What ClipIt is
ClipIt is an AI video search and clipping tool at clipit.now. You upload a long recording — a two-hour interview, a lecture, a podcast episode, an all-hands — and ask for the moment you need in ordinary language. ClipIt searches the transcript, returns the time ranges that answer the question, and shows why each range matched: the quote, a short rationale, and the start and end times on the source. A tool that claims to have found something has to show its reasoning, or you cannot tell a real find from a confident-sounding miss.
The product is built by Abdul Hamid Achik in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, through the studio The Lacanians. Support is support@clipit.now. Recordings stay private to your account; nothing you upload is used to train a model.
Ask a recording, then keep the range
Keyword search needs you to remember the phrasing. A question can be the thing you actually need — the refund policy, the three best host questions, every mention of a competitor — even when the speaker never used those words. Each result stays attached to evidence so you can reject a near miss instead of trusting a percentage.
The same recording answers more than one kind of ask: retrieval, chapters, ranking, and exhaustive “every time” events. Asking again does not spend more source minutes. Minutes are billed on the length of the file you uploaded, not on how many questions you run or how many clips you export.
A clip is a time range, not a rendered file
When a result is right, you save it as a clip: timestamps on the source recording held by Mux, not an MP4 sitting in a bucket. Nothing is transcoded up front. Export happens later, only when you need a file, captions, or a share link, and that export expires after seven days. The recording and the range both persist, so re-rendering is one operation rather than a library of files you pay rent on.
Finding the moment is half of being understood. Translate a recording’s captions once and every clip cut from it afterwards carries those subtitles, trimmed to its own range. When the audience needs to hear it, a clip can also be delivered as dubbed audio — a file, not an alternate track on a clipped asset.