Tips for better results

Start with a good source video

AI can help find strong moments, but it works with the material you upload.

If the video is too dark, the sound is hard to hear, people speak over each other, the camera shakes a lot, or important moments happen far away from the camera, the result may be weaker.

The best videos are easy to understand: people are visible, speech is clear, and there are emotions, movement, reactions or separate meaningful episodes.

This does not mean the video has to look like a studio production. Not at all. It just has to be clear enough for processing. In our experience, almost all amateur videos that users record and save for themselves work with ClipThemAll. Professional content works perfectly.

Take care of the sound

For videos with speech, sound is often more important than the picture, because most of the time we hear jokes, not see them :)

A podcast, interview, webinar, lesson, family greeting or event recording works better when voices are clear. A strong line can get lost if it is covered by noise, music or background conversations.

Before uploading, it is worth checking a few places in the video. If you can barely understand what people are saying, AI may also process the material less accurately. Although, strangely enough, AI can sometimes understand speech better than people.

Good sound helps the service understand where the important moments are.

Choose videos where something happens

AI Clip Creation works best with videos that have life in them.

It can be a conversation, argument, laughter, reaction, explanation, story, question and answer, unexpected twist or simply a warm family moment.

If nothing happens for a long time, a person stays silent, the camera shows the same thing, or the recording is mostly technical pauses, AI may find fewer strong fragments.

Good clips usually come from places where there is energy, emotion or meaning.

Do not upload too many “empty” fragments

Sometimes a long video contains a lot of unnecessary material: waiting for the start, camera setup, pauses, a blank screen, intro screens, technical talk, breaks.

If there are many such parts, they will not stop processing, but you may simply pay extra for processing “empty” material.

When possible, it is better to upload a video where the main material has already started. For example, not the full one-hour file with ten minutes of preparation at the beginning, but the recording from the moment where the conversation, lesson, speech or event actually begins.

This helps the service get to the useful episodes faster.

Think about what clips you need

Before creating an order, it helps to understand what result you want.

Do you need short dynamic clips for TikTok? Calmer fragments for YouTube Shorts? Emotional moments from a family video? Useful explanations from a webinar? Podcast clips for promotion?

The answer will help you choose the right settings.

When the goal is clear, it is easier to choose clip length, additional vertical versions, Visual emotion detection and Smart face tracking.

Choose the approximate clip length correctly

In AI Clip Creation, you can choose the approximate length of future clips.

Short clips work well for quick reactions, bright lines, funny moments and dynamic content.

Longer clips work better for explanations, stories, answers, educational videos and fragments where context matters.

The service will try to follow the selected length. But it does not have to cut everything strictly by seconds. Sometimes a good moment needs to be a little longer or shorter so it does not break in the middle of a thought.

This is normal. A good clip should feel natural, not just match an exact length.

Use Visual emotion detection when emotions matter

If faces, smiles, surprise, laughter, human reactions, tension or live communication matter in your video, it is worth enabling Visual emotion detection.

This option helps the service focus more on the picture and notice emotional moments in the frame.

It is especially useful for interviews, podcasts, family videos, reactions, events and conversational recordings.

For example, in a family video, the important part may be not only what a person said, but also how they smiled, got surprised or reacted. In an interview, a strong moment may be the one where the speaker is not just answering, but clearly feeling something.

Visual emotion detection helps these episodes not get lost.

Add vertical versions if clips are for social media

If you plan to publish the result on TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts, add Additional TikTok/Reels/Shorts version.

The service will prepare additional vertical versions of the clips.

This is useful because horizontal video does not always look good on a phone. Vertical format is better for mobile viewing and short social platforms.

If the clips are only for an archive, internal review or later editing, the vertical version may not be necessary.

Turn on Smart face tracking if there is a person in the frame

If you create vertical versions and the video has a speaker, host, interview participant or main person in the frame, it is usually better to choose Smart face tracking.

This option helps keep the face or main person inside the vertical frame.

This is especially important when the source video is horizontal. When it is converted to vertical format, part of the image is cropped, and without tracking the person may end up on the side or partly outside the frame.

Smart face tracking makes vertical clips easier to watch.

Do not expect handcrafted director-level editing from AI

ClipThemAll is built for fast automatic processing.

AI helps find strong moments, prepare clips, create vertical versions and remove most of the routine. But it does not work like a human editor who manually thinks through drama, music, captions, color, pauses and every frame.

If you need precise author-style editing, it is better to use a professional editor and spend long hours working with the material :)

If you need to quickly get good clips from a long video, ClipThemAll is a better fit.

Review the result with understanding

AI may choose moments a little differently than you would.

Sometimes it will find a fragment you would have missed. Sometimes it will choose a moment that seems less important to you. This is normal for automatic processing.

The main value of the service is that it quickly does the first big job: it watches the video, finds promising episodes and prepares the cut.

You save time and get ready files that you can work with further.

Videos that usually give the best result

The best videos are the ones with clear events and lively fragments.

For example:

• podcasts;
• interviews;
• webinars;
• lessons;
• YouTube videos;
• expert talks;
• family videos;
• holiday and event recordings;
• conversational videos;
• reaction videos;
• educational materials.

If the video has people, speech, emotions, meaning, movement or interesting episodes, AI has a better chance of finding good clips.

If you recorded a game stream, the image-based emotion detection feature will be completely useless :) Do not turn it on — the result will be just as good, but at a lower price.

Videos that may give a weaker result

The result may be weaker if the video has little useful material.

For example:

• long pauses;
• bad sound;
• a very dark picture;
• strong camera shake;
• many technical inserts;
• long fragments without people or events;
• conversations that are hard to hear;
• videos where important action happens far from the camera;
• material without emotion, movement or clear meaning.

In these cases, the service will choose the best of what is available in the overall material, but there may be fewer good clips.

FAQ: how to get better results