How to Clip a Loom Recording with Vizard

Most “clip a Loom with AI” posts skip the two facts that actually decide the afternoon. First: a Loom is not a meeting. It is an async walkthrough you already recorded in Loom — usually a 16:9 screen plus an optional webcam bubble — sitting in your Library. Second: Vizard publishes Loom as a paste-a-link source. That is real product. A workspace-only share that wants a login is not a fetch. This guide is the working path — rights, download or copy the share, import, Get Clips, pick walkthrough beats, caption, export 16:9 or 9:16 — using the one clipper we send for this brief: Vizard.

When a Loom walkthrough needs Vizard — and when it doesn't

Use Vizard when the recording already happened and the walkthrough is the product: a feature demo you will not re-stage, a bug you already clicked through, an onboarding tour, a support Loom, an async update that still has three publishable beats. The job is pulling 3–8 moments that can stand alone in Slack or on a help-doc page — one feature, one step, one fix — and getting a shelf out before the next record. That is Vizard on this page.

Skip Vizard if the source is a live Zoom, Teams, or Meet. Those download paths live on the meeting how-tos — ordinary pages, not hops. Skip Vizard if you will treat a 30–90 minute webinar as a weekly Shorts factory and you want a clipper that meters generated clips, not uploaded minutes. That is the Klap webinar how-to — again an ordinary site path, not a second money button. Skip both clippers if you already know the 40 seconds and the job is effects or a template. That is CapCut — editorial on this site, no affiliate desk. Skip everything if the Loom itself is still a ramble you would not send to the person who asked for it: clip detection will hand you mid-click fragments from a file you should have left in the Library.

The seven-step Loom-to-clip

1. 01

   Confirm the Loom is yours to recut

   This workflow is for a Loom you recorded — a product walkthrough, a feature demo, a bug explainer, an onboarding tour, an async update — or a recording you have written permission to clip. A customer’s screen, a coworker’s face in the webcam bubble, licensed UI chrome, and a music bed under the intro are not automatically yours to drop on LinkedIn or Shorts. If the master is not yours, stop.

2. 02

   Download the MP4 from your Library — or copy the share only if it actually opens

   Open the video in Loom’s Library. Select the ⋯ menu above the player, then Download. That is Atlassian’s published path, and the file is an MP4. Download is a paid-workspace job: Business, Business+ AI, or Enterprise, and only for Admins / Creators (Members too on Enterprise). Starter Free and Creator Lite cannot download. “Polishing pixels” means the file is still processing — wait. Loom’s share URL is a published Vizard paste-a-link source. Use it only when a logged-out browser can play the recording. A workspace-only share, a sign-in wall, or a private folder is not a fetch.

3. 03

   Import into Vizard — paste the Loom URL, or upload the file

   Open a Vizard workspace. Paste the loom.com/share link if it is public enough to fetch, or upload the MP4 you just downloaded. Loom is on Vizard’s published upload-source list (and videoType 10 in the public API). A 5–20 minute walkthrough is the right size. A 90-minute desk ramble with four minutes of talk is the wrong size. One uploaded minute burns one Vizard credit, so a 12-minute Loom spends 12 credits — several real walkthroughs fit the free monthly allotment, unlike a 60-minute Zoom.

4. 04

   Run Get Clips, then treat the engagement score as a sort key

   Vizard transcribes the audio, finds moments that can stand alone, reframes them toward 9:16, burns in captions, and scores the batch. The published control for that pass is Get Clips. Sort by the score. Do not post the raw batch. Highlight detection is stronger on a spoken claim or a one-step how-to than on silent clicking or a “let me just find that tab” hunt. Auto-selected in/out points almost always want a two-second trim on each end — especially on a Loom that starts with the mouse still wandering.

5. 05

   Keep clips that work as a walkthrough without the Loom, then pick the frame

   A Loom clip is one complete beat: a single feature, a bug and the fix, a setting you toggle, a one-line how-to. Kill the “hey, let me share,” the tab hunt, and “as you can see here.” The picture is usually a 16:9 screen plus an optional webcam bubble. Get Clips leans 9:16 and will chase the face or a slice of the UI. Export 16:9 when the screen is the product — Slack, a help-doc embed, a landscape LinkedIn cut. Export 9:16 only when the beat still reads on a phone. If you need a named beat, describe it in Vizard’s AI Prompt / semantic search, then still watch the result. Delete filler in the text-based editor when a sentence is the problem, not the crop.

6. 06

   Proofread captions — product terms and UI labels fail first — then lock the look

   On clean English the burned-in track is usually good enough after a pass for names, product terms, button labels, and acronyms. A misspelled setting name on a walkthrough is worse than a missed filler word. Pick a subtitle style and a template that does not look like twelve different interns. Vizard’s pricing page lists Brand kit on Business (logos, fonts, colors, intros/outros). On any plan, do not ship the default house look unchanged on a company Slack or LinkedIn shelf. There is no skip-the-proofread option.

