Publish a clip

Once you've exported a clip, BitterClip can send it to your connected channels: YouTube, LinkedIn, and X. You review each post before it goes out, and the project decides whether posts wait for your okay or publish on their own.

(Instagram works differently. There's no reliable one-click posting to it yet, so you hand the clip to your phone instead. See Connect Instagram for the way that works today.)

Before you start

New here? Make a clip first in Your first clip. The clip needs to finish exporting before you can publish it, because publishing sends that rendered output.

Choose how a project publishes

Each project decides for itself whether posts wait for you or go out on their own. Pick the setting that fits before you publish anything.

Review the post before it goes out

When you ask BitterClip to publish, it builds one of these packages for each channel. You look it over, read the caption, check the destination, watch the clip, and then your project's setting takes over.

screenshot: reviewing a publish package

If the project waits for your approval, the package sits as a draft until you approve it. If the project publishes automatically, the ready channels post as soon as the package is built.

Publish a whole episode at once

You don't have to post one clip at a time, and you don't have to repeat yourself for each channel. BitterClip can take a whole episode's finished output and prepare it for YouTube, LinkedIn, and X in one step. It builds one package per channel, then your project's publishing setting handles the rest.

A channel counts as ready when it's connected and still has permission to post. A channel you connected a while ago can go stale and need reconnecting. The note at the bottom of this page points you to each channel's setup.

Publishing a longer, assembled video

The same publishing flow works when you've stitched several pieces into a longer video, not just a single clip. Once that longer video has finished rendering, you review and send it the same way: a package per channel, your project's setting deciding what happens next.

Check on a post after publishing

Publishing runs in the background, so a post can take a moment to land. You can check the status of anything you've sent, in the BitterClip app or by asking your assistant in chat, to see whether it's still working, finished, or waiting on you.

If a post simply fails, BitterClip flags it for review. Open it, fix what it points to (often a caption, or a channel that needs reconnecting), and try again. For a stuck post that won't clear, see Troubleshooting.

If a post needs a second look

Sometimes BitterClip can't tell whether a post actually went out. When that happens, it asks you to check the channel before retrying instead of failing outright. Don't hit publish again. Go look at the channel first, because the post may already be live, and republishing would create a duplicate. Once you've confirmed what's really there, BitterClip can bring its record back in line.

Where your publishing defaults live

You don't have to set the same things every time. In the BitterClip app, open Settings and find the Publishing defaults section. You can set, in this order:

• Platforms: the channels a new package goes to by default.
• YouTube privacy: how a YouTube upload starts. Private is the safe default, since a fresh upload can't go fully public until it's been reviewed.
• Default tags.
• Post body template: default copy for your X or LinkedIn posts.

Set these once and every new package starts from them.