Every clip costs a full re-watch
The fortieth clip costs the same as the first: another pass over the whole file to find the moment you half-remember.
Long-form in. Ranked shorts out.
Fifteen clips are hiding in your last recording.
Paste a YouTube link or upload the file. SnipHawk transcribes it word by word, scores every moment in it, and hands back a ranked list of clips — already reframed, already captioned, ready to export.
Access is opened in small batches. No card, and no obligation.
Nobody wants to watch their own podcast twice.
Finding the clips in a ninety-minute recording is a manual job. Watch it back, mark the times, cut each one, reframe it, caption it, export it. Five clips is an afternoon. Most weeks that afternoon doesn't happen, and the episode goes out once instead of nine times.
A transcript isn't a shortlist
A wall of timestamps tells you what was said. You still have to pick, and picking is the part that takes the time.
One post a week loses
The channels that reward volume won't wait for your free afternoon. The back catalogue keeps getting further behind.
Four steps, and two of them are yours.
Bring the recording in
Paste a YouTube link or upload the file. Sources up to four hours long, on the highest plan.
Get a shortlist, not a document
Word-level transcription across the whole source, then every candidate moment is scored and ordered into up to fifteen clips.
Check it the way a viewer sees it
Preview the clip in 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9. Choose the framing and the caption style. Trim if it cut a beat late.
One file per clip
MP4 up to 1080p, captions burned in, named so you know which clip is which.
The shortlist
It tells you which minute. And why.
Every suggestion is a real time range from your own transcript, scored on two independent tiers and sorted by strength. You get the ranking, a score label, a suggested title and a plain-English reason — so approving one takes seconds, and you can see exactly what was valued.
0:42
Strong
The pricing mistake that cost me $40k
Opens with a concrete number, resolves inside a minute, and needs no setup from the rest of the episode.
1:18
Strong
Why your first 100 customers don't come from ads
A contrarian claim stated plainly, then a specific alternative. The disagreement is the hook.
0:36
Solid
One sentence that changed how I cold email
Self-contained story beat with a quotable last line, short enough to hold without a trim.
An example shortlist, showing the score label and reason that come with every suggestion. Nothing on it is invented: each clip is a time range from that recording's own transcript.
Framing
Shot wide. Posted vertical. Nobody's head gets cut off.
A sixteen-by-nine recording becomes a nine-by-sixteen clip that still looks intentional. Pick the fill that suits the footage — or, for a two-person conversation, keep both people in one vertical frame instead of cutting between them every four seconds.
- Smart Fill
- Fit Blur
- Fit
- Center Crop
- Split-screen
- Smart Fill Fills the vertical frame around the subject instead of leaving black bars.
- Fit Blur Keeps the whole wide frame, with a soft fill behind it.
- Center Crop, or fit the whole frame Two more options for footage where the subject isn't in the middle.
- Three ratios, one project 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 export from the same source and the same trim.
Captions
Captions land on the word, not near it.
Timing comes from the word-level transcript, so each line is placed where it was actually spoken. Choose a background treatment, tweak the style, and the preview you approved is the composition that gets exported. Karaoke style highlights each word as it's said.
- Word-level timing Not a guess from a speech-to-text blob: each word carries its own start and end.
- Editable before export If the transcript has a name wrong, fix it once and the captions follow.
- Burned in The exported MP4 carries the caption, so it looks the same on every platform.
A transcript tool hands you a document. This hands you a decision.
| What you're comparing | Transcript tools | SnipHawk |
|---|---|---|
| What comes back | A transcript and a blade | A ranked shortlist of up to 15 clips |
| Finding the moment | You read, then guess | Scored, ordered, and explained in a sentence |
| Framing | Manual crop, clip by clip | Smart Fill, Fit Blur, Fit, Center Crop, split-screen |
| Captions | Auto-captions you re-time by hand | Word-level timing from the transcript |
| Getting it out | Download, then upload manually | MP4 per clip, 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9, up to 1080p |
What it won't do.
Worth saying plainly, because the opposite is usually what these tools promise.
It won't invent a clip
Every suggestion is a time range from your own recording. The scoring ranks and explains moments; it doesn't write them.
It won't post for you
SnipHawk exports the file. Where it goes, and when, is still your call.
It won't keep your footage
Working copies of your source are deleted on a schedule, and you can delete a project yourself at any time.
Your next recording is already the content.
Put the last one in. Take a month of posts out.
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