Opus Clip

Opus Clip, available at opus.pro, analyzes a long video and automatically extracts the segments most likely to perform as short-form clips. Its AI looks for hooks, topic shifts, and emotional peaks, then ranks each clip with a virality score so creators know which to post first. It auto-generates animated captions in more than 40 languages, reframes footage to a 9:16 vertical layout, and can add AI B-roll and emojis; the ClipAnything feature extends this to any kind of long video. Clips export ready for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels, and the Pro plan adds direct multi-platform auto-posting and speaker detection for podcasts. Opus Clip runs on a credit system where one credit equals one minute of source video — and this is the detail most reviews gloss over. A 60-minute podcast spends 60 credits whether you export a single clip or twenty, and monthly credits expire 60 days after they are issued, with no reminder inside the product. See related. The free plan provides 60 credit-minutes per month, but every export is watermarked, locked to 9:16, and automatically deleted after three days, with no access to the AI editor or the virality score. In practice the free tier is a way to test the engine, not to produce clips you can publish. On clip quality, Opus Clip is strongest with clean, single-speaker audio, where it commonly surfaces around seven of the ten clips a human editor would choose; on overlapping two-person conversations that hit rate drops noticeably. Caption accuracy is high — roughly 95% on clear audio. User sentiment is more mixed than the marketing suggests: its Trustpilot score sits near 4.0 out of 5 across 300+ reviews, with a meaningful share of one-star ratings citing videos that hang or fail to finish processing, confusing credit mechanics, and a cancellation flow that several users describe as intentionally difficult Compare alternatives.