Clips AI

Clips AI is an open-source Python library that automatically converts long-form videos into shorter, shareable clips. It analyzes video transcripts to identify natural breaking points and segments content intelligently, making it perfect for repurposing podcasts, interviews, speeches, and other narrative-based content. The tool handles the entire workflow from transcription to clipping in just a few lines of code.

What sets Clips AI apart is its dual AI-powered approach. It uses WhisperX for highly accurate transcription with precise word-level timing, ensuring clips start and end at exactly the right moments. For resizing, it employs Pyannote's speaker diarization to dynamically reframe videos, keeping the current speaker centered when converting between aspect ratios like 16:9 to 9:16 for different platforms.

This tool is particularly valuable for developers working on video content platforms, podcast producers looking to create social media snippets, and content teams needing to repurpose long recordings. It's designed specifically for audio-centric content where the transcript drives the clipping logic, making it more effective for interviews and conversations than for music videos or purely visual content.