Cut the moment. Skip the render farm.
Point Clip Engine at any recording and a timestamp — get back a finished MP4 clip, a scrubbable thumbnail strip, and the audio in one call, produced at the edge. No encode farm, no queue, no transcode servers to keep warm.
Gateway-fronted — authentication, quota enforcement, and metering all happen at the gateway before this spoke is reached; private clips return on org-scoped, signed delivery URLs. Federated onto the WAVE protocol plane.
No encode farm behind it
A single POST /v1/clips with a recording and a timestamp returns three finished assets at once — an H.264 MP4 clip, a JPEG spritesheet thumbnail, and an M4A audio extract — produced at Cloudflare's edge through the Media Transformations binding. There's no encode farm to run, no queue to drain, no transcode box to keep warm. Making the clip is the only thing you touch. Clip any window up to 60 seconds. Live now at clips.wave.online.
Where it goes
Clip Engine is a spoke on the WAVE protocol plane — fronted by the same gateway that authenticates and meters every WAVE call, so clips compose with the rest of WAVE: recordings in, signed media out, billed by the unit. The frame-scoring hook is already scaffolded for what comes next — the engine proposing the moments worth clipping, not just cutting the ones you name.