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Opus Clip

AI tool cutting long videos into short vertical clips with captions for social

Overview

What Opus Clip does

Opus Clip automates the labour-intensive process of repurposing long-form video into social media content. The platform identifies highlight moments using ClipAnything, a multimodal AI model analysing visual content, audio, and emotional tone simultaneously. Clips are automatically formatted for target platforms with optimised aspect ratios, captions, transitions, effects, and branding. Users can then publish across multiple social networks in a single action. The platform accepts uploads from YouTube, Google Drive, Vimeo, Zoom, Rumble, Twitch, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Loom, Riverside, and StreamYard. Output can be published to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and other platforms. Auto-captions achieve over 97% accuracy across 20+ languages including English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German. Opus Clip appeals to content creators, podcasters, and video producers seeking to maximise distribution without manual editing expertise. The free tier provides 60 minutes of processing monthly, sufficient for occasional use but limited for professional workflows. Paid tiers unlock extended processing, multi-clip batching, advanced editing, AI-generated B-roll and voiceovers, and watermark removal. A seven-day trial with 90 minutes of processing provides evaluation access.

What people use it for

  • Podcast video repurposing into short-form social content
  • Conference and educational video clipping for highlights
  • Streaming VOD (video on demand) distribution across social platforms
  • Content creator efficiency—turning one long video into 10+ social posts
  • Multi-language social media distribution

The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Opus Clip.

  • Free tier severely limited at 60 minutes per month; approximately 2-4 clips for typical videos
  • Watermark on free tier reduces output quality for serious creators
  • B-roll generation limited to 3 clips per month even on Pro tier
  • AI caption accuracy at 97%, not 100%; occasional human review needed

Pricing

What Opus Clip costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free

Free

  • 60 minutes processing monthly
  • No credit card required
  • Watermark included

Starter

$15 /mo

  • Faster processing than free
  • YouTube, Google Drive, Vimeo, Zoom, Rumble, StreamYard upload
  • Visual, sound, and emotion-based clipping
  • Virality scoring
  • Reprompt clipping for refinement
  • 7-day free trial available

Pro

$29 /mo

  • All Starter features
  • Text and timeline editing
  • AI image and stock B-roll (3 clips monthly)
  • AI voice-over (20 per day)
  • Watermark-free exports
  • Social media posting to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram with caption generation

Business

On request

  • Custom pricing
  • Custom features
  • Dedicated support
  • SSO/SLM capabilities

Keep looking

Where to go from Opus Clip

Other Social Media Content software

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  • OpenAI's advanced image generation model

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  • Unified customer experience management platform

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