Your first clip
Start with a recording of someone talking and finish with a clip on your desktop. About ten minutes, most of it waiting.
| You need | Obiklip installed, and a recording with speech in it. |
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| It costs | One minute for every minute of the recording, from the 30 free minutes a new account starts with. |
1. Sign in
Open Obiklip. Sign in with Google, or make an account with an email address and a password. Your free minutes are there straight away - My Account shows them.
2. Open a recording
Drag your video onto the window, or press Open video and pick it. Obiklip reads the file where it is; it does not copy it and does not change it.
A first go is easier on something 10 to 30 minutes long. An hour works exactly the same way, it just takes longer to sit through afterwards.
3. Say what language it is in
Obiklip shows what it found - the length, the size, the shape - and asks which language is spoken. Choose it. Auto is there, but choosing is more reliable, and a wrong guess means paying for the run twice.
4. Analyse it
Press Analyze Video. This is the step that spends minutes, and the cost is on the button before you press it. Obiklip reports what it is doing as it goes; you can leave it and come back.
5. Look at what came back
You now have the whole recording as text, and a list of clips with the strongest first. Click one. It plays on the stage between its own start and end, with subtitles drawn as they will be rendered.
Play three or four. Pick the one you would actually send to somebody - that is the one to finish.
6. Tidy it up
Open the clip. Three things are worth a moment:
- The start and the end. Drag the handles, or nudge them, until it opens on the first word of the thought and ends on the last.
- The title. Rewrite it; it becomes the file name.
- The look. Pick a shape - vertical if it is going to a phone feed - and a subtitle style. The stage shows the result immediately.
7. Export
Press Export, choose a folder, leave the quality where it is, and let it render. Show in folder opens the result: one MP4, subtitles already part of the picture, ready to upload.
