How to find the best moments in a long video.
4 min read · Updated October 30, 2026
The best moments are usually where something changes: the pace picks up, the volume rises, someone reacts, or a sentence lands. You can find them by hand with patience, or let a tool score the whole video and give you a shortlist.
Find the best moments automatically →Signals that a moment is worth clipping
- Talking pace: dense, energetic speech tends to be more watchable than slow stretches.
- Loudness against the rest of the video: a laugh, a shout, a sudden change.
- Reactions: someone responding to what was just said.
- A strong opening sentence that works on its own.
- A clear ending, so the clip does not trail off.
Signals that a moment is not
- Intros, outros and sponsor reads.
- Long silences and filler.
- Context-heavy moments that make no sense without the minutes before.
How Zlayo scores a video
Auto-Clip transcribes the whole video and scores each stretch on talking pace and coverage, loudness against that video, reaction spikes, the strength of the opening line and how much is said. It penalises intros, outros and trailing-off endings, then hands back the number of clips you asked for, best first. Instructions you give, like a topic to look for, steer the scoring.
Telling it what you want
You can type what to look for, paste exact timestamps, or paste a campaign's rules. Moments you name are clipped first, and the same moment is never clipped twice within a project.
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Find the best moments automaticallyQuestions
Yes. Describe the topic in the instructions and it looks for it. If the video never mentions it, Zlayo says so instead of inventing a clip.
No. It is a shortlist, not a guarantee. Open any clip and adjust the start and end.
It transcribes the video it needs to score. Pasting timestamps limits the work to those parts.
Any length can be clipped. Videos over your plan's size or length limit are clipped and then deleted right after, so they are not kept.