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Saved lists
A whole list of points — a highlight list
spanning several videos, say — kept in one piece by Save for later .
Recent videos
Videos you load will show up here, so you
do not have to paste the link again.
Tap a video to load it, or ✕ to forget just that one.
Open this on another device
On your phone or tablet — same wifi
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Clips are saved to
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▸ Making a clip
Paste a YouTube link and press Load , or open a file on this
computer from the Local file tab.
Find the moment. The buttons under the video jump by 1, 10 and 30
seconds, and the speed box slows it down or speeds it up.
Press Set start , then Set end . Both boxes can be typed
into if you want to nudge them.
Press Add to planned . Repeat for as many as you want.
Press Make clips .
Clips land in the folder shown under Your clips , and the in and
out points are kept so you can come back to them.
▸ Potential and plannedPlanned is the queue: press Make clips and these get made.
The queue is not tied to one video. Load another, add clips from that,
and both are made when you press Make clips — local files and YouTube
links can sit in the same queue. When it holds more than one video, a
Video column appears saying which is which.
Potential is a staging area for clips you have not decided on —
anything imported from a file, or reopened from a video you worked on
before, arrives here. Watch them, then promote the ones worth cutting.
Taking something out of planned sends it back to potential rather than
deleting it; potential is the only place a clip is actually discarded.
▸ Coming back to a videoVideos you have used are listed under Recent videos in this menu.
Any clip points you saved against one are kept with it — open the arrow
beside it to see them, watch them, or load them back in.
That list only holds the last few. Your clips holds every video
you have saved points against, however long ago — so if a video is not
in Recent videos, look there.
Save for later , under potential clips, keeps a whole staged set
under a name, without making anything. It appears in this menu under
Saved lists as one entry, however many videos it spans — which
is the point: an imported highlight list is a list, and comes back as
one. Click it to reopen every point in it; rename renames it,
✕ forgets it. Saving under a name already used replaces
it, so working through a list and saving what is left keeps one entry
rather than piling up copies.
That is a different thing from Save clip points , which keeps
points against one video and finds them again through that video.
Clearing them from recents keeps them: they stay in Your clips ,
which is the archive. Only the library deletes them for good.
▸ Your clips, and re-cuttingEvery clip you make is listed under Your clips , grouped by the
video it came from. Use + collection to file a video under a name
— a team, a season — and up to one level below it.
On a clip: ▶ plays the finished file, ✎ puts it
back in the editor to adjust its start or end, ↓ saves a
copy, and ✕ deletes it. ↻ on a video reloads
all of its clips as points, to re-cut the lot.
When you adjust a clip you are asked whether the new one should replace
the old file or keep both.
▸ Importing times from another toolPress Import times to potential under the clip boxes. A header
line is optional, and columns may be separated by commas, tabs,
semicolons or bars.
name,start,end
Block at the net,00:01:12,00:01:24
Serve run,00:04:05,00:04:38Names are optional — two columns of times is enough. Times can be
written as seconds, minutes and seconds, decimals, or timecode with a
frame count, so all four of these mean the same span:
72,84
1:12,1:24
00:01:12.500,00:01:24.250
00:01:12:15,00:01:24:00Times from more than one video. Add a link column and each row
says which video it belongs to — one file can carry a whole session's
work across several matches. Rows without a link belong to whatever is
loaded, so you can mix both.
name,url,start,end
Block,https://youtu.be/AAAAAAAAAAA,00:01:12,00:01:24
Dig,https://youtu.be/BBBBBBBBBBB,00:04:05,00:04:38A StatVolley highlight list. Paste the link to a highlights page
into the video box at the top, where you would put a YouTube link, and
press Load. Every highlight becomes a clip point, keeping its
description and the video it came from — one list often spans twenty
matches. You can also save the page and import the file, which works
the same way.
Rows that cannot be read are reported and skipped; the rest import.
▸ Using it from your phoneThe address under How to reach this that starts with a number
works from a phone on the same wifi. The video work happens on this
computer; the phone is only the remote control.
It is not on the internet, and it only works while this computer is
running OverC Clips and awake.
▸ Length limits and qualityAnything longer than the clip limit is split into equal parts — a
4½ minute span becomes three 90 second clips rather than two long ones
and a stub. The limit defaults to 2 minutes, for coachology; change or
remove it in Settings .
Advanced in Settings has the resolution to fetch, whether to cut
exactly (slower, but starts precisely where you asked) and the encoding
quality.
▸ I cannot find the iconOn a Mac it sits in the menu bar along the top of the screen.
On Windows it is hidden until you allow it. Click the ^
arrow beside the clock, or open Settings → Personalisation →
Taskbar → Other system tray icons and switch it on. In that list
it is called Python , not OverC Clips — look for the blue square
picture. Once it is on you can drag it next to the clock to keep it
there.
You do not need the icon. Double-clicking the desktop shortcut again
opens this page, Settings → Stop it closes the program, and on
Windows the Start menu has Update OverC Clips .
▸ When something goes wrongA video will not download. YouTube changes often and an
out-of-date downloader is the usual reason. Settings →
Check for updates .
A clip is taking a very long time. Press Stop beside it.
Some videos refuse to hand over just the part you asked for, and the
whole video has to come down first.
Stopping the program. Settings → Stop it , or the icon in
the menu bar or by the clock. Starting it again from the desktop icon
while it is already running simply opens this page.
Clips are yours and stay on this computer. Nothing is uploaded.