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When Clipchat is running and signed in, the Runchat agent can work on your open recording. Use the chat panel in the Clipchat viewer, or talk to it from Runchat itself. Your recording never leaves your computer. The agent asks Clipchat questions and requests short pieces of footage to look at, and Clipchat answers from the copy on your disk.

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What you can ask for

The agent can read your whole recording, including the transcript, what it saw on screen, the current cut and any comments you have left. From there it can:
  • move a cut, tighten a section, or remove something entirely
  • rewrite titles, subtitles and captions
  • change the shape of a video, or add another one in a different shape
  • watch a specific stretch of footage to answer a question about it
  • re-make the videos once it has finished changing things
Ask for the outcome rather than the operation:
Because the agent can watch the footage, you can ask about things it has to see to answer, such as when a result first appeared on screen or whether a stretch is just dead air.

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Comments

Leave comments on the timeline in the viewer as you watch — typed, or spoken while the video plays, so one watch-through produces your whole review — then ask the agent to work through them. Comments are part of what it reads, so a review can be a list of notes followed by a single instruction to apply them. You can comment on a moment, or drag a comment’s end handle to mark a range, which is the natural way to say “cut this bit”. Anything you fix by hand in the viewer (see Review & refine) is recorded for the agent too, so it builds on your changes instead of undoing them.

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Rendering

A change shows up in the viewer’s live preview as soon as the agent delivers it — nothing re-renders on its own. Make the mp4 when you’re happy, with the viewer’s Render button or by asking the agent to render or publish. Only the videos actually affected are made again: leaving the widescreen cut alone while reworking one short means just that short gets remade.
The agent works on whichever recording is open in the viewer. Open a different one to point it somewhere else.