Every cloud clipping tool has the same first step, whether it says so on the pricing page or not: your raw video has to reach their servers before anything happens. For a lot of creators that is fine. For some it is a dealbreaker, and this page is for those.
Who this actually matters to: anyone with unreleased footage, sponsored or embargoed content, client work under NDA, gameplay from an unannounced build, or simply a slow upload and a 3-hour recording.
| Cost | What it looks like in practice |
|---|---|
| Privacy | Your unedited recording — everything you said, everything on screen, including the parts you were going to cut — sits on a third party's storage. |
| Time | A 3-hour capture is tens of gigabytes. Nothing starts until it has all arrived. On a normal home connection that is the longest part of the job. |
| Money | They pay for GPU time per minute of your video, so they meter you: credits, minute caps, tiers. Clip more, pay more. |
| Availability | No internet, no clipping. Their outage is your outage. |
The same steps happen, just on your machine:
None of those steps needs a server. They need a GPU, and you already have one.
| Local (VERTES) | Cloud clippers | |
|---|---|---|
| Raw footage leaves your PC | Never | Always |
| Waiting for upload | None | Every time |
| Export limits | None | Credits or minutes |
| Works with no internet | Yes, after setup | No |
| Needs your own GPU | Yes | No |
| Works on Mac or a thin laptop | No | Yes |
That is the whole trade. You take on the hardware requirement and get privacy, no waiting and no metering. If you do not have the hardware, a cloud tool is genuinely the better answer.
Windows 10 or 11, a gaming GPU (NVIDIA, AMD or Intel — GTX 1060 6GB or RX 580 and up), around 20 GB free, and internet for the one-time setup. After that you can pull the cable out and it still works.
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Yes, when the AI runs on your machine. That is the only way — a cloud tool cannot process a file it does not have.
Depends on your card, but you skip the upload entirely, which on a long recording is usually the slowest part of the whole job.
Not your video. Only the things you explicitly ask for, such as uploading a finished short to your own YouTube channel with your own credentials. See the privacy policy.