How to Clip a Podcast for TikTok and Reels

By NUR Technologies · October 28, 2026 · 5 min read

One podcast episode can become many short clips. The hard part is going through an hour of conversation to find the moments worth sharing. Here is a workflow on a Mac that does the searching for you.

What you need

Offcuts works with video, so this is for podcasts you record or publish as video. If your show is audio only, you would first need a video file of it (for example, a simple waveform or a still image with the audio).

The workflow

1. Drop in the episodeOpen the video in Offcuts. Everything runs on your Mac, so a long, private recording is not uploaded.
2. Let it find the momentsOffcuts transcribes, scores every second and proposes the strongest moments, cut cleanly at the end of a sentence so a clip never stops mid-word.
3. Review the momentsKeep the ones you like, trim the rest.
4. Caption themAdd captions with word-level timing and pick a style that reads on a phone.
5. ExportChoose 9:16 for TikTok and Reels and export every clip in one batch.

Picking clips from a conversation

• A complete thought: the clip should make sense without the rest of the episode.
• A clear opening line: someone scrolling decides in the first seconds.
• A moment with energy: a story, a disagreement, a surprising fact.
• Add context in the caption or description, such as the guest’s name and the episode.