Gaming clips from your streams, with the facecam over the game

Clyper reads everything that's said in a stream and picks the moments that work on their own: a reaction to a play, a rage at a loss, a story told between rounds, a hot take, banter with chat or a duo. Each is cut from a line that hooks to its payoff, and scored, so you know which to post first. That's most of what people share from a stream, because it's the streamer they come for.

One limit to know: a silent clutch play with no commentary isn't in what's said, so it isn't a moment Clyper picks. Save those as they happen with your console's or your PC's clip button, as how to make gaming clips shows for PC, PS5, Xbox and Switch. Clyper is made for the hours in between: streamers who talk through their games, gaming podcasts, and reaction and commentary videos.

A gaming stream is wide: the game fills the screen and the streamer sits in a box in a corner. Crop it to 9:16 and you lose one or the other. Clyper finds the webcam itself, gives it a strip across the top, the shape of the webcam, and fills the rest with the middle of the game, big enough to follow on a phone. The captions go on the seam between them.

When the webcam isn't on screen, Clyper crops to the action instead, following the faces in it, or keeping the middle when there are none. To lay out one clip by hand, use the free split screen video maker.

• YouTube: paste the link of a stream that's ended and been saved, or of any gaming video, public or unlisted.
• Twitch: download the past broadcast and upload the file. Past broadcasts are kept for 7 to 60 days, so clip them before they go: see Twitch VOD to clips and how to download Twitch VODs.
• Kick: download the VOD and upload it, as Kick VOD to clips shows.
• Your own recording: an OBS recording of the stream works too, as an MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV up to 4 GB. See OBS recording to clips.

You choose, up to one for every 2 minutes of video and 30 in all, so an hour of stream already gives up to 30, for 60 credits: a clip a day for a month. A four-hour stream uses 240 credits, a credit a minute, for the same 30 clips picked from four times the moments. Work out any length with the free clips per video calculator, and how often to post them in how often to post.

Gaming streamers are some of the most clipped people online, and some pay for it. When we last checked, in October 2026, Clix and Lacy had paid clipping campaigns, and so did the Roblox YouTubers Sinjin Drowning and StinkyAsher; Jynxzi has had them in the past. Each page has the rate, the rules and where to sign up, and the clipping programs page has who pays now.

Clip a streamer only where a campaign or program allows it, and follow its rules on tags and length. Some campaigns ask for clean clips: the free bleep censor finds the swearing and bleeps it. How campaigns pay is in how to make money clipping.

• Open on the moment. The reaction or the line that sets it up goes first; Clyper cuts each clip to start there.
• Keep it short. 20 to 60 seconds is long enough for a setup and its payoff. See how long a short video should be.
• Mind the game's music. Licensed songs in a game can get a clip claimed, and publishers set their own rules for videos of their games: the guide's where to post gaming clips has them.
• Post to all three. The same 9:16 file goes on TikTok, Shorts and Reels: see how to post Twitch clips on TikTok.