How to Use OpusClip to Cut Long Videos into High-Engagement Shorts

OpusClip offers you a ton of features and lets you use all of them to their fullest potential. By the end of this guide, you'll go from a beginner to a master when it comes to knowing how to use OpusClp for clipping video content.

You'll learn the tips for editing videos, making them more advanced using AI B-roll, and scheduling your content. You'll also explore more of OpusClip's AI-powered features. Let's get started and jump right in.

Part 1. How to Use OpusClip to Find the Most Viral Moments In a Video?

Step 1. Uploading a Video into OpusClip

After signing up and logging into OpusClip, you have a few options here. First, you can drop in and import almost any type of link. This can be a Dropbox link, a Google Drive link, a YouTube link, Twitch, or Rumble.

Once you do this, the video link or file uploads, and you can choose between ClipBasic or ClipAnything.

Step 2. Clip Basic vs Clip Anything

ClipBasic creates clips directly from your transcript, which already works well. If you want more control over how your videos turn out, you can choose ClipAnything instead.

With ClipAnything, you can prompt OpusClip to find very specific moments in your video. For example, if you choose something and talk about it, you can ask it to find the moment where the glass appears in the frame. It also works for specific actions, like someone hitting a human run, etc.

You can enter your prompt to include a specific moment. For this tutorial, you can keep it simple and just prompt it to find the viral moments.

Step 3. Choosing the Clip Length and Clip Genre

The next thing you'll want to set is the length of your clip. You can choose from any of the length options shown on the screen. For YouTube Shorts, you can now create clips that are up to three minutes long. You can select ranges like a few seconds up to three minutes, or even ten to fifteen minutes.

OpusClip will try its best to find clips that fit within the length you choose. If your video is for YouTube Shorts, you can keep it between 30 and 60 seconds, 60 and 90 seconds, or 90 seconds and three minutes.

Next, you'll select the genre of your video. OpusClip AI will try its best to identify the genre automatically, but sometimes it helps to select it manually. This way, OpusClip understand the content more accurately.

Step 4. Setting the Processing Time Frame and Template

Now you can move on to the next step, which is setting your processing time frame. If you want OpusClip to process the entire video, you can keep this setting as it is.

After that, you'll choose a template. There are plenty of templates available, so you can pick any one you like. You can also select one of your own custom templates.

Step 5. Generating Your Clips with One Click

Once everything is set, click "Get clips in 1 click." With just one click, OpusClip starts generating your viral clips. This process usually takes around 10 to 20 minutes.

You'll see a progress percentage on the screen as the clips are generated. The actual time depends on how much demand there is on the platform. If usage is high, it may take a bit longer. If demand is lower, the process finishes faster. In most cases, it moves along pretty quickly.

Step 6. Reviewing and Sharing the Best Clips

Once the processing is complete, your clips are ready. From a 20-minute video, you might end up with around 24 clips, which is a good number. Not every clip will be worth using, so it's a good idea to review each one and pick the ones you like most. Finally, save your changes and start sharing them directly on social media platforms.

Part 2. How to Use OpusClip to Edit and Schedule Your Clips

Editing Your Clips

OpusClip offers you some tools to edit your chosen viral clips from a video. You can click on Edit Clip to start editing the entire clip. This is a powerful AI-based editor, and you can make detailed changes here.

If you don't like a particular sentence, click Add Section. This opens the transcript, where you can select the sentences you want and add them as a new segment. Once added, the segment renders and appears on the timeline.

If OpusClip gets something wrong, or if you want to include or exclude certain parts, you can easily do that using this text-based editor. You can also remove a segment from the timeline if you decide you don't want it and return to the original clip.

Once you're back in the video, you'll notice that some words are already highlighted. If you want to highlight a specific word yourself, you can click on it, select Highlight, and then choose a color.

To change highlight styles in bulk, you can open the AI Keyword Highlighter on the right menu. From there, you can adjust the colors and apply different highlight styles based on your preference.

Adjusting Caption Placement Safely

Another thing you can customize is the captions. First, you can choose where you want the captions to appear. When you drag them around, you'll notice a safety boundary. This helps prevent captions from being covered by share buttons or like buttons on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts.

Next, you can click on Captions to change the preset. You can switch to any preset you like. For example, selecting the karaoke-style preset applies a built-in karaoke effect provided by OpusClip. You can see all of the available key options here. You can add effects like an underline and choose different styles, such as a soft color option. After selecting your preferences, click Generate.

You can also apply animations, like sliding the captions left or moving them upward. These visual effects are generated automatically, and there is a lot of customization available to fine-tune how your captions look.

You can also choose how many lines of captions you want, either one line or three lines, depending on your preference. You can keep the position set to auto or adjust it manually. You can also select different caption animations, such as a bounce animation, to change how the captions appear.

