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Social Clips

Streamline your marketing efforts and create polished social clips in a single click.

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Written by Katie
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Creating webinars, podcasts, and product demos requires a lot of time and resources. You’ve already done the hard work, so we want to help you repurpose the content you’ve created into highly engaging clips to reach your audience on any social platform.

With Wistia’s AI-generated social clips, you can create exciting and concise content with burnt-in captions, backgrounds, and animations.

Note

Social clips are only available for video files that are at least 2 minutes long and have a Wistia-generated transcript. Social clips cannot be generated for videos that contain manually uploaded transcripts.

Create social clip from media page

On your media overview page, click "Social clips" above the video player.

You'll be directed to the social clip page.

Create social clip from transcript

Alternatively, you can create a new social clip from your video’s transcript. Simply highlight the desired section of text and click "Create social clip".

Note

The selected transcript content must have a duration of at least 15 seconds.

Clip customization

In the "Clips" tab of the social clip editor, you can customize the start and end times using the scrubber below the video.

Aspect ratio

To customize the aspect ratio of a social clip, click into the dropdown menu from the left-hand side panel.

Each aspect ratio option shows the platforms it's most optimized for.

Layout

When editing a social clip, in the "Layout" section, you can decide between "Tile" and "Full." This determines whether the video has padding and rounded corners (tile). The whole layout shows the video without any padding or rounded corners within the social clip.

Style customization

In the "Style" tab, you'll see options to customize your captions, aspect ratio, color, and theme.

Themes

In the "Themes" section, when editing your social clip, you can decide among various options. These have different background animations and burnt-in caption styles.

Captions positioning

To ensure your captions are visible on any video, you can drag and drop them to any position along the vertical axis of the social clip. Captions will always be horizontally centered in the middle of the video.

Social post

When editing a social clip, you'll see snippets of the transcript on the left-hand side. These are key moments generated from your video, and each one contains different text for your social post.

Select a different key moment to update the "Social post" summary.

Caption suggestions

Below the video timeline, we'll also display an auto-generated suggestion for your social post's caption. Click "Regenerate" to see a new suggestion, or "Copy text" to paste the text into your post.

Save and share

Once you’re satisfied with your social clip and customizations, you can save it as a new media in your Wistia account or download it directly to your device. You can also click to copy the generated text for your social post.

Once you click "Save," select the folder where you'd like the clip to go, or create a new one. You can also update the title when saving.

Now, you’re ready to take to social media with your new creation!

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