CoLoop supports audio and video clip generation directly from transcripts. You can now find all your clips in two dedicated sections within each project: file-specific clips appear on the right-hand side of the file view, while all clips from all uploaded files are collected in the project’s central Clips storage. This makes it easy to browse, play back, and download multiple clips at once.
How do I create a clip?
- Open a transcript within your project.
- Select the text you’d like to turn into a clip.
- Click ‘Create Clip.’
- Confirm by selecting ‘Create Clip’ again in the bottom right corner of the video.
- Your clip will appear in the Clips section of your project.
- From the Clips section, you can:
- Play back clips instantly.
- Navigate back to the original transcript using the provided shortcut.
- Download clips individually or in batches.
Note: The downloaded clip will match the original format i.e. video for video files, audio for audio files.
How to Make Clip Reels
To find all clips within an entire project, navigate to the clip library from the files view to the ‘Clips’ section at the top of the screen.
- To create a reel, click + New reel in the top-right corner. CoLoop opens a new untitled reel in the editor.
- To add clips to your reel, click ‘Add to reel’, and that clip will appear in the timeline underneath the main video frame. You can drag clips around in the timeline to reorder. You can use any clips you’ve created in a project.
- On the right hand side, search for key words or filter by segment or participant to bring up specific clips. With large datasets, it can be helpful to toggle participant names and segments on.
Filtering and searching for clips helps create videos covering specific topics or segments easily.
- Turn on Blur video to obscure the full video frame in the exported reel. The editor shows an approximate preview. The final, non-reversible blur is applied during export.
- Turn on Subtitles before exporting to burn subtitles into the downloaded video. Use the subtitle language control to choose the original language or an available translation. If you edit the transcript later, export the reel again to update the subtitles.
- Click Export.
- When the export completes, download the finished reel from the editor or clip library.
All reels remain available in the clip library. Draft reels must be exported before you can download or share them. Open the three-dot menu under a reel to edit, rename, download, or delete it.
How to share a reel
Sharing a reel creates a public link. Anyone with the link can watch and download the reel without a CoLoop account. They cannot see your project, transcripts, or any other clips.
A reel must be exported before you can share it. If you have changed the reel since its last export, export it again first.
- Open the three-dot menu under an exported reel.
- Select Share reel.
- Copy the link and send it to whoever needs it.
To revoke access, open the menu and select Stop sharing reel. The link stops working immediately and cannot be reactivated — sharing again creates a new link.
When a shared link pauses
A public link only serves the version of the reel you last exported. If the reel goes out of date — you edit its timeline, change an export option, or redact one of its source videos — the link stops working and the reel shows a Public (paused) badge in the clip library.
Anyone opening a paused link sees a “not found” page. The link is not revoked, only paused: export the reel again and the same link starts working, now serving the updated version.
Because exporting a paused reel republishes its existing link, select Stop
sharing reel if you want access revoked for good.
Sharing reels made from redacted videos
Redacting a video permanently blurs it and deletes the unblurred original. Clips and reels made before the redaction were cut from the unblurred video, so CoLoop withholds them until they have been rebuilt from the redacted version:
- While the redaction runs, the reel’s public link returns “not found,” and you cannot export or download the reel.
- Once the redaction completes, the reel is marked out of date and its link stays paused. Clips are re-rendered from the redacted video automatically and cannot be downloaded until that finishes.
- Export the reel again to rebuild it from the redacted video. Its public link then resumes on its own, serving the redacted version.
If a reel draws on several videos, redacting any one of them pauses the reel.
Recommended use
Clip reels are great for boosting your deck and narrative with real voices from your participants.
Top Tip: Use the chat feature to pull relevant quotes—a quick way to find great clips without combing through transcripts. When you open the evidence panel on a result, click Clip on any quote from an audio or video file to create a clip in one step. See Evidence Panels. 
