This week, I tested AI video clipping tools to help a client who creates long videos but can't edit them.

Why?

Because editing videos for social media is painfully time-consuming - watching entire videos, finding good moments, precise cutting, resizing, captioning... 

In the end, great content stays on your computer if you can't get it edited and posted quickly.

The Test Parameters

I had a big challenge for the tools. 😂

The video I wanted to edit:

• Unprofessional Zoom conversation

• Poor video and sound quality

• Wrong size for social media

• Not in English

What I needed:

• Free option to test the tool and a reasonable price if we choose it

• Easy to use

• Can identify good moments even if it's not in English

The Results

Veed

• Cost: Free trial available; paid plans start at $12/month

• Features: Complete video editing suite with timeline editing, auto-captions in multiple languages, effects library, transitions, templates, and AI clip detection to find key moments in longer videos

• Results: Upload process repeatedly got stuck at 100%. After multiple attempts and waiting over 20 minutes, when it finally processed the video, I received a message to upgrade my plan despite already being a paid subscriber. This was the biggest disappointment for me as a paid user

• Verdict: Excellent for manual editing when it works properly, but AI features failed my test completely. Their customer support still hasn't responded.

Descript

• Cost: Free plan available with limitations, paid plans from $12/month

• Features: Primarily known for accurate transcription and text-based editing, screen recording functionality, advanced audio editing tools, and an AI "Social Clips" feature that supposedly identifies interesting moments and creates clips with automatic captions and formatting

• Results: Encountered immediate issues during the upload, with the process timing out twice. When the video finally uploaded on the third attempt, the AI clip generation feature failed to produce any clips. Attempting to use the feature again redirected to a payment page.

• Verdict: Couldn't properly test AI clip generation features. 
  
  

Clip by Opus.pro

• Cost: Free with watermark, $9/month paid plans

• Features: Specialized AI that analyzes video content to detect topic changes, emotional moments, key points, and naturally engaging segments. Offers clip length adjustment, basic captioning, and simple trimming tools. Interface designed specifically for creating multiple short clips from longer videos rather than full editing.

• Results: Successfully processed an 8-minute video. Generated 14 potentially usable clips of varying length (15-45 seconds), some clips were usable, and you can edit them if needed. The free version adds a small but not overly intrusive watermark.

• Verdict: The most functional tool tested for automatic clip generation was the AI clip detection, which worked impressively well even with non-English content.

• Website: https://clip.opus.pro/

Munch

• Cost: Free plan (5 videos/month), $29/month paid plans

• Features: Purpose-built for social media with automatic reformatting for different platforms (vertical for TikTok/Reels, square for Instagram, etc.). Includes engagement enhancement with automatic headline generation, hashtag suggestions, and keyword analysis. 

• Results: Simple upload process, but only created 4 total clips - 2 were unusably short at just 1-second each, while the other 2 captured random segments without any clear indication of why these moments were selected. The auto-generated hashtags and keywords seemed completely unrelated to the video content.

• Verdict: Great concept with poor execution. Maybe it works better with english content as it completely failed to identify meaningful segments in non-English video. The interface is nice, but the core AI functionality disappointed. I also had some issues with the background music being added even though the feature was closed.

• Website: https://app.getmunch.com/

Bottom Line

While no AI video clipping tool is perfect and none can transform a low-quality Zoom video into production level content—Opus.Pro is the clear winner. Despite the inherent limitations and occasional crashes (so it's best to keep videos under 10 minutes), Opus.Pro consistently delivered the most reliable performance in automatically detecting and generating usable clips, even with non-English content.

Honestly, I was pretty disappointed with some of the other tools tested, but Opus.pro stood out as the best option overall.

Have you found better AI video clipping tools? Drop them in the comments.