Budget stack
Klipper / Clipper Stack
Find the moments worth clipping, cut them, caption them, and ship multiple shorts from one long video.
- Built for:
- Clippers turning long podcasts, streams or interviews into short-form clips
- Outcome:
- One long-form video → several captioned vertical clips ready to post.
All stacksEstimated costs
The workflow
- 1ChatGPT— Transcript scanning & hook writing~$20/mo
Paste the transcript, find the segments with a real payoff, then write titles and hooks for each clip.
- 2Opus Clip— Auto-clipping~$19/mo
First pass at finding clip-worthy segments and reframing to vertical. Treat its picks as suggestions, not final.
- 3CapCut— Final edit & captionsFree tier works
Fix the cuts the auto-clipper got wrong, style the captions, add b-roll and sound.
- 4Canva— Thumbnails & coversFree tier works
Batch-produce clip covers that stay visually consistent per channel.
Cheaper or different swaps
Opus ClipManual clipping in CapCutsaves ~$19/mo
Free, and you keep full control over where cuts land. Costs you time instead of money.
ChatGPTClaude
Handles very long transcripts in one pass more comfortably — useful for 2h+ podcasts.
Where this stack falls short
- Auto-clippers consistently miss context-dependent jokes and callbacks — a human pass is still required.
- Clipping someone else's content needs permission or a clear licence; many creators allow it, many don't.