Guide
Gaming shorts from an OBS recording with the facecam on top
Last updated: 14 November 2026
The most common look for a gaming short: the player’s face on top, the game below. In a regular editor that means two layers, two masks and resizing for every clip. frameyeet does it for the whole recording at once, finding the webcam (facecam) in your OBS frame and turning it into the top strip of the vertical short.
Set up the recording in OBS
- Keep the webcam as its own rectangle. Put the webcam in a corner of the scene, not across the whole frame. The clearer its edges, the easier for frameyeet to find. A very small webcam can look blurry in the short.
- File format. frameyeet opens MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV, so an OBS recording in MKV works as is. H.264 video is the safest choice: if the browser can’t read the codec, frameyeet tells you so.
- Game sound and your mic. The detector listens to sound, so a recording with game audio and your voice gives it more to go on than a silent one.
Step by step
- Open the recording. In frameyeet, press “Add video” and pick the OBS file. For a recording longer than 5 minutes, choose “Cut into shorts”.
- Turn on the webcam. In the “How to look for shorts?” sheet, turn on “Include the webcam in the layout”. Looking for the webcam takes a few seconds and runs on this device.
- Check the frame. When the webcam is found, you see “Webcam found”, and the shorts are laid out with the webcam on top and the game below. When unsure, frameyeet asks “Is this the webcam?”. If nothing turns up, press “Mark the webcam” and frame it yourself.
- One webcam for the whole recording. You can drag and resize the frame right on the video. There’s one webcam per recording, so a change applies to every short, except the ones you already edited by hand.
- Pick a layout. On the short’s card, under “Layout”: “Webcam on top”, “Webcam on top, fit” or “Webcam on top, blurred background”; without the webcam: “Blurred background”, “Fit” or “Fill”. Dark bars in the recording are cut.
- Polish and export. Open a short in the editor to add a caption, your own picture or sound. Then “Select” → “Export”: each short lands as its own 9:16 MP4.
Good to know
- The webcam needs to be visible. Where the webcam is missing from part of the recording, the top strip shows part of the game. If the webcam overlaps the game area a little, frameyeet tells you.
- Gameplay only, for now. Auto-cut is tuned for game recordings: game sound, voice, motion and cuts. Podcasts, interviews and vlogs are in development. Quiet, slow games give fewer signals, so you get fewer shorts.
- Best in Chrome or Edge on a computer. We haven’t tested other browsers well enough yet. On iPhone with iOS 18 or older, video exports without sound: Safari there can’t encode audio, and frameyeet tells you before you export.
Try it on your own recording: all you need is a browser on a computer.
Questions
OBS records to MKV. Do I need to convert it?
No, frameyeet opens MKV. What matters is the codec, not the container: if the browser can’t read the video codec, frameyeet tells you, and H.264 is the safe choice for your next recording.
What if the webcam sits in different places in different scenes?
frameyeet keeps one webcam frame for the whole recording. Where the webcam is missing or sits elsewhere, the top strip shows part of the game; you can fix that short in the editor.
Does it work with ShadowPlay or Xbox Game Bar recordings?
Yes, they save recordings as files on your computer. If the recording has no webcam, shorts are laid out without it: “Blurred background”, “Fit” or “Fill”.
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