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Overview

Reap’s clipping workflow helps you turn long-form videos into short, engaging clips for social media. Start with a video upload or pasted link, configure your clip settings, and let Reap generate ready-to-edit clips in a few minutes. For finer editorial control, you can also describe what kinds of clips you want in plain language using a clip prompt — see Add a Clip Prompt below. This page includes a product walkthrough video, followed by the same workflow as written steps below.

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Step-By-Step Workflow

1

Upload your video or paste a link

Open the clipping workflow and add your source video from a local upload or a supported video link.
2

Click Get Clips

Use the first Get Clips action to open the clipping setup screen.
3

Choose your clip settings

Configure genre, caption style, language, orientation, resolution, timeframe, and clip length before starting generation.
4

Start processing

Click Get Clips again to begin generating your clips.

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1. Add Your Source Video

  • Upload a local video file, or paste a supported video URL.
  • Supported formats: .mp4, .mov, .webm, .mkv.
  • Supported uploads start at 1 minute and go up to 180 minutes (3 hours).
  • Maximum file size: 10 GB.
  • After your video loads, click Get Clips to move into the clipping setup flow.

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2. Select Video Genre

Choose the genre that best matches your video so Reap can optimize the clipping behavior.
  • Talking
  • Presentation
  • Gaming

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3. Choose Caption Style Or Brand Template

  • Pick a built-in caption style from the Caption styles tab.
  • If you have reusable brand presets, switch to Brand templates and select one there instead.

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4. Set Language And Translation

  • Set the main spoken Language of the source video.
  • Optionally choose a Translate to language if you want translated clips.
Translation is optional. If you do not want translated clips, leave Translate to set to None.

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5. Choose Script Mode

Select how the script should be handled:
  • Native for captions in the original script of the selected language.
  • Roman for romanized captions, where the spoken language is written using Latin characters.

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6. Choose Orientation

Pick the aspect ratio based on where you plan to publish the clips.
OrientationBest for
Portrait (9:16)YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook
Landscape (16:9)YouTube, Facebook
Square (1:1)Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn
Choose orientation based on the target platform first. This usually has the biggest impact on how native the final clip feels.

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7. Choose Resolution

Select the export resolution for the generated clips:
  • 720
  • 1080
  • 2K
  • 4K

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8. Set Processing Time Frame

Use the Processing Time Frame slider to control which part of the video Reap should analyze.
  • Select the full video if you want clips from the entire upload.
  • Narrow the range if you only want clips from a specific section.

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9. Choose Auto Clip Length

Pick the clip-length range Reap should target:
  • <30s
  • 30s-60s
  • 60s-90s
  • 90s-3min

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10. Add Clip Topics (Optional)

Use Clip Topics to guide Reap toward specific subjects you want included in the output.
  • Add keywords or topics separated by commas.
  • Leave it empty if you want Reap to choose freely from the full video.
Clip topics are optional. They are most useful when you want the clips to focus on a specific theme, person, or talking point.

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11. Add a Clip Prompt (Optional)

Use a Clip Prompt to describe in plain language what kinds of clips Reap should pull. A prompt is the richest control you have — it can steer clip count, duration, focus, exclusions, editorial mode, and tone, and it overrides generic virality scoring when the two conflict.
Clip prompts are live today in the Automation API as a preview feature. Prompts in the app are in private beta — request access for your workspace. In the meantime, Clip Topics is the closest thing in the UI.
Examples of what a prompt can do:
  • “Highlight reel of the funniest moments — keep clips under 60 seconds.”
  • “Only product-demo segments where the host walks through a feature.”
  • “Give me 5 clips, each focused on a single tactical takeaway.”
  • “Trailer-style cuts that build to a punchline; skip anything about pricing.”
For 14 ready-to-use prompts covering every editorial mode — highlight reel, trailer, hooks only, quotes, Q&A, storytelling, and more — see Example prompts in the API reference. The prompt is a preview feature: the field, its name, and its 1000-character limit are stable, but how the AI interprets a given instruction may evolve. Pin a tested prompt for production workflows.
Combine a clip prompt with the Processing Time Frame slider when you want a focused set of clips from a specific section of the video — the slider narrows the source, the prompt narrows the editorial.

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12. Generate Your Clips

Once your setup is ready:
  • Review your selections.
  • Click Get Clips again to start processing.
Reap will begin generating clips based on your selected settings, and your viral-ready clips should be available within a few minutes.

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What To Adjust First

If you want the best results quickly, prioritize these settings first:
  1. Clip Prompt (when you have specific editorial intent — see Add a Clip Prompt)
  2. Video Genre
  3. Orientation
  4. Auto Clip Length
  5. Processing Time Frame
Those choices usually have the biggest effect on how the final clips look and feel.