Publish a clip

Once you've exported a clip, BitterClip can send it to your connected channels: YouTube, LinkedIn, and X. Every prepared post waits for you to review and confirm the exact video, copy, and destination before anything goes out.

(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.

Prepare a post for review

Preparing a post creates a draft. It does not publish anything.

Confirm the exact package

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 confirm the exact package in BitterClip.

The package stays a draft until you confirm it. Preparing it never sends it.

Publish a whole episode at once

You don't have to prepare 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 reviewable package per channel; confirm each package before it goes out.

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: one reviewable package per channel, each requiring your exact confirmation.

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: the requested starting privacy of a YouTube upload. A service policy or YouTube restriction may make the effective upload private.
• Default tags.
• Post body template: default copy for your X or LinkedIn posts.

Set these once and every new package starts from them.