FORKOFF/ CLIPPING
Video clipping service · Managed

The video clipping service built on a per-view audit ledger.

Long-form video back-catalogs (podcasts, webinars, conference talks, livestream archives) compressed into vertical short-form, qualified per view, billed only on the cuts that cleared the brief.

qualified viewa view that watched the cut long enough on a real device in your audience geo
▸ The wedge

Agencies sell effort. Marketplaces sell volume. FORKOFF sells qualified outcomes.

The numbers

What outcome-priced clipping looks like in production.

$0.003
CPQV
per qualified view
Per-source
Ledger
QV mapped to original asset
Brand-owned
Asset rights
clip outputs stay with brand
99.71%
Legitimacy
audit-grade rate
How it works

Brief to live in three steps.

▸ Step 01

Back-catalog audit

Strategist audits the source library, flags candidate beats per asset (episode, webinar, talk, livestream), and locks per-asset watch-time thresholds + brand-safety rules at acceptance.

▸ Step 02

Source-format clipper routing

Clippers vetted on prior video-clipping qualification rates. Long-form-podcast clippers route differently than webinar-replay clippers; conference-talk clippers route differently than livestream-archive clippers based on prior per-format qualification.

▸ Step 03

Source-attributed ledger

Per-clip ledger ties qualified views to source asset and timestamp. Brand reconciles against course-platform / MMP / treasury stack and reads which assets compounded vs which underperformed.

Why video clipping is a service, not a tool

DIY tools generate cuts. The brand still has to source distribution and qualify views.

Video clipping fails the brand when delivered as a DIY tool. OpusClip, Klap, and Vizard are good at auto-detecting clip-worthy moments from long-form video and exporting vertical cuts. But the brand still has to source distribution, route clips through clippers or in-house teams, run qualification, build an audit trail, and reconcile against the analytics stack. The economics of a $30 per month subscription seat hide a 20+ hours per week brand-side workload that nobody priced in. FORKOFF runs video clipping as a managed service. The strategist audits the back-catalog (podcast episodes, webinar replays, conference talks, livestream archives) and locks the brief at acceptance. brief covers per-source-asset watch-time thresholds, brand-safety rules per source vertical, sanctioned-region exclusions where applicable, and the cohort the qualified views need to reach. The clipper roster vetted on prior per-format qualification rates ships the cuts. The qualification engine grades every view against watch-time, policy, geo, and traffic-validity. The audit ledger reconciles against the brand's analytics stack. The source-asset attribution is the wedge. Generic clipping operators ship a flat dashboard count that doesn't map qualified views back to the original source. FORKOFF's ledger does. course platforms read which modules pulled qualified watch-through, podcast networks read which episodes compounded, webinar producers read which replay segments earned re-engagement, conference organizers read which talks qualified vs which underperformed. That feedback loop tightens the next batch's brief and re-allocates clipper supply against the source assets that paid. Brand-asset rights are explicit. Brand owns the clipped outputs outright. FORKOFF retains the qualification ledger as service-delivery artifact but the asset rights stay with the brand for owned-channel re-use, paid-media campaigns, and downstream distribution. DIY tool subscriptions typically include cloud-storage TTLs and revocation clauses that constrain long-term re-use. managed service contracts don't. Floor budgets fit the service tier. $500 sandbox is the entry tier for podcast or webinar single-show briefs; $5K sandbox covers full back-catalog audits with cross-platform distribution against Tier-1 geos. Brief to live in 48 hours. Brand reads the per-source-asset qualification rate, geo mix, and per-platform watch-completion before deciding whether to scale.
▸ The denominator gap

FORKOFF vs the alternative.

FeatureFORKOFF Clippingoperator-gradeGeneric alternativethe rest of the market
Operating modelManaged service. strategist briefs the catalog, clipper roster runs it, qualification engine grades. ▸ Managed, not DIYDIY tool subscription or open marketplace; qualification on the brand.
Pricing denominator$0.003 per qualified view (CPQV). filtered traffic logged with reason code.Subscription seat or raw CPM with no qualification gate.
Source-asset attributionPer-clip ledger maps qualified views back to source asset and timestamp.Dashboard counts only. no source-asset mapping.
Audit trailCSV/JSON export reconciles against finance, course platform, or treasury stack.Dashboard view counts only.
Case archive · sandbox tier

Sample sandbox: video clipping service qualified at scale.

FORKOFF case archive

An anonymized FORKOFF video clipping service sandbox campaign cleared 1.6M qualified views against a $5K brief at $0.003 CPQV. The qualification engine logged ~37% of raw playback as filtered (sub-watch-time, geo-mismatch, sanctioned-region, or traffic-validity flagged) and excluded that volume from billing. Brand reconciled per-view ledger against MMP records the same week. Specific brand name redacted under NDA — the case structure is representative of the sandbox tier the strategist locks at brief acceptance.

Case template — replace with NDA-safe per-slug case once on file.

1.6M
Qualified views
$5K
Sandbox spend
37%
Filtered + excluded
ICP fit

Who this is for. Who it isn't.

▸ Best fit for
  • Brands with substantial long-form video back-catalogs (podcasts, webinars, conferences, livestreams)
  • Course platforms reconciling QV against module-level engagement records
  • Conference organizers running annual or quarterly recorded-talk libraries
  • Webinar series producers shipping multi-episode B2B funnels
  • Brands needing per-source-asset audit trail for finance / treasury / compliance
▸ Not a fit for
  • Solo creators editing their own back-catalog with a DIY AI tool
  • Pre-launch brands without a long-form source library
  • Brands optimising on raw view counts without per-asset attribution
  • Categories without an analytics-stack reconciliation pipeline
  • Below-floor budgets that can't run the $500 sandbox tier
Qualified-view cost · live model

How much will your campaign cost?

Enter geos, platforms, and budget. We compute an estimate from the FORKOFF qualification model. calibrated against the 12M+ qualified views already on the ledger.

Inputs
$5,000
$500$50K
Estimate · live
1,510,673
Estimated qualified views
~101
Clippers on brief
$0.0030
Avg CPV
$5,000
Total spend
24-36h
Time to live

The estimate is a model, not a quote. We send a real one within 24 hours.

Frequently asked

A view that passes four checks set by the campaign brief: watch duration, policy compliance, geo consistency, and traffic validity. If any layer rejects it, the view is logged with a reason code and excluded from both spend and payout.

Those are DIY AI clipping tools. The brand uploads the source video, the tool auto-detects clip-worthy moments, the brand exports the cuts and ships them. Qualification, distribution, and audit trail are the brand's problem. FORKOFF runs all three as a managed service: clipper roster, qualification engine, audit ledger. Different operating model, different price point.

Yes. Strategist audits the back-catalog (typically 20+ episodes for podcast briefs, 6+ for webinar series, full archives for conference recordings), flags candidate beats per source, ships the brief in episode-by-episode batches. The audit ledger maps qualified views back to source episode and timestamp.

Yes. CSV/JSON export with per-view source-asset, geo, watch-completion, platform, and clipper attribution. Reconciles against course-platform analytics (Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi), MMP records (AppsFlyer, Adjust), treasury reporting, or HubSpot / Salesforce depending on the brand's stack.

$500 sandbox is the entry tier; $5K sandbox covers full back-catalog audits and cross-platform distribution. Brief to live in 48 hours. Brand reads the per-source-asset qualification rate before scaling.

Yes. Brand owns the clipped assets outright. FORKOFF retains the qualification ledger as service-delivery artifact but the asset rights stay with the brand for re-use across owned channels, paid-media campaigns, and downstream distribution.

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14 days. Paid only on qualified views. Audit-ready ledger from day one.