Recut
Recut vs Opus Clip: an honest comparison
Opus Clip watches a long video, picks the moments most likely to work as short clips, and cuts, reframes and captions them for you. Recut doesn't pick moments by itself: you say which part, by time or by what is said, and it cuts, sizes and captions it. If you want many clips from long videos with little effort, Opus Clip is built for that.
What Opus Clip is
Opus Clip is an AI tool for repurposing long videos, such as podcasts, streams and webinars, into short vertical clips. It finds highlight moments, rates how well each clip might do, reframes the picture to follow the speaker, and adds animated captions, so one upload can produce a batch of Shorts, Reels and TikToks.
Where Opus Clip is the better choice
- Finding the moments for you, and ranking them.
- Reframing that follows the speaker. Recut's crop is centred and doesn't follow anyone.
- Making many clips from one upload in a single pass.
Where Recut differs
- You choose the moment in Recut, and it can find it from the words: "the part where I explain the free trial".
- Recut does much more than clipping: generating scenes, voiceovers, music, sound effects, dubbing into other languages, lip sync and talking avatars.
- Each clip is a plan you can see and change, and you can save it as a template for the next episode.
Side by side
| Opus Clip | Recut | |
|---|---|---|
| Picking moments | Automatic, with a score | You choose; Recut finds it by time or words |
| Reframing | Follows the speaker | Centred crop, or the whole picture with blurred bars |
| Captions | Animated styles | Burned in, outline or boxed, timed to speech |
| Beyond clipping | Focused on repurposing | Generating video, voice, music, dubbing, lip sync |
Which to pick
Pick Opus Clip if you turn long videos into lots of short clips every week and want the moments chosen for you. Pick Recut if you know the moment you want, or the job goes beyond clipping into making new video with AI.
About Recut
Recut is an AI creative agent: you describe what you want in plain words, attach your files, and it plans the steps, picks the models and runs them.
It runs on Mac (Apple silicon), Windows 10 and 11 (beta), Android and in the browser.
Plans start with 14 days free, then $10 a month or $100 a year; Recut Pro, with the top agent models, is $25 a month. Model runs are paid with Recut credits or billed by your own provider accounts at their prices, shown before you run.
Opus Clip is a trademark of its owner. This page describes Opus Clip as it was in October 2026 and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by it; check their site for what it does today.
See if Recut fits
Open Recut in your browser, attach a file and describe what you want. It shows the plan and the price before anything runs.
Open Recut in your browserRelated guides
- How to turn a long video into a Short or ReelPick the moment by time or by what is said, and Recut cuts it out of the long video, makes it vertical and captions it for Shorts, Reels or TikTok.
- How to resize a video for TikTok, Reels and ShortsAsk Recut to export a video for TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts: a 9:16 frame at 1080×1920, 30 fps and even loudness.
- How to add captions to a video automaticallyAttach a video, type "add captions" and Recut times each word to the speech and burns captions in, styled to read on a phone.