Guide
How to cut a Twitch stream (VOD) into TikTok and Shorts
Last updated: 14 November 2026
A four-hour stream, and TikTok and YouTube Shorts want thirty seconds. Finding those seconds by hand means watching the whole stream again. This guide shows how to get your stream as a file from Twitch and cut it into vertical clips in frameyeet: right in your browser, free, with no watermark.
One thing up front: frameyeet works with a file on your computer, not with a link to the stream. So first you need the VOD as a file.
Step by step
- Turn on past broadcasts before you go live. For Twitch to keep your VODs, open Settings → Stream in your Creator Dashboard on the web and turn on Store past broadcasts under VOD Settings. The Twitch mobile app doesn’t have this toggle. A stream that ran without it isn’t saved, and Twitch Support can’t recover it.
- Download the VOD. In the Creator Dashboard, open Content → Video Producer, find the broadcast, open its menu (three dots) and choose Download. For a long stream, the download may take a while to start. Any audio Twitch muted in the VOD stays muted in the file. Per Twitch’s help, past broadcasts are kept for 7 days, 14 for Affiliates, and 60 for Partners, Prime and Turbo users, so don’t wait too long. Streaming with OBS? Press Start Recording along with Start Streaming, and the file lands on your computer right away.
- Open the file in frameyeet. Open frameyeet in Chrome or Edge, press “Add video” and pick the VOD. For a recording longer than 5 minutes, frameyeet offers to cut it: choose “Cut into shorts”. A big file opens in place, without a copy, and nothing gets uploaded.
- Choose how to search. In the “How to look for shorts?” sheet, the video type is “Gameplay recording”. The “Detailed” mode reads every frame, “Fast” is the quickest and finds fewer. If your stream has a webcam, turn on “Include the webcam in the layout”.
- Let the scan run. frameyeet goes through the whole recording, sound and picture, looking for places where signals stack up: sound spikes, sharp motion, cuts, in-game captions. The scan runs on your computer while the tab stays open; how long it takes depends on the mode and your machine.
- Keep the shorts that work. Every suggested short comes with a reason, such as “loud voice” or “scene cut and sound spike”. Watch them, delete the ones you don’t need, adjust the edges. You can add your own short by hand too: “Add by hand”.
- Export in one go. Press “Select”, mark the shorts and press “Export”. Chrome asks for a folder: pick it and allow the site to save files there. Each short lands as its own 9:16 MP4, 1080 pixels wide by default.
- Post to TikTok and Shorts. Upload the MP4 to TikTok or YouTube Shorts like any other video. frameyeet doesn’t post anything for you, so check the short in the platform’s own upload preview before posting.
What frameyeet does for you
frameyeet builds each short from pieces of the recording: dead pauses of 3 seconds or more are cut, the strongest moment goes first (a 1.4-second hook you can turn off on the short’s card), and long pieces get punch-in zooms on action. When the webcam is found, the 16:9 frame is rebuilt into 9:16 with the webcam on top and the game below.
Good to know
- A link won’t work. frameyeet works only with a file on your device, so you can’t paste a Twitch or YouTube link. Cut recordings you have the rights to.
- 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.
- frameyeet suggests, you decide. Every short comes with a reason, but a reason is a hint, not a guaranteed hit. Watch your shorts before you post them.
- 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.
- Projects live in your browser. They don’t sync between devices. You can save a project as a file as a backup (without the video).
Try it on your own recording: all you need is a browser on a computer.
Questions
How long can the stream be?
Hours. Files over 500 MB open in place, without a copy; this works best in Chrome or Edge.
Is it free? Is there a watermark?
Yes, it’s free, with no credits and no watermark. Nobody counts minutes of footage: rendering runs on your computer.
What if only a few shorts turn up?
Try the “Detailed” mode: it reads every frame. Quiet parts of a stream give fewer signals, and then you can mark a short by hand on the recording strip.
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