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2026-03-24 20:15
Generating Short Clips from Long Videos with Python
This guide walks through clip_generator.py, a script in the clip-api-examples repo that uses the Clip API to extract short, captioned segments from a longer video. You provide a video source, either a YouTube URL or a local MP4 file, and the script handles the rest: downloading or uploading the video, analyzing it, and rendering a new clip based on your instructions. The example in this guide uses...
