AutoClip is an open-source AI video clipping desktop tool that turns one long video into publish-ready short clips: paste a link and it downloads, analyzes, cuts, subtitles, designs a cover and drafts the release copy. The MIT-licensed project has gathered more than 9,600 stars on GitHub and was actively developed through 2026.
Long-form content such as podcasts, interviews and courses hides short moments that perform far better on short-video platforms. AutoClip automates that repurposing end to end: it pulls a video from a link, uses AI to find the segments worth clipping, cuts them into vertical shorts, generates subtitles and covers, and writes platform-ready descriptions. The result is formatted for Douyin, Xiaohongshu, TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, and an MCP interface lets AI agents drive the pipeline as well.
AutoClip is free and open source under the MIT license. You only pay for any third-party AI or transcription services you choose to plug into it.
Because the whole workflow runs in a desktop app, creators keep control of their source footage and accounts instead of uploading everything to a third-party clipping service. The tool is aimed squarely at the podcast-to-short-form pipeline that dominates creator workflows today, where a single hour-long episode can supply a week of short posts across several platforms at once.
It is for podcasters, educators, streamers and content teams sitting on hours of long video who want a steady flow of short clips for social platforms without hiring an editor or scrubbing timelines by hand.