ClipsAI vs fast-asd (Sieve)
Both in the video & clipping category. Side-by-side — pick the one that fits your stack tonight.
The open-source blueprint for podcast clipping. Study it, steal the patterns.
- rating
- 3★
- tested
- —
- cost
- free
- install
- needs-wiring
- stars
- 474
- updated
- 2y ago
You want a ready-to-ship tool. ClipsAI is a reference design at this point, not active software.
Tells your video which person is actually talking. Powers auto-cropping for clips.
- rating
- 3★
- tested
- —
- cost
- free
- install
- sidecar
- stars
- 82
- updated
- 1y ago
You aren't building your own video pipeline. Most creators should just pay OpusClip and skip the plumbing.
why it matters · ClipsAI
ClipsAI was the first proper open-source take on 'long podcast in, viral shorts out.' Python library that finds natural topic boundaries + tracks the active speaker to cut clips that actually make sense standalone. Hasn't been updated in over a year, so treat this as a reference codebase, not a production install. The topic-boundary + speaker-detection approach it uses is still how OpusClip works under the hood. Read the repo, steal the pattern, build your own pipeline.
why it matters · fast-asd (Sieve)
If you want to take a multi-person podcast and auto-crop it to the vertical 9:16 format TikTok and Reels want, the video needs to know WHO is talking at any given second. fast-asd figures that out — audio + lip movement detection — so your crop follows the active speaker. Stale repo (last updated mid-2024) but still works, and the pattern is still how every podcast clipper does speaker tracking under the hood. Python sidecar, MIT, free.