If you edit podcasts or streams, you know the pain: scrubbing hours of footage for good moments, uploading to cloud tools that watermark everything. ClipForge runs on your Windows PC. Drop any video — 15 minutes or 6 hours — and get ranked vertical clips with captions. Your footage never leaves your machine.
No credit card required for trial. 14-day refund on purchase, no questions. Download begins instantly.
Every other tool chokes past 60 minutes or uploads your raw footage to a server. ClipForge doesn't.
faster-whisper runs entirely on your CPU. No video data leaves your machine. The Whisper model downloads once, then works offline.
A six-feature heuristic scores every moment on length fit, boundary quality, sentence completeness, hook density, speech rate, and uniqueness. Best clips float to the top.
Wire in your OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or OpenAI-compatible provider key for LLM-powered moment scoring. You pay your provider directly. We never mark up tokens. Available on every tier.
Word-level timed subtitles with yellow highlight on the active word. Clean black outline. 64pt Arial. Looks native on TikTok and Instagram.
Haar cascade face tracking with scene-level cluster analysis. Keeps the speaker centered in the 9:16 frame. Optional. Center-crop is the safe default.
Built-in benchmark measures usable-clip rate. Grade your own exports A/B/C and track your hit rate over time.
Four steps from raw video to ranked clips. No account. No upload. No credit card for trial.
Drag any MP4, MOV, or MKV onto the window. ClipForge probes the file and extracts audio automatically. Works up to 6 hours.
faster-whisper runs on your CPU. Timestamped segments appear as they transcribe. Add custom vocabulary for names and jargon.
The heuristic scorer picks the best moments. Each clip shows its score, timestamps, and rationale. Tick the ones you want.
ffmpeg renders 1080x1920 MP4s with burned-in karaoke captions. Output lands in Videos\ClipForge\your-video-name\. Post immediately.
Real screenshots from a real export — no mockups.
No uploads. No watermarks on paid tiers. No monthly limits on Pro.
Paid tiers export completely clean, watermark-free vertical videos ready for publication.
Keep your footage private. Audio transcription and video rendering happen entirely on your computer.
Connect OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini directly. Pay only the raw API costs with zero markup.
Pro and Lifetime tiers have unlimited source video minutes. Perfect for multi-hour streams.
Try ClipForge risk-free. If you're not satisfied, we offer a full refund within 14 days, no questions asked.
Get started instantly with 60 minutes of source video processing and 15 clips. No credit card required.
ClipForge solves different problems depending on who you are.
You record 60-90 minute episodes and need clips for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. ClipForge finds the best moments, ranks them, and exports vertical clips with captions. No more scrubbing hours of audio.
Your VODs run 3-6 hours. Cloud clipping tools charge per minute or cap at 60 min. ClipForge handles long VODs locally. No upload, and no source-minute cap on Pro.
Receive raw interview footage and need highlights fast. Run it through ClipForge â get a ranked list of candidate clips with timestamps and reasons. Take only the best into your NLE. Saves hours.
Free trial: 60 source-minutes or up to 15 clips, with a small ClipForge Trial watermark. All tiers include local processing and bring-your-own-key AI scoring.
Local processing + BYO API key is unique in the category. No competitor offers it.
| Feature | ClipForge Pro | Opus Clip Pro | Vizard Creator | Submagic Pro | 2short.ai Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $19/mo | $29/mo | $29/mo | $39/mo | $19.90/mo |
| Monthly minutes | Unlimited | 300 min | 600 min | 40 videos | 900 min |
| Max video length | 6 hours | Not stated | 10 hours | 5 min | Not stated |
| Runs locally | â | â | â | â | â |
| BYO API key | â | â | â | â | â |
| Watermark-free | â All tiers | â Paid only | â Paid only | â Paid only | â Paid only |
Web services cap sources at 60-90 minutes because they pay to store and process your upload. A desktop app has no such constraint. And your raw footage stays on your machine.
Whisper supports about 100 languages for transcription. The heuristics and captions are tuned for English. Other languages work but quality varies.
Only for first-time model download, license activation, and optional AI scoring. Transcription and rendering work fully offline once the model is cached.
Source video duration. A 92-minute file uses 92 minutes regardless of how many clips you export. The meter resets on the 1st of each month UTC.
You pay your provider directly. A 30-minute transcript on GPT-4.1-mini costs under one cent. ClipForge never marks up tokens. If you do not want AI scoring, the heuristic scorer works offline for free.
Go to Settings → AI Scoring in the app and paste your API key from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google. ClipForge sends transcript excerpts and your request directly to the provider you select; your source video stays on your PC. No key? The built-in heuristic scorer works offline for free.
The free trial adds a small ClipForge Trial watermark. Every paid tier exports without watermarks.
Windows only at launch. Mac is planned, no committed date.
14 days, no questions. Email us from your purchase address.
Yes, on machines you personally control. Do not share keys with others.
60 minutes of source video processing and up to 15 exported clips. The trial ends when either limit is reached. No time limit, no credit card.
Free trial: 60 source-minutes, up to 15 clips. No credit card. No upload. Windows 10/11.
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