Cutting a clip is only part of the work. You also have to find the video, review, pick dates, publish to the right accounts and look at what worked. Pickin covers each step, with a level of automation you set. Here they are chained over a week, for a solo clipper and then for an agency.
Each step can be handed to Pickin or kept in your hands: decide where you want to stay in the loop.
Choose the video
Two sources, compared in What to clip next. “Ideas to clip” offers videos from creators close to the ones you clip. Niche watch flags the rising videos among the channels you follow (how it works), in the “Your niche” tab and in the assistant’s recap of the day. In both cases, the “Clip” button opens the form with the link filled in.
Clip
Pickin splits the video into chapters and proposes clips in each. A second model, independent of the first, then scores every candidate on five criteria: hook, payoff, self-containment, emotion, density. These scores come from a model, not from viewing data, and they do not replace your review. When you ask for more clips than the video holds strong ones, Pickin fills up with excerpts to check, labelled as such.
In the Studio, the Text tool offers up to three opening lines per clip when the clip suits it, and nothing is added without your choice. For captions and hooks, see captions and hooks.
Schedule
Connect your accounts once: several TikTok and YouTube profiles are possible in one workspace. A clip can be scheduled to any combination of connected accounts, with a review screen before you confirm. The calendar reads by month or by week, filters by account and network, and a post moves by dragging it.
To fill a period at once, the automatic planner spreads the clips you pick over the days and times you give, skipping slots already taken, over three months at most. Scheduling works today for TikTok and YouTube Shorts; Instagram is not available yet. To choose a rhythm you can keep, see the calendar guide.
The autopilot, for regular channels
If you systematically clip a channel, hand it to the autopilot. A rule watches one YouTube channel (five rules per workspace) and Pickin checks every hour whether a new long video came out. It only handles videos published after the rule was created, never the back catalogue. It clips with the workspace’s usual settings, then leaves the clips in the library or schedules them, best first, at the times you set and on the accounts you chose.
Credits are spent as for any video, one video at a time: if the balance is too low or one of your videos is already running, the rule waits. TikTok receives clips as drafts in the app unless you choose direct posting. The autopilot is part of the paid plans, like ideas and niche watch. Niche watch stays manual: it flags, you click.
Follow: the recap of the day, the figures, the report
The assistant is a small mascot: at the bottom right of the Create page and the Overview on a large screen, in the top bar everywhere else and on a phone. It makes itself known once a day, on the first visit where it has something new, and one click opens the recap of the day. The recap only holds what there is to say: a “To do today” line when there is one, “Taking off” (the clips that are taking off, with “Clip around it” to their source video), the videos of your niche, “On the calendar” (upcoming days with nothing scheduled if you post regularly, ready clips not yet scheduled, the autopilot), “Last 24 hours” (clips published, views, the gap to the account’s median when it is clear) and “Needs attention” (an account to reconnect, a low balance). On days with nothing to say, it boils down to “Nothing new today”.
The recap has three options. “Hide for today” silences the mascot until tomorrow. “Recap by email every morning” also sends it by email, on mornings when there is something to say. “Turn the assistant off” switches it off (an “Undo” button appears right away); you turn it back on in the “Assistant” block of the Workspaces page.
Figures come from clips published through Pickin on your connected accounts, when the account has allowed statistics access. Without that permission, a clip has no figures.
A typical week for a solo clipper
An example of organisation to adapt, not a universal rhythm.
- Every morning: open the recap when the mascot has something new. A clip is taking off? “Clip around it” leads to its source video, so you can clip the neighbouring passages.
- Monday: pick one or two videos from niche watch or ideas, start the clips.
- Tuesday: review the clips, fix the captions, choose an opening line in the Studio if it helps.
- Wednesday: fill next week’s calendar with the automatic planner.
- Throughout: a channel you always clip goes to the autopilot; you review what it scheduled.
- Friday: look at your most-watched clips in the statistics and decide what to redo.
For an agency: one workspace per client
Each client has a workspace, with their own accounts, brand settings, calendar, niches and figures (the workspaces guide). The Creator plan allows three, the Pro plan ten. Every Monday morning, a report can go out by email to five recipients at most, in French or English: clips published, views against the previous week, the three best clips with their links, videos processed, clips scheduled for the coming week and a table per account. Replies come back to you, and a button sends a sample so you can check the result before turning it on.
What this changes
What goes away is the manual work around the clip: going back over channels, finding the clips that are ready, picking dates one by one, compiling the Monday report. When a video is rising, you can clip it earlier, and you start from a signal rather than a random pick. None of this guarantees views.
Frequently asked questions
Which steps are available without a paid plan?
With the credits given at signup, you can clip, use the Studio, schedule, read the assistant’s recap of the day and send the Monday report. Ideas, niche watch and the autopilot need a paid plan, from Starter. On the free offer, clips carry a “Made with Pickin” badge.
Does the autopilot publish on its own?
It leaves clips in the library or schedules them, depending on the rule. On TikTok they arrive as drafts in the app by default; direct posting is a choice in the rule.
Can I watch several channels with the autopilot?
Yes: one rule per channel, five rules at most per workspace.
Can I schedule to Instagram?
Not yet. Scheduling and direct publishing work today for TikTok and YouTube Shorts.
Does the Monday report go to my clients without my knowing?
No. You turn it on workspace by workspace, you choose the recipients, and you can send yourself a sample first.
