Use case

One long recording, a month of short clips.

Bring a long recording, from a one-hour interview to a four-hour livestream, and come back to a list of short clips that each tell one complete story. Add the moments you know are good yourself, at no extra cost, then review the whole list in one sitting and spread it across your posting calendar.

The job, in plain words

You have a recording that took hours to make and holds a dozen good moments, scattered across it. Finding them means watching the whole thing again, writing down timecodes, cutting each one, cropping it, captioning it and exporting it. You want the list of moments handed to you, the freedom to add the ones the machine missed, and a way to turn the result into a posting schedule rather than a folder of files.

Volume changes the work. One clip is an edit; thirty clips from the same source are a production line, where the slow parts are choosing, checking and scheduling, not cutting. This page is about that line: getting from one long file to many finished, dated posts.

How it works

Bring the whole recording
Upload the file, or paste a YouTube, Google Drive, Dropbox or Loom link or a direct video URL. Paid plans take a single video of up to four hours, the free plan up to one hour. Processing runs in the background and reads every minute, so a long video takes proportionally longer; the dashboard shows how far it has got.
Start from the AI’s picks, add your own
The finder proposes clips across the whole recording, each one a complete story with a score. In Cut mode you browse the full timeline and transcript, click a word to set where a clip starts and ends, and save your own clips beside the suggestions. Manual clips cost nothing: the minutes were already paid for when the video was processed.
Review in one sitting, then schedule
Review mode plays the clips back to back: like, dislike or skip each with one key. Send the liked ones to the calendar and place them over the coming weeks for TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, or export them all. A template applies the same captions, framing and branding to every clip, so thirty clips do not mean thirty styling sessions.

Example: a two-hour panel, three weeks of posts

Imagine a two-hour recorded panel with four speakers. Here is how the session might go:

The finder proposes clips from across the two hours, the last half hour included, each built around one exchange: a question and its full answer, a disagreement and how it resolved, a story with its ending.
You remember a strong closing remark it did not pick, find the sentence in Cut mode, click its first and last words, and save it as your own clip. Then you play everything through Review mode and like about half.
The liked clips go to the calendar, roughly one a day on TikTok and every other day on YouTube for three weeks. The two hours were charged once, as 120 minutes; every clip, edit and export after that was free.

This example is illustrative, not a measured run: how many clips a recording yields depends on how many complete moments it contains. MakeRoll would rather return fewer clips than hand you one that starts mid-thought.

What makes a clip from a long video work

One clip, one story

A clip that strings two moments together loses the viewer at the seam. Keep each clip to one question, one point or one story, and make two clips if there are two.

Let the story set the length

There is no right number of seconds. A clip needs its setup and its payoff; trimming either to hit a target length is how a strong moment becomes a confusing one.

Look past the first hour

Energy in long recordings often peaks late, when people relax. The finder reads the whole transcript; when you add your own picks, scan the end as carefully as the start.

Spread them out

Thirty clips posted in one afternoon compete with each other. A steady schedule keeps one recording working for weeks and tells you which kinds of moments land.

What you end up with

The whole file, covered

The finder reads the recording end to end, the last hour as closely as the first, so the list is not just the opening.

Your picks cost nothing extra

Credits pay for the source minutes once. Your own clips, re-cuts and exports from the same video are free.

A queue, not a folder

Liked clips land on a calendar for TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, so the output of one recording is a posting plan.

What this does not do

The finder reads speech, so a recording with long silent stretches or music only gives it less to work with; Cut mode still lets you clip it by hand. A single video can be up to four hours on paid plans, and paid plans include 600 minutes of source video a month.

Questions people ask

How many clips will I get from a one-hour video?

There is no fixed number. MakeRoll only delivers clips that tell one complete story, so a dense conversation gives more than a slow one, and some videos give fewer than you might expect. You can always add your own clips in Cut mode.

What is the longest video I can upload?

Up to four hours per video on paid plans and up to one hour on the free plan. Paid plans include 600 minutes of source video a month; the free plan includes 60.

Can I choose the moments myself?

Yes. Cut mode shows the whole recording with its transcript; click a word to set a clip’s start or end, and save it. Manual clips use no credits.

Do extra clips from the same video cost more?

No. A credit is one minute of source video, charged once when the video is processed. Cutting ten clips or forty from it, editing them and exporting them costs nothing more.

Which formats can the clips be exported in?

Vertical 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts by default, and square or landscape from the editor’s format menu. Exports are 720p on the free plan, 1080p on Creator and 4K on Pro.

Credits are source minutes: a 60-minute video costs 60 credits, however many clips come out of it. Editing and exporting are free and unlimited. Pricing

Try it on your own footage.

An hour of source video free every month: full pipeline, full editor, no watermark, no card.