Powered by OpenAI’s o1 model, Overlap Studio (YC S24) is the most advanced AI video clipping tool ever. Drop in a YouTube link and it will instantly generate social clips, articles, blog posts, and much more.
Hey Product Hunt Community!
I'm Jonathan, the co-founder and CEO of Overlap. @caseytraina, @miles_low, and I are beyond excited to introduce Overlap Studio — the most advanced AI video clipping tool ever, powered by OpenAI’s o1 model.
Why did we build Overlap Studio?
Creators spend hours finding the best moments from long videos, making posts, and writing articles. Overlap streamlines that process and does it for you.
Here’s how it works:
- Drop in a YouTube link.
- Let our AI extract key insights and standout moments, as well as automatically generate social clips, articles, and posts.
- Customize and refine clips with our editing tools.
- Export and share across social media or publish your blog posts directly.
Overlap Studio isn’t just a clipping tool - it’s an AI video processor that allows you to get the best from all of the long videos that you don't have time for.
Thanks for joining us on this journey!
Huge congrats to the Overlap Studio team on today's launch! I just dropped in a YouTube link and was blown away by how quickly it churned out social clips and a blog post - talk about saving time! Quick question: Are there plans to support video uploads from platforms other than YouTube, or maybe even direct file uploads?
A service my fellow marketers at work would be super interested in. I’ll be sure to recommend it to them. Congrats on the launch!
I like that you can refine and edit the clips after the AI does its things. It adds a nice layer of flexibility for creators who want more control over how their content is presented. @caseytraina
Overlap Studio seems like it takes a lot of that effort off the creator's shoulders, which is fantastic for productivity. @miles_low
The ability to extract key moments from long videos is such a time saving tool, especially for content creators who need to repurpose their content for different platforms. Great idea. @miles_low
Nice execution on a complex problem. What's next on the roadmap? It'd be nice to give something to the user as they wait for the project to complete, even if it's a scratchpad-like analysis of the content for example.
Don't seem to be able to get short clips on free trial, is that by design?
Best of luck team!
Product looks awesome, excited to test it out!
Tiny thing, on your sign-up page/login page, the H2 updates accordingly, but both of the H1’s say “Welcome back”.
If I’m creating an account, I’m probably visiting for the first time - just a tiny thing I caught
A vote of encouragement, because at some point this might work and be useful.
But right now, I don't feel like it is. And I hope that you makers will take it as contructive criticism. And I'm sure you will, because being backed by YC, this feels a lot like a validation test to me.
Tried the pro plan, as per your generous offer and:
1) It simply cuts a video in pieces. I'm not sure how this is different from the big amount of free software out there that does exactly the same. Or maybe the free software does it better because:
2) It doesn't really do a great job a clipping. All my resulting clips where cut in the middle of a word. Meaming that I had to use the editing canvas, exactly like I would do in one of those free apps. Therefore:
3) How did it save me 2 hours of work? Sorry, but it didn't. Clipping a video manually takes at most a couple of minutes. For free.
So I'm unsure if I'm missing something, at this point. I was expecting something that automated clipping while making the clips engaging, per your words, but at the moment you can't even add images and text to the clips. Subtitles and articles are a nice addition, but AI misses mispells brand names all the time (Wallafan became Wall of Fun, Wolf On and other stuff like that; X became Next), and the articles generated are 100% AI-sounding, meaning that they need manual editing too.
Sharing on Linkedin does not work, at least on free (i tried after I cancel the pro plan): no text is added and the video embedding from your site results in a black frame, not playable.
A couple of humble suggestions:
- Don't claim that you have the world's best clipping Ai algorithm, if you don't: you create huge expectations, and then even bigger disappointment.
- Add a branding feature. Clips normally lose any branding present on the video, and corporate clips without branding are mostly unusable.
- Add an Also Known As option for the AI to understand the brand name(s).
- Improve the article generation promtping, or better let users set some paramenters, like sentiment, tone etc; or use a different model for that, like Claude for example.
- Nobody is expecting cutting perfection, but if all the app does is cutting, bad cutting is really frustrating. It is to say that you need to offer something more. What about a FAQ creation feature? Now, if I had a 10 mins demo video where I show my app features and could automatically split and get an AI generated markdown text FAQ with related clip attached, that would save me some time, even if I had to manually edit the clipping here and there.
I also need to add that your FAQ and Contact links on the home lead to nowhere, and the same does the Company link once logged in. Plus maybe I missed the, but I see no ToS and Privacy Policy. The latter particularly is a must-be-there thing, given that you are processing subjected to rights footage, among others. I'm surprised that YCombinator skips such bits, and if I was you I'd be pretty pissed at them.
Anyway, please don't shoot the messenger and feel free to disagree with me. I don't remember the amount of times I was wrong, because they are too many to remember.
Still supporting it because it is obviously a good idea at MVP stage.
I've been a long-time Overlap user and love their podcast features, but the Overlap Studio is my favorite product of theirs. I HATE cutting YouTube or video clips for content and Overlap makes it so EASY! I get awesome content that I can reshare on socials or in email copy.
Awesome work!
This could save me so much time on content creation. How do you handle copyright issues?
Super impressed by the speed of the clips generated. But it looks like there are a lot of bugs :( For one I refreshed my account and the project was deleted :( Not sure what's going on with the product!
Such a fantastic way to make video content more accessible! I can see this being a must have for marketers.
Excited to try out the social clipping feature. It looks like it will make sharing video highlights super easy!
How's the accuracy on longer vids (e.g. 1hr+)? Planning to put it through a heavy workload 🤔
This is exactly what I needed for my YouTube binge-watching habit! 😄 Been drowning in hours of content lately, and manually clipping the good parts has been such a time sink. Love that it's not just about clipping but also turns the content into articles and social posts - that's some next-level thinking right there. The OpenAI o1 integration sounds promising for accuracy too.
Such a cool tool for content creators/marketers or for just about anyone with a creative streak. Best wishes!
Wow this is exactly what I've been looking for. Can't wait to transform my long videos into bite-sized clips. 🚀
