How to turn a webinar recording into short clips

A webinar is an hour of talking, and maybe three minutes of it are worth posting on their own: the answer to a sharp question, a number nobody expected, a slide that finally explains the thing. Cutting those out by hand takes longer than the webinar itself. This is the process we use, and what an AI clipper can and cannot do in it.

1. Decide what a "moment" is before you scrub the timeline

In a webinar, clips that work on their own usually fall into four types:

• A direct answer to a question from the audience (the question is the hook).
• A claim with a number or a before/after.
• A mistake the speaker admits, or a myth they correct.
• A short demo step that shows one result, not the whole tool.

Intro, agenda, sponsor thanks and "can everyone hear me" never work. Skip the first five and the last five minutes by default.

2. Find the moments

By hand: play at 1.5x, keep a note of timestamps where the speaker changes pace or the chat reacts. Expect about 1.5–2 hours of work for a 60-minute recording.

With an AI clipper: upload the file or paste a link to the recording. The tool transcribes the audio and proposes candidate segments with start and end points. You still choose. In our experience the first pass gives more candidates than you need, and the useful part is that you review 10 short segments instead of 60 minutes of video.

3. Cut to vertical, keep the speaker in frame

Webinars are usually a screen share plus a small face box, or a wide Zoom grid. Cropping the middle of that to 9:16 cuts off either the slide or the face. Check every clip: if the point is on the slide, the slide must be readable on a phone; if the point is the speaker, the face tracking must follow them when they lean or move.

4. Subtitles are not optional

Most people watch short video on mute. Burn subtitles in, check names and product terms (speech recognition gets these wrong most often), and keep to two lines on screen.

5. Title each clip with the outcome

A title like "The answer to why attendees drop off after minute 20" works. "Webinar highlight #3" does not. The title is the first thing seen, so put the result in it.

Where Vyexa fits

Vyexa does steps 2–4: you upload the recording (or a link), it proposes moments, crops to 9:16 with face tracking, and adds subtitles and titles. The Free plan gives 20 clips a month, with a watermark, for sources up to 90 minutes. Longer recordings need a paid plan. It does not publish to social networks for you, and it will not fix a bad recording: if the audio is full of echo, the subtitles will be too.

Try it on one recording you already have: vyexa.net — no card for the Free plan.

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