ClipOnIt

Turn long videos into captioned 9:16 shorts (best moments scored, face reframe, word-by-word captions) and make animated explainer videos from an idea, a script or your voice. Hosted at https://cliponit.app/mcp, OAuth 2.1 or API key, Starter plan and above.

GitHub

Hosted MCP Server

npx add-mcp 'https://cliponit.app/mcp'

Installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more

Documentation

ClipOnIt MCP Server

Turn a long video into short, subtitled, auto-reframed clips — and make AI explainer videos from a topic or a voice-over — driven from Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client. 70 tools.

ClipOnIt is a hosted video clipping service. This repository documents its remote MCP server, so that an AI assistant can run both products on your behalf:

Clipping — import a video, find the best moments, reframe on faces, add word-by-word subtitles, and export vertical clips.
Explainer videos — go from an idea, a script or a voice-over to an animated explainer built from a library of nearly 11,000 elements, then critique, polish and render it.

Endpoint: https://cliponit.app/mcp (Streamable HTTP)

Connect

Claude.ai / Claude Desktop — Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste https://cliponit.app/mcp → Connect → sign in → Authorize.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http cliponit https://cliponit.app/mcp

Then /mcp → Authenticate.

ChatGPT — Settings → Connectors → Developer mode → Create → URL https://cliponit.app/mcp → OAuth.

Anything else — the server speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST and advertises OAuth 2.1 metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

Authentication

OAuth 2.1 with PKCE (S256). Clients identify themselves with a Client ID Metadata Document (an HTTPS client_id URL) or register through Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591) — no manual key needed. An API key (Authorization: Bearer ck_…, created from the billing page) works too for scripts. API and MCP access are included from the Starter plan.

Tools

Area	Tools
Videos	`list_videos` · `upload_video_file` · `import_video_url` · `get_video` · `wait_video` · `delete_video`
Clips	`find_moment` · `get_clip` · `delete_clip` · `set_clip_bounds` · `snap_clip_to_words` · `get_transcript`
Editing	`update_clip_edit` · `set_default_subtitles` · `auto_reframe` · `auto_zoom` · `detect_silences` · `describe_clip`
Export	`export_clip` · `export_all_clips` · `get_export` · `wait_export` · `cancel_export` · `get_export_frame`
Account	`get_quota`
Explainer — plan	`explainer_idea` · `explainer_storyboard` · `explainer_styles` · `explainer_templates` · `explainer_schema` · `explainer_check`
Explainer — elements	`explainer_library` · `explainer_browse` · `explainer_search_elements` · `explainer_suggest_elements` · `explainer_describe_elements` · `explainer_library_elements` · `explainer_my_elements` · `explainer_create_element` · `explainer_library_add_element` · `explainer_forge`
Explainer — build	`explainer_compose` · `explainer_produce` · `explainer_assist` · `explainer_variants` · `explainer_critique` · `explainer_polish` · `explainer_preview` · `explainer_versions`
Explainer — voice	`explainer_import_audio` · `explainer_audio_status` · `explainer_audio_list` · `explainer_compose_from_audio` · `explainer_narrate` · `explainer_retake`
Explainer — render	`explainer_render` · `explainer_wait` · `explainer_export` · `explainer_job_status` · `explainer_job_wait` · `explainer_jobs` · `explainer_job_cancel`
Explainer — library	`explainer_list` · `explainer_delete` · `explainer_my_templates` · `explainer_template_save` · `explainer_template_run` · `explainer_taste_get` · `explainer_brand_get` · `explainer_brand_set`

Formats: 9:16, 16:9, 1:1 and 4:5, each with its own independent edit. Subtitles come in five styles, word by word.

Example

"Take my last uploaded video, find the 5 best moments, reframe them on the speaker, add yellow karaoke subtitles, and export them in 9:16."

The assistant chains list_videos → get_video → auto_reframe → update_clip_edit → export_clip → wait_export and hands back the MP4 links.

"Make a 60-second explainer about how our onboarding works, in our brand colors, with a voice-over."

The assistant chains explainer_idea → explainer_produce → explainer_job_wait → explainer_critique → explainer_polish → explainer_render → explainer_wait.

License

The contents of this repository (documentation and server manifest) are released under the MIT License. The ClipOnIt service itself is a hosted product; see https://cliponit.app/terms.