Save hours of editing
Manual highlight reels mean watching every minute of footage and cutting by hand. Klap's AI does the watching and the cutting in minutes.
8.5M clips made by 3.5M creators
Highlight Video Maker — Turn Long Videos Into AI Highlight Reels
Stop scrubbing through footage to find the good parts. Klap's AI highlight video maker reads your full video, picks the best moments and turns each one into a captioned vertical clip with a virality score. Podcasts, interviews, webinars, livestreams, gaming and sports commentary. No editing experience required.
Try Klap free on 1 video. No credit card required.
3 reasons creators use Klap's highlight video maker
Works on any content where there's speech
Vlogs, webinars, podcasts, interviews, livestreams, gaming and sports commentary. The AI finds the best moments and turns each one into a polished clip.
No editing skills required
If you can paste a URL, you can make a highlight video. Klap handles cutting, captions and reframing, and you just hit publish.
Remember the last highlight reel you tried to make?
You watched the whole 2-hour stream looking for the good parts. You trimmed each one by hand, added captions, exported, watched it back, found a problem, re-edited and re-exported. By the time you posted it, the moment had already passed and the audience had moved on. Klap takes the part that took you hours and does it in minutes. The painful days are over.
Still manually editing highlight reels? Let AI do the heavy lifting
Upload your video and Klap reads it for the moments that matter: stories, punchlines, quotable lines and big calls. Each one becomes a clip with animated captions. Want something specific? Prompt the AI directly: "every goal" for commentated soccer, "every funny moment" for a podcast, "every customer testimonial" for a webinar. Plain English, finished clips, no timeline scrubbing.
Sports highlight videos from games with commentary
Streamed games, broadcast replays, coach breakdowns with a voiceover: Klap reads the commentary and pulls the goals, the big plays and the reactions as separate vertical clips. Basketball, football, soccer, hockey, lacrosse, MMA. Add your logo with a template and you've got clips ready for the team's social channels or a coach's breakdown. Try the sports highlight video maker for the dedicated sports flow.
How to make a highlight video in 3 steps
Drop in any video where there's speech: a podcast, interview, webinar, livestream replay, vlog, or gaming or sports commentary. Klap's highlight maker accepts MP4, MOV and links from YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, Loom, Google Drive and Dropbox, up to 3 hours per video.
The AI reads the transcript to find moments that work on their own, with a hook and a payoff. Each one becomes a captioned vertical clip with a Virality Score. Most videos are ready in 5 to 20 minutes, depending on length.
Review the clips and tweak if needed: trim moments, adjust captions, change the layout. Then export in the aspect ratio you need (9:16 for Reels, Shorts and TikTok, 4:5 or 1:1 for feed posts, or the original) or post directly to your social channels from Klap.
Built for every kind of highlight
The AI highlight video maker handles every content type. Pick the use case closest to yours.
Sports highlight clips for social and coaching
Coaches and creators use Klap to pull highlights from video with commentary, for social media or coaching breakdowns. The AI reads the commentary for scoring plays and big calls, and you can ask for specific plays. See the dedicated sports highlight video maker for more.
Sports and athletes
Sports highlight clips for social and coaching
Coaches and creators use Klap to pull highlights from video with commentary, for social media or coaching breakdowns. The AI reads the commentary for scoring plays and big calls, and you can ask for specific plays. See the dedicated sports highlight video maker for more.
Podcasters
Livestreamers
Gaming creators
Highlight videos for any kind of footage
Klap works on any content where there's speech. A short list of what creators build highlights from every day:
Sports commentaryGaming commentaryPodcastsLivestreamsInterviewsWedding speechesWebinarsSales calls
8 features that make Klap's highlight maker different
Virality Score per moment
Each highlight scored 0-100 on the subject and how well the clip delivers it.
Animated captions
Captions in 99+ languages baked into every highlight, with keyword highlighting.
AI-powered curation
The AI picks moments that work on their own, across podcasts, interviews, webinars and streams.
Built-in editor
Refine clips by editing the transcript, change layouts and add b-roll in minutes.
Branding customization
Save your logo, fonts and caption style in a template and reuse it on every clip.
Multi-platform export
Export 9:16 for Reels, Shorts and TikTok, 4:5 or 1:1 for feed posts, or the original ratio.
Prompt the AI directly
Type "every funny moment" or "every customer testimonial" and the AI looks for exactly that.
Clean exports
Clips exported on a paid plan carry no Klap branding. Post anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
What is a highlight video maker?
A highlight video maker is a tool that takes a long video and pulls out the most engaging moments. AI-powered highlight makers like Klap automate the process: the AI reads the full video, finds moments that work on their own and turns each one into a captioned vertical clip, with no manual editing required.
How do I make a highlight video?
Upload your video or paste a URL into Klap's highlight video maker. The AI reads the entire video, finds the key moments and turns each one into a clip with captions and a Virality Score. Most videos are ready in 5 to 20 minutes, depending on length. You can prompt the AI for specific moments ("every funny line", "every goal" on a commentated game) or let it find the strongest moments automatically.
What's the best AI highlight video maker?
Klap is an AI highlight video maker used by 3.5M creators, across podcasts, interviews, livestreams, and gaming and sports commentary. It ranks every moment by Virality Score, takes custom prompts for specific moment types, adds captions in 99+ languages and exports in 9:16, 4:5 and 1:1. You can try it free on 1 video with no credit card. Downloading and posting clips needs a paid plan.
Can I make a highlight reel for free?
You can try Klap's highlight reel maker free on 1 video with no credit card: create a free account and Klap turns that video into clips you can preview and edit. Downloading and posting clips needs a paid plan. Paid exports carry no Klap branding. Paid plans start at $14.50/month billed yearly ($29 month to month).
Can I make sports highlight reels with Klap?
Yes. Klap has a dedicated sports highlight video maker for basketball, football, soccer, hockey and more, for sports video with commentary or a voiceover. The AI reads the commentary for scoring plays and big calls, and AI Reframe 2 frames each clip for vertical. Coaches use it for breakdown clips and creators use it for recaps.
How does Klap pick which moments to highlight?
The AI reads your video's transcript and looks for moments that work on their own: a clear hook, a complete thought and a payoff. Each one gets a Virality Score based on how compelling the subject is and how well the clip delivers it, and clips are ranked from highest to lowest. You can also tell it what to look for.
Why use Klap instead of editing highlights in Premiere or CapCut?
Manual editors mean hours of watching and cutting. Klap does that work for you: it finds the moments, trims them, adds captions and frames them for vertical, and you can fine-tune each clip in its editor. Many editors use Klap as a first pass, then refine in their preferred editor.
Can I prompt the AI to make a specific kind of highlight?
Yes. Tell the AI what to highlight in your own words, such as "every funny moment", "find every Q&A answer" or "every product mention". The AI looks for those moments in the transcript and makes a clip from each.
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Make your first highlight clips today
Try it free on 1 video, no credit card. AI finds the best moments, you just hit publish.
Try Klap free on 1 video. No credit card required.