Try each tool on the same recording. A highlight reel on a product website cannot tell you how it will handle your podcast.
Give each tool the same task
Use the same source, clip-length range and requested number of clips. Review the whole batch. Count the clips you would actually post, then time the corrections they need.
Check four things
- Selection: does each clip make a complete point?
- Framing: does it follow speaker changes without cutting off faces?
- Captions: are the words, timing and placement right?
- Editing: can you quickly repair the mistakes you find?
SlicePost's engine uses camera-change and speaker analysis to make framing decisions through a clip. Include interviews with several speakers in your test if that is the kind of footage you edit. That is a feature to assess, not proof that one tool wins on every source.
Compare the full price
Check billing period, source minutes, seats, storage, exports and publishing. Different tools use credits differently. Work out the price for your own monthly workload.
Start with our SlicePost comparisons, then test the tools that fit your work. There is no single best choice for every editor.