5AM

Clip Maker

Long videos in. Shorts out. Free.

Turn long videos into Shorts-ready clips, with AI that finds the moments worth posting. Clip Maker transcribes your talk, podcast, or stream, picks the strongest self-contained moments, and renders each as a vertical clip with burned-in subtitles and an AI title. The work runs on your own computer through the 5am CLI, so a 90-minute video never uploads and the feature is free.

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5 GB free · No card required

Why Clip Maker?

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AI picks the moments: a hook, a complete thought, a payoff, never starting or ending mid-sentence

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Burned-in subtitles in multiple styles, with an AI-written title on every clip (right-to-left scripts and CJK included)

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Free by design: processing happens on your machine via the CLI, and only the transcript audio touches the cloud (your own Gemini key)

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Everything is editable: fix the transcript and stale clips re-render; open any clip's edit script, nudge a cut, save

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Projects persist on your machine: close the tab mid-render, reopen next week, publish when ready

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Publish only the keepers to your library, or hand them to the Video Editor timeline for polish

Key Features

Local processing through the 5am CLI; the source video never uploads
One cached transcription; re-runs with a new brief or clip count skip the paid call
Portrait, square, landscape, or original aspect with smart center-crop
In-browser transcript and per-clip edit-script (.vedl) editing with instant re-renders
Pick sources from local folders or your 5AM library
Scriptable twin: `5am media clips` for headless/cron workflows

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