Core Features

Clipping

Create custom clips from your recordings with Segra's powerful clipping tools

Segra's clipping system lets you extract specific moments from your full session recordings and combine them into polished clips ready to share.

How Clipping Works

The clipping workflow is simple and intuitive:

Open a session recording

Navigate to Sessions and click on any recorded session to open the video player.

Create selections

Drag on the timeline to create selection ranges. You can create multiple selections from the same video or even combine selections from different videos.

Review your selections

Selected clips appear in the bottom panel. You can preview, adjust, or delete any selection.

Create clip

Click Create Clip to process your selections into a final video file.

Timeline Selection

The video timeline provides precise frame-accurate selection:

Creating Selections

Click and drag on the timeline to create a selection range
Drag the handles on either end to adjust the start/end points
Click in the middle of a selection to reposition your entire selection
Use the scrubber to navigate and find exact moments

Bookmarks and game events (kills, deaths, goals) appear as markers on the timeline, making it easy to find important moments.

Multi-Selection

You can create multiple selections from a single video:

Selections are automatically numbered and listed in the selection panel
Each selection can be previewed independently
Selections are combined in chronological order when creating the clip
Remove unwanted selections by clicking the delete icon

Cross-Video Selection

Segra allows you to combine clips from multiple videos:

Create selections from one video
Navigate to a different video (from any session or game)
Create additional selections
All selections are preserved and can be combined into one clip

When combining clips from multiple games, the final clip is saved in a folder named after the first selection's game.

Clip Processing

Quality Settings

Configure clip encoding in Settings > Clip Settings:

Encoder

GPU (Recommended) - Hardware-accelerated encoding
- NVIDIA: h264_nvenc, hevc_nvenc, av1_nvenc
- AMD: h264_amf, hevc_amf, av1_amf
- Intel: h264_qsv, hevc_qsv, av1_qsv
CPU - Software encoding (libx264, libx265)

Codec

H.264 - Best compatibility, smaller file sizes
H.265 - Better compression, newer codec
AV1 - Cutting-edge compression (GPU-dependent)

Quality

Clip quality is a single integer (lower = better quality, larger files). The dropdown exposes 0, 10, 15, 20, 23, 26, 30, 35, 40, 45, 51 for both encoders. Built-in quality presets resolve to:

Preset	Encoder	Quality	Codec	FPS	Audio	x264 preset
Low	CPU	CRF 28	H.264	30	96k	ultrafast
Standard	CPU	CRF 23	H.264	60	128k	veryfast
High	CPU	CRF 20	H.264	60	192k	medium

Switching the encoder to GPU lets you pick a CQ / QP / ICQ value (depending on vendor) from the same dropdown.

Preset

GPU Presets:

NVIDIA H.264/HEVC: slow, medium, fast
NVIDIA AV1: p1 (fastest) to p7 (slowest, best quality)
AMD: quality, transcoding, lowlatency, ultralowlatency
Intel: fast, medium, slow

CPU Presets:

ultrafast, superfast, veryfast, faster, fast, medium, slow, slower, veryslow

For quick social media clips, use GPU + H.264 + Standard quality with a fast preset. This produces small files quickly.

FFmpeg 9 no longer accepts the legacy NVENC presets (hp, hq, bd, ll, llhq, llhp, lossless, losslesshp). If your settings still use one, Segra migrates it on startup. hq, bd, and llhq become slow. hp, ll, llhp, and losslesshp become fast. lossless becomes medium. Switching the codec from AV1 to H.264 or H.265 sets the preset to medium.

Frame Rate

Original - Preserves the source video's frame rate
24 FPS - Cinematic
30 FPS - Good for casual content
60 FPS - Smooth motion, recommended for gameplay
120 FPS - For high frame rate displays
144 FPS - For high frame rate displays

Audio Quality

96k - Low quality, small files
128k - Standard quality (recommended)
192k - High quality
256k - Maximum quality
320k - Insane quality

Progress Tracking

During clip creation, Segra displays real-time progress:

Extracting clips - Individual segments are extracted (using your quality settings)
Combining clips - Multiple segments are concatenated into the final video
Creating metadata - Thumbnail and waveform are generated
Processing - Final optimizations are applied

The progress bar shows the percentage complete. Large clips or multiple selections may take several minutes depending on your settings.

If FFmpeg fails while creating a clip, merge, or highlight, Segra shows FFmpeg's own error lines in the error dialog, and the first line on the progress card. When a hardware encoder fails, Segra also includes the encoder's warnings that explain why it can't run. If FFmpeg printed no error lines, Segra falls back to a description of the exit code.

