zaclip

About

What zaclip is

A free set of tools for people posting video to TikTok, built by one person because the existing advice about video quality is mostly repeated rather than tested, and the gap between the two is measurable.

What it does

Who makes it

One person, in Nepal. It started because uploads kept coming back soft and none of the advice online explained why in a way that held up. Working out what was actually happening took reading MP4 files byte by byte, and the tools here are what fell out of that.

There is no company behind it, no investors, and nothing to sign up for. It is free because the costs are small and it would be a worse tool with an account system bolted on.

How the claims here are made

Everything stated as fact on this site was measured. Where something is inference rather than measurement, the guides say which it is, and how many files it rests on. A finding from six videos is described as a finding from six videos.

When a claim turns out to be wrong, it gets corrected rather than quietly left. That has already happened more than once: a download button that promised no watermark when the file plainly had one, and a guide whose conclusion did not survive a controlled test and was rewritten the same day. The guide on resolution and frame rate still lists the two theories that died before the surviving one, because showing the discarded work is most of what makes the rest trustworthy.

What it does not do

Getting in touch

Corrections are especially welcome. If you have a video that contradicts something written here, that is more useful than agreement — send it over.

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