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OpusClip

The AI clipper that turns one long-form video into a batch of captioned, auto-reframed vertical shorts — using ClipAnything to find the moments most likely to perform.

Last verified · 2026-08-12 · by Moe Ameen

What OpusClip is

OpusClip is an AI video repurposing tool that turns one long-form video — a podcast, webinar, interview, livestream, or talking-head recording — into a batch of short, captioned, vertical clips built for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. Founded in 2022, it grew fast on a simple promise: paste a YouTube link or upload a file and get back the moments most likely to perform, already cut, reframed, and captioned. By 2025 the company reported more than 10 million users and funding led by SoftBank's Vision Fund.

Its engine is ClipAnything, a multimodal model that reads visuals, audio, sentiment, and facial expression to find highlight moments across any genre — including gaming, sports, and wordless footage where transcript-only clippers fail — and lets you prompt in plain language for the kind of moment you want, like "every time we mention pricing." Each clip gets a Virality Score (a 0–99 predicted-performance rating), auto-captions the company cites at over 97% accuracy, and ReframeAnything, an AI auto-reframe that keeps the speaker centered as it resizes to 9:16, 1:1, or 16:9. Brand templates carry your fonts, colors, logo, intro, and outro; there are team workspaces, an API, one-click posting and scheduling to the major social platforms, and support for 25+ languages.

The honest framing: OpusClip is a clipper, and a very good one. What it is not is a full content engine. It repurposes video into more video — it does not turn that same recording into a carousel, a quote graphic, a blog post, an email newsletter, or a face-locked persona image, and it can't generate net-new avatar video from a script. Its brand system is per-video templates rather than one voice enforced across every format. Treat specific prices and credit terms as a snapshot and confirm them on opus.pro before you build a workflow around them.

What you can make with it

  • Captioned vertical (9:16) short clips cut automatically from a long-form video for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts
  • Prompt-driven clips via ClipAnything — describe the moment ("every product demo," "the funniest 30 seconds") and get matching cuts
  • A ranked shortlist of clips by Virality Score so you post the highest-potential moments first
  • Auto-reframed exports in 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 with the speaker kept centered
  • Branded clips with your fonts, colors, logo, intro, and outro applied through templates
  • Clips in 25+ languages with editable, high-accuracy captions

How Kompozy turns OpusClip output into content

OpusClip solves exactly one bucket well: it turns a recording into clips, and it'll even post those clips. The gap it leaves is everything else that same recording is worth. One 45-minute podcast is not just ten clips — it's a carousel that breaks the best segment into swipeable beats, a set of quote cards, a blog article, an email to your list, and a week of text posts. OpusClip makes none of those, because it only outputs video. [Kompozy](/) reads the same source and fans it into all of them at once, with your [Persona Brief](/glossary/persona-brief) enforcing one voice across the carousel copy, the blog, and the newsletter — not a template that only touches your clips.

Where OpusClip's ClipAnything is the sharper tool for finding viral moments, keep using it: export the shortlist and drop those clips into Kompozy to reframe and re-caption them to your exact brand style through [HyperFrames](/glossary/hyperframes), then batch them into [carousels](/glossary/output-buckets), quote graphics, and blog embeds. And Kompozy generates what OpusClip structurally can't — [Persona Shorts](/glossary/persona-shorts) and [Persona Frames](/glossary/persona-frames) avatar video built from a script, face-locked persona photos, and infographics. Then it publishes the whole set — clips, images, text, blog, and email — across the eight social platforms plus blog and email from one queue with [Autopilot](/glossary/autopilot) and a per-post review gate, covering the LinkedIn, X, Pinterest, and Threads surface plus the long-form destinations a clip poster doesn't reach. If you want the head-to-head on where each tool wins, the [OpusClip alternative breakdown](/alternatives/opus-clip) lays it out feature by feature.

  1. Clip your long-form video in OpusClip with ClipAnything and export the shortlist ranked by Virality Score.
  2. Drop the clips into Kompozy to reframe and re-caption them to your exact brand style through HyperFrames.
  3. Fan the same recording into a carousel, quote cards, a blog article, and an email newsletter — all governed by your Persona Brief.
  4. Add net-new Persona Shorts or Persona Frames avatar video that OpusClip cannot generate from a script.
  5. Schedule and publish the full set across the eight social platforms plus blog and email from one queue with Autopilot.

Frequently asked questions

What is OpusClip?

OpusClip is an AI video repurposing tool that turns one long-form video into a batch of captioned, auto-reframed vertical clips for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. Its ClipAnything model finds highlight moments across any genre, scores each clip 0–99 for predicted performance, and the company reported more than 10 million users by 2025.

How much does OpusClip cost?

OpusClip uses a credit-based model where roughly one credit equals one minute of source video. There is a free tier (with a watermark) and paid plans that have started around $15/month. Pricing and credit terms change, so confirm the current plans on opus.pro before committing.

Does OpusClip do more than clip video?

Not really — it is video-out only. OpusClip clips, reframes, captions, and can post those clips, but it does not turn the same recording into carousels, quote graphics, blog articles, email newsletters, or face-locked persona images, and it cannot generate avatar video from a script. Kompozy generates those formats and publishes them alongside your clips.

Is ClipAnything worth using alongside Kompozy?

Yes. ClipAnything is a strong tool for finding viral moments in long-form footage, including gaming and sports where transcript-only clippers struggle. Use OpusClip to find and cut the moments, then bring the clips into Kompozy to reframe them to your brand, expand the same source into other formats, and publish everywhere.

Can OpusClip publish to social media?

Yes — OpusClip offers one-click posting and scheduling to the major social platforms, but only for the video clips it produces. Kompozy publishes clips plus images, text posts, blogs, and newsletters across the eight social platforms plus blog and email, so the non-video formats ship on the same queue.

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