What happens between a long video and a Short that holds.
Here's everything nodewick Clips does, step by step, and why each step is there.
Every possible clip, scored.
The video is transcribed on your computer, then every sentence-aligned stretch from 20 to 60 seconds is scored. The swipe decision happens in the first few seconds, so the opening counts the most.
- ✓Pace — fast talk holds attention
- ✓Energy — laughs, raised voices, music swells
- ✓Hook words — the language that makes people stay
- ✓Dead air — penalised hard
- ✓Payoff — a peak that isn't buried at the end
Edits made to stop the swipe.
- ✓Cold open — the hottest 2–3 seconds play first, then the story starts
- ✓Jump cuts — every pause between words removed
- ✓Punch-ins — subtle zooms at sentence breaks so the frame never sits still
- ✓Captions — big, word-by-word, current word highlighted, for sound-off viewers
- ✓Hook text — a headline on screen for the first three seconds
- ✓Loudness — matched to platform standards so you're never quieter than the next video
It gets better every week.
Every clip records the choices behind it: length, layout, caption size, title style, cold open or not, posting hour. Two days after posting, it pulls the views and average watch time and works out which choices are winning.
Most new clips use the winners, and a share deliberately test the alternatives, so it keeps improving instead of locking onto one early fluke. Before your own data exists, it starts from what's working for other channels in your niche.
Example of the dashboard view — 1.00× is your channel's average.
No legal headaches, by design.
nodewick Clips only works from sources you're allowed to use, and it records why for each one:
- ✓Clipping campaigns — creators who pay you to clip them, with your campaign link kept as proof
- ✓Public-domain film — only films old enough to be public domain in the US, and you approve each one
- ✓Your own footage — anything you made or licensed
It never downloads or reposts content you don't have rights to, and it never gets around platform posting rules.
What it does while you sleep.
Learns from yesterday
Pulls fresh YouTube stats and updates what's working.
Finds new sources
Checks your campaign creators for new uploads and looks for new public-domain films.
Makes the clips
Transcribes, scores every moment, and renders the day's batch with retention edits.
Schedules everything
Gives each clip a title, caption and posting slot for YouTube and TikTok.
You get a notification
"6 new clips ready." Check the dashboard and schedule the batch when it suits you.
Your videos never leave your computer.
Transcription, editing and titling all run locally using free, open AI models. There are no per-clip or per-minute fees, and nothing is uploaded anywhere except the posts you choose to publish.
Local
Runs on your own computer. Your videos stay with you.
No meter
Make as many clips as your computer can handle.
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