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          <span class="eyebrow">Comparison</span>
          <h1>What running it locally actually means</h1>
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            Most clipping tools upload your video to a server and charge a monthly fee. Clips
            Studio runs on your own computer instead. Here is what that changes.
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              <p class="title">Clips Studio is free &amp; open source ❤️</p>
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          <h2>Side by side</h2>
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                  <th>Clips Studio (local)</th>
                  <th>Typical cloud clipper</th>
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                  <td><strong>Cost</strong></td>
                  <td>Free. You pay for electricity.</td>
                  <td>Monthly, usually metered by minutes or clips.</td>
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                  <td><strong>Your footage</strong></td>
                  <td>Never leaves your computer.</td>
                  <td>Uploaded and processed on their servers.</td>
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                  <td><strong>Volume</strong></td>
                  <td>Unlimited. Re-run a stream as often as you like.</td>
                  <td>Capped by your plan.</td>
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                  <td><strong>Waiting</strong></td>
                  <td>No upload. Processing runs in the background while you work.</td>
                  <td>Upload the whole video first, then wait in a queue.</td>
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                  <td><strong>The AI model</strong></td>
                  <td>Your choice, swapped in one click. Bigger GPU, bigger model.</td>
                  <td>Whichever one the service picked.</td>
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                  <td><strong>Offline</strong></td>
                  <td>Works with no internet once set up.</td>
                  <td>Needs a connection for everything.</td>
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                  <td><strong>Control</strong></td>
                  <td>Yours to keep and change. Even how it scores clips is editable.</td>
                  <td>Whatever the product exposes.</td>
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          <h2>What it asks of you</h2>
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              <strong>A one-time setup.</strong> An installer and a model download, rather than
              signing up and pasting a link. The wizard walks through it.
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              <strong>Your own hardware.</strong> A long stream keeps the GPU busy for a while.
              It runs in the background, but the computer is doing real work.
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              <strong>A graphics card, ideally.</strong> It runs without one, just slowly. An
              NVIDIA GPU makes the biggest difference.
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          <h2>How it finds the good moments</h2>
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            A model that fits on a consumer graphics card is smaller than one running in a data
            centre. The pipeline is built around that rather than ignoring it.
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              <strong>Find more candidates.</strong> Audio and visual peaks become clips in
              their own right, so laughter and chaos are not missed just because the transcript
              reads flat.
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              <strong>Rank, don't grade.</strong> Small models score everything in a narrow
              band, so the finalists are compared against each other in one pass. Relative
              judgement is far easier than absolute scoring.
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              <strong>Keep the human.</strong> You are going to review clips before posting
              anyway. The model only has to get good moments <em>into the shortlist</em>, and you
              pick the winners, which is the cheapest quality multiplier there is.
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              <strong>Scale with hardware.</strong> A bigger GPU means a bigger model, one
              click, no new subscription.
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          <h2>Who this is actually for</h2>
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              <h3>High volume</h3>
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                Clipping several long streams a week, where metered plans get expensive fast.
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              <h3>Sensitive footage</h3>
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                Unreleased videos, sponsor reads, anything you would rather not hand to a third
                party.
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              <h3>People who like owning things</h3>
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                If the idea of tuning the scoring prompt yourself sounds good rather than
                exhausting, you are in the right place.
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