AI video clipping

Also called: auto clipping, AI clip generator

Using AI to find the best moments in a long video and cut them into ready-to-post vertical shorts.

AI video clipping is the automated pipeline that turns long content into short clips: transcribe the audio, detect the highest-interest moments, reframe to vertical, add animated captions, and write titles and metadata. What took an editor hours happens in minutes.

It is the engine behind the modern repurposing workflow and the category Nova competes in. The quality bar is moment selection — anyone can cut a video, but finding the segments that actually perform is the hard part.

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Related terms

Hook

The first 1–3 seconds of a video that stops the scroll and makes a viewer commit to watching.

B-roll

Secondary footage cut over the main talking-head shot to illustrate, add energy, and hold attention.

Retention

The share of a video viewers actually watch — the metric short-form algorithms reward most.

Watch time

The total time people spend watching your videos — a core ranking input across platforms.

Nva

Stop scrubbing. Start clipping.

Nova finds the moments worth posting and cuts them into captioned vertical clips — free to start.

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