overc clips

Source

Paste a YouTube link above and press Load

Start (editable)

End (editable)

CSV or TSV — start and end times, with or without names

▸ What can I import?

Whatever your other tool exports, most likely. A header line is optional, and columns can be separated by commas, tabs, semicolons or bars.

Name, start and end:

name,start,end
    Block at the net,00:01:12,00:01:24
    Serve run,00:04:05,00:04:38

Just the times — names are generated:

00:01:12,00:01:24
    00:04:05,00:04:38

Times can be written several ways — seconds, minutes and seconds, decimals, or timecode with a frame count on the end. All four of these mean the same span:

72,84
    1:12,1:24
    00:01:12.500,00:01:24.250
    00:01:12:15,00:01:24:00

Rows that cannot be read are reported and skipped — the rest still import. Everything lands in potential clips, so nothing is made until you promote it.

Planned clips

Nothing planned yet — mark a start and end above, or promote something from potential.

Making clips

No jobs yet.

Menu —

Status

checking tools…

Recent videos

Videos you load will show up here, so you do not have to paste the link again.

Open this on another device

Your clips

Saving to

Clips you make will be listed here.

Help

▸ 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 planned

Planned is the queue: press Make clips and these get made.

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 video

Videos 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.

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-cutting

Every 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 tool

Press 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,00:04:05,00:04:38

Names 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
    00:01:12:15,00:01:24:00

Rows that cannot be read are reported and skipped; the rest import.

▸ Using it from your phone

The 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 quality

Anything 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.

▸ When something goes wrong

A 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.

Settings

Delete clips after Max clip length Remember clip points automatically Recent videos kept Video size Save clips to

▸ Advanced — resolution, exact cutting, quality

The defaults suit most people. These change how clips are fetched and encoded, and apply to the next clip you make.

Fetch at most Cutting Encoding quality Encoder

Changes apply straight away, except the folder, which needs a restart. Stored in .