ClipOnIt MCP Server
Turn a long video into short, subtitled, auto-reframed clips — driven from Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client.
ClipOnIt is a hosted video clipping service. This repository documents its remote MCP server, so that an AI assistant can run the whole pipeline on your behalf: import a video, find the best moments, reframe on faces, add word-by-word subtitles, and export vertical clips.
Endpoint: https://cliponit.app/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
Connect
Claude.ai / Claude Desktop — Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste https://cliponit.app/mcp → Connect → sign in → Authorize.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http cliponit https://cliponit.app/mcp
Then /mcp → Authenticate.
ChatGPT — Settings → Connectors → Developer mode → Create → URL https://cliponit.app/mcp → OAuth.
Anything else — the server speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST and advertises OAuth 2.1 metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
Authentication
OAuth 2.1 with Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591) and PKCE (S256) — no manual key needed; your client registers itself. An API key (Authorization: Bearer ck_…, created from the billing page) works too for scripts. API and MCP access are included from the Starter plan.
| Area | Tools |
|---|
| Videos | list_videos · upload_video_file · import_video_url · get_video · wait_video · delete_video |
| Clips | find_moment · get_clip · delete_clip · set_clip_bounds · snap_clip_to_words · get_transcript |
| Editing | update_clip_edit · set_default_subtitles · auto_reframe · auto_zoom · detect_silences · describe_clip |
| Export | export_clip · export_all_clips · get_export · wait_export · cancel_export · get_export_frame |
| Account | get_quota |
Formats: 9:16, 16:9, 1:1 and 4:5, each with its own independent edit. Subtitles come in five styles, word by word.
Example
"Take my last uploaded video, find the 5 best moments, reframe them on the speaker, add yellow karaoke subtitles, and export them in 9:16."
The assistant chains list_videos → get_video → auto_reframe → update_clip_edit → export_clip → wait_export and hands back the MP4 links.
Links
License
The contents of this repository (documentation and server manifest) are released under the MIT License. The ClipOnIt service itself is a hosted product; see https://cliponit.app/terms.