7. 07

   Export 16:9 when the UI is the point, 9:16 when the hook is a claim

   Pick 16:9 for Slack, a help article, an email, or a landscape LinkedIn cut — that is the native Loom picture, and the walkthrough stays readable. Pick 9:16 for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok only when a face or a single UI region still works on a phone. Vizard’s public video-repurposing page lists 9:16, 1:1, 4:5, and 16:9; we describe the action (choose the frame that matches where you already publish, then export) rather than invent a knob label we cannot confirm. Most of these should be 20–40 seconds. Vizard can schedule to LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and X from the workspace; scheduling is on paid Creator and up. Slack is not on that published list — download the file and drop it. A file you would actually post or share is the required step. Put the original Loom replay in the description for anyone who wants the rest.

Walkthrough clipper vs meeting clipper vs a Shorts factory

“AI clips from a Loom” is a search, not a product. The decision is the input and the picture. Vizard’s public dollars are JS-hydrated on vizard.ai/pricing — the static HTML shows $0 placeholders — so we report the published plan structure we can read and the same cautious Creator / Business dollar-class as our Vizard review. Confirm checkout. Klap figures in the foil column match the yearly grid already documented on the webinar-to-Shorts how-to; this page does not hop to Klap. The meeting column is the Zoom / Teams / Meet Vizard cluster — same clipper, different source.

Export the Loom — don't bet the job on a locked share

The clipper cannot mine a walkthrough it cannot open. Atlassian’s published download path is the video in your Library, the ⋯ menu above the player, then Download. The file is an MP4. If you see “Polishing pixels,” the recording is still processing — wait. Use the mixed program video. Skip a comment export. Skip a transcript sidecar unless you are captioning the long file, which this page is not.

Download is not on every Loom account. Atlassian’s help page limits it to Business, Business+ AI, or Enterprise, and to Admins and Creators on those plans (Members too on Enterprise). Starter Free cannot download. Creator Lite cannot download on any plan. Enterprise admins can disable downloads for the whole workspace. Loom meeting recordings: only the organizer. Videos that use Variables cannot be downloaded. CTAs, chapters, closed captions, and filler-word removal do not travel with the MP4 — only trims do. If Download is missing, you are on the wrong plan, the wrong role, or the file is not ready.

The picture you get is the picture you recorded. Loom’s web player letterboxes toward 16:9; the downloaded file is the original capture. A tall laptop window, a cropped browser, or an ultrawide desktop will come through as-is. That matters more here than on a Zoom: the product is the screen. A six-up gallery is not the failure mode. Unreadable UI on a phone is.

Vizard’s upload-source list names Loom. The public API maps Loom to videoType 10. That is a published paste-a-link path — closer to Zoom’s cloud URL than to Teams or Meet. Use it when a logged-out browser can play loom.com/share/…. A workspace-only video and a sign-in wall fail the same way a passworded Zoom link fails. If the share will not open, upload the file you just downloaded. Do not paste a Library folder URL, a workspace home, or a join-room leftover. The Zoom-specific paste-a-cloud-URL path for a live meeting is the Zoom Vizard how-to. Teams and Meet stay on their own download pages.

Import, then Get Clips — the screen is the product

Open Vizard and either paste the Loom URL or upload the MP4. That is the whole point of this page. The YouTube-link path is real product, and it is the wrong input for a private walkthrough that never went public. After the file is in, run Get Clips. Vizard transcribes the audio, identifies moments that can stand alone, crops toward a vertical frame (Smart Vertical Cropping is the published name on the video-repurposing page), burns in animated captions, and assigns an engagement / virality score. One long Loom routinely yields a dozen candidates. You will not post a dozen.

Treat the score as a sort key. It is not a forecast. A high-scoring clip that starts on “okay, so, let me just share my screen” is still a miss. Watch in score order. Keep the ones that open on a feature, a setting, a bug and the fix, or a one-sentence how-to. Discard the tab hunt. Auto-selected in/out points almost always want a two-second trim on each end — Looms wander at the open more than a staged webinar. Full product notes in our Vizard review.

The crop is the Loom-specific risk. Get Clips leans 9:16 because that is the Shorts job. On a talking-head Zoom that often works. On a Loom the “talking head” is a bubble in the corner, and the product is the rest of the frame. Auto-reframe will chase the face and slice the dashboard, or keep a strip of UI that no longer teaches the step. That is why this page does not default you to vertical. If you already know the beat — “the part where we toggle SSO,” “the empty-state bug,” “the pricing table” — use the AI Prompt / semantic search Vizard documents on the Zoom-clipping page (the same finder; there is no separate Loom control we can confirm). Describe the topic. Then still watch the cut. A prompt is a finder, not a publisher. The text-based editor is the right tool when a sentence is the problem: delete the words, and the picture follows. It is not a radio-edit suite. If the whole Loom still needs a transcript cut before anyone should see it, do that first, then come back.

