Turn the good five minutes of a call into a short
The problems, and what fixes them
The useful moment is 40 minutes into a recording nobody will rewatch.
Trim the recording to the part that matters (up to 15 (Creator) or 60 (Studio) minutes) and the clip finder suggests 3 to 10 moments worth turning into shorts.
A horizontal Zoom frame is tiny on a phone.
Speaker tracking reframes horizontal footage to vertical and follows the face of whoever is talking.
Laptop mics sound thin and echoey.
Audio cleanup on export reduces noise and evens out levels between speakers.
Clips start with 'yeah, so, as I was saying'.
Each clip gets a score for its opening, likely drop-off moments and 5 hook options written from what was said.
The features that do it
- Clip finderCreator and Studio
- Suggested moments from recordings up to 15 (Creator) or 60 (Studio) minutes and 4 GB.
- Speaker tracking
- Vertical reframe that follows the speaker's face.
- Audio cleanup
- Less fan noise and room echo on export.
- Word-by-word captions
- Many people scroll with the sound off; captions carry the point.
- Caption word editing
- Fix names, product terms and acronyms before you export.
- Hook rewrites
- 5 hooks per check, from what was actually said.
What works for this kind of video
Record in speaker view, not gallery view
A gallery grid of small tiles reframes poorly: a vertical crop of one tile is low resolution, and the grid shifts when people join or leave. Speaker view gives one large face that reframes cleanly. If your meeting tool can save a separate recording of the active speaker, use that one.
Get consent before you post
People speak differently on an internal call than on a public video. Ask everyone who appears or is heard in a clip before you publish it, and blur or cut shared screens that show private documents, emails or customer data.
Cut the setup, keep the answer
The best meeting clips are usually an answer to a question. Start the clip on the answer's first strong sentence, not on the question, and put the question on screen as text if viewers need it.
Trim to the hour that matters first
The clip finder reads up to 15 (Creator) or 60 (Studio) minutes at a time. For a long webinar, cut out the intro, housekeeping and Q&A logistics in any editor first, then run the finder on the section with the substance.
Step by step
- Trim the recording to the section with the substance (up to 15 (Creator) or 60 (Studio) minutes).
- Run the clip finder and pick a suggested moment; it becomes a normal checked draft.
- Swap in a stronger opening, fix any misheard names in the captions.
- Export vertical with speaker tracking, captions and audio cleanup.
What ViralAri does not do
- The clip finder takes up to 15 (Creator) or 60 (Studio) minutes of video per run, on Creator and Studio only. Longer recordings need to be split first.
- ViralAri does not connect to Zoom, Teams or Google Meet. You download the recording and upload the file (MP4 or MOV).
- Speaker tracking follows faces. Screen-share-only segments have no face to follow, so they use the standard vertical framing.
- ViralAri does not ask participants for permission. That part is on you.
Questions
Can ViralAri pull recordings straight from Zoom?
No. There is no Zoom, Teams or Meet integration. Download the MP4 recording and upload it.
How many checks does a recording use?
A run uses 1 check for every 5 minutes of video, and the clips it finds are free.
What about screen shares and slides?
They can be clipped, but text on a horizontal slide is often too small once it is cropped to vertical. Clips where a person is talking to camera usually work better as shorts.
Are my recordings stored?
Uploads and exports are deleted after 7 days on Free and Starter, 30 on Creator and 90 on Studio.
Check your actual draft before you post
Check any short in about a minute: Ari scores the opening, flags the moments most likely to lose viewers, suggests 3 fixes and writes 5 hooks from what you say. Got a podcast or stream? Clip finder finds the best moments in videos up to 15 minutes.
Free tools that help
- Free, daily limitPodcast and interview transcriptionParagraphs with timestamps for a podcast or interview segment.
- Free, daily limitVideo to SRTStandard SRT and VTT files: 42 characters a line, 2 lines a cue.
- Free, daily limitHook analyzerScore your opening line, see what to change, get three rewrites.