What SnipHawk does, in order.
One pass from a long recording to a set of files you can post. This page is the detail: what goes in, what comes out, where the limits are, and what the software deliberately won't do.
The short version
| Specification | SnipHawk |
|---|---|
| Inputs | A video file you upload, or a YouTube link you paste |
| Source length | Up to four hours per recording, on the highest plan |
| What comes back | A ranked shortlist of up to 15 clips, each with a score, a label and a written reason |
| Transcript | Word-level, across the whole recording, editable before export |
| Framing | Smart Fill, Fit Blur, Fit, Center Crop, and split-screen for two-person recordings |
| Ratios | 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 from the same project |
| Captions | Timed from the transcript, styled in the editor, burned into the export |
| Export | One MP4 per clip, up to 1080p |
| Retention | Working copies of the source are deleted on a schedule; the shortest window is 24 hours |
1. Import
Upload the file, or paste a YouTube link. There's no recorder to re-export from and no proxy step on your side — the source goes in the way it came out of the camera, the call or the stream.
Both routes land in the same place: a project you can name, revisit and delete yourself.
2. Transcribe
The whole recording is transcribed word by word before anything is scored. That order matters. The transcript is what makes a suggestion quotable, what gives captions their timing, and what stops a clip being assembled from a guess about what sounds interesting.
3. Rank
Every candidate moment is scored, labelled and sorted by strength, then the list is cut to the fifteen strongest. Each one arrives as a real time range with a suggested title and a sentence explaining why it ranked where it did.
Fifteen is a ceiling, not a target. A short recording returns fewer. The list is meant to end, so that finishing it is possible.
4. Review
Open a suggestion and you get the clip the way a viewer will see it, not a strip of source video you have to imagine vertically. You can trim the range if the cut lands a beat late, change the framing, and change the caption style.
Nothing is final until you export. Rejecting a suggestion costs nothing and doesn't use up a clip.
5. Export
One MP4 per clip, up to 1080p, with the captions burned in, named so you can tell which is which on disk. Export the same project again at a different ratio or framing without processing the whole recording a second time.
What it deliberately doesn't do
This list is here because the opposite is what most tools in this category promise, and a promise you can't keep is worse than a limit you can plan around.
- It doesn't invent a moment. Every suggestion is a time range from your own transcript. Scoring ranks and explains; it doesn't write new lines or paraphrase what you said.
- It doesn't publish for you. SnipHawk gives you the file. Where it goes, and when, stays your call and your account.
- It doesn't keep your footage forever. Working copies are deleted automatically on a schedule, and you can delete a project before then.
- It doesn't promise a result. No reach, no watch time, no virality. It removes the hours, not the uncertainty.
Plans and limits
SnipHawk is licensed by the minutes of source video you process and the clips you export, not by seats. The current plans, their limits and their prices are shown on the plan screen inside the app before you commit, so the number you agree to is the number you're charged. Top-ups exist for the month you run out mid-way.
Where to go next
Access is opened in small batches while the product is finished. Request access and you'll get a reply, or read what SnipHawk is and isn't.
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