Short · checked 29 September 2026
A Brisbane video converter that ended up in Windows.
A free in-browser video converter listed from Brisbane in December 2014 that Microsoft bought in 2021 and now ships as Microsoft Clipchamp.
In December 2014, clipchamp (lowercase, as it wrote its own name) listed itself on Stompstart as "free in-browser video processing." It converted and compressed video to MP4 or WMV inside the browser, on the user's own computer. Files never had to be uploaded anywhere unless you chose to send them to Facebook, YouTube or Google Drive. It could record webcam clips, "one of only a few apps that offers this functionality on Chromebooks," and it made automatic highlight clips from GoPro footage. The image uploaded with the listing shows a five-step converter with red callouts: "Convert & compress videos in 5 easy steps."
The company kept the browser at the centre while the product grew from converting video to editing it. On 7 September 2021, Microsoft announced that it had acquired Clipchamp, which it described as an in-browser video creation and editing platform founded in 2013, and said it would complement Windows and Microsoft 365. The next day Clipchamp's own post confirmed that the Brisbane-headquartered company had joined Microsoft.
Today the product is Microsoft Clipchamp, a video editor offered in the browser and as a Windows app, with AI voiceover and subtitle tools. The domain on the 2014 listing still leads there.