Free tool
Viral Clip Finder
Don't watch a 2-hour video looking for the viral moment — let AI find it. ClipX scores every candidate clip in your source for hook strength, narrative arc, and platform fit, then ranks them so the highest-potential moments surface first.
Monthly free credits. No credit card. Cancel any time.
How it works
Drop in any long video
Upload an MP4 / MOV / MKV / WebM, or paste a public/unlisted URL from YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, or Kick that you own or have rights to use. Podcasts, interviews, livestreams, lectures, and video essays all work — the only requirement is a soundtrack with speech.
AI scores every candidate moment
ClipX transcribes the full source with the host-native MLX transcription service. The configured LLM reads the transcript and runs each candidate segment through four scoring dimensions: hook strength (does the opening line grab attention in the first 3 seconds), narrative arc (does the segment have setup → tension → payoff), pacing (is it dense enough to hold attention), and platform fit (different cues land on TikTok versus YouTube Shorts).
Review the ranked feed
Clips appear in your dashboard sorted by virality score, strongest candidates first. Each clip shows timestamps, score, and a one-sentence reason. You review the shortlist, accept the ones you like, and skip the misses with a single click.
Export viral-ready
Each accepted clip exports with auto face-following crop, word-level captions in your chosen style, and optional background music. Output formats: 9:16 vertical for TikTok / Reels / Shorts, 1:1 square for Instagram feed, 16:9 for YouTube long-form re-cuts.
What you get
- Virality score and one-line reason for every suggested clip
- Top-of-feed scoring so the highest-potential moments are reviewed first
- 9:16 / 1:1 / 4:5 / 16:9 export — match the platform you publish to
- Word-level captions in selectable styles, included free
- MediaPipe face-tracking to keep speakers centered in vertical export
- Background music mixing with adjustable volume
- MP4 ready to share to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts (direct publishing coming soon)
Frequently asked questions
How does AI know what will go viral?
It does not literally predict virality — no tool can. ClipX scores structural traits that tend to matter on short-form platforms: a clear hook, enough context to stand alone, a complete payoff, dense information, and platform fit. The score is a relative ranking for that source, not an absolute viral guarantee.
How accurate is the viral clip ranking?
The ranking is a review accelerator, not a guarantee. ClipX scores candidate clips by hook strength, context, pacing, and platform fit so you can review the strongest moments first, then trim or skip anything that does not match your editorial bar.
Is this really free to use?
Yes. Free includes 100 coins every month (100 min of video processing) with a small ClipX watermark on exports, no credit card. Pro is currently $14/month during the beta sale (regularly $29) for 500 coins/month (500 min) and removes the watermark.
What types of content work best for viral clip detection?
Conversational content with clear story arcs — podcasts, interviews, lectures, video essays, sit-down vlogs — produces the highest-quality rankings because the analysis model can identify natural setup-payoff patterns. Live streams and Q&A formats also work well. Pure music, ambient video, or content without speech yields fewer rankings because the AI has less narrative signal to work with.
Can I see the AI's reasoning for each clip?
Yes. Every suggested clip includes a one-sentence reason in the dashboard, e.g. "strong rhetorical question at the open with a counterintuitive answer at 0:42" or "tension built around an audience expectation that gets subverted at the end". This makes it easy to validate the AI's judgment and decide whether the clip matches your channel's voice.
How is this different from random scene detection?
Scene detection cuts on visual changes — a camera cut, a person leaving frame, a slide transition. That tells you where edits happened, not where good clips are. ClipX scores at the semantic level: it reads what is being said, evaluates how it is being said, and ranks moments by their viral structural traits. Two consecutive scene-detected segments could both be flat content; the viral clip might span the boundary between them.
Will the same clip score the same on a re-run?
Largely yes — the underlying scoring rubric is consistent. There can be natural variance in the analysis model output across runs, especially when candidate segments have close scores near the cutoff.
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