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| # Clips Studio | |
| > Free, open-source AI video clipping that runs entirely on your own Windows PC. | |
| > Paste a Twitch VOD, Kick VOD or YouTube link and it finds the moments worth | |
| > posting, crops them to vertical with the speaker kept in frame, burns in | |
| > word-synced captions and writes the titles. No uploads, no subscription, no | |
| > per-clip fee. AGPL-3.0. | |
| Clips Studio is a desktop application, not a web service. Everything — the | |
| transcription, the clip selection, the subject tracking and the language model | |
| — runs on the user's own machine. It is a local-first alternative to cloud | |
| clipping tools such as OpusClip, aimed at creators who would rather not pay per | |
| video or upload their footage to someone else's server. | |
| ## What it actually does | |
| - **Transcribes** with faster-whisper at word level, so captions land on the | |
| right syllable and clips start on real sentence boundaries. | |
| - **Scores** candidate moments with a local language model reading the | |
| transcript alongside audio and visual signals — loudness, laughter-shaped | |
| bursts, scene cuts, motion, on-screen reactions. | |
| - **Reframes** to 9:16 with YOLO pose tracking and active-speaker detection, so | |
| the person talking stays in shot and it cuts between speakers rather than | |
| zooming out to hold both. | |
| - **Edits**: a built-in editor for fixing anything the AI got wrong, caption | |
| styling, watermarks, multilingual captions and dubbing. | |
| ## What it is good and bad at | |
| - **Good at:** IRL, just chatting, podcasts, vlogs, interviews. That is what it | |
| is tuned for and tested on. | |
| - **Not yet:** gaming, split-screen and reaction videos. The framing did not | |
| reliably find the action, and subject tracking mistook characters inside a | |
| game for the streamer, so it is held back rather than shipped half-working. | |
| ## Requirements | |
| Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. 16 GB RAM recommended, ~20 GB free disk. An NVIDIA | |
| GPU is strongly recommended — it runs on CPU, just far slower. One installer | |
| carries the app, the engine, FFmpeg, the Ollama runtime and the tracking and | |
| transcription models; the language model downloads on first launch, sized to | |
| the graphics card. | |
| ## Links | |
| - [Website](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/) | |
| - [Source on GitHub](https://github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio) | |
| - [Download](https://github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio/releases) | |
| - [Architecture](https://github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio/blob/main/ARCHITECTURE.md) | |
| - [Changelog](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/changelog.html) | |
| - [Roadmap](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/roadmap.html) | |
| - [Known issues](https://github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio/blob/main/KNOWN-ISSUES.md) | |
| - [Clipping Twitch](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/twitch.html) | |
| - [Clipping Kick](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/kick.html) | |
| - [Clipping YouTube](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/youtube.html) | |
| - [Local vs cloud clipping](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/local-vs-cloud.html) | |
| ## Status | |
| Alpha. It works and is used daily, but it is early and has rough edges, which | |
| are listed honestly in the known-issues document rather than discovered by | |
| users. | |