# Clips by Småverk

> AI that turns a long recording into clips ready to post, on your device, in the page at https://clips.smaverk.com: it finds the moments, makes each one 9:16 with the speaker in frame, and writes the captions in. The recording is not uploaded. Free to find the moments and watch the clips, and to save one clip with a small smaverk.com mark. $49 once saves every clip, with no mark. There is no account. The same key also opens the three tools Clips is built from: Captions, Vertical and Clip finder.

Clips is one of the tools by Småverk; https://smaverk.com lists them all. It runs the other three in a row: Clip finder finds the moments, Vertical frames them, Captions writes the words.

## What it does
- Input: a video of a podcast, a talk or an interview (mp4, mov, webm), recordings up to four hours, English speech.
- Output: one mp4 per kept moment: 9:16 at the recording's full height, not enlarged (608×1080 from a 1920×1080 recording, 406×720 from 1280×720), the speaker kept in frame, captions burned in, the sound as recorded. Each clip is up to 90 seconds; a longer moment ends on the last whole sentence before that.
- The strongest three moments are kept by default. It makes one clip at a time, so a phone holds one clip's work in memory, not the recording's. Making a clip from a 1080p recording still needs about 1.5 GB in the page, so an iPhone with 3 GB (the small-screen ones) may stop partway; the page warns before and explains after.
- Time, measured in a browser on a four-core computer: an hour of recording is read in about 7 minutes, and each clip takes about half as long as it plays. Phones are slower and have not been timed on a real device.
- Everything runs in the page, on the device. There is no server that sees the recording, by design.

It does not predict what an audience will do with a clip. Nothing in it measures that.

## Driving it from a script or an agent (browser automation)
The page exposes `window.__clips` (state) and `window.clips` (actions), and stable element ids.

```js
await page.goto("https://clips.smaverk.com/");
await page.setInputFiles("#file", "episode.mp4");
await page.waitForFunction(() => window.__clips.state === "found", null, { timeout: 3_600_000 });
await page.evaluate(() => window.clips.make());           // the ticked moments; window.clips.keep(i, true|false) changes the ticks
await page.waitForFunction(() => window.__clips.state === "made", null, { timeout: 3_600_000 });
const made = await page.evaluate(() => window.__clips.made); // [{name, seconds, width, height, words, ...}]
```

- `window.__clips.state` is `sample` / `reading` / `found` / `making` / `made`; `list` holds the moments, `made` the finished clips.
- A paid key is applied by filling `#key` and clicking `#keygo`; it is kept in `localStorage` under `smaverk.key`, the same name in every Småverk tool. What a key opens is decided by `POST https://unlock.smaverk.com/entitlements` with `{key, rail}`, which answers `{status, tools, expires}`. Coming back from a checkout with `?checkout_id=…` unlocks the page by itself; nothing is pasted.

## The other tools
- https://clipfinder.smaverk.com — the moments worth posting in a long recording, and timeline files for editing programs.
- https://vertical.smaverk.com — a wide clip cut to 9:16 with the speaker in frame.
- https://captions.smaverk.com — captions burned onto a short clip.

## Contact
hello@smaverk.com