Automatic live clipping, without digging through a four-hour VOD.
Add your Twitch, Kick or YouTube channel: when the stream ends, the best moments come back as captioned vertical clips with your brand — no digging through hours of footage. Prefer it now? Paste the VOD link.
Free with watermark · No credit card
Add your channel — or paste the VOD link (Twitch, Kick, YouTube)
The AI finds the best moments, cuts and captions
Download ready to post, already with your brand
How to clip a live stream automatically
A four-hour stream usually holds only a few minutes worth clipping — and finding those minutes is the tedious part. Picotta listens to the whole recording, marks where the conversation picks up, cuts it vertical, captions it in sync with the speech and hands back the clips with your brand applied. You paste a Twitch, Kick or YouTube VOD link; or you add the channel and let the monitor clip on its own when the broadcast ends.
How Picotta handles this kind of video
The monitor clips without being asked
With the channel added, Picotta follows the broadcast. When the stream ends it takes the recording, picks the peak windows and processes only those stretches instead of the whole thing. How many channels you can watch at the same time depends on your plan, and the monitor is a paid-plan feature.
The framing follows whoever is talking
A stream is almost never one person sitting still in the middle of the frame: there is a facecam in the corner, gameplay filling the screen, a guest coming in. The framing is decided from the pixels — center crop, blurred background, split screen with the game on top and the camera below, or the camera following whoever is speaking.
You get a finished clip, not a project
What you download is a vertical MP4 with burned-in captions, a hook on the opening and your logo. There is no timeline to assemble and no export queue. If you want to change something, the Studio reopens the clip over the original footage — switch the format, reposition, rewrite the hook — without spending credits again.
Where it works well
- Long Twitch, Kick and YouTube VODs, marathons included
- Reaction, conversation and gameplay with a facecam
- Anyone streaming every week without an editor
What it does not do
- It does not download video from Instagram or TikTok: both block outside downloads, so they are a destination, not a source
- It does not post to your channels — Picotta hands you the finished file and you publish it
Frequently asked questions
How do I turn a Twitch stream into clips?
Paste the VOD link in the editor, or add the channel to the live monitor. Picotta downloads the recording, transcribes it, picks the best stretches and returns captioned vertical clips. With the channel added, this happens on its own as soon as the stream ends.
How many clips come out of one stream?
The AI decides, based on the content: an eventful stream yields more than a quiet one. The cap per video varies by plan — the pricing page shows yours. In custom mode you ask for a number of clips and get exactly that.
Does it work with Kick?
It does. Kick, Twitch and YouTube can all be added to the live monitor, and on all three you can also paste the VOD link directly. The treatment is the same.
How much does it cost to clip a four-hour stream?
Billing is per minute of video you send, not per clip generated: ten clips cost the same as two from the same source. And through the monitor only the peak windows are processed, so a long stream usually costs far less than its full length. The rates are on the pricing page.
Try it with your next video.
Free credits every month to try. Set up your brand once and you're done.
No credit card. Cancel anytime.