Obiklip – read transcripts, find and create video segments quickly
I'm a video editor, but not very professional. I mostly edit speech and podcast videos to highlight interesting parts and make short clips. I've found that the most time-consuming task is finding interesting segments in a full-length video. It usually takes me 2-3 hours of continuous listening just to find the 'timestamps' where the interesting points start and end. I'm referring to source videos that are 30 min to 1 hour long. Nowadays, getting transcriptions for videos is easy with AI. So, why not use that to find segments? Reading through a transcription is much quicker and easier than…
Obiklip – read transcripts, find and create video segments quickly launched on October 17, 2023 with 12 votes, #1,437 of 4,393 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Obiklip is a tool for video editors who work with speech and podcast content. It uses AI-generated transcriptions to help users quickly identify interesting segments in long videos, replacing the time-consuming process of listening through hours of footage. Users can read through transcriptions, mark interesting sections, and generate timestamps for those clips, significantly reducing the editing workflow for creators who produce short-form content from longer source material.
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From the sources
Obiklip is a desktop app for macOS and Windows that turns long recordings into short, subtitled clips you can post.
Turn long-form spoken video into short, publish-ready clips. Obiklip is a desktop application for macOS and Windows that turns a long recording into short clips you can post. Give it an hour of talking - a podcast, a lecture, a sermon, an interview, a webinar - and it hands back the moments worth sharing, cut, subtitled and shaped for wherever they are going. Choose how you pay for AI: processing minutes with Obiklip PAYG (Pay As You Go), or your own OpenAI API key with the BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) edition, new in 2.3.0. Neither edition has an Obiklip subscription. PAYG includes thirty free minutes to get started. Try a different angle on the same recording and keep every analysis as its…from obiklip.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
I'm a video editor, but not very professional. I mostly edit speech and podcast videos to highlight interesting parts and make short clips. I've found that the most time-consuming task is finding interesting segments in a full-length video. It usually takes me 2-3 hours of continuous listening just to find the…
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