Cut the footage you already have.
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Clipping is the other half of CreatorOS. Instead of generating video, it cuts a creator’s existing long-form — a podcast, a stream, a VOD — into vertical shorts with real b-roll cutaways, karaoke captions, and music, and posts them through the same anti-detect engine. Zero AI-generation. A modeled ~$0.03 a posted clip.
fig. 01 — representative trace of the clip pipeline we’re building; not a running command yet
Real footage, cut — never invented.
AI-generated frames in a clip
0This is the line between clipping and Generation: clipping cuts what already exists and never renders a synthetic frame.
Real footage, cut. We take a creator’s existing long-form and cut the moments that clip — no AI-generated video, no synthetic face, no invented scene.
Real b-roll cutaways. Cutaways come from real footage layered over the talking moments — the montage look creators actually post, not a generated backdrop.
Karaoke captions. Word-by-word captions burned in locally with whisper — the same one caption style CreatorOS already ships, at zero marginal cost.
Posted like a human. Every clip ships through the same anti-detect browser engine as Generation — real Chrome, residential proxy, per-account.
You bring the footage. A podcast, a stream, a VOD, a back catalogue — whatever long-form the creator already has. CreatorOS does the rest.
One long-form in. Many clips out.
The same five-step spine as Generation — only the first two steps change: no research and generate, just source and select.
Source
Point it at a creator’s existing long-form — a podcast episode, a stream VOD, a back catalogue.
Select
Pick the clip-worthy moments by real signal — view-count spikes and hook strength — not a guess.
Cut
Cut each moment to vertical 9:16 with real b-roll cutaways over the talking head. Zero AI-generation.
Caption
Burn in karaoke captions locally, in the one TikTok-meme caption style CreatorOS ships, and lay in music.
Post
Ship through the same real logged-in browser session — human-paced, per-account, on a tracking link.
Every clip carries a tracking link, so reach comes back as a number on your account — measured, not assumed. That is the loop clipping actually closes.
A modeled three cents a clip.
Modeled cost per posted clip
$0.03Production is nearly free; proxies are almost the entire cost. That lands a modeled 13–40× under what clipping agencies charge.
Modeled from real component prices, not yet billed at scale — which is exactly why the pilot bills at this cost, so the number proves itself on real posts.
| Component | Share | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile / residential proxies | ~85% | $1–2 / GB · the real cost |
| Production — cut + caption | ~$0.005 | local whisper $0 · karaoke local |
| Trend signal | $0 | yt-dlp view-counts · on-chain data |
| Account warming | time, not $ | no paid boosts |
The number is a model built from real proxy and compute prices, not a billed average — nothing has run at scale yet. Production is genuinely near-free because captions and cutting run locally; the cost that remains is proxies, which is why proxy choice, not compute, sets the price.
Live infra underneath — and an honest line.
Clipping runs on Generation’s real, live plumbing. The clipping-specific pipeline is the piece we’re building, and we mark it plainly.
Already shipping code
- The anti-detect posting engine — real Chrome, residential proxy, per-account.
- One caption SSOT — the same TikTok-meme burn-in CreatorOS ships.
- The append-only, insert-only ledger — every post metered to the cent.
- Per-account anti-detect browser profiles — the posting mechanism, not a stock of warmed, reach-ready accounts.
The clipping-specific pipeline
- Automated moment-selection from long-form (view-count + hook signal).
- The vertical cut with real b-roll cutaways layered in.
- Karaoke timing on real footage at scale.
Honest status: the posting, captions, and ledger these clips would use are live in Generation; the clip production itself is done by hand today and has not yet run at scale. The automated selection-and-cut pipeline is a one-time build in progress. We do not run a warmed account farm, and we do not claim one.
We sell the price, and prove the reach.
Views we promise up front
0Cold-account reach is unproven until it runs on your account. So we don’t promise it — we bill a pilot at cost and put a tracking link on every clip, so reach is a measured number, not a claim.
Billed at cost. ~$0.03 a posted clip, zero margin — the pilot is a proof, not a profit. You risk almost nothing to find out whether it works for you.
Tracking on every clip. A tracking link per post, so you see real reach and click-through on your own account — not a deck of someone else’s screenshots.
Instagram first, ~two weeks. IG-first, then TikTok and YouTube Shorts on the same engine — a short window that’s long enough to read the numbers.
Your call to scale. If the reach lands, we scale it. If it doesn’t, you stop — having spent cost, not a retainer, to learn the truth.
What people ask about clipping.
Is this AI-generated?
No. Clipping cuts real, existing footage — zero AI-generated frames. If you want AI video (a synthetic persona or your own cloned face), that’s the separate Generation side.
How is it so cheap?
Production is nearly free — cutting and captions run locally on your own machine, and trend signal comes from free view-counts. The real cost is mobile and residential proxies (~85%). That models to about $0.03 a posted clip.
Do you guarantee views?
No, and we won’t pretend to. Cold-account reach is unproven until it runs on your account. We bill the pilot at cost and put a tracking link on every clip, so you measure reach directly. We sell the cheapest production there is — not a promise of virality.
Is the pipeline built?
The posting, caption, and ledger infra these clips would use is live in Generation; the clip production itself is done by hand today and hasn’t run at scale. The automated selection-and-cut pipeline is a one-time build in progress. We mark that honestly rather than imply it’s fully automated.
What do I bring?
Your existing long-form footage — a podcast, stream, or back catalogue — and the accounts you want to post from. CreatorOS handles selection, cutting, captions, and posting.
Which platforms?
Instagram first, then TikTok and YouTube Shorts — all through the same real-browser anti-detect engine, with platform scope set per account.
Run a clipping pilot.
Bring a creator’s back catalogue and a handful of accounts. Get clips at cost, on tracking links, so the reach is a number you can read — not a promise you have to trust.