AI Semantic Clipping

Overview

Sovran can analyze long-form videos such as testimonials, podcasts, and product demos. It identifies segments that can work as standalone clips. Review each suggested clip before export.

Running Analysis

1. Open Cut Clips under Prepare media in your project. On an eligible source video's detail page, select Cut clips to open its results.
2. Open Find spoken clips and choose Problem, Solution, Social Proof, or Benefit. You can select all four types.
3. Select Analyze videos that need it to check source videos with missing or failed results for these types. Videos need a ready transcript.
4. Use Re-analyze all source videos when you need a new analysis of every source. Pending candidates for the selected types are replaced.

Progress is saved. Return and select Continue saved analysis if work stops. Stop remaining videos stops later work; the current video can still finish. After a run, Retry failed videos checks only the videos that failed for the selected types.

Spoken clip types do not automatically add clips to Modular Builder blocks.

Cut Clips uses source videos. Cut clips stays available while a source transcript is being prepared. If the source has no usable transcript, it can still appear when Sovran has a ready transcript from the analysis service or saved scene clips in a clip lane. For a source shorter than 5 seconds, saved scene clips can still make it available.

What each video can offer

• Hook: up to 5 distinct hook lines. Repeated takes of the same line count once, and the cleanest complete take is kept. The strongest hook takes the slot; the others are alternatives.
• Body and CTA: one each.
• Problem, Solution, Social Proof, and Benefit: up to 5 separate moments of each type.

Re-analysis does not bring back a clip that you skipped, approved, or exported.

Clip boundaries

Each clip starts on its first spoken word and ends on its last spoken word, from the transcript's word times. Sovran adds 120 ms before the first word and after the last word, so the cut does not clip a sound. The padding never goes past the midpoint of the silence before a neighboring word.

If a transcript line has no word times, for example after some caption edits, a clip cannot start or end inside that line.

Needs review

A clip type shows Needs review when Sovran found moments of that type, but each one failed a word check. For example, the quote did not match the transcript, or the moment was too short. Select Review clip warnings to see each moment and trim it by hand.

Script and Visual Candidates

The system generates two types of candidates:

• Script candidates come from transcript analysis. Roles include Hook, Body, CTA, Problem, Solution, Social Proof, and Benefit.
• Visual candidates come from visual analysis. They can include product close-ups, scene changes, or on-screen text.

Videos that had scene detection run earlier also keep their scene cuts. Each cut is one continuous shot.

Select a candidate to inspect its source range and available analysis details. Why this clip shows the saved explanation or spoken quote when available. For a Hook, Body, or CTA, it also shows why the quality check accepted the clip. Model confidence is the selection model's own estimate. It is a suggestion for review, not a guarantee that the clip will work in an ad.

Reviewing Candidates

Use the status filters to find clips that need review, ready clips, completed exports, or failed exports.

Use Skip clip for a suggestion you do not want. The confirmation offers Undo. Open a skipped candidate and select Restore clip to return it to review. The alternatives list also has Skip and Restore controls.

Previewing Clips

Select a candidate's thumbnail to preview its source range. Listen to the full statement before you export. If the source file is missing, upload it again and rerun Cut Clips.

Trimming Before Export

Select Adjust timing to change the start and end points. Move the timeline handles or select transcript words, then preview the cut before export. An exported candidate offers Adjust timing and export again for a new cut.

Exporting Clips

Select Export clip to save the reviewed candidate. Status shows whether the export is still running or failed. Once it is ready, select Open clip to open the saved asset in All Assets.

If an export fails, select Retry export. Retries have a fixed limit. If the retry limit is reached, adjust the timing to start a new export. A failed export is not a finished clip.

Open the saved clip to follow its source link. On the source video's Details tab, Clips from this video lists the clips made from it. See source and clip links.

Original vs. Derived Assets

Analysis, clipping, and trimming are available on original assets. Derived assets include clips, remixes, Creative Copilot drafts, and editor exports.