---
title: Find and share your clips
description: Where your finished clips live, how to download the MP4, and how to share a clip as a link people can play anywhere.
navigation:
  label: Find and share clips
  order: 3
section: getting-started
updated: '2026-06-24'
tags:
  - clips
  - sharing
  - getting-started
---

# Find and share your clips

You've made a clip or two. Here's where they live, how to grab the video file, and how to
hand someone a link they can play without ever opening BitterClip.

## Where your finished clips live

Every clip and rendered video you make lands in your project's **Outputs tab**. It sits in
the project tab bar next to Episodes and Sources, and it gathers everything you've finished:
the clips you cut, plus any longer videos you've put together.

Each clip stays linked to the recording it started from. So if you want to revisit the full
episode, pull a different clip, or just jog your memory on the context, the trail back is
always there.

[screenshot: the Outputs tab in a project]

## Download a clip

A clip needs a moment to render before you can grab the file. Right after you cut it, you may
see it marked "rendering" on its card; once it's ready, a **Download** button appears. You
don't have to open the clip first. The download is right there on the card.

What you get is an MP4. By default it keeps your source's shape (a widescreen recording stays
widescreen), and you can choose vertical or square when you export. Captions are burned right
into the video by default, so they travel with it everywhere you post. If you turned captions
off at export, the file comes out without them.

::callout{type="tip"}
Because the captions live inside the video, there's no separate caption file to upload and
nothing extra to set up. Drop the MP4 into a post and the words are already there.
::

## Share a clip with a link

You can also publish a clip as a shareable link. Switch it on and you get a small video player
that plays the clip on any web page: your site, a blog post, a landing page. Whoever you send
it to never has to open BitterClip. They just press play.

You turn this on per clip, from the clip's card in the **Outputs tab**. The clip has to be
exported and finished rendering first; if there's no ready export yet, the toggle won't switch
on. You can turn it back off any time you want to stop sharing publicly.

::callout{type="note"}
Sharing a clip as a live, embeddable player is part of an upgraded plan. The embed page
re-checks your plan every time it loads, so if your plan changes, the shared link quietly stops
playing. If it isn't included on your plan yet, you'll see the option to upgrade when you go to
switch it on.
::

::signup-cta
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[screenshot: the embed toggle on a clip's Outputs card]

::callout{type="note"}
Downloading the MP4 always works once a clip has rendered. The shareable link is the extra step
for when you'd rather have a clip play live on a page than hand someone a file.
::

::callout{type="warning"}
No download or embed option showing up? The clip is probably still rendering, or live embeds
aren't included on your plan yet. Give a fresh render a minute, then refresh the Outputs tab.
::

::next-steps
---
links:
  - to: /docs/publishing/publish-a-clip
    label: Publish a clip to your channels
  - to: /docs/getting-started/your-first-clip
    label: Make another clip
  - to: /docs/assistants/overview
    label: Do it all from your AI assistant
---
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