Clipkiln

Clipkiln

AI video creation and automation

Turn content into a publishing system.

Create short-form videos from the content you already have — or create completely new story videos from an idea. Upload once, and Clipkiln finds what matters, makes the videos, scores them for virality, and keeps your channels supplied.

How it works

One long video in.
A week of posts out.

It listens first. The whole video is transcribed with word-level timing — every word pinned to the millisecond it was said.

It reads for meaning. Words are regrouped into real sentences, so a cut can only ever land where a thought begins or ends.

It judges every candidate. Each moment is scored against the same rubric across the whole video — not the best bit of an arbitrary chunk.

It keeps the ones that travel. The rest are discarded before they cost you a render. What's left is captioned, reframed and ready.

00:0000:0048:12
92"nobody tells you this part"
88"so I just stopped replying"
81"the number was wrong"

Two ways to create

Two ways to create.
One automated workflow.

Whether you already have footage or you're starting with nothing, Clipkiln turns the idea into a finished short.

01 — Turn long videos into shorts

Your footage in. Your best moments out.

Give Clipkiln a podcast, interview, stream, webinar or any long-form video. It analyses the whole thing, finds the moments with the strongest potential, and turns them into polished vertical clips.

  • Finds the strongest moments across the entire video
  • Identifies the context each clip needs
  • Cuts cleanly, on whole sentences
  • Reframes around the active speaker
  • Adds dynamic captions and generates hooks
  • Adds B-roll where it actually helps
  • Scores every clip for virality

You don't have to scrub through an hour of footage looking for something worth posting. Clipkiln does the searching.

…and that's when I realised nobody was coming.

Word-timed. The cut lands on the sentence, not a stopwatch.

02 — Create videos from an idea

No footage? Start with a story.

Give Clipkiln a topic, prompt or script and get back a complete narrated vertical video — script, narration, captions and a background built for short-form viewing.

  • Reddit stories, explainers, facts, drama, commentary
  • Six narration voices, UK and US
  • Split into parts automatically for Shorts

You provide the idea. Clipkiln builds the video.

One idea in, a finished vertical video out.

The Virality Score

Built to find videos
people actually want to watch.

Creating a video is easy. Creating one worth watching is harder. Clipkiln doesn't cut your footage into arbitrary chunks and hope — it evaluates every candidate against the same six-factor scoring system.

Set your standard once. Let Clipkiln enforce it.

Every candidate is scored on six factors, each weighted by how much it actually moves reach. The weights are fixed, they sum to 100, and they are printed here — not hidden behind a black box. The model rates the content against each factor; the arithmetic is the same every time, so the same clip always scores the same.

More importantly, that score becomes part of your workflow. A video below your threshold stays out of the publishing queue. A strong one moves forward. Your channel gets the content most likely to deserve a viewer's attention, without you reviewing every candidate by hand.

The weighting, in full

Hook (first 3s)24%
Emotional arousal20%
Payoff18%
Shareability14%
Standalone clarity12%
Conversation trigger12%

Bars are drawn relative to the largest weight; the figures are the real ones, and they add up to 100%.

Automation

Stop editing.
Start publishing.

Most AI video tools help you make a video. Clipkiln is built to run a content pipeline. Queue your sources, set your rules, and let it work through the list while you do something else.

QueueAdd videos to extract from, or define the stories you want created
AnalyseIt finds the strongest moments, or writes the story from your instructions
CreateCaptions, framing, hooks, narration and B-roll, handled automatically
ScoreEvery candidate gets its Virality Score
FilterOnly what clears your threshold goes any further
PublishStraight to your connected platforms, or your storage

Repurposing

From one piece of content
to a library of posts.

Your long-form content shouldn't disappear after one upload. A podcast becomes a series of clips. An interview becomes dozens of potential posts. A single idea becomes a finished short. Create once, repurpose continuously.

The boring parts are automated

You shouldn't need to watch a whole recording hunting for clips, find the strongest opening by hand, reframe every speaker, type and time captions to the voice, search for supporting footage, render every variation, or decide which clips are worth posting one at a time.

Clipkiln handles the repetitive production work so your time goes on ideas, content and growth.

Your content. Your rules.

Clipkiln isn't trying to make every video look identical. Choose the visual style, captions, framing, branding and publishing behaviour that fits your channel.

Set your preferences once. Automation applies them every time.

Real output

Nobody edited these.
Nobody was even watching.

Every one of these was pulled out of a full-length podcast and finished by Clipkiln on its own — the moment picked, the frame followed, the captions written and timed to the voice, the hook line placed, the whole thing rendered and ready to post. Start to finish, automatically, while the creator was doomscrolling.

0:15 · found automatically

Cut from a long-form episode

Clipkiln read the transcript, chose where the moment starts and ends, reframed it to vertical on the speaker, and burned in one-word-at-a-time captions timed to the voice — picking out the words to colour and the emoji to drop in.

1:29 · hook written for it

Opened with a line it wrote itself

The cold open at the top is Clipkiln's, not the podcast's — it picked the line that makes someone stop scrolling, put it on screen, and highlighted the words that carry the sentence.

0:21 · made from a chat message

Asked for in Claude, never opened here

Clipkiln plugs into Claude as an MCP connector, so this one was made without touching the site at all — point Claude at an episode, say what you're after, and it reads the transcript, argues its way to the moment and hands the finished clip back in the conversation.

0:20 · nobody pressed anything

Cut and queued to post on a schedule

Automation did this one start to finish: took the next video off the list, chose the moment, followed the speaker through the camera cut, wrote the hook, rendered it and dropped it straight into the posting queue — nobody opened the tab that day.

Who it's for

For creators who need more content —
not more editing.

The difference is what happens after you click Generate. An editor waits for you to tell it what to do; Clipkiln can make those calls itself — find, edit, enhance, score, filter, publish. The goal isn't more videos. It's more of the right videos.

PodcastersTurn every episode into a library of short-form content
CreatorsKeep your channels supplied without spending the day editing
Story channelsTurn ideas into narrated videos without filming anything
BusinessesRepurpose interviews and webinars into consistent social content
AgenciesBuild repeatable workflows instead of editing every video from scratch

Pricing

The same rate on every plan.

Both paid plans start with 7 days free. No credits to buy, nothing forfeited when you cancel, and we don't charge you to post. Comparable tools want around £23 a month for 600 minutes — about 3× our rate per minute.

Free

£0

30 minutes a month

  • Every feature except automation, watermarked
  • 512 MB per upload
  • YouTube links · no Twitch
  • No card required

Base

£4.99 /mo

400 minutes a month

7 days free — 120 minutes to try it, then £4.99

  • No watermark
  • 1.5 GB per upload
  • Clip from YouTube and Twitch
  • Clips and story videos · API access

Pro

£14.99 /mo

1,200 minutes a month

7 days free — 120 minutes to try it, then £14.99

  • Unattended daily automation
  • 4 GB per upload
  • Clip from YouTube and Twitch · longest streams
  • Minutes never expire

Your next video doesn't need
to take your afternoon.

Upload a video, or start with an idea, and let Clipkiln do the work. Thirty minutes a month free, no card — no complicated setup and no editing experience required.