Clipping, decided by the crowd
Crowdcut watches your stream's clip spikes, chat surges and comment timestamps — or reads any upload — and cuts the moment vertically with word-highlight captions. Post it while it's still happening, hold it for your approval, or let it run on autopilot while you're away.
How it works
Detection and cutting are automated end to end. The hook that ships is written and approved by a person, because a templated hook repeated across hundreds of videos is exactly what gets channels flagged.
On Twitch we cluster clips by VOD offset and score by how many distinct people clipped the same window. On Kick we watch chat velocity. On YouTube we mine timestamps from comments. For an upload or a link, loudness, the transcript and a language model rank the windows with a payoff.
The window is cut from the source at full quality, transcribed word by word, and composed 9:16 — letterbox, blur fill, hard centre crop or a stacked facecam layout with the camera auto-detected. Captions land word by word with the spoken word highlighted, and a title treatment carries the hook.
Every clip lands in the studio already rendered, with three hook drafts. You rewrite the one that ships, flip the caption mode, swap the style, nudge the facecam boxes — each change re-renders in seconds from the cached transcript. Approve, and it's ready to export or post.
The studio
A queue of rendered clips, a hook box, and the controls that matter. Built for triaging a hundred candidates a night without losing the taste that makes a channel worth following.
Styles
Crop, title treatment, caption typography and the word-highlight colour are all part of a style. On Growth and Agency you can also upload or link reference videos and the editor learns caption placement, colours, hook treatment and the voice your hooks should be written in.
Video on a black field with a white title card up top and bold yellow-highlight captions. The look most clip channels ship.
Full frame over a blurred fill, no card. Captions land centre-frame one to three words at a time as they are spoken.
Facecam(s) stacked over zoomed gameplay, auto-detected per clip. Card hook, bottom captions.
Hard 9:16 centre crop on the speaker, huge centred captions with a green active word. Built for two-mic conversations.
The heavy-stroke, one-word-at-a-time caption style: white text, thick black outline, yellow pop on every word.
Blur fill, spoken captions, *ACTION* labels read off the frames, and hooks in lowercase internet register with emoji.
Small lower-third captions in sentence case, no highlight, no card. For brands that want the clip, not the shouting.
Centre crop, cyan captions with a magenta active word, black stroke. Reads on dark, busy footage.
Amber banner hook that stays up, letterboxed video, white captions. Commentary and drama channels.
White captions where the current word sits in a coloured box, dark title card. The 'karaoke box' look.
Black title card with white text over a letterboxed frame, red active word. Suits horror and late-night streams.
Clean Card plus room for a campaign logo bar and an #ad disclosure in the export pack. For paid clipping campaigns.
Inside the studio
Written from the transcript, what viewers typed, and what's visibly happening on screen. You rewrite the one that ships.
Word-by-word or card mode, highlight colour and mode, size, position, case, words per line. Changes re-render in seconds.
Change the whole look of a clip in review, or nudge one value. Save the result as your own style.
Cameras are detected per clip and stacked over zoomed gameplay. Drag the boxes if the model got it wrong.
Drop in a clip you admire. The editor reads its caption placement, colours, hook treatment and voice, and applies them.
Growth and upSend approved clips to a connected TikTok account's drafts, now or at a time you pick. YouTube ships as an export pack until the API audit clears.
Owner, editor, reviewer. Invite links, seat limits per plan, one workspace per channel or client.
MP4 plus title, description, tags and transcript in one zip — everything a manual upload needs, pasted not retyped.
Pricing
A clip is a rendered moment reaching review for the first time. Re-renders — hook edits, caption flips, style swaps — are free. Every plan starts with a free trial: five clips, no card.
One creator or channel, shipping daily.
A small team running several channels.
Clipping as a service for a roster of creators.
Upgrade from inside the studio with a card when you're ready. Cancel any time.
Agencies & campaign teams
Crowdcut started as a pay-per-view clipping operation, so the campaign details are built in rather than bolted on: one workspace per client, a project per channel, and the disclosure and overlay requirements carried into every export.
Questions
Not through the API yet. YouTube locks uploads from unaudited API projects to private with no appeal, so until our compliance audit clears, YouTube clips ship as an export pack — MP4, title, description, tags and transcript in one zip — and you mark them posted in the studio. Connecting a channel already works so the switch is instant when the audit lands.
Approved clips go to your connected TikTok account's drafts inbox, now or on a schedule. You open the app, check the caption, and post. That is the path TikTok allows without a separate content audit, and it keeps a human on the final tap.
A rendered moment reaching your review queue for the first time. Editing the hook, flipping caption mode, swapping the style or nudging the facecam layout re-renders the same clip and costs nothing. Rejected clips still count — the work of finding and cutting them was done.
New renders pause with an upgrade prompt and resume when you upgrade or the period rolls over. Nothing is lost; paused clips stay in the queue.
Yes. Drop a file or paste a YouTube, Twitch, Kick or TikTok link. We measure loudness, transcribe the whole thing, and rank windows with a payoff — a punchline, a reveal, a reaction — then cut the ones you asked for.
Yes. Clip your own channel, channels that have cleared you, or footage inside a campaign that pre-clears it. Crowdcut cuts what you point it at; it does not check ownership for you.
Any time, from Settings. You keep access until the end of the period you paid for. The trial needs no card and simply expires.
The editor reads a reference clip's caption placement, case, colours, highlight style, hook treatment and crop, and writes a short brief describing the voice of its text. You can apply that to a whole project, to one clip, or save it as a custom style. Available on Growth and Agency.
Sign up, point Crowdcut at a channel or drop in a video, and review your first five clips tonight.