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Pick a workflow for study, clips, gaming, e-commerce, social, or API.

WayinVideo can help different users work with video in different ways. Some people use it to learn from long videos. Others use it to turn long videos into short clips, improve clips in the editor, or prepare content for social platforms.

Use this guide to choose a quick starting path based on your goal.

✏️ Note

Feature availability, upload methods, export quality, bulk workflows, publishing options, API access, and AI Video models can vary by plan.

Quick paths

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A student, learner, or researcher

Video Summary

Find Moments or Video Transcripts

Download, translate, or turn results into notes

A podcaster or interview creator

AI Clipping

Find Moments, AI Reframe, Subtitles

Edit details, add a thumbnail, and publish

A streamer or gaming creator

Game Clipping

AI Reframe, Hook Text, subtitles, templates

Bulk edit or publish your clips

A YouTuber or long-form creator

AI Clipping

Video Editor, AI Reframe, AI Hook

Export Shorts, Reels, or TikTok-ready clips

An e-commerce seller or marketer

Find Moments

AI Clipping, AI Reframe, Subtitles

Add title, tags, thumbnail, and social copy

A social media team or agency

AI Clipping or Find Moments

Bulk Edit and Bulk Publish

Schedule or export platform-ready clips

A creator starting from an idea or image

AI Video

Video Editor

Export or publish the generated video

A developer

WayinVideo API

API Units and API Dashboard

Build a custom video workflow

Students, learners, and researchers

Start with Video Summary when you want to understand a lecture, tutorial, course, webinar, meeting, talk, or research video faster.

Use Video Summary to review:

  • Main ideas

  • Key moments

  • Timeline sections

  • Transcript

  • Mind map

  • AI answers based on the video

If you are looking for something specific, use Find Moments. You can search for a topic, slide, screen recording step, demo moment, speaker answer, visual scene, action, emotion, or quote.

Use Video Transcripts when you need reusable text for notes, research, captions, translation, or exact quotes.

Recommended path:

  1. Video Summary

  2. Find Moments

  3. Video Transcripts

  4. Download or translate results

Podcasters and interview creators

Start with AI Clipping when you want WayinVideo to find strong short-form clips from a podcast, interview, panel, webinar, or talking video.

Use Find Moments when you already know the kind of moment you want, such as:

  • A strong opinion

  • A guest introduction

  • A funny exchange

  • A question and answer

  • A memorable quote

  • A topic highlight

  • A reaction or emotional moment

After clips are created, use AI Reframe to prepare vertical versions for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, or other social platforms. Then use Subtitles, AI Hook, and clip details to make each clip easier to watch and publish.

Recommended path:

  1. AI Clipping

  2. Find Moments

  3. AI Reframe

  4. Subtitles or AI Hook

  5. Edit clip details and publish

Streamers and gaming creators

Start with Game Clipping when your source video is a gameplay recording, livestream, Twitch VOD, YouTube Gaming video, Kick stream, or local game recording.

Game Clipping is designed for gaming workflows and can help you find moments such as:

  • Clutch plays

  • Wins and fails

  • Funny reactions

  • High-energy gameplay

  • Streamer catchphrases

  • Chat or audience reactions

  • Boss fights, rare drops, or progression moments

After generating clips, use templates, subtitles, Hook Text, AI Emoji, and AI Reframe to make your gameplay and webcam fit short-form platforms.

Recommended path:

  1. Game Clipping

  2. Choose clip length, timeframe, template, and subtitle style

  3. Use AI Reframe or manual framing

  4. Review clips

  5. Bulk edit or publish

YouTubers and long-form creators

Start with AI Clipping when you want to repurpose a long video into multiple short clips.

This works well for:

  • YouTube videos

  • Webinars

  • Tutorials

  • Creator videos

  • Interviews

  • Business talks

  • Educational videos

If you want a specific type of clip, use Find Moments instead. For example, you can ask for product explanations, visual demos, key takeaways, funny moments, emotional reactions, or scenes where a specific person appears.

Recommended path:

  1. AI Clipping

  2. Find Moments for specific clips

  3. AI Reframe

  4. Video Editor

  5. Export clips for short-form platforms

E-commerce sellers and marketers

Start with Find Moments when you want to pull useful product or marketing moments from a demo, livestream, review, webinar, or product video.

You can search for:

  • Product close-ups

  • Before-and-after moments

  • Customer questions

  • Feature explanations

  • Price or offer mentions

  • Unboxing or demo steps

  • Strong reactions or testimonials

  • Scenes where the product is clearly shown on camera

After finding the right moments, use AI Clipping or Video Editor to create short clips. Then add subtitles, reframe for vertical platforms, edit the title and tags, and create a thumbnail.

Recommended path:

  1. Find Moments

  2. AI Clipping or Video Editor

  3. AI Reframe

  4. Subtitles

  5. Thumbnail and clip details

Social media teams and agencies

Start with AI Clipping or Find Moments when you need to create multiple clips from long-form content.

Use AI Clipping when you want AI to find highlight clips automatically. Use Find Moments when you need clips around a specific person, scene, action, product, topic, emotion, or quote.

When you have many clips to prepare, use Bulk Edit to apply settings across clips more quickly. If automatic publishing is included in your plan, use Bulk Publish to prepare posts across connected social accounts.

Recommended path:

  1. AI Clipping or Find Moments

  2. Review and select clips

  3. Bulk Edit

  4. Edit details, thumbnails, and social copy

  5. Bulk Publish or export

Creators starting from an idea or image

Start with AI Video when you want to create a new video from a text prompt or image.

Use AI Video when you do not have an existing source video, or when you want to create new visual material for a concept, campaign, social post, product idea, or creative test.

After the video is generated, you can use Video Editor to trim it, add subtitles or text, adjust the format, and prepare it for publishing.

Recommended path:

  1. AI Video

  2. Choose model, ratio, and duration

  3. Generate the video

  4. Edit and export

Developers

Start with the WayinVideo API if you want to build video understanding, search, clipping, or transformation into your own product or workflow.

Use the API when you need a custom integration instead of working only in the WayinVideo web app.

Recommended path:

  1. Open API Dashboard

  2. Get API Units

  3. Create a small first integration

  4. Submit a video task

  5. Retrieve the result

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