Curated vs. Custom Clips

Curated Clips

A Curated Clip is a pre-made clip created by Feed's curation team. For each track in the Collections, the team identifies the most representative section of the song and publishes it as the curated clip.

Curated clips are the default choice for most integrations. They require no user input, are immediately available via clipId, and reflect Feed's editorial opinion about which part of a song works best as a short clip. Use them unless you have a specific reason to offer custom clipping.

Custom Clips

A Custom Clip is created on demand by a user from a full-length track. The user selects a start and end point within the track, subject to a maximum length of 60 seconds. Your app sends those parameters to the API, which generates the clip and returns a new clipId.

Custom clipping is appropriate when you want to give users creative control over which section of a song they use. For example, syncing a specific moment of a track to a specific moment in their video.

Custom clips are created via the POST /v2/clips endpoint. For a step-by-step guide, see Create a Custom Clip.