ClipCat help

ClipCat is a desktop app for Mac and Windows that edits videos of one person talking to the camera. You import or record your takes, and ClipCat transcribes them on your computer. Your own Claude Code, Codex or Claude API key suggests the edit, and you accept or reject each change. Then you export the video, the shorts and the text that goes with them.

These pages cover every screen, button, setting and shortcut. They're the same pages you see under Help in the app.

Help in the app

Choose Help > ClipCat Help, or press Cmd+? on a Mac or F1 on Windows. The Help window opens beside the editor with these pages and a search box at the top of the list. Links to other pages open in the same window, and links to websites open in your browser.

The Help menu also has:

• Keyboard Shortcuts, Use ClipCat from your coding agent, Questions People Ask and Fix a Problem, which open those pages.
• Release Notes, which opens the list of versions on GitHub.
• Report an Issue, which opens a new GitHub issue with your ClipCat version and system filled in.
• Save Diagnostics, which saves a zip for a bug report and shows it in Finder or File Explorer.
• Show Log Folder, which opens the folder with ClipCat's log.

Start here

• Make your first video: install ClipCat, set up your AI and go from a raw take to an exported video.
• Find your way around the editor: the preview, the playback controls, the strip, and the panels you can move.

Bring in your takes

• Record a take: record your camera, a screen or just your voice into a project.
• Add videos and transcribe them: the files ClipCat opens, what happens after import, and speech languages.

Edit

• Edit the transcript: cut and restore words, fix misheard words and names, and hide what's cut.
• Review the suggested edit: ask your AI for cuts, zooms, b-roll and sounds, then accept or reject each one.
• Add zooms, b-roll and slides: zoom in on a line, show your own pictures and clips, and add motion slides.
• Add sound effects and music: land an effect on a word and put music under the whole video.

Look

• Set the shape and captions: landscape or vertical, the crop that follows your face, and the caption style.

Publish

• Make a thumbnail: cut yourself out of a frame and put big text behind you.
• Write the chapters and article: chapters, a YouTube description and an article in Markdown.
• Make shorts: vertical clips from the same recording, each its own project.
• Export the video: MP4 at 16:9 or 9:16, the speed, captions as .srt, and timelines for other editors.

Set up and get help

• Settings: every setting, from your coding agent to the speech models.
• Use ClipCat from your coding agent: connect an agent and let it make edits for you, with every tool it gets.
• Keyboard shortcuts: every key ClipCat answers to.
• Where your files are: what's saved where, and what leaves your computer.
• Questions people ask: short answers about price, accounts, languages and more.
• Fix a problem: what to do when something doesn't work, and how to report a bug.