Video Diagnostics uses local heuristics for intro length, landscape crop risk, HDR washout, softness, and duration caps, then returns opt-in links to real converters — not a third-party Content ID scan or ML auto-fix.
What do video diagnostics look for?
Video diagnostics look for short hooks, landscape frames on vertical feeds, HDR transfer issues, and duration that exceeds common Reels/Facebook caps.
Signals are heuristic and local to the upload—diagnostics map framing and retention risks to converter or pack next steps; they do not claim ranking outcomes or replace platform rights systems.
What do heuristic diagnostics flag before a second-platform post?
Diagnostics produce early flags for weak hooks, crop risk, HDR washout, and duration caps.
Concrete findings heuristic diagnostics surface:
- Heuristic findings highlight landscape crop risk, short hooks, HDR washout, and long durations.
- The next converter or pack is chosen from findings instead of guesswork.
- Retention problems are reviewed before the second-platform publish.
Which retention killers do short-form feeds punish first?
Without diagnostics, posts carry framing or hook problems short-form feeds punish in the first seconds.
What framing and hook problems cost after publish:
- Landscape masters get auto-cropped in vertical feeds with no warning.
- Identical weak opens hurt completion rate on cross-posts.
- Duration-cap issues surface only after an upload error on Reels or Facebook.
How do early diagnostic flags map to the next prep step?
Early flags on skip triggers are retention killers flagged before TikTok, Shorts, or Reels score the open.
How early-skip triggers relate to short-form retention signals:
- Short-form platforms infer quality from early skips; diagnostics surface common skip triggers before upload.
- Fixing crop risk and hook length is often higher leverage than another thumbnail tweak.
- Fewer self-inflicted watch-time wounds enter the recommendation race.
- Without diagnostics, reach problems show up only as a flat analytics chart after publish.
Diagnostics are heuristics for crop risk, hook length, HDR washout, and duration caps — not platform claim or ranking scores.
How does the diagnostics pipeline score a clip?
The diagnostics pipeline samples early frames for aspect and transfer, estimates intro silence or static length, and compares total duration against common short-form caps.
4 heuristic buckets the report surfaces:
- Hook window — weak or silent opening seconds.
- Framing — landscape risk on 9:16 feeds.
- Color — HDR transfer likely to wash on SDR players.
- Length — duration above typical Reels/Facebook short caps.
How do diagnostics differ from copyright risk and the optimization advisor?
Diagnostics flag framing and retention risks in one file; copyright risk scores technical overlap signals; the optimization advisor maps findings to concrete RepostClip tools you can run next.
When do creators skip video diagnostics?
Creators skip diagnostics when the master is already a known vertical SDR export with a tested hook, and the next step is only a pack or loudness pass for the target platform.
Heuristic framing and retention diagnostics flag intro length, landscape crop risk, HDR washout, and duration caps on one owned file.