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title: "Podcast Clips for Reels, TikTok and Shorts | audiogram.video"
description: "Make vertical podcast clips with big animated captions that light up word by word, your cover art and a moving wave. Sized for Reels, TikTok and Shorts. Free."
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# Make podcast clips for Reels, TikTok and Shorts

You choose the moment; the studio turns it into a 9:16 video with karaoke-style captions, kept clear of the apps’ buttons.

A podcast clip is a short vertical video of one strong moment from an episode, posted to Reels, TikTok or YouTube Shorts to bring new listeners to the full show. Open the episode above, pick the moment, and the studio makes a 9:16 clip where the words fill the screen and light up as they are spoken.

Be clear about what this is. It doesn’t watch a video podcast and pick highlights with AI; you choose the moment, and it makes that moment shareable. It works from audio (a video file is used for its sound only), it captions what is said, and it saves an MP4 with no watermark. For square promos in your show’s brand style, use the [podcast audiogram maker](https://audiogram.video/podcast-audiogram) instead.

## How to make a podcast clip

1. ### Open the episode in Vertical
**Vertical** (9:16) is selected on the card. Press **Choose an episode** (Ctrl+O or ⌘+O). Long recordings open on their liveliest 30 seconds.
2. ### Find the moment
The **Audio** panel opens first. Press **Best 15 s**, **Best 30 s** or **Best 60 s** for a starting point, then drag the window on the timeline, or the **Clip start** and **Clip end** handles, onto the exact line you want.
3. ### Make the captions
Open **Captions** and press **Make captions**: the clip’s sound goes to our speech provider and comes back as timed words. Type over any mistakes. **Pop** shows a few big words at a time; **Highlight** lights up each word in a line.
4. ### Check the safe areas
Press **G** to show where TikTok, Reels and Shorts place their buttons and descriptions. The **Big captions** layout already keeps text out of those zones.
5. ### Export
Press **Export**, keep **1080p**, then **Export video**. On a phone, **Share** sends it straight to the app you post from; on a computer, **Download video**.

## What makes a clip worth watching

People decide in the first second or two whether to keep watching, usually with the sound off. The clip has to make sense as text before it makes sense as audio.

* **Start mid-thought.** Cut straight into the sentence that carries the idea. Skip the “so, yeah, I think…” lead-in by nudging **Clip start** with the arrow keys (Alt for a tenth of a second).
* **One idea per clip.** 20 to 45 seconds is enough for a sharp opinion, a surprising fact or a funny exchange. Longer works only if the story keeps building.
* **End on the line, not after it.** A clip that stops on the punchline gets replayed; one that trails into the next question gets scrolled.
* **Put the hook in the title.** The **Title** in the **Text** panel stays on screen while the captions change. Use it for the question being answered, not the episode number.

## Animated captions: Pop, Highlight and the rest

Caption style is the biggest visual choice in a vertical clip. All five are in the **Captions** panel under **Look**:

* **Pop:** a few big words at a time, swapped as they’re spoken. The fast, punchy look of most short-form video.
* **Highlight:** a full line on screen with each word lighting up as it is said, often called karaoke captions. Easier to follow for longer sentences.
* **Box:** words on a solid box with the spoken word marked, for busy backgrounds.
* **Plain:** simple lines of text, no animation.
* **Off:** no captions at all.

**Size** and **Capitals** fine-tune them. The highlight colour comes from **Highlight** under **Style**, or from your cover art. Word timings come from the speech model where it provides them and are estimated within the line where it doesn’t.

### About the speech service

Your episode file stays on your device. Pressing **Make captions** sends only the selected clip’s sound, compressed, to our speech-recognition provider, which writes it out without keeping it. If you would rather send nothing, paste the words and press **Use this text**; the timing is then estimated.

## Posting the clip on each platform

* **Instagram Reels:** upload the MP4 as a Reel. Your episode’s sound becomes the Reel’s original audio. The [Instagram audio guide](https://audiogram.video/how-to-add-your-own-audio-to-instagram) covers Stories and the feed too.
* **TikTok:** upload the MP4 from your phone or computer; the sound becomes an original sound others can use. See [adding your own sound on TikTok](https://audiogram.video/how-to-add-your-own-sound-on-tiktok).
* **YouTube Shorts:** a vertical or square video of up to three minutes is treated as a Short. Add the episode link in the description or a pinned comment.
* **LinkedIn and X:** vertical plays well in the mobile apps; for desktop-heavy audiences, a square version from the same project may suit better.

Making the same moment in several shapes is quick: change the format in **Templates** and export again. Your captions and clip stay as they are.

## Podcast clips: questions answered

### How long should a podcast clip be?

Usually 20 to 60 seconds. Short enough to watch twice, long enough to land one idea. The **Length** buttons in **Audio** set 15, 30, 45, 60 or 90 seconds from where the clip starts, and a clip can be up to 10 minutes if you need it.

### Does it find the best clips automatically?

It suggests a starting point: **Best 15 s**, **Best 30 s** and **Best 60 s** jump to the most energetic talking. It doesn’t understand what is being said, so you make the final choice.

### Can I use my video podcast’s footage?

No. A video file opens for its sound only; the picture is replaced by your cover art, captions and wave. For cutting video footage, use a video editor.

### What are karaoke captions?

Captions where each word changes colour at the moment it is spoken, so viewers can follow along. Choose **Highlight** in the **Captions** panel.

### What size is a vertical podcast clip?

1080×1920 pixels at **1080p**, or 720×1280 at **720p**, in a 9:16 shape. That fits Reels, TikTok, Shorts and Stories.

### Is it free to make podcast clips here?

Yes. No account, no watermark and no paid tier.

## More ways to turn sound into video

* [ Free audiogram maker Turn a recording into a video with a moving wave, cover art and captions. ](https://audiogram.video/)
* [ Podcast audiogram maker Square episode promos with cover art, captions and a saved style for your show. ](https://audiogram.video/podcast-audiogram)
* [ How to add your own audio to Instagram Use your own song, podcast or voice memo in Stories and Reels. ](https://audiogram.video/how-to-add-your-own-audio-to-instagram)
* [ How to add your own sound on TikTok Record it, add a voiceover, or upload it inside a video as an original sound. ](https://audiogram.video/how-to-add-your-own-sound-on-tiktok)
* [ Make an SRT file from audio Speech written out as timed SRT or VTT captions you can correct before downloading. ](https://audiogram.video/audio-to-srt)
* [ How to make an audiogram Choosing the moment, the design, the captions and the sizes, step by step. ](https://audiogram.video/how-to-make-an-audiogram)