
Real renders, before and after. The boxes are what the AI found in the VOD; the vertical frame is what came back — facecam kept when you have one, pure gameplay when you don't.
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Keeps your facecam on top, gameplay below. Zoupyu detects the webcam rectangle — border scan first, then corner probes — and stacks it over the action instead of cropping to one or the other.
Most advice about making Shorts from Twitch assumes you already have a clip. That assumption is where the good material gets lost — three structural facts, two of them Twitch's own rules and one from our production data.
Twitch keeps past broadcasts on a tier: 7 days for most channels, 14 for Affiliates, 60 for Partner, Turbo and Prime. After that the stream is gone. The footage you meant to clip has an expiry date, and most streamers hit it.
Twitch's clip editor stops at 60 seconds. Across our 624 scored clips, 47.9% of the moments we find run longer than that — and corpus-wide the over-60s ones score better, 74.6 against 69.8. The clip button structurally cannot reach them.
In the Twitch VODs we process, the median good moment sits 60.9 minutes in, and half land past the first hour. Across all our sources that figure is 14 minutes. Stream footage buries its best material where manual scrubbing never reaches.
Retention tiers and the 60-second cap are Twitch's published rules. Clip figures are from Zoupyu's pipeline to 14 August 2026: 624 AI-scored clips, of which 22 came from Twitch VODs (median broadcast 2h 13m). The score-by-length comparison uses the full corpus — the Twitch-only subset is too small to carry it. The score is our model's prediction of clip strength, not views achieved.
Four steps, no editor, and nothing downloaded to your machine.
Open your channel's Video Producer, find the past broadcast, and copy its URL. Use the full VOD rather than a Twitch clip — a clip is already capped at 60 seconds and already cropped to whatever the clipper framed.
Drop the link straight in. The stream is fetched server-side, so a six-hour VOD costs you no upload time and no disk space. You pick the stretch worth clipping and pay for that — 90 minutes to a credit.
The full stream is transcribed and scored for hook, arc and payoff, so the review that would take you the length of the stream happens once, automatically — including the back half you would never have reached.
Each moment comes back as a 1080×1920 MP4 with word-timed captions already burned in and the framing tracking the action. Post straight to YouTube Shorts, TikTok or Reels — no editor, nothing to sync.
Eklipse connects only to your own channel. Zoupyu clips any VOD you paste, keeps your facecam in frame, and burns the captions in — billed on the stretch you pick, 90 minutes to a credit.
Drop in your Twitch VOD URL. No downloading, no re-uploading, no waiting. Zoupyu fetches the stream directly and starts processing.
AI reads your full stream transcript and finds the emotional peaks — the big plays, the laughs, the hype moments that made your chat go wild.
Landscape stream footage is automatically cropped to vertical. Face detection keeps you centred in every clip — works for gaming, IRL, and talk streams.
Every clip comes back with English captions burned in at word-level timing — no separate subtitle file, no editor, nothing to sync.
The median Twitch broadcast we process runs 2 hours 13 minutes, and half the moments worth keeping sit past the first hour — where manual scrubbing never reaches. You point us at the stretch worth mining and every second of it gets reviewed.
Ready-to-post 9:16 MP4s with subtitles burned in. Post to YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, or TikTok without any extra editing.
No setup. No manual scrubbing. Just upload and go.
Drop in your Twitch VOD URL — no downloading, no re-uploading. Zoupyu fetches it directly and starts processing immediately.
Zoupyu reads your full stream transcript and finds the best moments — hype, big plays, funny bits. No manual clipping.
9:16 clips with captions burned in, ready for YouTube Shorts. Most streams are done in under 10 minutes.
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Four steps. Copy the VOD URL from your Video Producer — the full past broadcast, not a Twitch clip. Paste it into Zoupyu; the stream is fetched server-side, so nothing is downloaded or re-uploaded from your machine. The full transcript is then scored for hook, arc and payoff to find the moments. You get back 9:16 clips at 1080×1920 with word-timed captions already burned in, ready to post to Shorts, TikTok or Reels. If the VOD runs past 90 minutes you pick which stretch to mine first — that is what you are billed for.
The full VOD, in almost every case. A Twitch clip is already capped at 60 seconds and already framed by whoever made it. Across our 624 scored clips, 47.9% of the moments we find run longer than 60 seconds — so the clip editor structurally cannot capture nearly half of them — and corpus-wide those longer moments score better, 74.6 against 69.8. Starting from the VOD keeps every option open.
Twitch stores past broadcasts on a tier: 7 days for most channels, 14 days for Affiliates, and 60 days for Partner, Turbo and Prime. After that the VOD is deleted. Separately, Highlights and Uploads share a 100-hour storage cap introduced in April 2025, so converting a stream to a Highlight is not an unlimited archive either. If a broadcast contains material you care about, clip it before the window closes.
Yes. Twitch's clip editor clamps at 60 seconds, but that limit belongs to Twitch's tool, not to your Short — YouTube Shorts accepts up to three minutes. Zoupyu cuts to where the moment actually resolves rather than to a fixed ceiling, which matters because in our data the clips over 60 seconds averaged 74.6 against 69.8 for shorter ones. A moment cut short at 60 seconds is often a moment cut before its payoff.
No. Just paste the Twitch VOD URL directly into Zoupyu. We fetch the stream ourselves — no downloading, no re-uploading, no waiting for a giant file transfer.
Yes. The AI adapts to the content type. Gaming streams: it finds the big plays and reaction moments. IRL and talk streams: it finds the punchlines, emotional peaks, and quotable moments.
Paste a stream of any length — 1 hour, 6 hours, or a 40-hour subathon. Nothing is rejected for being long. We clip up to three hours in one pass, so past that you choose which stretch to mine and the AI picks the best 5–10 highlights out of your selection. One credit covers 90 minutes of it, two cover the full three.
YouTube blocks stream fetching from our server infrastructure. Twitch VODs work natively. For YouTube content, just download the video and upload it directly to Zoupyu — takes 2 extra minutes.
Eklipse connects only to your own channel and detects clips from game events and chat activity. Zoupyu works on any VOD you paste or upload — including streams you don't own — keeps your facecam in frame, and reads the full transcript to burn captions in. No game-specific training needed, and no subscription: you pick the stretch worth clipping and pay for that, at 90 minutes a credit.
Yes — that's the normal workflow for clippers. Paste any public Twitch VOD link and Zoupyu fetches it; you don't need to own or connect the channel. You are responsible for having the right to use and post the footage — fair use and Twitch's terms still apply.
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