--- title: "Stream Highlight Maker: VOD to ranked shorts | Cliplala" canonical_url: "https://cliplala.com/tools/stream-highlight-maker" summary: "Turn a stream VOD into highlight shorts. Moments ranked with reasons, your cam kept in frame, captions burned in, queued to 10+ platforms. 60 minutes free." --- # Stream highlight maker that finds the moments in a long VOD > Upload the VOD. Cliplala finds the moments that stand alone, keeps your cam in the 9:16 frame, burns in the captions, and ranks them. Hours in, a handful of highlights out. ## How do I use the stream highlight maker? A stream replay from Twitch, Kick or YouTube. Hours are fine. The picker scores the commentary and the crowd, snaps each cut to a sentence, and drops the clips that need the build-up you cut. Ranked with reasons. Queue to TikTok, Shorts, Reels and 10+ platforms through Schedulala. Start at https://cliplala.com/tools/stream-highlight-maker: paste the vod link, or drop the file, press "Make stream highlights", and the first 60 minutes of video are free with no card. ## What are the steps? 1. **Upload the VOD.** A stream replay from Twitch, Kick or YouTube. Hours are fine. 2. **Moments are found and cut.** The picker scores the commentary and the crowd, snaps each cut to a sentence, and drops the clips that need the build-up you cut. 3. **Queue the highlights.** Ranked with reasons. Queue to TikTok, Shorts, Reels and 10+ platforms through Schedulala. ## What does it do? ### Highlights that make sense without the stream A highlight watched cold needs its own setup. Each clip is checked for that and dropped if it leans on the minute before. Cuts are padded to word boundaries in the commentary, so the call is never clipped mid-word. ### Your cam stays in the frame The cam picker finds your face, checks it is a real face and not a character, and keeps it in the frame: stacked under the game, or solo when there is no game. [Game and cam together](https://cliplala.com/tools/gaming-clip-maker) ### Captions carry the moment Most of the feed is watched muted. Word-level captions, current word lit, burned into the file so the take reads without sound. [More on captions](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-caption-generator) ### Metered on VOD hours Cliplala meters the VOD you upload, not the shorts it makes. Lite is $14 a month for 4 hours; Pro is $78 for 25. Every plan posts to 10+ platforms, and every plan from Starter up includes seats for a team. The first 60 minutes are free, with a small watermark on the clips; paid plans have none. [Full pricing](https://cliplala.com/#pricing) ## Who is it for? ### Just chatting: The take, full frame A chatting segment is scored on the take and the reaction. The crop stays on you; the captions carry the line. ### Gaming: The clutch with your cam under it Stream VODs get the split layout: play on top, your face below, captions between. ### IRL: The moment nobody planned An IRL stream has a moment nobody scripted. The picker scores the beat, and the check drops the clips that need the ten minutes before. ## What is included? - **Ranked with reasons.** Every short says why it was picked, so you can disagree with it. - **Bad cuts dropped.** A short that starts or ends mid-thought does not reach you. - **Face tracking.** The crop follows the person, through cuts and camera moves. - **Layout per moment.** Solo, stacked or split, chosen from what is on screen about once a second. - **Burned-in captions.** Word-level, active word highlighted, ten styles. Rendered into the file. - **Link or file.** Paste a YouTube link, or upload the file straight from your machine. - **Queue to 10+ platforms.** Post from the results page. No export step. - **Priced on hours.** Metered on source video. From $14 a month for 4 hours. ## What does it not do? - A fixed number of shorts. De-duplication and the coherence check drop shorts on purpose; a tight talk yields more than a rambling one. - A score that predicts views. Every short gets a rank and a written reason, and you can disagree with it. - A time. Long sources take longer; you see shorts as they finish. ## What else do people ask? ### How do I make highlights from a stream VOD? Upload the full recording or paste a link. Cliplala scores the moments from the commentary and what is on screen, cuts each to sentence edges, crops it vertical around the action or the person, burns in captions, and ranks them. Queue the top ones to 10+ platforms through Schedulala. ### Does it make one long highlight reel or many short clips? Many short clips, each one a single moment, ranked. That is what the vertical feeds want. A single long reel stitched from them is not part of this flow today. ### Does it work on a stream with no game? Yes. With no game on screen the layout goes solo on your cam, and the captions carry the take for muted viewers. ### How many shorts do I get from one video? It depends on the video. The engine keeps the moments that stand on their own and drops near-duplicates and cuts that start or end mid-thought, so a tight talk can return more usable shorts than a rambling one. You can set a target count and a clip length before it runs. ### How long are the shorts? Between 15 and 90 seconds by default, snapped to sentence edges so nothing is cut mid-word. You can set the range before the run. ### Is the highlight video maker free? Your first 60 minutes of source video are free with no credit card. Those shorts carry a small Cliplala watermark. Paid plans start at $14 a month for 4 hours of video and have no watermark. ### What can I upload? A YouTube link, or a file: mp4, mov, m4v, mkv or webm. Uploads go from your browser straight to private storage, so a long file does not have to pass through a form. ### Is my video used to train anything? No. Your uploads are used to make your shorts and for nothing else. Source files are deleted after 30 days; the shorts stay. ## Related tools - [Twitch clip maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/twitch-clip-maker): VOD to shorts with the gameplay on top and your cam below. - [Gaming clip maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/gaming-clip-maker): Gameplay and cam stacked in one vertical short. - [Event highlight maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/event-highlight-maker): Highlight shorts from a talk, panel or keynote, ranked. - [Viral clip generator](https://cliplala.com/tools/viral-clip-generator): Ranks the moments most likely to travel, and says why. - [AI clip generator](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-clip-generator): Generates shorts from your own footage, not from a prompt. - [AI TikTok video generator](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-tiktok-video-generator): TikToks cut from your own footage, opening on the hook. Make highlights from last night's VOD 60 minutes free, no credit card. Ranked, with the reason.