StarZero

One episode.
A week of content.

Keep your hours for recording. Drop in an episode and StarZero finds the moments worth posting, then hands them back as captioned, reframed clips for TikTok, Reels, Shorts and YouTube.

Made with StarZero: every clip here is from one real run on This Past Weekend.

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StarZero watches
every episode.

Hasan Minhaj's 54-minute interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson, start to finish. The agent recognized both voices and tracked them through all 18 topics they covered before it made a single cut.

It kept 10 moments. The agent judged that the other 41 minutes wouldn't hold up as standalone clips with a shot at going viral. Each clip below sits exactly where it was said.

A real run. Waveform and topics come from the episode itself. Clip positions are matched to the source audio. Speaker colours are estimated.

Pick an episode.
Watch what came back.

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Why powerful people are just normal folks
Clip 1 of 5 · 0:46
5 clips7 min of video from a 56 min episode

We pioneered video models
that contextually reframe.

Crop, follow or stack. StarZero's proprietary video understanding model determines who is speaking, how many cameras there are and what is on screen, and frames every moment to match. Every reframing shown on this page is from a real edit using real data.

Source 16:9
00:00.00
9:16

Three cameras. Three rows.

A baked three-camera composite. Each person gets a full row, and the branding drops out.

composite: 3 cameras in one frame

Mode
Crop
Layout
1 panel
Camera
x 0.500 z 1.00
Focus
Cam 3

Timed to the word.
Styled for your show.

Pick from the 11 caption styles we'd use ourselves, live on a real 20VC clip, with the same timing and look as your clips.

20VC / Ryan Petersen

Word Highlight Graphite

All 31 styles

Every word
read in context.

StarZero re-reads the transcript before the captions are burned in, so names, references and punctuation come out right. Transcripts and captions work in 100 languages.

One line, corrected in context

Max Shrek-like Max Schreck-like

Cage was talking about Max Schreck, the actor who played the silent-film Nosferatu. StarZero read the line in context, the way a careful editor would, and fixed the name.

Notes in,
new cut out.

Write on the clip the way you would on a Frame.io review, press Send, and the new version comes back.

Every change is StarZero's own work on this clip, from one review session on October 13, 2026. The notes are shortened and the waits are sped up.

One story
from many episodes.

The Podcast Clipper currently clips from a single episode. Add multiple videos to a StarZero Library (for example, every episode of a podcast) and ask an Agent to find the threads that run across them.

This is real data from 20VC's five-episode coverage of the AI startup Instinct, through its $1B raise.

Story Atlas20VC5 episodes · 6h 39m
Instinct Raising $1B at $10B & Meta Launches Muse
19:31 to 30:04
SCENE 05Market Ripple Effects and the Roaring Twenties AI BubbleHarry asks whether the AI safety debate is moving markets.
19:31

Jason measures a gap between thumb and finger.

Jason Lemkin“AI is so much money that it's just too easy to take advantage of the dark version.”
19:46

Rory, with a pale olive wall and a leather armchair behind him.

Rory O'Driscoll“Everyone's saying, oh my God, this is evil and bad and could be dangerous.”
SCENE 06Meta Launches Muse and the AI Assistant RaceMeta ships Muse and the panel weighs the AI assistant race.
20:55

Three-way split screen over a blue textured background, 20VC logo top right.

Harry Stebbings“Next, we have the AI assistant race that we touched on last week.”
26:59

Rory speaks and gestures with both hands.

Rory O'Driscoll“Is this a category? Who's the winner? And are we getting paid for the risk?”
SCENE 07Mock Investment Committee: Debating Instinct's $10B ValuationShould Jason put $200M into Instinct's $1B round at $10B?
28:48

Three rounded camera feeds on a dark blue interface, sponsor logos along the bottom.

Harry Stebbings“We have a billion dollar round for Instinct. Welcome to the partnership meeting.”
29:37

Jason holds a hand to his chin, his gaze shifting off camera.

Jason Lemkin“I am impressed with what Muse has done.”
Cuts 231
Speakers 3
Scenes 15

Narrative thread Frontier AI Bubble Dynamics and Compute Economics · scenes 5, 6, 7, 11, 12

Real StarZero output for 5 episodes of the 20VC library. Cross-episode threads and the library summary are composed from it for this preview.

Just the good to great clips.
No fluff.

Our AI decides how many clips from an episode will make good shorts. We don’t clip just to make up the numbers.

  • Barack Obama on The Pivot 56 min episode 8 clips
  • Joaquin Phoenix on This Past Weekend 89 min episode 8 clips
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson on Hasan Minhaj 54 min episode 10 clips
Three of the runs above. Each episode had its own number of moments worth posting, whatever its length.

From a link
to clips that win.

  1. Drop in an episode

    Paste a YouTube or podcast link, or upload your own file.

  2. Tune the agent

    Say it in a sentence or set it by hand: clip count, length, aspect ratio, pacing, captions and focus. Or let the agent decide.

  3. Change anything

    Write notes to the agent the way you would on a Frame.io review, and it does the work straight away: a tighter intro, bigger captions, motion graphics or music. Or open the editor for the timeline and keyframes.

    Watch it take notes
  4. Post everywhere

    Captioned, reframed clips sized for TikTok, Reels, Shorts and YouTube, ready to review and download.

The short answers

How long until I get clips?
Upload takes 2 to 10 minutes. Then transcription, speaker ID and scene analysis run together in the background, and the first clip usually lands 20 to 40 minutes after you hit upload.
What can I put in?
Pretty much anything. StarZero reads 53 video formats (MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, HEVC, WebM, MXF) and 26 audio formats (MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, OGG). You can also paste a URL from YouTube, Facebook, Google Drive, Dropbox or LinkedIn.
Can I change a clip after it's made?
Yes. Clips stay fully editable. Trim them, reorder them, reframe them, swap the caption style or add overlays, all before you export.
How do captions work?
Captions burn in from preset styles: word by word, highlighted word, or a lower-third social layout. Every word is editable if you want to tweak one.
Where can I post the clips?
Export in any aspect ratio for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Reels and Shorts. One project renders to every format you need.
Does it handle two or more people?
Yes. For multi-person episodes it tracks the active speaker and can lay out a split screen so everyone stays in frame.
What languages does it cover?
Transcripts and captions work in 100 languages, from English and Spanish to Cantonese.

Bring your episodes.
We'll send back the best clips.

Paste a link or upload the file, and StarZero gets to work.