Embedding video clips

A receipt can hold a playable video clip, not just a link. You can trim the clip to the exact moment you care about, loop it, and edit the trim later. This keeps the point in view so readers don't have to scrub the whole video to find it.

Embed a clip

1. In the receipt editor, click the Video button in the toolbar.
2. Paste a video URL from YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram.
3. The clip appears inline in your receipt, playable right where it sits.

You can add more than one clip, and mix clips with images, GIFs, and text in the same receipt.

Trim to the moment (in and out points)

For YouTube clips, you can set a start and an end so the embed plays only the segment you want:

• Start (in point) and End (out point) mark where the clip begins and ends.
• Drag the handles on the clip's mini-timeline to set each point by eye.
• Fine-tune with the steppers: the plus and minus buttons nudge each point by a second, and you can type an exact time into the field.

A trimmed clip starts at your in point and stops at your out point every time it plays, so the reader lands on the exact moment.

Loop a clip

Turn on the Loop toggle to replay the trimmed segment continuously. Looping suits a short reaction, a quick gesture, or a moment worth watching a few times without clicking replay.

Edit a clip later

Select an embedded clip in the editor to reopen its controls. You can change the in and out points, toggle looping, or remove the clip. Your changes save with the receipt.

Paste a link: embed or keep as a link

When you paste a video URL straight into the receipt text, Vid Receipts asks what you want:

• Embed: turn the link into a playable clip inline, with the trim and loop controls above.
• Keep as link: leave it as a plain text link that opens the video in a new tab.

Pick Embed when you want the moment to play in place, and Keep as link when a reference is enough.

Good to know

• Trim (in and out points) and looping apply to YouTube clips.
• Clips play inside the receipt, so your annotation and the moment it refers to stay together.
• Embedded clips sit inline like any other media, and you can still write text around them.

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