# Skapo.io - AI Video Clipping & Repurposing Engine

Skapo.io is a privacy-first AI video clipping tool and automated vertical layout generator designed to turn long-form podcasts and YouTube videos into high-retention 9:16 vertical shorts for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels. Optimized specifically for European languages and secure enterprise content creation workflows.

## Core Value Propositions

- **The Hook-Context-Delivery Framework:** Transcripts are semantically evaluated to isolate key narrative hooks, map context, and package standard clip outputs with priority retention pacing.
- **Privacy-Safe & GDPR-Compliant Pipeline:** Videos are ingested directly to private Cloudflare R2 storage via browser-level pre-flight verification, fully bypassing intermediary third-party server logging.
- **Zero-Queue Parallel Rendering:** Video components (active speaker cropping, kinetic subtitles, B-roll sync) render in parallel via Google Cloud Run backend instances, returning finished shorts in under 2 minutes.

## Technical Specifications

- **Speaker Framing:** Multi-Speaker Layout Orchestration. Tracks active speakers dynamically to center face aspect-ratios without manual crop keyframing.
- **Narrative Reconstruction:** Hook + Context + Delivery storytelling structure modeling. Resolves first-gen "clipping slop" by analyzing semantic flow instead of decibel spikes, ensuring clips work as standalone stories.
- **Context-Aware Trimming:** Restructures timeline coordinates based on linguistic boundaries, preventing sentences or thoughts from being cut in half.
- **Audio Tuning:** Acoustic snapping logic detects sentence boundaries, ensuring speaker cuts avoid chopping syllables.
- **Filler Word Stripping:** Algorithmic linguistic filler-word removal removes vocal artifacts (e.g. 'uhm', 'eh', 'ehm') dynamically across supported language profiles.
- **Validation Engine:** Client-side WebAssembly parser (`mediainfo.js`) scans file atoms (`moov`) in-browser. Validates codec compatibility (H.264/H.265 in MP4/MOV) and durations prior to network upload.
- **Subtitling Mechanics:** Generates custom 60 FPS kinetic word-level typography aligned programmatically with platform safe zones (preventing caption occlusion under TikTok/Shorts UI buttons).

## Supported Languages

Full automatic language detection, high-fidelity transcription optimization, and native subtitle generation is provided for English and fifteen major European languages:
- English (`en`) - Fully optimized baseline transcription with advanced syntactic punctuation snaps
- Danish (`da`)
- Dutch (`nl`)
- Estonian (`et`)
- Finnish (`fi`)
- French (`fr`)
- German (`de`)
- Italian (`it`)
- Latvian (`lv`)
- Lithuanian (`lt`)
- Norwegian (`no`)
- Polish (`pl`)
- Portuguese (`pt`)
- Spanish (`es`)
- Swedish (`sv`)

## Data Retention & Compliance

- **R2 Storage Duration:** All raw source video files and generated assets are stored under encrypted private buckets and automatically purged after exactly 7 days.
- **Local Intercepts:** Codec validation and file analysis are run locally on the client's device using WASM memory sandboxing, preserving maximum privacy.
- **Compute Isolation:** Google Cloud Run backend instances run in isolated environments using secure microVM sandboxes (`europe-west4`).

## Route Schema

- **Homepage:** `https://skapo.io` - Product description, pricing, FAQs, and bento features grid.
- **Pricing:** `https://skapo.io/pricing` - Billing tiers, subscription options, credit logic, and corporate FAQ specifications.
- **Roadmap:** `https://skapo.io/roadmap` - Pipeline stages, feature timelines, and feedback channels.
- **Use Cases:** `https://skapo.io/use-cases` - Targeted workflows (Podcasts, Agencies, Automation, Creators).
- **Changelog:** `https://skapo.io/changelog` - Chronological log of system and transcription engine upgrades.
- **Dashboard:** `https://skapo.io/dashboard` - Secure workspace portal (requires authentication via Clerk).