Cancel Clip Creation

You can cancel an in-progress clip creation:

Click the Cancel button on the progress card
Segra immediately stops FFmpeg processing
Temporary files are automatically cleaned up
Your selections are preserved so you can try again

Selection Management

Selection Panel

The bottom panel displays all active selections:

Thumbnail - Preview frame from the selection
Title - Game name and timestamp
Duration - Length of the selection
Order - Selections are numbered and combined in this order

Editing Selections

Click a selection to jump to that timestamp in the video
Drag the timeline handles to adjust the selection range
Delete using the trash icon on each selection card

Clear Selections

After creating a clip:

Auto-clear - Click the Segment options (gear) button next to Clear in the clip sidebar on the video player page, then check Clear segments after clipping to automatically clear selections after successful clip creation
Manual clear - Click Clear to remove all active selections

Clip output mode

The Segment options menu also sets the Clip output mode:

Combined - Joins all selections into one clip
Separate - Exports each selection as its own clip

Merge videos

You can join whole videos from a library page into one video:

Select two or more videos on the Sessions, Replay Buffers, Clips, or Highlights page
Click Merge in the selection bar at the bottom of the page
Drag the videos into the order you want, then confirm

Segra sorts the selection by creation date before you reorder it.

Sessions are merged into a new session. Segra copies the streams without re-encoding, and keeps every bookmark, shifted by the length of the sessions before it. Sessions can only be merged when they share the same video format, audio format, and audio track names. Otherwise the Merge button is disabled. Segra also checks that the drive your recordings are saved to has enough free space before it starts.

Clips, replay buffers, and highlights are merged into a new clip. When their video formats match, Segra copies the video without re-encoding. When they differ, the button reads Merge (slow) and Segra re-encodes them with your clip settings. Videos with different sizes are scaled to the largest one, and HDR videos are tone-mapped when they're mixed with SDR videos.

Clip Output

Created clips are automatically organized:

Segra/
└── Clips/
    ├── Counter-Strike 2/
    │   └── 2024-01-15_14-30-45.mp4
    ├── League of Legends/
    │   └── 2024-01-15_15-22-10.mp4
    └── Valorant/
        └── 2024-01-16_18-45-33.mp4

Each clip includes:

Video file - Your encoded clip in MP4 format
Metadata - Game, title, duration, creation date
Thumbnail - Auto-generated preview image
Waveform - Audio visualization for the timeline

Clip Metadata

Clips inherit metadata from the source video:

Game name - From the first selection
Custom title - You can rename clips after creation
IGDB integration - Game artwork and metadata (if available)
Creation date - Timestamp of clip creation

Advanced Features

Segment extraction and concat

Each segment is re-encoded using your configured clip encoder / codec / quality / FPS, then the resulting per-segment files are concatenated. The final concat step uses FFmpeg stream copy (-c copy) whenever possible, so joining segments is near-instant. When Keep separate audio tracks is enabled, audio is re-encoded during concat so each track survives in the output container.

Multiple Output Tracks

If your source recording has separate audio tracks:

By default, clips are mixed down to a single Full Mix track. Enable Keep separate audio tracks in clip settings to preserve every track from the source recording
You can edit tracks individually in video editing software
Track names are preserved (Microphone, Game Audio, Discord, etc.)

Clip from Highlights

You can also create clips from auto-generated highlights:

Open a highlight video
Make selections as normal
Create a custom clip with only your favorite moments

This is useful for creating short 15-30 second clips from a longer highlight reel.

Once your clip is ready, you have several sharing options:

Upload to Segra Cloud

Click the upload icon

On any clip card, click the cloud upload icon.

Add details

Enter a title and description (optional).

Upload

Segra uploads your clip and provides a shareable link.

See the Uploads page for more details on sharing.

Export Locally

Clips are standard MP4 files. You can:

Right-click a clip and select Show in folder
Copy the file to upload to YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, etc.
Import into video editing software like Adobe Premiere or DaVinci Resolve

Segra writes bookmarks into the MP4 as chapters, so editors and players that read chapters show them as markers. See metadata embedded in video files.

Troubleshooting

Clip creation is slow

Switch to GPU encoding in Settings > Clip Settings
Use a faster preset (quality may be slightly lower)
Reduce output frame rate to 30 or 60 FPS
Close other applications to free up system resources

Clip quality is poor

Lower the quality value (lower numbers = better quality)
Switch to H.265 codec for better compression
Increase audio quality to 192k or 256k
Use a slower preset for better encoding quality

Clip has no audio

Check the source video has audio (play it in the video player)
Verify audio quality isn't set too low
Try creating a clip with CPU encoding instead of GPU
Ensure your audio devices were properly recorded in the session

Can't select on timeline

Make sure the video is fully loaded
Check that you're clicking in the timeline area, not on bookmarks
Try refreshing the page if the timeline is unresponsive

Selections disappear

Selections are cleared when you navigate away from the video page
Check Clear segments after clipping in the Segment options menu if this is the desired behavior
Selections are also cleared after successful clip creation (if auto-clear is enabled)

Best Practices

Keep it short

Shorter clips (15-60 seconds) are more engaging for social media and easier to share.

Use bookmarks

Add manual bookmarks during gameplay (F8) to mark important moments for clipping later.

Quality presets

Start with Standard quality settings. Only increase quality if needed - file sizes grow quickly.

Combine smartly

When combining clips from multiple games, group similar content together for better flow.

Recording - Capture your gameplay sessions
Highlights - Auto-generate highlight reels
Uploads - Share clips online