Viral Moments

Viral Moments reads your transcript and ranks the strongest short-form moments in it. Each one comes with a hook, a score and a one-line reason. Mark them on your timeline, or cut each one into its own composition or sequence. It works in both After Effects and Premiere.

Find moments

1. Open Moments: In the Captions tab, click the bolt icon in the tool rail beside your captions. Its tooltip reads Moments, and it opens the Viral moments panel. The button is dimmed until you have captions, transcribed or imported.

2. Pick a language: Language sets the language of the hooks and reasons. Leave it on Auto detect to match your transcript.

3. Find with AI: The AI reads your transcript and returns a list of moments, best first. Each run costs 4 AI credits, whatever the length of the video.

4. Review, then mark or cut: Check each moment, adjust its in and out if you want, then drop markers or cut it into its own composition or sequence.

Review a moment

1. Score: A number from 0 to 100 that ranks the moment for your review. It is not a prediction of views.

2. Hook and reason: A short title for the moment, and one sentence on what makes it work. The AI looks for complete thoughts, and the panel widens each moment to start at the beginning of a sentence and end at the end of one, when that is a caption or two away.

3. Start and end times: Click either time to move the playhead there.

4. Edit: Drag across the words to set where the moment starts and ends, and rename its hook. Clicking the hook or the reason opens the same editor.

   • Words already used by another moment are dimmed, so moments never overlap
   • On captions without word timings, such as an imported SRT, you drag across whole captions instead

5. Remove: The trash icon drops a moment from the list, and Clear all empties it. Markers and comps you already made stay where they are.

Mark and cut

1. Mark all: Drops one orange timeline marker per moment, named with its score and hook and spanning the whole moment. Running it again replaces its own markers and leaves your other markers alone.

   • The marker button on a card marks just that moment. Marking it again updates its marker instead of adding a second one

2. Cut: Copies one moment into its own composition in After Effects or its own sequence in Premiere, trimmed to the moment. Your original stays as it was, and the new one opens.

   • The new comp or sequence is named after the source, tagged MC Moment, with the hook and a time stamp
   • It keeps the source frame size and everything on the source timeline, including captions you already built there

3. Cut all: Cuts every moment in the list into its own comp or sequence, in rank order, then puts you back on the timeline you started from. It asks first when the list holds more than 5 moments, and you can stop it between moments.

4. After Effects: A cut is a duplicate of your comp, trimmed to the moment, with the comp markers inside that range carried over. Each cut is one undo step.

   • Cut all puts the batch in one project folder, and every comp plays from one shared copy of your timeline, so a later fix to the footage reaches all of them
   • After Cut all, the new comps are left selected, ready to drag into the Render Queue

5. Premiere: A cut is a subsequence built from the moment’s range, with every track copied.

6. Markers to comps: After Effects only. Builds one comp per timeline marker that has a length, trimmed to that marker. It reads every marker on the active comp, the ones you placed by hand as well as the ones Mark all dropped.

   • Point markers are skipped. Drag a marker’s right edge to give it a range
   • It asks first when the comp has more than 8 ranged markers

Credits and limits

1. Credits: Each Find with AI run costs 4 AI credits. It runs on the credits of the trial, the one-time licence and Pro alike. Editing, marking and cutting cost nothing.

   • Finding moments again is a new run
   • If the AI service returns an error, the credits come back

2. Captions first: It reads your captions, transcribed or imported. It sends the transcript text to the cloud, so it needs sign-in and internet, even when you transcribed with local Whisper.

3. Reads speech: Moments come from what is said, so purely visual action is not detected.

4. How many: It asks for about one moment per 4 minutes of video, at least 3 and at most 20 per run. When there are fewer strong moments, it returns fewer.

5. Length: Moments the AI finds are kept to about a minute. A longer one ends at the last complete sentence inside 60 seconds, and runs to 72 seconds only when that is the way to end on a complete sentence. You can make a moment longer yourself in Edit.

6. Long recordings: Past 800 captions, neighbouring captions are merged into shorter excerpts, so one run covers the whole recording.

7. Saved list: The last list comes back when you reopen the same transcript. A list found from a different transcript is cleared instead of shown.

8. After the cut: Reframe, caption and render the new comp or sequence the way you usually do. It already holds any captions you built on the source timeline. The panel’s caption list keeps its original times.

   • In Premiere, a sequence that had no In and Out points keeps the last cut’s range as its In and Out. Clear them if you do not need them