Turning long-form videos like podcasts and interviews into short, shareable clips has always been a time-consuming task. However, artificial intelligence (AI) is changing that rapidly. Riverside, a virtual podcast studio, recently integrated AI into its platform to automatically find relevant portions of long-form content and create social-ready clips. Opus Clip, another player in the market, has just launched version 2.0 of its software, promising to turn long videos into viral-ready shorts with just a click.
Opus Clip’s latest update offers similar results to Riverside’s AI integration. The AI can identify topics in a video, reframe subjects to keep them as the center of attention, and generate clips that can be immediately exported and uploaded. Additionally, the technology automatically creates captions, focuses on the speaker, and highlights the spoken words, ultimately increasing watch time.
Another platform called Captions, which launched last year, provides a similar service with a twist. Alongside identifying video sections and captioning them using AI, Captions also allows users to change the language of a clip while keeping it in their own voice. Furthermore, the platform can generate royalty-free custom music to accompany the clips. Captions boasts over three million creators, 100,000 active users, and recently secured $25 million in Series B funding.
While Captions offers a more robust editing suite compared to Opus Clip and Riverside, including control over visual effects, transitions, and backgrounds, all three platforms are finding success in the market. Opus Clip has gained 400,000 users in just one month, indicating significant growth in a short period. Riverside, on the other hand, has been a prominent name in the online podcasting space since 2020 and continues to expand its reach.
With the success of these companies and the potential for more to enter the market, it is evident that this segment will continue to grow. AI has made manual editing of social media clips, and potentially all video editing, a thing of the past.
