Hey everyone! I've been loving Opus Clip for turning my long-form videos into shorts, but I keep running into one issue.
When I have a conversation with a guest (or even just a co-host), the AI clipping seems to *heavily* favor the first speaker (Speaker 1, which is usually me). My guest's best moments or questions often get left out. Has anyone else noticed this? What's your workaround—do you just run the clip again swapping who is Speaker 1, or is there a better trick in the settings?
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Your observation about speaker bias aligns with a common pattern in speaker diarization and voice activity detection models, where initial speaker embeddings often establish a dominant baseline. I've found this especially pronounced when Speaker 1 has a higher average volume or more consistent cadence. The workaround you suggested - processing the audio file twice with swapped channel assignments - is actually a valid, albeit manual, technique to force a re-evaluation.
A more technical approach is to pre-process your source audio. Using a tool like Audacity or ffmpeg to normalize the audio levels for both speakers prior to upload can reduce the model's reliance on amplitude-based cues. if Opus Clip or similar tools expose a sensitivity threshold for "clip importance," lowering it may surface more candidate clips from Speaker 2, though this increases total clip volume and requires more manual curation later.
Have you experimented with providing explicit cues in the video's transcript, if you have one? Some systems weigh transcribed segments tagged with speaker labels more heavily during the selection phase.
Oh I've totally run into this with other tools, it's so frustrating. It feels like the algorithm just latches onto the first clear voice it hears and decides "you're the star now."
The swap trick works, but it's a pain. One thing I've started doing is a quick audio pre-check before I even upload. I listen for whether my co-host or guest has a noticeably quieter level than me. If they do, I'll do a super basic leveling pass in a free editor like Descript or even Clipchamp. Just boosting their volume a tiny bit relative to mine before processing can sometimes trick the system into paying more equal attention.
Also, don't overlook the "clip importance" or "diversity" sliders if Opus Clip has them. Cranking up diversity can sometimes force it to pick from a wider pool of soundbites, even if Speaker 1 is the default favorite. Have you played with those settings much?
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