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Why this page has no comparison table

A comparison table asserting what a competitor does is stale the week it ships and unverifiable by the person reading it. It is also the easiest place in marketing to be dishonest by omission — pick the six rows you win and the table writes itself.

So: no table, no ticks, and not one sentence on this page claiming what another product does today. Every answer below is about Momevera and is traceable to code in this repository. Take the questions with you.

1. Where does the cut land?

The single most common complaint about AI clipping is that clips open or close mid-sentence, and it comes from an ordering problem: the moment is scored, a fixed window is taken around the peak, and a length clamp is applied last — so the clamp can always override a word boundary, because the clamp cannot see a sentence.

Momevera reverses that. The clip starts at the setup and ends after the payoff. A final sentence that is a question, or that trails off on a conjunction, is treated as a setup and the clip is extended or dropped. A laugh landing within two seconds is included rather than cut away from. The requested length is satisfied by choosing a different sentence pair, and a candidate with no pair that fits the band is discarded rather than trimmed to an arbitrary offset. The full rule set, with its actual constants, is written out here.

Ask any tool: what happens when the moment you want is 41 seconds and I asked for 30?

2. Is the batch padded?

Asking for twelve clips and always receiving twelve is a strong hint that the ranking is relative to the batch. Rescale any run to fill a flattering range and the worst pick of a bad source still prints a confident number.

Momevera scores 70 percent rank within the source and 30 percent absolute evidence, and every pick must clear an absolute floor. A weak source returns fewer clips, and the results page prints how many candidates cleared the floor beside how many were delivered — including which of the two reasons a short batch had.

Ask any tool: give it a genuinely flat hour of footage and see whether the clip count drops.

3. What does the crop do when it is unsure?

"Follows the speaker" is two problems. Who is talking is an audio question. Where they are on the frame is a video question, and no amount of audio answers it.

Momevera correlates speaker turns against per-column motion in the video, subtracting the other speakers' average column profile so that anything running during everyone's turns — a game feed, an overlay, a webcam breathing on auto-exposure — cancels out. When the contrast collapses the pass returns nothing and the existing motion-tracked crop is kept, and that decision is stored on the clip and shown in the editor. A real face model (YuNet) then snaps that answer onto the nearest actual face, so the crop lands on a person rather than near one — strictly additively, so a shot with no face found, no dominant face, or a render box without the detector keeps the contrast's own answer unchanged.

Ask any tool: what does it do with a single-camera two-hander where both people sit in the same half of the frame?

4. Which sources work on the free tier?

YouTube, Twitch, Kick and Vimeo links all work on the Momevera free tier, along with direct uploads, and every one of them costs the same: 1 credit per source minute. Twitch and Kick used to carry a 1.5× rate for the extra cost of pulling an HLS VOD; that surcharge is gone, because it fell entirely on the streamers this product is built for.

Accepted

youtube.com, youtu.be, music.youtube.com, twitch.tv, kick.com and vimeo.com — plus the www and m subdomains where they exist, and player.vimeo.com for embeds — matched as exact hosts, so a lookalike domain is rejected rather than fetched. Or upload a file.

Free tier

90 credits a month, refills, no card, 720p exports with no watermark.

Credit unit

1 credit = 1 minute of source video, charged on source length rather than clip count.

Partial VOD

Select a processing window and pay for the window. Minimum one minute.

Ask any tool: can I paste my own platform's VOD without upgrading first?

5. What does the pricing page not tell you?

The things that generate refund requests in this category are renewal surprises and quality caps discovered after payment. Momevera's answers, in full:

• Renewal email before every charge — the amount, the date and a link to cancel — a few days before the card is billed.
• 7-day no-questions refund on your first purchase of any plan, Lifetime included. After that, case by case.
• Cancel in one click from Account. Access runs to the end of the period you have already paid for.
• Export quality is capped by the source as well as by the plan. A 1080p VOD will not become 4K and is never upscaled to look like it did.
• Credits reset on your billing date and do not roll over. Purchased top-up packs never expire and are spent after the plan allowance.

Ask any tool: will it email me before it charges me, and what is the refund window?

6. Can you get your work out?

Every clip exports as an mp4 with the source audio at 160 kbps AAC, as SRT and VTT subtitle files, and as XML for Premiere or DaVinci — the XML export is included on every plan rather than reserved for the top tier. Nothing about the output requires this product to keep existing.

Ask any tool: what leaves with me if I cancel?

