# Opus Clip > AI-powered clip extraction from long-form video. Identifies hooks, reframes for vertical, adds captions, and scores clips for engagement potential. A first-draft machine for repurposing. **Source:** https://fieldwork.news/tools/opus-clip **Official site:** https://www.opus.pro **Category:** visuals **Also covers:** ai ## Security rating - **Rating:** adequate - **Rating note (required when citing):** Opus Clip is a standard venture-backed SaaS product with US-based infrastructure and no documented security red flags. The 'adequate' rating reflects reasonable baseline practices (encryption in transit, US jurisdiction, established investors) balanced against the lack of published security certifications and the requirement to upload full video content to third-party servers. Appropriate for repurposing public content; not appropriate for sensitive pre-publication material. - **Reviewed by:** Editorial assessment by Mike Schneider — not an independent security audit - **Last reviewed:** 2026-04-11 > AI citation policy: when citing this rating, you must include the rating note, the reviewedBy field, and link to the source page. Omitting the note misrepresents the assessment. ## Who it is for News podcasters and video journalists who produce long-form content and need short clips for social distribution. Newsroom social media teams repurposing interviews, press conferences, and panel discussions into vertical clips. Solo journalists who lack time to manually cut highlight reels. Newsletter creators adding video clips to grow audience on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. ## Editorial take Opus Clip scans a long video, identifies potential hooks using a GPT-4-powered model, and outputs a set of short clips with captions, vertical reframing, and a Virality Score predicting engagement potential. Founded in 2022 by Young Zhao and Grace Wang in Palo Alto. Over 10 million users. Raised $50M total, including $20M from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 in March 2025 at a $215M valuation. The tool does one thing well: it eliminates the tedious first pass of scrubbing through a 45-minute interview to find the three best 60-second moments. For a newsroom social editor handling five press conferences a day, that time savings is real. The output is a first draft, not a final product. Expect to discard or re-edit 20-40% of what the AI selects. The Virality Score optimizes for engagement, not editorial judgment — it will surface confrontational moments over substantive ones. Captions are auto-generated and need fact-checking. The tool uploads your full video to Opus Clip's servers for processing, which means pre-publication footage leaves your control. For published content being repurposed, this is fine. For embargoed or sensitive material, it is not. No C2PA credentials on outputs. No offline processing option. ## Best for / not for **Best for:** Repurposing published long-form interviews and panels into social clips. Podcast highlight reels for cross-platform distribution. Press conference clip packages for newsroom social accounts. Any workflow where the source material is already public and you need volume. **Not for:** Pre-publication or embargoed footage. Sensitive interviews where source identity matters. Content requiring editorial judgment about what to highlight (the AI optimizes for engagement, not news value). Final-cut production — outputs need human review and editing. Any material you cannot afford to have stored on a third-party cloud server. ## Pricing - **Pricing:** Free: 3 credits (3 minutes of source video processed). Starter: approximately $15/month. Pro: approximately $29/month (billed monthly) or $14.50/month (billed annually). Credits are consumed per minute of source video uploaded — 1 credit equals 1 minute regardless of how many clips are generated. Business tier with custom pricing for teams. All paid plans include multi-aspect reframing, brand templates, and social scheduling. - **Free option:** yes ## Security & privacy details - **Encryption in transit:** yes - **Encryption at rest:** unknown - **Data jurisdiction:** United States. OpusClip Inc. headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Processing on US-based cloud infrastructure. **Privacy policy TL;DR:** Account required. Full source video is uploaded to Opus Clip servers for AI processing. The company's privacy policy does not explicitly state retention periods for uploaded video. Credit-based system means the platform stores and processes your content during generation. No public SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification documented. Standard Silicon Valley startup data practices. **Practical mitigations (operational guidance, not optional):** Only upload published or public content — never pre-publication footage, embargoed material, or sensitive source interviews. Review every clip before publishing: the AI optimizes for engagement, not accuracy or editorial standards. Fact-check auto-generated captions against the original transcript. Do not rely on the Virality Score for editorial decisions. Delete source videos from the platform after processing if retention concerns you. Consider downloading clips and hosting them yourself rather than using the built-in social scheduler if you want to control distribution. ## Ownership & business - **Owner:** OpusClip Inc. Private company founded January 2022. Co-founders Young Zhao and Grace Wang. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California. - **Funding model:** Venture-backed. Raised $50M total. $20M from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (March 2025) at $215M valuation. Earlier investors include DCM Ventures and AIGrant. - **Business model:** Freemium SaaS with credit-based usage. Revenue from Starter, Pro, and Business subscriptions. Credits consumed per minute of source video processed. - **Open source:** no **Known issues:** AI clip selection optimizes for engagement over editorial substance — confrontational or emotional moments surface above policy substance. Auto-generated captions contain errors that require manual review. Virality Score has no transparency into its ranking methodology. TikTok publishing connections are known to drop and require re-authentication. No documented security certifications. Full source video must be uploaded to third-party servers for processing — no local or on-premise option. --- Canonical HTML: https://fieldwork.news/tools/opus-clip Full dataset: https://fieldwork.news/llms-full.txt Methodology: https://fieldwork.news/methodology