Twitch clip maker: stream VODs into vertical clips

Why streamers clip to TikTok and Shorts

Live viewers find a stream from inside the platform, but most new viewers today find streamers through short clips: a reaction on TikTok, a clutch moment on YouTube Shorts, a funny line on Reels. A four-hour VOD might contain a dozen of those moments, and finding them means scrubbing through hours of footage. That is the job a Twitch clip maker should take off your hands

shitShorts does the scanning. You upload the VOD, it scores every stretch of the stream and gives you a ranked set of vertical clips with captions already on them. You decide which ones are worth posting and finish them on the timeline

How the clipper finds stream highlights

Streams have their own signals. When something big happens, the audio spikes: you shout, laugh or go quiet, and chat explodes. The clipper reads audio peaks and visible reactions from your facecam alongside the transcript of what you said. Your commentary is transcribed with word-level timing, and a language model scores overlapping windows for hook, payoff, pacing and whether the moment makes sense to someone who was not watching live

A second critic pass reviews the top candidates and trims them, so a clip starts just before the moment builds and ends after the payoff instead of trailing into the next match. Inside jokes that only regulars would get tend to score lower on standalone sense, which is usually what you want for clips meant to reach new viewers

Facecam and gameplay in a vertical frame

Stream footage is the hardest case for automatic reframing. Most of the frame is gameplay with no faces, and your facecam is a small box in a corner. The clipper's face tracking keeps you in frame when the clip is about your reaction. For clips that need the gameplay too, the common TikTok layout is gameplay on top and facecam below. That layout is a crop you set on the timeline in the editor, once per clip, and the captions and cuts stay where they are

Just Chatting and IRL streams, where you are on camera most of the time, reframe automatically the same way a podcast does, with the frame following whoever is talking

Getting your VOD into the clipper

The clipper accepts an uploaded video file or a YouTube link. Twitch lets you download your own past broadcasts from the creator dashboard, and many streamers also export VODs to a YouTube channel automatically. Either works; an uploaded original is usually the cleanest picture. Long VODs are fine: you see the credit estimate before the run starts

Clip your own streams. If you clip for another streamer, get their permission first; many run clipping programmes with clear rules

Choosing which stream moments to post

Not every hype moment makes a good clip for people who were not there. The ones that travel furthest usually have a setup a stranger can follow in two or three seconds, a clear payoff and a reaction. A clutch play with no context can still work if your commentary explains what is happening; the captions help there

The clipper shows why each moment was picked, including whether it stands alone. Skim the ranked list, keep the clips that would make sense to someone who has never seen your stream, and save the inside jokes for your community channels. Ask for more clips than you plan to post from a long VOD, then pick the best handful

Captions and posting

Short-form viewers often watch muted, so captions of your commentary matter as much as the gameplay. They are timed to each word and placed inside the safe area so TikTok's buttons do not cover them. Switch the theme for the whole batch, or use a big hook line for the first seconds to set up the moment

Export MP4s, or schedule the clips to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, LinkedIn, X, Threads and Pinterest from the calendar with different captions and hashtags for each

What it costs

Free gives 300 credits a month, about 15 clips at 720p with a small watermark; the first 3 clip exports are free, then 10 credits each. The Clipper plan is $10 a month for about 50 clips at 1080p with no watermark and 300 clip exports a month, enough to clip a few streams a week. Creator ($19) and Pro ($49) add more credits and the rest of the studio