Insert clips: settings and best results

What does Insert clips do?

Insert clips adds your own saved video clips to every video in the queue, on your own computer. Put an intro at the start, a short break in the first pause, and an outro at the end. In the app the tool is called Insert Clips.

You save each clip once. It stays in the list for every later run, so a weekly show gets the same intro and outro with a few clicks.

02Step 2: Choose where the clips go

Where the clips go shows the order the result will play in: At the start, your recording, In the first pause, the rest of your recording, and At the end. Fill one, two or all three spots.

• Click Add a clip in a spot. The list of your saved clips opens. Click a clip to put it there.
• To save a new clip, click Save a clip… (or Save another clip…) and pick an MP4, MOV, M4V, WebM or MKV file. Hangar keeps its own copy, so the clip still works if you move the original.
• Click a chosen clip’s name to swap it, or × to empty the spot. The bin next to a clip in the list removes it from your saved clips.

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1. 1Where the clips go
2. 2A saved clip at the start
3. 3In the first pause
4. 4Transition
5. 5Fit a clip of another shape

03Step 3: Set where the pause clip goes

When you fill In the first pause, Find the pause appears. Hangar places the clip in the middle of the first pause after the time in Look after, such as 0:05. Type minutes and seconds, or just seconds.

Sensitivity sets how loud the room can be and still count as a pause. If a video fails with "No pause found", move the slider to the right, toward −10 dB, so a quiet room is read as a pause.

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1. 1Clip in the first pause
2. 2Look after
3. 3Sensitivity
4. 4Dissolve

05Step 5: Run, then check the videos

The line above the button sums up the run, such as "2 clips · Cut". Check where the files will go: Default output folder saves them in your workspace’s output folder, in an insert_clips folder with a subfolder for today’s date. Click Change to pick another folder. Then click Run insert clips.

When the run ends, each video shows Done. Click View to watch one, or Open folder to go to them. Each result is an MP4 named like filming-tips-take-3-clips.mp4. See See and compare your results and Where your files are saved.

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1. 1Done
2. 2View
3. 3Saved to
4. 4Open folder

Every setting, and when to change it

At the start

Plays before your recording. Use it for an intro or a title.

• RangeA saved clip, or empty
• DefaultEmpty

In the first pause

Plays in the middle of the first pause after Look after. Use it for a sponsor message or a short break.

• RangeA saved clip, or empty
• DefaultEmpty

At the end

Plays after your recording. Use it for an outro or a call to action.

• RangeA saved clip, or empty
• DefaultEmpty

Look after

Only shown with a pause clip. The pause clip goes in the first pause after this point.

• Range0:00 to 10:00
• Default0:05

Sensitivity

Only shown with a pause clip. How loud a stretch can be and still count as a pause. Raise it if a quiet room isn’t read as a pause.

• Range−60 to −10 dB
• Default−30 dB

Transition

How each part meets the next. Dissolve fades over half a second.

• RangeCut, Dissolve
• DefaultCut

Fit a clip of another shape

How a clip of another shape fills your recording’s frame.

• RangeBlur fill, Letterbox, Crop
• DefaultBlur fill

How do I get the best results?

• Make your clips the same shape as your videos, such as 16:9 for YouTube or 9:16 for Reels, so they fill the frame without bars, blur or cropping.
• Use Look after to skip your opening line, so the break doesn’t land in the first breath of the video.
• Cut first, then insert. Trim the start and end of your takes with Trim Video before you add the intro and outro. In a chain, Insert Clips can run right after the trim.
• To join many videos into one, use Join Videos instead.

Why does a result look wrong?

• A video failed with "No pause found". No quiet stretch of at least half a second came after Look after, or the video has no sound. Raise Sensitivity or set an earlier Look after.
• A clip has black bars or a blurred background. It is not the same shape as your recording. Pick Crop to fill the frame, or make the clip in the same shape.
• "A chosen clip is no longer available". The saved clip was removed. Choose it again, or save it again.
• The button says to choose a clip first. Fill at least one of the three spots.

For other errors, see A file failed: what to check.

Limits

• Up to three clips per video: one at the start, one in the first pause and one at the end.
• The same clips go into every video in the queue. There is no per-video choice.
• Only the first pause after Look after gets a clip.
• Saved clips can be MP4, MOV, M4V, WebM or MKV files.
• The result is always an MP4 at your recording’s size and frame rate, so the whole video is re-encoded.
• Add video files, not folders.
• Everything runs on your computer. Nothing is uploaded.