Personal, self-hosted software

Clipping desk

A tool that cuts short vertical clips from long videos and posts the ones you approve to your own channels.

What it does

• Runs on your own computer. There is no Clipping desk server and no account to create.
• Finds strong moments in a long video and renders each one as a vertical clip with captions.
• Shows you every clip first. Nothing is posted until you approve it.
• Uploads each approved clip to the YouTube channel you connected, with the title, description and tags you saw on screen. If you connect Instagram or TikTok, it can post the clip there as well.

How it uses your Google account

When you connect YouTube, Clipping desk asks Google for two permissions:

• See your YouTube channel, so the desk can show which channel is connected.
• Upload videos to your channel, so the desk can post the clips you approve.

Clipping desk only uploads the clips you approve. It never edits or deletes videos that are already on your channel, and it does not read your email, contacts or files. The sign-in tokens Google issues stay in a file on your computer.

The privacy policy has the details, including how to disconnect.

Who it is for

Clipping desk is not a public service. It is run by its owner on their own computer, for their own channels.