Microsoft Details Four New Clipchamp Features

With Clipchamp now integrated into Microsoft 365 commercial accounts, the firm has detailed four new features that launched recently in its web-based video editor.

“Clipchamp is a video editor designed to make video creation easy for everyone, even for those with no prior experience,” the Clipchamp team writes in a recent post to the Microsoft 355 Insider Blog. “We are excited to share some of the new features we’re releasing to help meet all of your video creation and editing needs.”

As you may recall, Microsoft acquired Clipchamp in September 2021 and made it the in-box video editing app in Windows 10 and 11 in early 2022. Separately, I became a Clipchamp convert in July 2023 when it saved the day after an Adobe Premiere Elements fail.

For Windows 11 version 23H2, Microsoft promised that a new Clipchamp feature called Auto compose would be among several new AI-based features that would debut in that release. And Microsoft also made Clipchamp part of many Microsoft 365 subscription tiers, where the service integrates with the OneDrive storage customers already have rather than requiring you to pay for a Clipchamp Essentials subscription.

For this reason, the Clipchamp team is now publishing posts on a Microsoft 365 blog, and I hope this means we’ll see this level of clarity moving forward. Because the team has now explained how Auto compose and three other new Clipchamp features—Content library, Audio recording, and Text to speech editing—work.  And they are all available to those with personal accounts too.

Auto compose. This is Clipchamp’s AI video editor, and it lets you upload photos and videos, pick a video style, and let its AI do its thing and create a finished video. This feature is available now for all Clipchamp users, including the web version of the app.

Content library. This new feature consolidates previously separate stock video, image, music, graphics, stickers, and background assets into a single location. You can also view recently used and trending featured assets, browse through curated categories of assets, and search for assets. The Content library is available now for all Clipchamp users, including the web version of the app.

Audio recording. This new feature lets you record voice-overs up to 30 minutes long right in Clipchamp. Voice-overs are made available as their own tracks, and Clipchamp can auto-create captions that you can edit where needed. This feature started rolling out to users with a Microsoft or Gmail account on December 1.

Text-to-speech editing improvements. Clipchamp’s text-to-speech editing capability now lets you change the language, voice, emotion, and pitch, and edit the script, from the property panel. This feature rolled out to Clipchamp users with a Microsoft or Gmail account on November 30, and it’s coming to Microsoft 365 commercial subscribers in early 2024.

You can learn more about how Clipchamp differs when accessed with a personal (Gmail or Microsoft) or Microsoft 365 commercial account on the Microsoft Support website. It looks like there is a Clipchamp Premium license for Microsoft 365 subscribers now too that adds 4K exports and other advanced features.

And for more information about the features in Clipchamp, check out the Clipchamp website.