Vertical Clips from Dropbox Videos

What This Workflow Does

What it automates: Monitors a Dropbox folder for new video uploads, extracts the strongest moments, converts to vertical format, adds captions, and publishes to social — automatically.

Who it's for: Content teams, agencies, and editors who use Dropbox as a shared file system and want to automate the clip-to-publish pipeline from upload.

When to use it: Whenever new raw footage is delivered to a Dropbox folder — from a shoot, a recording session, or a remote contributor.

How It Works

Step 1: New Dropbox Video — Triggered by Every Upload

Connect your Dropbox account and select the folder to monitor. The moment a new video file is added to that folder, Overlap starts the workflow automatically. No manual trigger needed — just upload the video and the pipeline runs.

Step 2: Find Clips — AI Extracts the Strongest Moments

Overlap analyzes the uploaded video and identifies the highest-performing moments. Set minimum and maximum clip length, and add a custom prompt to focus on specific topics, speakers, or moments.

Step 3: Convert to Vertical — 9:16 Reframing

Clips are reformatted to vertical using content-aware reframing. Works for single speakers, multi-speaker setups, and content recorded with screen overlays.

Step 4: Add Subtitles — Auto-Generated Captions

Captions are generated from the video's transcript and styled for maximum readability on short-form feeds.

Step 5: Post to Social — Published to Your Accounts

Finished vertical clips are delivered to your connected TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts accounts.

Who Is This For?

Content agencies with Dropbox-based delivery: Clients upload footage to a shared Dropbox folder — this workflow turns it into social-ready clips before an editor has even opened the file.

Production teams: Ingest footage from shoots directly into a Dropbox workflow. By the time the team is done wrapping, clips are already in review or published.

Remote content contributors: Distributed teams can drop footage into a shared folder from anywhere in the world and trigger the clip pipeline without any coordination overhead.

Customize This Workflow

• Add a watermark or logo on every clip with the Add Watermark node
• Add a branded title overlay with the Add Title Overlay node
• Route clips to email for review before publishing
• Add background music with the Add Music node
• Add brainrot overlays for high-retention short-form edits