Turn your Twitch and stream VODs into Shorts

Built for long recordings, not just short clips

YTShorts.ai does its best work after the stream: you already have a VOD or a recorded session downloaded (or a YouTube upload of it), and going through hours of footage by hand to find the ten seconds worth posting is the slow part. Extract Shorts transcribes the whole recording and ranks candidate moments so you're reviewing a shortlist instead of scrubbing a 4-hour timeline.

How it works

1. 1

   Upload your VOD or paste a link

   Works from a downloaded recording, or a link if you've already uploaded the session to YouTube.

2. 2

   Get a ranked shortlist

   Extract Shorts returns candidate clips sorted by likely performance, already cut to 9:16 with captions burned in.

3. 3

   Post across platforms

   The same captioned, vertical output works for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts without re-editing per platform.

Getting your VOD in

1. 1

   From Twitch

   Download the past broadcast from your Twitch Video Producer as an MP4, then upload it. Trim long pre-stream waiting screens and breaks first if you want to save credits, since cost follows the length of the file.

2. 2

   From YouTube

   If you already upload your streams to YouTube, paste the link instead: nothing to download, and YouTube's captions speed up the transcript.

3. 3

   Pick your clip count

   Up to 10 clips per job on Pro and Max, ranked best-first, each 30 to 90 seconds depending on the length you choose.

Layouts for gameplay and webcam

The Facecam look puts a face-tracked box over a blurred copy of the stream, so your reaction stays front and centre in a vertical frame. The default framing instead shows the whole screen, with nothing cropped, which suits strategy games and anything with an important HUD.

For caption style, the Beast and Hormozi looks match the energy of most gaming clips; Karaoke works well when you are reading chat or telling a story. On your first stream, try the same clip in both layouts and keep whichever your viewers watch to the end more often.

What makes a stream moment travel

The clips that spread are the ones with a reaction and a reason: a clutch play you called out loud, a laugh with chat, a rant, a story. Talking through your big moments turns them into something a stranger can follow, which is exactly what Extract Shorts ranks highest.

For a recap post, Smart Short stitches the best moments from across the whole stream, or just its first, middle or last third, into one highlight reel.

The same vertical, captioned file works on TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, so one VOD can feed all three. Posting the best clip within a day of the stream, while viewers are still talking about it, and pointing each clip back to your channel is what turns clips into new followers.

What a long stream costs

A 3-hour stream is 216 credits with Extract Shorts on Pro and 180 on Max. Pro's 800 monthly credits cover about 3 streams that long; Max's 1600 cover about 8.