OpusClip was built to slice a clean fish. Most people now hand us the whole fish.

When we started, people brought us finished videos: a podcast episode that was already edited, a keynote someone had cleaned up. We found the best moments and turned them into clips. That worked. Scroll your feed for a few minutes and there's a good chance you'll see a clip that came through OpusClip.

But what people bring us has changed. More and more, it's a raw take that nobody has had time to edit.

The edit is where things stall

I talk to a lot of founders and operators who make video content now. Two years ago, most of them didn't. Now they have to, because that's where their customers are. Almost none of them enjoy editing.

So they work around it. They film in one take because they know they'll never get around to cutting it, and they post it as is. A lot of them already have their next good video on their phone, filmed weeks ago and never edited.

For a while, we kept making clipping better and left the hardest part, the edit itself, to you. OpusClip 4.0 takes that on.

What's new

Auto-edit.

Built for talking videos. Drop in raw footage or paste a link, then switch on speech cleanup, captions, B-roll and more. What comes back is a finished video.

Every format.

One edit can become whatever you need that week: 60 to 90 second highlight clips, a 3 to 5 minute extended cut, or a quick lo-fi update.

Recipes.

Most people make the same kind of video over and over. Save your setup as a Recipe, or start from one of ours, and your next video gets edited the same way.

Viral Hook and Motion Graphics.

Editors spend hours on both. Viral Hook gives your first few seconds a hook style from our template library. Motion Graphics turns what you say into animated icons, numbers and charts on screen.

AI Producer.

If you already work in ChatGPT or Claude, you can edit from there with our plugin. Show it a style you like and it edits your footage to match.

Clipping isn't going anywhere. It's still what we're best known for, and it's still getting better. It's just one part of OpusClip now.

Why "content powerhouse"

The people who stay top of mind post often, in a lot of formats. Media companies pull that off with a room full of editors. A founder with a phone and a packed calendar usually can't. 4.0 is built to give a team of one some of that range.

Who we built it for

The person we kept picturing is a founder recording a two-minute product update on their phone between meetings. It works just as well for a dentist answering patient FAQs on camera every week, or someone teaching their 3,000 followers how to make high-protein meals. You don't need a big audience or an editor to do this.

What's next

4.0 is a starting point. There's a lot more we want to build around the edit, and we'll keep shipping it in the releases after this one. If something slows you down, tell us. You're who we build for, after all.

- Young

Young Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of OpusClip.

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