A twenty-minute test that settles it

Every tool in this category gives you enough free credits to answer the questions above yourself, and the answers arrive faster than any review will tell you. What follows is the protocol we would use on a competitor, written so it works against us too. Run it on one source, in one sitting.

Pick the hardest video you own, not the easiest. The right test source is a long one — an hour or more — with at least one stretch of two people talking over each other and at least one quiet stretch where nothing much happens. A tight, well-lit, single-speaker ten-minute video makes every tool in this category look identical, which is exactly why demos use them.

• Ask for more clips than you think the source contains. A tool that always returns the number you asked for is ranking relative to the batch, and the last few are padding you will delete. Note how many come back and whether the weak ones carry confident scores.
• Read the first and last four words of every clip out loud. This is the whole mid-sentence test and it takes a minute. Count how many open on a dangling pronoun — 'and then he said', 'so that's why' — with no referent anywhere in the clip.
• Watch the two-hander stretch with the sound off. You are looking for whether the crop sits on the person who was speaking, and more importantly what it does when it cannot tell. A frame that holds is a normal edit. A frame that whips between two people is worse than one that never moved.
• Take the quiet stretch and check whether anything was cut from it at all. A tool that finds five 'viral moments' in ten minutes of admin is not measuring anything.
• Export one clip and look at what you actually got: the resolution against your source, whether there is a watermark, and whether subtitles and a timeline file came with it or only an mp4.
• Then cancel. Not to churn — to find out how long it takes and whether the exports you already made still work afterwards.

Six steps, one source, one sitting. If a tool fails step two you will keep paying that cost on every clip you ever make with it, and no feature further down the page compensates for it.

What the scores actually mean, on any tool

Every clipper puts a number on each clip, and those numbers are the least comparable thing in the category. Two products can print “92” and mean entirely different things by it, so it is worth knowing what kinds of number exist before you trust one.

Relative to the batch

The run is rescaled so the best clip of any source lands near the top of the range. Cheap to build and always flattering: the worst pick from a bad video still prints a high number, because the number only ever described rank within that one video.

Absolute against a floor

A clip is scored against a fixed bar and dropped if it does not clear it, so a weak source returns fewer clips rather than the same batch with a nicer curve. The tell is simple — ask for twelve and see whether you can ever get back fewer.

Predicted performance

A claim that a clip will get a certain reach. Treat every one of these with suspicion, including ours: the honest version is measured against real outcomes, and almost nobody in this category has that data to measure against.

Momevera scores against an absolute floor, and a source with nothing above it comes back short rather than padded. We are also, deliberately, not going to tell you a clip will get a million views.

Ask any tool: can this ever return fewer clips than I asked for, and what would make it?

Moving off something you already pay for

The switching cost in this category is lower than it feels, because almost nothing in a clipping tool is stored state. What you have with an existing tool is a library of finished mp4s and a habit; there is no schema to migrate and no integration to rebuild.

• Download what you have already made before you cancel anything. Finished clips are the only thing that does not regenerate, and most tools stop serving them at some point after a subscription ends.
• Run the same source through the new tool before the old subscription lapses, so you are comparing on footage you already know rather than on memory.
• Keep the overlap short. One billing period is enough to answer every question above, and this is not a category where a long migration teaches you anything a week would not.
• Check the export formats you actually use. If you finish in Premiere or DaVinci, an mp4-only export means re-cutting by hand, which is a real cost that does not show up until the first edit.

On this end: the free tier is 90 credits a month, refills, needs no card, and exports without a watermark — which is enough to run the twenty-minute test above on a 90-minute source without paying anything or entering a card to find out.

Where Momevera is the weaker answer

It is worth being direct about this, because you will find it out in the first ten minutes anyway.

• There is no publishing or scheduling. If your whole reason for buying a clipper is that it posts for you, this is not that tool and there is no roadmap label pretending otherwise.
• Face detection is used only to place the crop, never to choose the speaker — that is the audio's job. It is also optional: a render box without the detector loses no behaviour, and when the evidence is thin the frame is held rather than moved.
• Captions cannot be drawn in a rounded box — the subtitle burner has no rounded-box primitive, and the template editor says so instead of offering a control that does nothing.
• It is a young product with a small team. What it has instead of scale is that every claim on this site can be checked against the code that makes it true.

If the sentence-boundary problem is the one that has been costing you time, start with the cut rules. If you are clipping long streams, the quality floor is the part worth reading.

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