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Viral Clip Detection & Highlight Moment Extraction

Identify key moments, highlights, and viral-worthy clips within long-form videos using engagement metrics and AI analysis.

Long-form videos contain golden moments that deserve to be highlighted as standalone clips. Whether you're creating highlight reels, short-form content, or identifying viral-worthy moments, SocialKit's API helps you automatically detect and extract the most engaging parts of YouTube and TikTok videos.

How SocialKit API Helps

Timestamp-Based Analysis

Extract timestamped transcripts to identify key moments, topic changes, and important segments within videos. Map engagement spikes to specific timestamps.

AI Content Segmentation

Use AI summaries with timeline information to automatically identify the most important moments, quotes, and highlights worth clipping.

Engagement Signal Detection

Analyze comment timestamps and engagement patterns to identify which moments in a video generated the most audience reactions and viral potential.

Highlight Detection Applications

  • Highlight Reels: Automatically create highlight reels by identifying the most engaging moments in long-form content.
  • Short-Form Conversion: Extract viral-worthy clips from YouTube videos to repurpose as YouTube Shorts, TikToks, or Instagram Reels.
  • Podcast Clips: Identify quotable moments and interesting segments in podcast videos for social media promotion.
  • Sports & Gaming Clips: Detect key plays, exciting moments, and highlight-worthy action in sports or gaming content.
  • Tutorial Key Steps: Extract the most important steps and demonstrations from tutorial videos for quick reference guides.
  • Best-of Compilations: Build compilation videos by identifying the funniest, most dramatic, or most engaging moments across multiple videos.

Save Time on Clip Creation

  • Automate the process of finding clip-worthy moments in hours of content
  • Identify viral potential before manually creating dozens of clips
  • Scale short-form content production from long-form videos
  • Reduce editing time by pinpointing exact timestamps to clip
  • Maximize reach by extracting the most shareable moments

Use Cases by Industry

Content Creators & YouTubers

Extract the best moments from long videos to create YouTube Shorts and TikToks that drive traffic back to full videos.

Podcast Producers

Identify quotable moments and interesting discussions to promote podcast episodes across social media platforms.

Sports & Gaming Channels

Automatically detect highlight-worthy plays, reactions, and exciting moments for compilation videos and quick highlights.

Educational Content Platforms

Extract key teaching moments and demonstrations from long lectures to create bite-sized learning content.

Get Started

Transform long-form content into viral clips by automatically detecting highlight-worthy moments. Build powerful clip detection and extraction systems with SocialKit's video analysis APIs.

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Identify key moments, highlights, and viral-worthy clips within long-form videos using engagement metrics and AI analysis.

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