Accepted sources

On the Generate screen, the The source card offers three tabs: One link, Several links and A file.

The video must be yours

Before each launch, ClipHeat asks you to confirm that you own the rights to the video, or have its author’s permission. Publishing clips of someone else’s video can get them taken down for copyright infringement, or even get your accounts suspended. The reminder can be silenced on your device.

A link

Platform	What is read
YouTube	Public and unlisted videos. The rewatch curve exists only on YouTube.
Twitch	Public replays (VODs) and clips.
Kick	Public replays.
Rumble	Public videos.
Vimeo	Public videos. A password-protected or domain-restricted video cannot be read.
Dailymotion	Public videos, including short dai.ly links.
Odysee	Public videos.
Google Drive	The file must be shared as “Anyone with the link”.
Dropbox	The file must be shared by link.

Paste the full address, starting with https://. ClipHeat reads the video’s duration without downloading it, and that duration sets the cost shown before launch.

Google Drive and Dropbox

These are file hosts: the file must be shared publicly by link (a private folder cannot be read), and its size is limited to 24 GB. A link to a Google Doc is not a video and will be refused.

Unreadable videos

A private, deleted, members-only or age-restricted video cannot be read. The screen tells you as soon as you paste the link, before anything is launched — so before any charge.

A file

The A file tab accepts videos your browser recognises, as well as .mp4, .mov, .webm, .mkv, .m4v and .avi files, up to 16 GB.

• The duration is read on your device, before anything is sent: the cost is known before the file leaves. If the duration cannot be read, the file is still accepted and billed per minute; the exact amount is announced at launch.
• The upload only starts at launch, when you click Start the generation.

Several files

Pick up to twenty videos at once in the same field. They show as a list with their duration and the total in credits; Send the N files uploads them one by one, each becoming its own generation. They are then processed one after another in your queue. If your balance, storage or queue refuses a file, the following ones are not sent; any other error only affects that file. Keep the tab open until the uploads finish.

Several links

The Several links tab accepts up to twenty links, one per line. Each video becomes a separate generation, and the cost is shown video by video before launch. Available on the Creator and Studio plans.

See Generating in batches.

A live stream

A live stream is not launched from the Generate screen: its duration is not known until it ends. It has its own screen — see Monitoring a live stream.

What makes a good source

Nothing is mandatory, but you will get better clips when:

• someone is speaking — the cut relies first on what is said;
• the video runs longer than a few minutes — over three minutes, there are few moments to choose between;
• the sound is clean — a rough transcript makes rough subtitles.