Tool
Podcast clip generator
Upload a long recording — a podcast, an interview, a stream — and StoryTok transcribes it, has a language model identify the moments that stand alone, and returns them as captioned vertical clips in a single download.
The billing difference here is the one worth understanding before comparing prices. Subscription clipping tools charge by upload minute: a sixty-minute podcast consumes sixty minutes of your monthly quota regardless of what comes out. StoryTok charges for the minutes it renders. Ten clips averaging ninety seconds is about fifteen billable minutes, not sixty — so a long source with a few good moments in it costs a fraction of what the same job costs on a quota.
That inverts as sources get shorter and denser. If you are clipping a ten-minute video into eight clips, output minutes approach input minutes and the advantage narrows. The model favours long sources with sparse highlights, which is exactly what podcasts and streams are.
What the model is actually looking for is self-containment — a moment that makes sense without the twenty minutes before it. That is a different question from whether something was interesting in context, and it is the reason manually chosen clips often underperform: the person who sat through the recording cannot un-know the setup.
How it works
Step 1
Upload the long recording
A podcast episode, interview or stream VOD. The file goes straight from your browser to storage, so length is not a bottleneck.
Step 2
Automatic transcription
The whole source is transcribed with timings so the model can reason about the content rather than guessing from audio levels.
Step 3
The model picks the moments
It selects segments that stand alone without their surrounding context — the thing that actually determines whether a clip works cold in a feed.
Step 4
Download the clips
Selected moments come back cut, captioned and vertical, delivered together as a single zip.
Specifics
- Input
- Your uploaded long-form video
- Selection
- Language model picks self-contained moments from the transcript
- Output
- Captioned vertical clips, delivered as a zip
- Billing
- Per minute of clip output — not per minute uploaded
- Best economics
- Long sources with sparse highlights
- Cost
- 3 free minutes at signup, then ~17¢ per rendered minute on the $10 pack
Worth knowing
- Billing is per output minute, so a 60-minute podcast yielding 15 minutes of clips costs 15 credits, not 60.
- The advantage narrows on short, dense sources where output minutes approach input minutes.
- Self-containment is the selection criterion — a clip has to work for someone who missed the setup.
- Clips arrive already captioned and cropped to vertical, as one zip download.
Questions
How is this priced against subscription clipping tools?
Subscription tools meter the minutes you upload; StoryTok meters the minutes it renders. A sixty-minute podcast that yields ten ninety-second clips is about fifteen billable minutes here against sixty on an upload quota. The gap closes when sources are short and you clip most of them.
How does the AI choose which moments to clip?
It reads the transcript and looks for segments that stand on their own — a complete thought that lands without the context around it. That is a different test from whether a moment was interesting live, which is why manually picked clips often underperform.
Can I upload a YouTube link instead of a file?
Not currently — clipping runs from uploaded files only. Pulling source video from YouTube is not enabled, so download your own recording and upload it directly.
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