Besides caption styles, you can also change the font. If you have a specific font you like or a brand font you already use, select one from the list or upload your own custom font.

When you click the upload option, a new tab opens where you can add your font file. Once uploaded, OpusClip uses that font in your captions. Furthermore, there is an option as well to change the font color.

Changing Clip Layout

When it comes to more advanced features in OpusClips, one of the first things you can change is the layout of your clip.

For example, if the video has a screen share going on, you'll see several layout options.

The Fill focuses on one person and covers the entire frame. You can also select Fit, which works well for 16:9 videos and tries to include everyone on the screen. Another option is Split for multiple people visible at the same time. This is a popular choice for talking-head podcasts with more than one speaker.

There's also a Three layout if three elements are present, although it won't apply if the video doesn't include them. In addition, you'll see Screen Share and Gameplay layouts, which are designed specifically for screen recordings or gameplay videos. Play around until you find the perfect fit for your video, and then apply it.

Using Text Overlays, Transitions, and AI Voiceover

On the left-hand side, you have a few different options to choose from.

First, you have Text Overlay, where you can add a heading or a title if you want it to appear in the first few seconds of your video.

Next, you have Transitions. These speak for themselves and let you transition between multiple scenes.

After that, you have AI Voiceover. If you don't have dialogue, want to add an intro, or want to add a voiceover, you can do that here. You can type your voiceover script directly. You have a bunch of different options available. After selecting one, you can adjust the stability and the original audio.

This usually takes around 20 seconds, and then your voiceover is ready. You can place it at the beginning of your video, and it will mute the other soundtrack. This is a simple way to add a voiceover to your video, making OpusClip an all-in-one video editor that can add voiceovers as well.

Using B-Roll in OpusClip

Next, you have B-roll. One thing you might want to change in your video is the part where B-roll is shown.

If the B-roll is not zoomed in correctly and looks like a regular YouTube video or any other one, according to that specific platform, you have a couple of options. You can zoom in on it to make it fit better.

Alternatively, copy the original video link, go back to OpusClip, and clip the entire stream. Even if it is a long stream, you can clip it and use it as B-roll.

For this, use a template for the original 16:9 format.

Then, take any moment you want and use it as B-roll. To do this, go back to OpusClip, click Upload, and once the file is uploaded, drag it onto the timeline. This usually takes about 10 seconds. After that, you resize it, select the moment you want to show, crop it slightly, or adjust the sizing.

This way, you end up with your own custom B-roll.

If you don't have any B-roll of your own, you can go to the B-roll section and use the Auto-generate AI B-roll option or the Stock B-roll feature.

When you click on Auto-generate AI B-roll, it generates AI images with transitions. Depending on the type of content you're talking about, this can be a good substitute for using actual B-roll. For example, if the video is about live streaming, you'll see B-roll of a live stream playing.

This is another way to spice up your videos and make them more custom. In the end, you can clip any type of content, but adding your own style is what makes it yours.

How Do I Add Music to an OpusClip?

OpusClip has a Music feature that allows you to add music to your video. You can do this by uploading your own audio or choosing from the copyright-free music provided by No Copyright Songs.

Then, play a track to listen to it, and once you like it, click Add to place it on your timeline.

After that, adjust the volume. You can keep it as it is, or increase or decrease it based on what you prefer.

Enhancing Audio Quality with AI Enhance

Another feature you can use is helpful if you don't have a fancy microphone or if you're recording outside using something like an iPhone mic that doesn't sound very good.

To fix this, you can click on AI Enhance. From there, apply speech enhancement, remove filler words, remove pauses, and censor curse words. This is useful if you want to speed up your editing process by automatically removing mistakes, especially if you're working with poor audio quality.

After turning these options on, click Confirm, and the process takes less than 10 seconds. Once it's finished, you'll notice that background noise is removed from the audio.

Saving, Exporting, and Publishing Your Clips

That's essentially how you edit your entire clips using OpusClip AI. After editing the clip, you can go back to it, and if you're happy with what you've made, click Save Changes.

Once the changes are saved, head over to Export. The clip will take a few seconds to re-render.

Scheduling Your Clips on Social Media

If you want to publish your clip on your social media platforms, click on it and select the platform you want to use. You can link any of the social media platforms you're using, then change the title and the description.

After that, you select the date and time you want the clip to be published. For example, there are options for you to choose a specific date, select the time, and then click Schedule. You can also set the post to private before scheduling it.

Part 3. FAQs of How to Use OpusClip

Conclusion on How to Use OpusClip

In this guide, you discovered how to use OpusClip to find the most viral moments inside your uploaded video. After extracting those moments, you also learned different ways to edit those clips and schedule them from within the platform. Now you know the full process and can create more viral short content quickly.