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Hosting webinars and interviews can be a captivating way of marketing your product or service effectively. While webinars, interviews, and virtual events are cost-effective and can present your content in an engaging way, they take a lot of time to organize and often end up in the content graveyard—you know, where your content goes after one use because you’re not sure what else to do with it…

One practical way to make the most of your time and effort is repurposing this content for social media, your website, and more. Marketers today reuse video from events, webinars, and interviews not only to increase their return on investment but also to up their marketing game.

Creating engaging video clips for social media can be time-consuming too, especially if you’re working from scratch. But if you start by repurposing older videos into clips, you’ve already done most of the work! From a full-length video, you can create several short-form videos and reels that can help you reach your targets.

Why Should You Repurpose Video Content?

The benefits of repurposing longer videos to create short video clips are undeniable.

• Cost reduction: Repurposing your video content saves the time and money needed to create new content while taking full advantage of the content you’ve already invested in, making it an excellent way to maximize your ROI.
• Target and reach a larger audience: You can target large audiences and reach previously uninterested people with a short-form video clip than with a full-length feature.
• Target your content better: You can clip the videos to show your audience the parts that apply to them, driving home the key message you are looking to share and engaging the right people at the right time.
• Maximize different platforms: Create content for the most popular social platforms, like Instagram, TikTok, or on landing pages, in sales decks, etc.
• Get in on the trend: Short video clips such as Instagram Reels and TikTok are also exploding in popularity and are a great way to increase organic social engagement.

To maximize social media and its benefits, you ought to understand the best practices for repurposing videos and how to create them. Let’s explore some below.

How to Create Short Clips Based on Existing Content

1. Identify Valuable Videos in Your Library

Check your existing videos for the ones with the potential to create engaging short clips. Consider how successful they are and their target audience. Find out how many mini-clips in the video would do well with limited context. Determine the purpose of the videos and what you aim to achieve with them to make sure you are creating content that attracts the right audience. 

2. Select the Clips

It is possible to repurpose almost any video interview, webinar, or virtual event. Identify which video parts fit your content and marketing goals.

Select one or two answers to questions from the interview that apply to your platform and content strategy. Adding closed captions here can help boost your message.

Brief clips from a webinar can entice people to watch the rest of the video, or intrigue them to sign up for the next webinar you host. You can create such videos manually or use a reliable tool to identify clips by topic for you, thus saving time. ContentGroove AI bots can help you pull clips automatically based on individual topics.

3. Cut and Edit Your Clips

Cut your videos using video clipping software. An in-house video clip editor can cut clips based on your specifications, but an online video editing service can work just as well for a fraction of the cost. The clips can be short segments or compilations from different parts of the interview, webinar, or event.

Besides simply video clipping, you can add intros and outros, music, and captions to elevate your clip to the next level. You can use the intro to introduce context to the clip, and the outro to place your call-to-action. Captions are essential for social media, as 92% of users watch videos without sound.

Tips for Effective Video Clipping

The number one tip for effective video clipping and editing is to ensure you crop the video to fit the aspect ratio of your destination. In addition, consider video clipping software, such as ContentGroove, to make cutting and editing easier.

Using ContentGroove, you can:

• Combine clips to create reels
• Add music, caption, and intros and outros
• Instantly get a transcript of your entire video
• Find clips based on keywords for quicker editing

How to Create Clips with ContentGroove

1. Upload your file or enter the URL of any YouTube or Vimeo video.
2. Bots will listen to your video line by line using natural language processing.
3. Bots will then break out clips relevant to your video.
4. Review and edit the clips as you desire.
5. Create reels from multiple clips, add music, intros and outros.

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It’s becoming increasingly difficult to reach customers in today’s cluttered digital world. And in this world, video is the key medium through which customers want to digest information and learn about products and brands.

Don’t just take our word for it. According to a 2021 Wyzowl survey, 72% of customers say they would rather learn about a product or service through video.

Video is often created in long-form (anything over 5 minutes). That’s great for highly-dedicated viewers, but with attention spans dwindling, how can we easily convert long-form videos into short video clips that serve as effective engagement tools for multiple audiences and channels?

Where to Start – Know Your Audience and Channels

You probably already know where your long-form video should be distributed. Maybe it’s YouTube or Vimeo. Or perhaps it’s a webinar that runs on a webinar platform. What next? Think through which follow-on target audiences are on each social channel. Are you trying to reach audiences on TikTok? How about Twitter, Meta (Facebook, Instagram), and LinkedIn?

Video Sources for Clips – Webinars, Interviews, and More

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. So, a video must be worth…? But we’re not talking about just any old, lengthy video. Repurposing your content into short clips and deploying over a variety of platforms will work best for engaging and retaining audiences.

You can create clips from existing long-from video that is currently not being fully utilized, such as…

• Webinars: Take your most successful webinar and break it down into topical clips
• Interviews: Highlighting the best moments of your interviews in a single short clip or create reels
• How To’s: Break down full length instructional videos into short clips to quickly answer FAQs
• Live Streams: Share the best parts of your live stream in short clips for social media

Your clips on social media should tell a quick story to engage and elicit a call to action. The clips should possess a unique aesthetic that will help give the audience a solid impression of what they should think and feel about the brand, while also making it instantly recognizable.

Today’s marketers are savvy and more than 87% of marketers report a positive ROI from video, compared to only 33% who reported so in 2015.

How to Clip Videos

Editing your own video can be tedious and time consuming as you scrub through the whole video, manually choosing the parts you want to clip. But it’s important to go beyond the basics, cutting away extraneous footage and correcting the order of your clips to make your clip aesthetically pleasing and engaging. 

Don’t forget captions! When 92% of users watch video on mobile with the sound turned off, it is crucial to add captions to your clips to make sure you are accommodating this huge portion of your audience.  It’s helpful to have transcripts generated automatically, otherwise, you have to do it manually.

If you want to add music, you need to make sure you have permission to use the song or choose royalty free music, otherwise you run the risk of having your video muted or the music changed on social media. 

Intros and outros are also important components to make your clips more professional and feel complete. Include your logo and try to keep the style consistent between clips to increase brand recognition online. 

Quick and Easy Way to Make Clips and Reels

Looking for an easier, more cost-effective way to create professional clips? Think of ContentGroove as your on-demand, personal video assistant. Take the pressure off your creative team and reduce production time. You don’t need to hire a transcriptionist or a video editor to create professional and impactful video clips! 

Use AI to Speed Up Video Editing

ContentGroove uses AI technology to automatically identify interesting and relevant clips from your original, long-form video. What used to take hours and multiple tools, now is easy to access in a matter of minutes. You have full control and can easily modify and tweak your clips the way you want and combine them to create reels.  

Making Clips with AI is as Easy as 1-2-3

1. Upload your file or enter the URL from sites like YouTube or Vimeo
2. Using natural language processing, AI will listen to every line of your video, then break out clips that are most relevant to the topic of the video 
3. Easily review and edit the clips – trim or extend clips, combine multiple clips to create reels, and add music, intros and outros

Yup, it’s just that simple! These clips can then be easily used for social media and other channels where your target audience hangs out. 

Our AI tools are changing the video editing landscape. No more lengthy, time-consuming work to create clips and reels from long-form video content that is not being fully utilized. The ability to instantly get a transcript of your entire videos and keyword searching for easy editing saves time and money. 

Tired of doing all the heavy lifting?  

We’re here to bring your vision to life. Sign up for free and see how easy it is to begin creating clips and reels for social media with ContentGroove.