

From one long video to a stack of clips

01

Paste a video link

Drop a YouTube URL or a direct video link, choose how many clips you want (1–60), and pick an aspect ratio. That's the whole setup — no timeline, no editing.

02

AI finds the best moments

Clip Machine watches the full video, scores the strongest moments, and cuts each one into its own short clip reframed to your chosen ratio. Longer sources take a few minutes.

03

Download ready-to-post clips

Finished clips land in your library on permanent URLs — download them free, forever, and post straight to TikTok, Reels, or Shorts. Flip on a share page when you want one.

Your clip library

Every clip, cut and ready to download

When a job finishes, its clips land in a simple library — each one a real vertical video you can preview and download. No timelines, no render queue.

50-streamers-fight-1m.mp4 · 4 clips · 9:16
succeeded
clip 1 mp4
clip 2 mp4
clip 3 mp4
clip 4 mp4
Who it's for

Built for anyone sitting on long video

Podcasters

Turn a two-hour episode into a week of vertical clips. Clip Machine finds the sharpest exchanges and cuts them to 9:16, so every episode feeds your TikTok and Shorts without a manual edit pass.

one episode → a week of posts

Agencies & media buyers

Pull dozens of vertical variants from a single client recording and pay for the processing instead of per seat. Wire it into your pipeline over the API and batch clips across accounts.

credits, not per seat

Streamers & creators

Drop a VOD link and get the highlights back as ready-to-post verticals. The best moments float to the top, so you post the plays that land instead of scrubbing a long stream.

VOD → highlights, automatically

Course & webinar creators

Slice a long lesson or webinar into short teaching clips for the feed. Each concept becomes its own vertical clip you can post to promote the full thing.

long lessons → shareable clips
For developers & AI agents

Clip on autopilot, over REST and MCP

Submitting a job, polling it, listing your library, checking credits — all of it is a REST endpoint and a native MCP tool. Point an assistant at it and let it turn long videos into clips on your behalf, drawing your shared Ounie credits.

REST API

The same endpoints the dashboard uses — bearer key, JSON in, clip URLs out. Submit a job, then poll it.

curl -X POST https://clips.ounie.com/api/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer clp_live_…" \
  -d '{"video_url":"https://youtu.be/…",
       "num_highlights":10,
       "aspect_ratio":"9:16"}'
MCP server

Native tools for Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT — and the Ounie AI Team, which connects with the key in the URL where headers can't be set.

https://clips.ounie.com/api/mcp
# header-less clients:
…/api/mcp?api_key=clp_live_…
Master key

One ounie_live_ key works across the whole Ounie app fleet — enable it once on ounie.com and it drives Clip Machine too.

Authorization: Bearer ounie_live_…
# same jobs + credits, one fleet key
Credits, never overdrawn

A job reserves source minutes × 20 + num_highlights × 20 credits; if the balance is short it's refused with a top-up link — an agent can never overdraw.

402 insufficient_credits
{ "required": 640, "balance": 40,
  "buy_credits_url": "https://ounie.com/…" }
No x402 rail. Clipping is a multi-minute async job that outlives a single 402 response, so it needs an Ounie account and a key — there's no keyless pay-per-call path here.
clips.ounie.com/api/mcp
// Any MCP host — Claude, Cursor, the AI Team
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clip-machine": {
      "url": "https://clips.ounie.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer clp_live_…" }
    }
  }
}

// …or the Ounie AI Team — the key rides the URL:
//   https://clips.ounie.com/api/mcp?api_key=ounie_live_…

// tool call → create_clip_job
{ "video_url": "https://youtu.be/…",
  "num_highlights": 10,
  "aspect_ratio": "9:16" }
→ { "job": { "id": "…", "status": "running" } }

// clipping is async — poll until done:
// get_clip_job → "succeeded" → export_clip_job
→ { "clips": ["https://…/0.mp4", "…"],
    "clip_count": 10, "credits_spent": 400 }
Pricing

Priced on the video, not a subscription.

A clip run costs the source video's length plus the clips you get — drawn from the shared Ounie wallet every Ounie product uses.

20 cr / min
+
20 cr / clip
Per minute of video, plus per clip returned
640
credits for a 27-min podcast → 5 clips
The video charge is fixed; unused clip reserve refunds automatically
FAQ

Got questions?

What does Clip Machine actually do?
You paste a long video — a YouTube link or a direct video URL — and choose how many highlight clips to pull (1 to 60) plus an aspect ratio. Clip Machine finds the best moments and cuts each one into its own short vertical clip you can download and post. That's the whole product: highlight detection and vertical clip cutting.
What videos can I use?
A YouTube link, or a direct link to a video file (.mp4, .mov, .webm, and similar). Longer sources take longer — clipping a long recording runs for a few minutes, and the job updates itself while it works.
How much does it cost?
A clip run is priced on the AI processing it takes — the source video's length plus the number of clips: 20 Ounie credits per minute of video plus 20 credits per clip returned (1 credit = 1¢). So a 27-minute podcast cut into 5 clips is about 640 credits ($6.40). The video charge is fixed by the source length, read when you submit; the per-clip charge settles only on the clips actually delivered, and any unused reserve refunds automatically. There's no subscription; you buy credits at ounie.com/dashboard/settings.
What happens if a job fails or comes back short?
You're charged only for clips that actually come back. A failed job, a timeout, or an abort refunds the whole reservation, and a source that yields fewer clips than you asked for refunds the difference — automatically and in full. You never pay for clips that don't exist.
What aspect ratios can I get?
9:16 (TikTok, Reels, Shorts), 1:1 and 4:5 for the feed, plus 16:9, 4:3, and 3:4. Each clip is reframed to the ratio you pick, keeping the subject in frame — a widescreen source becomes a native vertical clip.
Can my AI agents use it?
Yes. Clip Machine is built for agents over REST and MCP — submit a job, poll it, list your library, check credits. A key draws the same Ounie credits you do and is refused with a top-up link when the balance is short, so it can never overdraw. There is no keyless x402 rail, because clipping is a multi-minute async job that needs an account.
Who owns the clips?
You do. Finished clips sit in your library on permanent URLs; downloads are free forever. Every clip is private by default — it gets a public share page only when you turn one on, and you can turn it back off any time.

Turn your next long video into clips

Paste a link and Clip Machine does the rest. No subscription — pay in Ounie credits by video length and clips.

Start with your Ounie account.