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How to turn Twitch clips into TikToks, YouTube Shorts and Reels

A Twitch clip is a wide rectangle made for a monitor. TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are tall ones made for a phone. Cut the middle out and you lose your face or the game. This is how to keep both, and get the same clip onto every feed.

Rodolfo Mota

Rodolfo MotaFounder of SPREVA

The short version

Save the clip into SPREVA by typing !clip in your chat while you are live. Open it in your media library and press Make a short: Studio opens a vertical video with your camera on top and the game below, named with the words you typed. Trim it, export it, and send it to TikTok, YouTube and Instagram in one post.

Why a straight crop does not work

A stream is a wide frame: the game fills it and your camera sits in a corner. A vertical video is the same frame turned on its side. Cut the middle out of the wide picture and the camera is gone, and so are the edges of the game.

The layout streamers settled on stacks the two: the camera across the top, the game underneath. Both come from the same clip, each cut from its own part of the picture.

From clip to short, step by step

  1. 1

    While you are live, type !clip and a few words in your Twitch chat. The clip is saved to the Twitch clips folder of your media library.

  2. 2

    Open the clip and press Make a short. Studio makes one vertical project from the whole clip, with the words you typed as its opening line.

  3. 3

    Check the two areas. The built-in layout expects the camera in the top left corner of your stream. If yours sits somewhere else, move the camera area onto it with Crop.

  4. 4

    Trim to the part that matters. The moment is usually near the end, because you typed the command after it happened.

  5. 5

    Press Render video. The finished file lands in your media library, ready to use in a new post.

Set your layout once

Your camera is in the same place every stream, so you should only have to say where once. In Studio, Clips from a video has a step called Adjust the areas: draw the camera and the game over a frame of your stream and save the layout.

From then on, Make a short starts from your layout instead of the built-in one, and step three above disappears.

The opening line and the captions

The words you typed after !clip become the line at the top of the short for its first seconds. If SPREVA has transcribed what you say in the clip, your words are added as captions. Both are ordinary text in the project: change them, move them or delete them before you export.

One post, every feed

The exported video goes out like any other: one post, with TikTok, YouTube and Instagram selected. TikTok takes it as a video, YouTube shows it as a Short, Instagram as a Reel, and each account can have its own text.

The wide original is still in your library. Use in new post sends it as it is to YouTube or X, where horizontal video is at home.

How to schedule YouTube Shorts, and what makes a video a Short.

What it costs

Making the short uses no AI credits. Exporting it counts towards your Studio export minutes, 120 a month on Pro and 400 on Business, and a clip of up to a minute takes one of them. The 7-day trial includes 10 minutes.

Questions

Does Twitch give me a vertical clip?

Only if you stream in both formats. SPREVA saves the horizontal clip, which every channel has, and the vertical version is made in Studio.

My camera is not in the top left corner. Does it still work?

Yes. Move the camera area onto your camera in the project, or save your own layout once and every short starts from it.

Can I make a short from a video I uploaded myself?

Make a short appears on clips saved from your Twitch chat. For any other video, Clips from a video in Studio does the same job and can cut several clips from one recording.

How long can the short be?

As long as the clip, so up to 60 seconds. Trim it shorter in Studio when the moment is brief.

Which plan do I need?

Saving clips from chat works on every plan. Making and exporting the short needs Studio, on Pro and Business.

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Rodolfo Mota

Rodolfo Mota

Founder of SPREVA

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