What's New in Skapo.
Follow along as we ship. We post updates every week, making the clips faster, sharper, and easier to create.
The First 3 Seconds: Viral Hook Engine
The opening of a short decides whether anyone watches the rest, so we rebuilt the first three seconds of every clip. Hook title cards are now on by default for everyone, the opening is never a static talking head, and your strongest hooks get made first. Every short also gets its own cover image for a scannable library.
- •Bold scroll-stopping hook titles are now baked onto the opening of every clip, on every plan, not just Pro.
- •New Viral Motion: a slow push-in over the hook, alternating punch-ins between cuts, and a tightened loop, so the first seconds always feel alive and the clip loops cleanly back to the hook.
- •Clips are now ranked by hook strength before rendering, so your most scroll-stopping moments are produced first.
- •Every short gets an auto-generated 9:16 cover thumbnail (the best hook frame with your title on it), turning your library into a scannable wall of clips, built for agencies reviewing dozens at a glance.
- •Render timeouts now scale with video length, so long podcasts and interviews get the processing time they need.
Hormozi-Style Animated Captions
Skapo now has a built-in Hormozi caption style, the bold, word-by-word, high-contrast look that's everywhere in short-form for educational and business content. No plugin, no fiddling with templates. Pick it once and it's on every clip.
- •Words pop on one at a time, with your own highlight color, shadow, and all-caps option, set to the classic Hormozi look out of the box.
- •The caption outline adjusts itself so text stays readable on both dark and bright footage.
- •Each client can have their own caption style, one gets Hormozi, another gets minimal, all in the same batch with no manual switching.
- •Captions always sit where the TikTok, Reels, or Shorts buttons won't cover them.
Knows Who's Talking
Skapo now figures out who is speaking at each moment and labels every line of the transcript. For podcasts, interviews, and panels, that means clips are picked with the speakers in mind, not just the moment.
- •Automatically spots and labels up to 8 different speakers in a video, no manual tagging.
- •Clips with a good back-and-forth (one person sets up the hook, another lands the punchline) get ranked higher than one-sided ones.
- •Speaker labels come with the transcript, so your editors can search by who said it, not just by keyword.
- •Works in all 15 languages, and it doesn't slow processing down at all.
Silence Gap Detection & Automated Dead Air Removal
Clips produced by Skapo now automatically strip silence gaps, long pauses, and dead air from the final output. The result is tighter pacing without manual timeline work, a major time save for agencies processing high-volume podcast and interview content.
- •Set how long a pause has to be before it's trimmed (default: 0.4 seconds), with a different setting per client, some content needs room to breathe, some doesn't.
- •Tells the difference between a meaningful pause (emphasis, a dramatic beat) and plain dead air, and only trims the dead air.
- •Your captions stay perfectly in sync after the cuts, nothing drifts out of place.
- •Average clip runtime reduction of 8-14% on unedited podcast source material, directly improving completion rates.
Support for 15+ European Languages & Automatic Language Detection
Skapo now understands fifteen European languages and detects which one you're speaking automatically, keeping each speaker's flow intact and trimming filler words cleanly.
- •Auto-detects Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
- •Trims filler words ('uhm', 'eh', 'ehm') cleanly, tuned for each language, not just English.
- •Captions now get punctuation right across all the supported languages.
Secure Direct Video Upload
You can now upload big video files straight to our own private, encrypted storage, they never pass through anyone else's servers.
- •Checks your video right in your browser before it uploads, so bad files get caught early.
- •Shows you the credit cost and any file-size fee up front, before you commit.
- •GDPR-friendly: everything is stored encrypted and automatically deleted after 7 days.
Editor Twin & Smarter Hook Detection
Big updates to Editor Twin, the AI that finds your best moments, with a cleaner look and sharper picks for which openings will grab attention.
- •Rates how strong each opening hook is and surfaces your video's highlights automatically.
- •Cuts on the natural pauses in speech, so clips never get chopped off mid-word.
- •Places captions where the YouTube Shorts and TikTok buttons won't cover them.
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