You clip a creator who posts every week. Each new video means the same routine: spot it, start it, pick the clips, fit them into the calendar. Pickin’s autopilot does that routine for you: you give it a YouTube channel once, and each new long video is clipped, then kept in your library or scheduled on your accounts.
One channel, one rule: Pickin clips each new long video with your usual settings and fills your calendar, without you having to think about it.
What the autopilot does
A rule watches one YouTube channel in one workspace. About every hour, Pickin checks whether the channel has published a new long video. When it has, Pickin clips it on its own, with the settings of your latest video in that workspace: caption style, framing, brand kit, music, language.
Then you have two choices. With “Create my clips”, the clips wait in your library and you decide how to publish them. With “Create and schedule my clips”, they fill your calendar slots on the TikTok and YouTube accounts you chose.
The autopilot only looks ahead: only videos published after the rule was turned on are clipped, never the channel’s back catalogue. Shorts and lives are left alone.
Setting it up
In the menu, under Publish, open “Autopilot” and click “Watch a channel”. Paste a channel link, an @handle or a link to one of its videos: the channel appears automatically, with its latest video.
Choose the number of clips per video (up to 20, depending on the moments available) and the selection style. Then answer “What should Pickin do next?”. To schedule, tick the accounts, then set “Your publishing week”: every day, Monday to Friday or the days you pick, and up to eight videos a day, to the minute.
For TikTok there are two modes. Draft drops each clip in the TikTok app, where you still publish it with one tap. Direct post puts it live on your profile at the planned time, with the visibility you choose. For YouTube, you set the Shorts’ visibility. One click on the activation button, and the rule runs.
- One YouTube channel per rule, five rules at most per workspace.
- The number of clips per video, from 1 to 20.
- The accounts, days and posting times if you schedule.
- The TikTok mode: draft or direct post.
Credits and follow-up
Each video the autopilot clips uses credits like a video you start yourself. If there are not enough, the video waits and Pickin tries again regularly: it is not lost. The autopilot handles one video at a time and always leaves room for your own videos.
You always know what it did. On the autopilot page, each channel shows a sentence summing up its rule and its last three videos, with what became of them. The assistant’s recap tells you too, for example that an episode was clipped and six clips scheduled, or that a video is waiting for credits.
A switch pauses a channel, “Check now” looks right away without waiting for the hour, and a rule can be edited or removed at any time.
What the autopilot does not do
It watches YouTube, and only long videos. To clip a Twitch or YouTube live while it runs, there is live clipping. Instagram is not a publishing destination yet.
It does not choose the channel for you. To find what to clip, niche watch flags the videos that are rising and the ideas to clip suggest what comes next; the autopilot takes over once the channel is chosen. In TikTok draft mode, the final publishing is still yours. And like any publishing, it does not guarantee views.
Frequently asked questions
Does the autopilot use credits?
Watching a channel costs nothing. Each clipped video uses credits like any video. Without enough credits, the video waits instead of failing.
Do I need a paid plan?
Yes, from Starter. The plans are on the homepage.
How many channels can I watch?
Five per workspace. An agency with one workspace per client can therefore watch five channels for each.
Will the channel’s old videos be clipped?
No. Only long videos published after the rule is turned on.
Are clips published without my approval?
Only if you ask for it: when scheduling with TikTok direct post, or for your YouTube Shorts. With “Create my clips” or TikTok drafts, you publish.
How the calendar fills up
When a video is clipped, Pickin places its clips from best to least good, one per free slot: the next slot of your typical week, then the one after, and so on. Slots already taken in the workspace are skipped, and Pickin keeps to TikTok’s limit of fifteen direct posts a day on one account.
Times are in the rule’s time zone, clock changes included. Editing a rule changes the next allocations, not the posts already placed: you stay in control of what is in the calendar.
A made-up example, for the order of things. You follow a podcast that comes out on Tuesdays at 5 pm, with six clips per video and one post a day at 6 pm, Monday to Friday. On Tuesday around 6 pm, Pickin sees the episode and clips it. The six clips then go out on the following Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 6 pm, best first.