Meet Sonic-1 — watches a 1-hour clip in seconds

Drop a clip. Get exactly what you asked for.

Upload any video and our sonic-speed AI watches every single frame, understands it, and hands back the edit you described — highlights, captions, reframes, summaries and more.

A creator talking to camera in a warmly lit home studio
Sonic-1 ready
00:0024 fps · 4K47:12
Enter to run
  1. 1Uploading clip
  2. 2Watching every frame
  3. 3Understanding your request
  4. 4Rendering your output

One upload. Exports perfectly tuned for

How it works

You talk. Sonic-1 edits.

Skip the scrubbing. Hand your footage to a model that actually watches it.

stream_final_v3.mp4

2h 14m · 6.2 GB

Sonic-1

watched in 3.4s

01Upload any clip

Streams, podcasts, vlogs, sports, lectures. Up to 4 hours, any format, straight from your phone or desktop.

02Say what you want

Plain words. “The 3 funniest moments with captions.” “A 60s recap for LinkedIn.” No timelines, no keyframes.

03Sonic-1 delivers

It watches every frame and listens to every word, then returns exactly the output you described — ready to post.

What you can ask for

Every output, with the prompt that made it.

If you can describe it, Sonic-1 can make it. Here are a few favorites from creators on hotclips.

Skateboarder mid-air at golden hour
98 hot

Viral highlights

> Find the 3 most viral moments and cut each to 30s.

Creator talking to camera
thischangedEVERYTHING

Word-by-word captions

> Add bold captions and highlight the punchline words.

Two people recording a podcast
9:16

Smart vertical reframe

> Reframe to 9:16 and keep whoever is talking centered.

00:00Intro
04:12The setup
17:38What went wrong
31:05The comeback

Chapters & summary

> Split this into chapters and write a 5-bullet summary.

−4m 12s of silence & “umm”

Silence & filler removal

> Remove every pause, umm and false start.

“...then I edit it all on my laptop”
B-roll of hands editing video on a laptop

B-roll on cue

> Drop matching B-roll whenever I mention my setup.

Sonic speed

Faster than you can hit export.

Sonic-1 is built from the ground up for video. It understands a full hour of footage before your coffee cools.

Sonic-1

Time to finished output

TaskSonic-1Typical AI editorEditing by hand
Find highlights60-min podcast3.1s4m 20s2h+
Caption & style10-min vlog1.8s1m 05s45m
Reframe to 9:165 clips2.4s2m 40s1h 10m
Summarize & chapter2-hr stream4.6s6m 15s3h+

Illustrative internal benchmarks on 4K source footage.

average time to first result
~3s
average time to first result
of frames watched, never sampled
100%
of frames watched, never sampled
max clip length per upload
4 hrs
max clip length per upload

Before & after

From 47 minutes of raw footage to three ready-to-post shorts.

> Turn this vlog into 3 TikToks with captions

Raw upload

Raw footage of a laptop editing session47:12

hotclips output

“I almost quit”
0:30
The trick that landed
0:30
Hot take at 38:52
0:30

Pricing

Simple plans. Ridiculous speed.

Start free. Upgrade when your clips start going hot.

Free

Feel the speed.

$0 / month

  • 30 minutes of footage / month
  • 720p exports
  • Highlights & captions
  • hotclips watermark
Start free
Most popular

Creator

For people who post daily.

$19 / month

  • 10 hours of footage / month
  • 4K exports, no watermark
  • Every prompt & output type
  • Brand caption styles
  • Priority Sonic-1 queue
Go Creator

Studio

For teams and agencies.

$49 / month

  • 50 hours of footage / month
  • 5 team seats
  • Shared brand kits
  • API access
  • Dedicated support
Go Studio

Your next hot clip is one upload away.

No credit card. No timeline. Just drop a clip and tell Sonic-1 what you want.

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