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Self-hosted Opus Clip — long video in, LLM-picked 9:16 clips with word-level captions out.
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What it is
A self-hosted clip factory: hand it a long video and an LLM picks the segments most likely to stand alone, reframes them to 9:16 and burns in word-level captions. It bundles thumbnail and title tooling alongside.
What it is good for. Shorts are currently the cheapest organic reach on YouTube, and a tutorial channel is already producing exactly the right source material — a ten-minute product walkthrough contains half a dozen moments that work on their own. Doing this by hand is an afternoon per video, which is precisely why nobody sustains it past week three; doing it with a script is how channels post daily without burning out. Fed by the transcript from 04, it turns one recording into a long video, a Shorts queue and a stack of captioned assets for LinkedIn and X.
- MIT and self-hosted — no watermark, no per-clip fee, no monthly SaaS bill
- Reframing and caption burn-in is the tedious half of the job, and it is the half that is automated
- Runs in Docker, so it never touches a local Python environment
- No tagged releases — you run whatever
mainis that day. Pin a specific commit or a Friday will break - It calls paid LLM and text-to-speech APIs, so every batch has a real cost. Set a spend cap before the first run
- The model's taste in clips is mediocre. Expect to reject roughly half of what it proposes
