Findclips

Find Clips scans incoming video and creates clip outputs from your clipping strategy, duration, prompt, keyword, and optional model guidance.

The Find Clips node is for selecting moments from the source video. It does not apply visual edits such as subtitles, reframing, b-roll, watermarks, or outros. Add those editing nodes after Find Clips when you want to change how the clips look.

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Add the node

Open Workflows from the left sidebar and click New to open the workflow builder. Add a trigger first, such as Manual Trigger, New YouTube Video, RSS Feed, or another source node. In the Editing stage, choose Find Clips. Overlap adds the action node to the canvas and connects it to the previous video output. Click the Find Clips node on the canvas whenever you need to reopen its settings on the right side.

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Choose a clipping strategy

Choose one of the visual Clipping Strategy cards at the top of the sidebar:

• Highlights finds the strongest standalone moments in the source.
• Montages are themed clips that combine related moments with discontinuous cuts.
• Even Clips splits the complete source into continuous clips near one target length.

Selecting a card expands the settings that apply to that strategy directly below it. Highlights includes a model choice and a minimum/maximum duration. The Montages strategy includes a minimum/maximum duration. Even Clips includes one target duration. The saved workflow contract still treats Even Clips as the uniform strategy; the clearer label only changes how the option appears in the sidebar.

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Videos with no speech

Even Clips works on videos with nothing spoken, such as ASMR, b-roll, or music-free screen recordings. With no sentences to align to, the source is cut into exact target-length clips from the start, and each clip is titled after the source video (<source title> (Part 1 of 12)). Subtitles on these clips are empty. Highlights and Montages on the default model choose clips from what is said, so they stop with “This video has no speech” on such a source. Use Even Clips, or the Multimodal model for Highlights, which selects from frames.

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Choose a Highlights model

When Highlights is selected, use Model to choose how Overlap should evaluate the source video:

• Conversational: for spoken conversations, podcasts, interviews, and similar talk-driven videos
• Multimodal: for sports or other videos where non-verbal context is important

The Montages and Even Clips strategies choose their required clipping model automatically, so they do not show a separate model setting.

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Configure duration

For Highlights and Montages, use Minimum and Maximum under Duration to set the target range for generated clips. The current defaults are:

• Minimum: 30 s
• Maximum: 120 s

Clips can be between 10 and 600 seconds, and the minimum must stay below the maximum. For Even Clips, set one Target clip length from 10 to 600 seconds. The separate minimum and maximum controls are hidden because they do not apply. Find Clips partitions the complete source at approximately that length, using nearby transcript boundaries when possible, without a fixed maximum number of clips.

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Guide clip selection

For organizations with transcript reuse enabled, Find Clips preserves one source transcript using your configured transcription provider. Selection, General Editor cuts, and subtitles share its speech timing. Automatic cuts use sentence starts and sentence ends; timestamp ranges you pin remain exact. Automatic boundary reviews use sentence starts for openings and sentence ends for endings, including when speech is separated by a pause. Joined montage outputs reuse the selected words in playback order. Caption corrections create an editable working version while preserving the original source transcript. This applies to new runs; existing clips are unchanged. Use Prompt to describe what makes a good clip for this workflow. You can type directly into the editor or click Select prompt to choose a saved prompt. Good prompts usually name the audience, topic, or type of moment you want. For example:

• Find clips where the guest shares practical advice for founders.
• Surface energetic moments with clear reactions or surprising claims.
• Focus on segments about AI trends and avoid housekeeping or intro chatter.

Use Keywords when certain terms, names, products, or topics should influence what the node looks for. The node starts with no custom keywords. For montage-style prompts, Find Clips can combine separated moments in the playback order that best explains the chosen theme. That order does not have to match source chronology: a later moment may become the hook when the resulting clip remains coherent. By default, Overlap creates one new video in the chosen playback order while keeping each exact selected moment editable in Studio. The video also includes about five seconds of surrounding source context on each side of every moment. Those five-second targets snap to the nearest transcript sentence start and sentence end, so extending a cut does not begin or end halfway through a sentence. The optional flattened mode joins only the exact selected moments and removes the editable segment contract. The optional segments mode retains the long source and absolute source-time ranges instead of creating a standalone video.

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Clip titles

After selecting each clip’s source ranges, Find Clips generates a concise title from the exact retained transcript. This title step applies to every clipping strategy, including Even Clips; it does not change the selected timestamps. The generated title is clip metadata, not text burned into the video. Add a Style Video node afterward when you want visible title text in the finished video.

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Runtime configuration

When you manually launch a workflow that includes Find Clips, open Runtime Configuration to add one-run guidance without changing the saved workflow.

• Prompt adjustment adds temporary instructions to the saved Find Clips prompt.
• Timestamp ranges accepts source-video start and end times. Use Guaranteed clips to include exact ranges as clips, or Search within to find individual clips inside those ranges.

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Build the rest of the workflow

After Find Clips, continue with editing nodes such as Style Video, Convert to Vertical, or Audiogram. Finish with an export node so the workflow has a destination for the clips it creates.