This walks a batch of footage from upload to finished drafts. Plan on 15–30 minutes, most of it upload time.
Before you start
You'll need raw footage you want to turn into more than one video. A brief helps but isn't required — scripts, hooks, topics, angles, anything that says what you're after.
1. Start a project
From Home, add your footage and tell Clik what you want out of it. That's the whole setup — there's no mode to choose first.
Give the project a name you'll recognise later. "Feb batch shoot" or "Hook testing, round 3" beats "Untitled 4."
2. Upload
Drag your clips in, or connect Google Drive or Dropbox if the footage already lives there. Clik starts processing as soon as files land, watching each clip to understand what happens in it.
Upload ahead of time when you can. Processing scales with footage length, and a large batch takes a few minutes. Don't let the machine sleep mid-upload.
3. Say what you want
The more direction you give, the better the drafts land. Attach a brief, paste your scripts, or type a few notes in the chat — see Project Brief Tips for what's worth saying.
Ask for the plan before the build. Something as simple as "don't build anything until I've picked from the list" keeps Clik from cutting before you've seen its thinking.
4. Let Clik analyse
Clik watches your footage, transcribes the dialogue, finds where one idea ends and the next begins, and maps all of it against your brief. Most batches take a few minutes.
When it's done, a plan appears.
5. Review the plan
The plan is a list of proposed videos. Each one shows a title, what it covers, and a rough duration.
From here you can:
- Rename anything that doesn't describe itself well
- Add a video you expected and don't see
- Remove anything you don't want built
- Ask for changes in the chat — "split the long one into three shorts," "make the second hook more direct," "add a cut of just the reactions"
Stay here as long as you need. The plan is cheap to change. The build is not.
6. Approve and build
When the plan looks right, approve it. Clik builds each video, and you can leave and come back — each one appears as it finishes.
7. Refine each draft
Open any video to refine it in the editor: conversational edits, search, timeline, captions, export. Everything you uploaded stays with the project, so a video can pull in footage that wasn't originally scoped to it.
To move between videos from the same project, use the switcher in the editor's top ribbon rather than going back out.
Common first-run questions
Do I have to approve the whole plan at once?
No. Cut it down to what you're sure about, build those, and come back for the rest.
What if I want another video after the build?
Ask for it in the project chat and build just that one.
Where does my footage live?
In the project's Media tab. It stays there for the life of the project, and any video in it can draw from it.