What is a clip?
A clip is a tiny segment of a video track, audio track, or image that can be created from a larger project. Think of clips as the building blocks editors use to produce a video. These smaller portions of longer media files can be trimmed, modified, or split without affecting the source files.
Clips can be further divided into even smaller parts to help you get rid of any unnecessarily long pauses, fumbles, or glaring errors that need to be removed.
To keep your clips organized, most video editing software offers bins or folders to help you easily access files when you need them.
What is a clip in a video?
A clip is a shorter segment of a usually longer video. Editors cut clips to promote a podcast or make content more digestible for social media where formats and attention spans are short. Shorter clips usually perform better on platforms like TikTok and Instagram.
What is the easiest way to clip a video?
Import your video into your preferred editing software and place it on the timeline. Move the playhead to where you want to cut, and use the razor tool to cut out the desired clip. You can move this clip around if you need to tell a better story or delete it from the source file if it contains an error.
Some video editing software like Riverside lets you use AI to automatically find the best clips instead of having to dig into the recording manually.
What are video clips called?
Video clips are known as clips or footage segments. In filmmaking, these clips are called shots, takes, or scenes.
How to use Magic Clips on Riverside
To automatically find the best moments from your recording, follow these steps:
- Log in to Riverside from your browser and go to your recorded content.
- Open the recording, and scroll to the Edits section.
- Under Magic Clips, click Set up workflow.
- Pick the right settings for your clips (duration, layout, speed etc.). You can choose a speaker or type in keywords that you would like the clip to focus on. Once your'e done, click Save.
- Under Magic Clips, click on Generate to start creating Magic Clips.
- Wait for the clips to be created, then click on each one of them to open it in the editor and further customize it.
