StoryCut turns new YouTube uploads into clips automatically

StoryCut's November 2026 update takes the part of repurposing you still did by hand and hands it to the tool. Connect a YouTube channel once, and StoryCut starts a clips run the moment you publish, using the settings you already saved. The company announced the update in a blog post on November 4, 2026, and it covers three jobs that used to fill an evening: importing, styling and cutting the ums.

What StoryCut auto import does

StoryCut watches a channel and clips each new long video on its own. In Settings → Auto import, you paste a channel link or @handle and turn the feature on. From then on, every new public video longer than the minimum you pick (3 minutes unless you change it) goes through AI Clips by itself, with the clip length, language and face tracking you saved in the AI Clips window, plus your edit style's caption look and effects. StoryCut emails you, and sends a browser notification if you allow it, when the clips are ready.

The timing comes from YouTube's own update feed. StoryCut's auto import page says the tool subscribes to YouTube's WebSub feed for your channel and also checks every 30 minutes in case a notification is missed, so a run usually starts within minutes of a publish; the run itself takes about 10 to 15 minutes for an hour of video. StoryCut skips videos under your minimum, along with anything private, unlisted or members-only. Premieres and live streams wait until YouTube finishes processing them, checked every hour for up to two days.

How to set up StoryCut auto import

Connect the channel once, save your clip settings, then publish. Open Settings → Auto import, paste your channel link or @handle, and press Find and Turn on. Choose the shortest video StoryCut should import: 1, 3, 5 or 10 minutes, with 3 as the default. Then open the AI Clips window, set the clip length, caption style and whether your edit style goes on every clip, and tick "Save these settings as my default" so auto import inherits them. Your next upload starts a run on its own and shows up on the dashboard with an Auto import tag.

Auto import is not on the free plan. It starts on Starter, which covers one channel at $7 a month billed yearly, or $9 month to month. Pro covers three channels and Business covers ten.

What the 18 edit styles change

StoryCut measured real edits and turned the numbers into 18 ready-made styles. Auto Edit used to add about 10 zooms a minute on average, with sound effects sitting close under the voice. That pace fits a hype Short and fights a calm commentary or a sermon. So the team measured edits frame by frame: in the calm ones, the picture zooms one to three times a minute by 4 to 15%, and sound effects sit 12 to 15 dB under the voice.

The team turned those figures into 18 styles in six groups: talking to camera, conversations, teaching, business, storytelling and faceless videos. Each style carries an example video, an Intensity control (Subtle, Balanced, Bold) and a Customize panel where every amount can be changed. Pick a style in Settings → Edit style and Auto Edit, the zoom, sound effect and B-roll buttons and Remove Silence's pace all follow it. On Pro and up you can also switch on "Add my edit style to every clip" before a run, and every clip gets the zooms, sound effects and one shared music track at your style's amounts.

The rest of the update

Three more pieces shipped with it. B-roll is now a real cutaway instead of a see-through overlay: StoryCut searches free stock video for each moment, has the AI pick the clip that fits, and falls back to an AI image when nothing does, in three layouts (full screen, split and card). Clean up speech finds filler words, repeated words, retakes and false starts, and lists every cut before it removes anything, so you keep or drop each one. Headlines now come in 11 looks, placed at 14% of the frame, below the buttons TikTok, Reels and Shorts draw, and never over the speaker's eyes.

For developers, StoryCut added a REST API and signed webhooks on Starter and up, and an MCP connector on every plan so you can ask Claude or ChatGPT for clips in plain words. Volume users can prepay credits instead of a plan: one credit is one minute of video, from $50 for 1,000 credits.

What StoryCut costs

Auto import spends your plan's AI Clips allowance. StoryCut now meters that in hours: 3 hours (up to 10 videos) on Starter, 10 hours (up to 30) on Pro and 30 hours (up to 60) on Business. The free plan keeps one long video a month, its first 30 minutes. StoryCut's pricing page lists Starter at $7 a month billed yearly ($9 monthly), Pro at $14 ($19 monthly) and Business at $39 ($49 monthly). When a month's hours run out, the video is skipped and you get one notice with a Make clips button; auto import never spends a video you bought on its own.

How StoryCut's auto import compares to OpusClip

OpusClip clips new YouTube uploads automatically too, so the two invite a direct comparison. OpusClip's own help page says its Auto Import covers public videos longer than 3 minutes and checks for new uploads every hour, and that it spends credits for the full video length. StoryCut checks within minutes through YouTube's update feed plus a backup every 30 minutes, and counts each video's minutes against a monthly hours allowance rather than a credit pool.

The entry price differs. StoryCut's auto import starts at $7 a month billed yearly on Starter, while OpusClip's cheapest paid plan is Starter at $15 a month on monthly billing only, according to OpusClip's pricing page and a third-party price guide read on November 1, 2026.

What to watch

A few limits are worth knowing before you connect a channel. Filler-word detection works in English only, and Clean up speech runs on videos you upload to edit, not on AI clips. B-roll, Clean up speech and your edit style on every clip are Pro and up. StoryCut runs in desktop and mobile browsers with no app to install, and its own comparison pages note it has no third-party reviews yet.

The bigger shift is what auto import does to a weekly schedule. If you publish on a rhythm, the clipping now happens without you, and the decisions you still own are the ones that shape the output: which edit style, how bold its Intensity, and which cuts to keep.

Paste a YouTube link at storycut.com to get your first clips free, then connect your channel in Settings → Auto import to put the rest on Starter or higher.