Captions, then 16:9 or 9:16

On clean, clearly spoken English the burned-in captions are generally good enough to publish from after a proofread. Names, product terms, button labels, and acronyms still fail. A walkthrough that misspells the setting you just clicked is worse than a missed “um.” There is no skip-the-proofread option. Vizard’s Zoom and video-repurposing pages advertise recordings in 35+ languages and subtitle translation into 150+; budget a native pass outside the language you actually recorded in. Captions ride along with the clipper. They are not why you would pick Vizard over a dedicated packager — and this page does not hop to one. If a keeper still looks like an export after the default type, that packaging job is How to add AI captions to YouTube Shorts or the two-way Vizard vs Submagic.

Then lock the look. Pick one subtitle style and one template for the shelf. Vizard’s pricing compare table lists Brand kit on Business — logos, fonts, colors, intros/outros — so do not assume every paid workspace shows the same branding panel. Apply whatever saved branding your plan actually offers, then export. A company Slack shelf that uses twelve default templates looks like twelve different contractors.

Then pick the frame. Default to 16:9 when the screen is the product — Slack, a help-doc embed, an email, a landscape LinkedIn cut. That is the native Loom picture, and the walkthrough stays readable. Export 9:16 only when the beat is a spoken claim, a face, or a single UI region that still works on a phone. Tiny type from a desktop dashboard will not save a Short. Vizard’s public video-repurposing FAQ lists 9:16, 1:1, 4:5, and 16:9, plus one-click resize toward Reels, Stories, and posts. We describe the action: choose the crop that matches where you already publish, then export. We are not inventing a labeled “Loom 16:9 button.” YouTube currently treats verticals up to 3 minutes as Shorts; confirm the live Studio cap, then ignore it and cut to the moment. Most Loom clips should be 20–40 seconds. Write a title as if the Loom does not exist. Put the replay in the description or the Slack thread. A shelf of “Demo 8/12 clip 3” will not save the account.

Vizard can also schedule to LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and X from the same project. The pricing page puts scheduled posting on Creator. Slack is not on that published list — download the file and drop it in the channel. That is the destination most Looms were recorded for. Scheduling is optional. The required step is a clean file you would actually post or share. Free-plan exports are 720p, watermarked, capped at 10 minutes, and stored for 3 days. That is an audition, not a brand calendar.

Credits, the free plan, and a 12-minute Loom

Read the live pricing page, not a remembered sticker. One Vizard credit equals one minute of uploaded source (vizard.ai/pricing, August 2026). A 12-minute walkthrough is 12 credits whether you keep three clips or eight. The free plan is 60 credits a month, 720p with a watermark, a 10-minute export cap, one social account, and 3-day storage. You can run several real Looms. You cannot publish cleanly from the free export.

That is the credit difference from the meeting how-tos. A 60-minute Zoom spends the entire free allotment before you export a single short. A week of 8–15 minute Looms often still fits. Do not treat that as a reason to stay on Free if the clips will run on a brand account — the watermark and the 3-day storage are the same trap. Treat it as a reason the audition is cheaper here than on a standup.

Creator is the first production tier: no watermark, 4K, any export length, six social accounts, scheduled posting, and 100 GB of storage. The public page advertises Yearly 50% OFF and hydrates dollar amounts in JavaScript. The published class this site reports — same figures as the Vizard review — is Creator about $29/month or about $14.50/month billed yearly, and Business about $39/month or about $19.50/month billed yearly. Business adds a shared workspace, more social accounts, and the Brand kit. Confirm the checkout total before you budget. We do not invent a commission rate.

For a weekly walkthrough habit that produces 3–8 keepers, the credit math is the Loom length, not the post count. Four 12-minute demos a week is 48 credits before you export — inside the free allotment, still a Creator job if you want a clean file. Do not buy Business for a single bug Loom. If what you actually have is a webinar calendar, stop optimizing Vizard credits and use the Klap webinar how-to instead. Full clipper-vs-clipper scorecard: Vizard vs Klap.

What to post, and what not to expect

A clipped moment is not a post until it can stand alone. The first second has to be the step. The caption track has to spell the product correctly. The look has to match the same company that recorded the Loom. Export 16:9 when the screen is the product. Export 9:16 only when the beat still reads on a phone. Do not post the raw batch. Do not post the “okay, so, let me find that tab” middle.

CapCut remains the finish tool if a keeper still needs a template or an effect you already know how to build. That is a second pass, not a second clipper. Official site only: capcut.com. Loom stays the source: loom.com. Neither name is a hop on this page. Klap stays a foil with an ordinary path — the webinar-to-Shorts how-to above — not a Try button. The Zoom, Teams, Meet, webinar, and podcast Vizard how-tos are the other source paths, not second money CTAs.

Sixty free credits are an audition, not a calendar. If the clips will run on a brand or monetized account, sit on a paid plan before you export the week. We do not print an affiliate commission rate, and we do not invent a “this will earn you $X” line. The product question is whether the keepers survive a trim on your walkthrough — and whether the UI is still in the frame.