Clip Defaults For Social Clips

Clip defaults let you set once which shapes new Social clips are made in and which shape goes to which network, so you stop answering the same question every time you cut a clip.

What it is

Clip defaults lives under Social in the left menu, or under the account menu on a phone. It is a shared setting for everyone on the account: tick the shapes you want new clips made in, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5, 16:9, as many as you need, and pick the shape each connected network should get. TikTok can get 9:16, LinkedIn can get 1:1, and picking a shape for a network adds it to your list automatically.

The problem it removes

Without a default, every new clip stops and asks which shapes you need, even when the answer never changes. You end up picking 9:16 for TikTok and Reels, 1:1 for LinkedIn, the same choices over and over. Clip defaults removes that question. Once set, a new clip opens already shaped the way you want.

How it works

Say you run clips for a coffee brand. You set 9:16 and 1:1 as your defaults, point TikTok and Instagram at 9:16, and point LinkedIn at 1:1. A sentence under your choices confirms what new clips will get. From then on, every clip you cut from a recording opens with those shapes ready, no prompt. If a source video is vertical and cannot make a 16:9 version, that shape is skipped with a short notice instead of failing silently. If you run two accounts on the same network, you also choose which one gets the clip by default.

Changing a default only changes what happens next. Clips you already opened keep the shapes they were given. And whatever you change on a clip itself, a shape you add or remove by hand, always wins for that one clip, no matter what the default says.

Client kits

If you work through client links, each Client kit has its own Shapes and networks block. By default it says Using your Clip defaults, so nothing changes unless you want it to. Click Set for this client to give that client its own shapes and network pairings, separate from your account defaults. That matters for agencies: one client might want square clips for every network, another might want vertical only, and now each client can have its own rule without you resetting anything by hand before every cut.

Who it helps

This is for anyone who turns recordings into social clips on a regular rhythm: a podcast host who posts the same three shapes every week, an agency cutting clips for several clients with different house styles, a marketer who always wants TikTok in 9:16 and LinkedIn in 1:1 without thinking about it. The more clips you make, the more time this saves, because the setup work happens once instead of every time.

Set your shapes once in ScriptCut and let every new clip open ready to post.