Clip Cadence Planner

Plan your clip production cadence

Turn your episode count and posting schedule into a clip production plan — using your numbers, not an estimate of them.

Built for podcasters, YouTubers and teams deciding how many clips to approve from each recording.

Work out your clip cadence

Your content

The period the schedule covers. 1 to 52.

Source videos in that period. 1 to 500.

Clips you plan to approve from each source video. This is your editorial judgement — the planner does not estimate it for you. 0.1 to 100.

Your posting schedule

Days each week you plan to publish. 1 to 7.

Approved clips to publish on a posting day. 0.1 to 20.

Optional note

Stays in this browser tab. It is not added to the share link and is not sent anywhere. 140 characters.

Your plan

Enter your numbers and select Calculate. The arithmetic runs in this browser tab.

Your numbers stay in this browser tab. Nothing is sent to a server.

Clip Cadence Planner

What this planner calculates

The formula

The planner compares two totals you define: the clips you plan to approve, and the slots you plan to publish into. It is arithmetic on your own figures.

Planned clips
episodes x clips per episode
Publishing slots
weeks x posting days per week x clips per posting day
Clip difference
planned clips - publishing slots
Weekly production target
planned clips / weeks
Weekly publishing target
publishing slots / weeks

Totals are shown to one decimal place; the arithmetic keeps full precision. A difference smaller than 0.05 clips is treated as balanced.

What this planner does not do

  • It does not predict views, reach, subscribers, revenue or whether a clip performs well. It has no data about outcomes and makes no claim about them.
  • It does not work out how many clips your footage will yield. Clips per episode is a number you decide and enter.
  • It does not calculate source minutes, and it never derives a clip count from video duration.
  • It does not compare you to other creators, and it uses no industry average or third-party benchmark.

Where the numbers come from

Every figure in the result traces back to the five values you entered. Nothing is filled in for you, there are no default or recommended settings, and no value is fetched from anywhere. The example button exists only to show the shape of a result.

FAQ

Common questions about the clip cadence planner

The planner does not answer that, because the honest answer depends on your footage and your standards. Enter the number you would actually approve, and the planner shows whether that choice fills your posting schedule.

No. It is a scheduling calculation, not a forecast. It multiplies and divides the numbers you type and says whether the two totals match. It has no information about views, reach or engagement, and it will never show you a projection.

Your planned clips and your publishing slots are within 0.05 clips of each other over the whole period. It means the two totals agree — nothing more. It is not a judgement that the cadence is right for you.

No. The calculation runs in your browser tab. The note stays in the page and is never added to a share link. A share link carries only the five numbers you entered, so anyone opening it sees the same inputs and the same result.

Turn those source videos into clips

Once you know how many clips your schedule needs, Short.now finds and cuts them from your long-form video.

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