How to get a VOD in, honestly
We fetch from YouTube, not from Twitch. So there are two roads in, and both are an ordinary part of a streamer's week.
If you already export your VODs to YouTube, which most streamers building a second channel do, you are done: sign in with YouTube and we find them, or paste the link to one. If you do not, download the VOD from your Twitch dashboard and upload the file here. Either way the clipping is identical.
- Already on YouTube: sign in, or paste the video link.
- Not on YouTube: export the VOD from Twitch and upload the file.
- A pasted link can be up to four hours long.
Why a stream needs a different crop to a podcast
A stream layout is two pictures at once. You in the corner, the game filling the rest, and usually an overlay along an edge. Every clipper that reframes by following the speaker is built for the other kind of video, the one with a single face on a plain wall, and applied to a stream it either loses your face or loses the game.
We stack the two instead. The facecam is lifted out of its corner and blown up across the top of the vertical frame. The gameplay sits under it at full width with nothing trimmed. A viewer sees your reaction and what caused it in the same shot, which is the entire reason the moment was worth clipping.
Moments with a beginning
The transcript of the whole VOD is read end to end before anything is cut, so a chosen moment is a stretch that makes sense to someone who was not in chat. That matters more on stream footage than anywhere else, because the funny part of a stream is usually the tenth minute of a bit, and a clip that opens on the punchline of a bit nobody saw the setup for just confuses the feed.
Captions, because feeds are muted
Captions are burned in word by word, timed to your voice, so the clip works with the sound off. A short hook line sits on screen for the first couple of seconds to give a scrolling viewer a reason to stop.
Last night's stream, cut by morning
Hand us the VOD and get back vertical clips with your facecam still in them. The first two videos are free.
Frequently asked questions
›Can I paste a Twitch URL?
Not today. We fetch from YouTube, so a VOD needs to either be on your YouTube channel already or be uploaded here as a file. We would rather tell you that up front than have you paste a link and get an error.
›Is a four hour VOD too long?
A pasted YouTube link can be up to four hours. Past that, trim it first. Longer sources take longer because the entire audio has to be transcribed before anything can be chosen, and we email you when the batch is done.
›Will it keep my overlay and alerts?
Whatever was in the recorded frame stays in the recorded frame. The gameplay band is scaled rather than cropped, so an overlay along the bottom or the side of your layout survives instead of being cut off.
›Does it work on a stream with no facecam?
Yes. With no second camera to keep there is nothing to stack, so the clip is reframed to 9:16 with the action centred.
›Can it post to Twitch?
No. Finished clips upload to your YouTube channel as Shorts, private, unlisted or public, or you can download them and post them anywhere yourself.