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Create clips
Cut one long video into many captioned clips.
Name this studio’s first character
Everything in here belongs to a character: its captions, its videos, its finished clips and where they are sent. Name yours to begin. You can rename it or delete it at any time.
What are we making?
Pick a mode. Both use the same four steps below.
Your main video is not one of these settings. Choose the video you are cutting this time in step 01.
What could not be brought across
Main video and hook
01Hook video
Optional, 0.25 to 30 seconds. Adding a hook changes how the batch is built: instead of the three cutting passes below, every clip becomes your hook followed by one section of your main video.
Captions
What will go on the video
Showing the first 100. Open the caption library to edit or import.
Style previewSee the style on a different caption. This does not change what gets used.
Style
03Random choices are made separately for each exported clip.
SoundMusic, audio groups, and the video’s own sound
Pick sounds or audio groups below, or take the whole pool.
Only sounds ready when you create the batch are included. You can also select individual sounds below.
Does not affect the hook. Your hook’s voice is always kept.
Build and deliver
A hook video changes how the clips are cut, so these three passes and the montage length do not apply. Remove the hook in step 01 to use them again.
Each clip pairs one hook with one section of your main video. Hooks and sections repeat across the batch; these are different clips, not new footage. Render a sample before making the full batch.
A sample exports one clip to Exports without sending it to Telegram. Random captions, fonts or sounds in a later batch may differ.
The part of your main video you are testing
The payoff is the moment your video delivers what the opening promised: the reveal, the result, the punchline. Version C plays it first, which is what that version tests. Watch your main video above, test at least 3 seconds of it, and leave at least half a second on each side of the payoff. A reel runs 90 seconds at most, and a hook takes its seconds out of those 90.
Your three versions
Step 04 builds from the main video in step 01. This starts from one of your own videos that already performed, and keeps its original sound.
Start a trial from a video that already worked
Captions for
Select all matching captions or tick individual captions, then move them to a folder or group.
Removed captions
We extract the full audio track from videos automatically.
Keep the full video and its sound. Converted files can also be used as the main video for the selected character.
Uploads must finish before you close the tab. Conversion then continues in the background while the studio server is running.
Every finished MP4 is sent as a file, so it keeps its full quality.
Connect your bot
The studio owner manages the bot, the groups and the default for each character. You can pick a saved group or rotation when you build a batch.
- Create a bot with @BotFather in Telegram and copy its token.
- Add the bot to each group. Allow it to send messages and files.
- Copy a message link from the topic you want to use, then fill in the group below. Save each topic separately so different batches can go to different topics.
Rotations
A rotation is a set of groups that share one batch, a clip at a time. Pick one in Create clips.
All groups
Character default
From render to delivery
A rotation shares one batch across its groups, a clip at a time, with counts differing by at most one. Each clip goes to one group. Studio remembers sent clips and the source footage cuts; changing captions, fonts or audio does not make that cut eligible again. Different cuts can reuse captions. Hook batches can share an opening; duplicate checks compare the complete hook and footage sequence.
Each new batch goes to one group, to a rotation, to the character default, or nowhere at all. Existing batches are never sent just because you connect a bot or change a default.
Videos arrive as individual MP4 files, spaced roughly three seconds apart. Each is the exact exported MP4 with no extra conversion for Telegram; this preserves the export’s quality and does not increase its resolution. Delivery continues while the studio server is running. Check Exports for delivery progress, retry or stop.
Stopping delivery leaves videos already posted in Telegram. Your downloadable batch remains available in the studio.