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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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| <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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