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Comparing production services and wondering if clips are included

Most podcast production services cover the episode itself: editing the recording, cleaning the audio, adding your intro and outro music, mixing, and exporting a file for your audio host and your video channel, often with show notes. Shorts and clips usually sit on a separate line, either as an extra with a set number per episode or left out of the package entirely. Ask each service how many clips come with one episode and what a clip includes, because that answer tells you whether you need a second service for the short side.

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What a production service usually covers

Production starts after you stop recording. The service takes your raw file, cuts the slow starts and false takes, fixes levels between you and your guest, removes background hum, and adds the music and sting you use at the top and tail. You get back a finished episode in the formats your hosting needs, and most packages add show notes and a title.

Some services go further and schedule the episode on your host, manage your feed, or book guests. Those are extras, and they vary more from one service to the next than the edit does.

Where clips land in most packages

Clips are the part that changes most between services. One service includes two or three per episode and caps it there. Another bills clips separately per episode or per batch, so the headline package covers the episode only. A third does the episode and nothing else, and points you elsewhere for Shorts.

The word clip also means different things. For some services it is a square or horizontal segment with a logo in the corner. For others it is a vertical cut, reframed on whoever is speaking, with captions and a hook title. Ask to see one clip from a recent episode before you compare counts.

Questions that sort the packages fast

Put the same six questions to every service and write the answers in one column each, so the gaps show up side by side.

Running the episode and the clips as two services

Plenty of hosts pay one producer for the episode and send the finished cut to a clipping service for the Shorts. The order matters: clip from the finished edit when the producer removes whole segments, so a Short never points at a moment that is gone from the episode. Clip from the raw film when the edit is light and you want clips out before the episode drops.

This is the split where Ship Your Pod sits. You send one filmed episode by upload or link and get back ranked Shorts with a plain reason for each, teasers, thumbnails taken from real frames, a title, a description, chapters, and post text for each platform. The episode edit stays with whoever does it today, and you post everything yourself.

If you already edit your show and only want clips

If you cut your own episodes, a full production package pays for work you already do. What you lack is the short side: picking moments, reframing to vertical, captions, and the text that goes with each post. A clipping service covers that side alone, and you keep the episode edit as it is.

Before you send an episode anywhere, write down the guest's name as it is spelled, any moment you want kept, and any topic you want left out. In Ship Your Pod that goes in the one optional box on the upload form, and it applies to that episode only. Names and terms you use every week go in Settings > Spelling so they are spelled right from the next episode on. There are no standing rules or approval steps, so if a request applies to every episode, type it each time.

What to check in the first clips you get back

Watch the first batch at phone size with sound on. The frame should follow whoever is talking and split when two people trade lines. Captions should match the words on the recording, including the guest's name. Dead air and filler should be gone without a jump you can hear.

If a clip is close and one cut is wrong, send a change request in plain words. In Ship Your Pod that is the Change this button on each clip: cut it differently, drop a part, fix a word. Starter has a few changes per episode and Pro has unlimited changes. A safety check with reasons flags anything you may want kept off a public feed, and the end card with Subscribe and your handle is on for new accounts with one switch to turn it off.

Where Ship Your Pod fits

If the editing is the part that keeps you from posting, send the episode instead. 8 to 15 Shorts come back within a day (same day on Pro), captioned, scored and ranked best first, with teasers, thumbnails from real frames, and the title, description and chapters. You post them yourself, full quality, no watermark. Pro is $149 a month for 12 episodes, 15 Shorts each, plus the Facebook cuts, the newsletter and the article. Starter is $59 a month for 4 episodes. The price goes down every month you stay. Month to month, cancel any time. Pro has a 14-day free trial for your first episode.

Pro: up to 180 Shorts, 36 teasers, 60 thumbnails and 24 Facebook cuts a month (12 episodes, 15 Shorts from each). Starter: up to 32 Shorts, 8 teasers and 12 thumbnails a month (4 episodes, 8 Shorts from each).

Ask every service you are comparing for its clip count per episode and one sample clip from a real episode. If the episode edit is already handled, send one filmed episode to a clipping service and judge the first batch on your phone.

Questions

Does a podcast production service include Shorts?

Sometimes, with a cap of a few per episode, and often as a separate line. Ask for the count per episode and a sample clip before you compare packages.

Can I use a production service and a clipping service together?

Yes. Send the finished episode to the clipping service once the edit is done, so the clips match what listeners hear, and keep the episode work where it is.

Do I need a production service if I edit my own show?

If your episodes sound the way you want, a production package pays for work you already do. A clipping service covers the Shorts, teasers, thumbnails, titles, and chapters from a filmed episode and leaves the edit to you.

Who posts the clips?

It depends on the service. Some post on your accounts; Ship Your Pod never posts, so each clip, title, and post text comes back to a private page on your phone and you choose what goes out. A guest can get a copy to post through Share with your guest.

What does Ship Your Pod cost?

Pro is $149 a month for 12 episodes, 15 Shorts each, plus the Facebook cuts, the newsletter and the article. Starter is $59 a month for 4 episodes. The price goes down every month you stay. Month to month, cancel any time. Pro has a 14-day free trial for your first episode. Pro: up to 180 Shorts, 36 teasers, 60 thumbnails and 24 Facebook cuts a month (12 episodes, 15 Shorts from each). Starter: up to 32 Shorts, 8 teasers and 12 thumbnails a month (4 episodes, 8 Shorts from each).

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Last updated 2026-10-21.