Turn your video into an Instagram Reel.
Upload the long video once. ClipHit transcribes the whole recording, finds the moments that hook in the first few seconds and cuts them vertical with animated captions, ready for the Reels feed.
How do you turn a video into an Instagram Reel?
Turning a video into an Instagram Reel with ClipHit takes four steps: upload the file, the AI transcribes the whole recording and finds the moments with the strongest hook in the first few seconds, cuts them vertical with burned-in captions, and you edit and export before posting to the feed.
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Upload the file
Video as MP4, MOV, WebM or AVI, audio as MP3, M4A, WAV or AAC: the format matters less than the minutes left on your plan.
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It gets transcribed in full
The AI reads the whole video to find the moments that work as a hook, not just whatever comes first in the recording.
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The Reel gets cut
Each moment is cropped to vertical 9:16 with word-by-word animated captions, so it still lands when someone watches it muted in the feed.
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You edit and export
You adjust the cut by pointing at the exact word in the transcript, not dragging markers on a timeline. Download the file ready for the feed.
The first-seconds hook, already cut.
Every Reel arrives with the moment that hooks up front and the captions already in place, and the rest of the moments from the same video waiting beside it in case you want another angle.
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A Reel gets discovered through Explore more than through your existing followers. The AI favours the moment that makes sense with zero prior context, not the one that only lands inside the full video.
Starts on its own, with no sound
In the Explore feed, Reels autoplay muted. If the caption isn't already burned into the clip, the message is gone in the first second.
The cut is made on the transcript, not with a mouse
There are no markers to drag on a timeline: you point at the exact word where it should cut, and ClipHit adjusts the clip to that spot.
The Reel isn't the only piece that comes out of the video.
The same vertical cut works for YouTube Shorts and TikTok with no extra export, and the same video also gives you the blog post, the carousel, the chapters, and the LinkedIn and X posts.
Questions.
Upload a video and see the Reels it makes.
7 days free, no credit card. The first Reels come out of the first video you upload.
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